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Japanese minimalist interior living room, 19th century. In Western architecture, a living room, also called a lounge room (Australian English [1]), lounge (British English [2]), sitting room (British English [3]), or drawing room, is a room for relaxing and socializing in a residential house or apartment.
The Executive Residence is the central building of the White House complex located between the East Wing and West Wing. It is the most recognizable part of the complex, being the actual "house" part of the White House. This central building, first constructed from 1792 to 1800, is home to the president of the United States and the first family.
Vestibule (architecture) A vestibule (also anteroom, antechamber, or foyer) is a small room leading into a larger space [1] such as a lobby, entrance hall, or passage, for the purpose of waiting, withholding the larger space from view, reducing heat loss, providing storage space for outdoor clothing, etc. The term applies to structures in both ...
S. Sacristy; Safe room; Sauna; Screened porch; Secret passage; Semi-basement; Sensitive compartmented information facility; Servants' hall; Servants' quarters; Server ...
An American college dormitory room in 2002. A dormitory (originated from the Latin word dormitorium, [1] often abbreviated to dorm), also known as a hall of residence or a residence hall (often abbreviated to halls), is a building primarily providing sleeping and residential quarters for large numbers of people such as boarding school, high school, college or university students.
A drawing room is a room in a house where visitors may be entertained, and an alternative name for a living room. The name is derived from the 16th-century terms withdrawing room and withdrawing chamber, which remained in use through the 17th century, and made their first written appearance in 1642. [1] In a large 16th- to early 18th-century ...
Loft. A loft is a building's upper storey or elevated area in a room directly under the roof (American usage), or just an attic: a storage space under the roof usually accessed by a ladder (primarily British usage). A loft apartment refers to large adaptable open space, often converted for residential use (a converted loft) from some other use ...
This style of house is also known as a "split foyer". This is a two-story house that has a small entrance foyer with stairs that "split"—part of a flight of stairs go up (usually to the living room, kitchen, and bedrooms) and part of a flight of stairs go down (usually to a family room and garage/storage area). [3]