I have a great room. It basically encompasses everything but the laundry room, bed room, and bathroom. - So kitchen, dining area, living room, office. All one large room. I like it.
The finished basement of my condo is a bit more than 34' x 18' with 7' to 8' ceilings. The clothes washer and dryer are upstairs and the basement never needs bailing out, so I say it counts as a room.
It has a bathroom about halfway down one long wall, a closet under the stairs along the other long wall and a small, unfinished closet that contains a sump pump in one corner at the north end of the room.
The basement is normally dry and comfortable, ~68F year round. The south half of the room was my daughters' bedroom when they were younger. Now I sometimes sleep there to avoid paying for A/C upstairs.
Unfortunately, with several days of continuous moderate to heavy rain, a small stream about a foot wide will sometimes form about two feet from the north wall. The stream runs from the east wall to the pump closet and never has fish. The north end of the basement is my workshop with the old Craftsman workbenches on plastic feet. I have a dehumidifier there too, though it doesn't run all that often.
Were suppressors legal in New York City, I'd probably use the basement as a shooting range.
My apartment is pretty much all one room, the bathroom is its own room and a wall separates the kitchen mostly, but the living/dining/sleeping area is all one big room.
My tent has a little compartment that is like a 'bedroom' so the main part of the tent is the biggest room. I know it's a massive space because when I was setting it up my wife was upset that the living room was "ruined by a giant tent in the middle of it" whatever that means.
@iamdmann When I was in high school I got a backpacking tent for christmas and I set it up in the living room. My mom had a friend over and since they couldn't get at any of the furniture they sat in my tent. So I'd say tell your wife just use the tent as if it was her living room. Worked for my mom.
All the rooms in my house are the same size. I live in a railroad-style duplex. I can see into all the rooms on the first floor as I'm sitting at one end of the kitchen. All the bedrooms are connected. It sucks.
@looseneck I lived in one of those once. Around there they called it a gunshot house because if you opened the front door and opened the back door and shot off a gun at the front door the bullet wouldn't hit the house on its path to and way out the back door.
The garage, and even though its a nominal 2-car its still too darn small; a real American car (much less my truck) won't fit because its not deep enough. Otherwise the great room (living/dining).
@thismyusername I slept in mine once (and not because my wife was mad). So its a room to me. Its got seating, lights, camp stove and heater, fan, a freezer full of food, and the garden hose bib is there... if it was old enough to have the center floor drain it would be a tiny house all on its own, even better than a mere room!
Billiard room
@davea510 Colonel Mustard and a candlestick ?
@davea510 does it have a fancy eatin' table?
@thismyusername 4 1/2' x 9' pool table
We call it the rec room- it's kind of a bigger second living room where we hang out more often than anywhere else in the house.
My... heart.
I have a great room. It basically encompasses everything but the laundry room, bed room, and bathroom. - So kitchen, dining area, living room, office. All one large room. I like it.
Does a basement count as a room? Cuz mines all open and by far the biggest open space in the house.
@pepsiwine The basement counts if you do something other than laundry and bailing your private lake in a rainstorm down there...
@Kidsandliz I literally don't do anything except those two things down there.
(And I'm a little amazed that you knew my basement flooded this past week with all the rains we had.)
You're either a very good psychic or a very dangerous stalker.
Um, soooo, can you tell me if I'm going to win the lottery tomorrow?
@pepsiwine Win the lottery? Nope but you will have, in effect, put a match to that dollar... LOL
Living room is like 25 x 25 with 19 foot ceilings. With lots of windows. Single handedly confuses the shit out of the thermostat.
The East ballroom.
The finished basement of my condo is a bit more than 34' x 18' with 7' to 8' ceilings. The clothes washer and dryer are upstairs and the basement never needs bailing out, so I say it counts as a room.
It has a bathroom about halfway down one long wall, a closet under the stairs along the other long wall and a small, unfinished closet that contains a sump pump in one corner at the north end of the room.
The basement is normally dry and comfortable, ~68F year round. The south half of the room was my daughters' bedroom when they were younger. Now I sometimes sleep there to avoid paying for A/C upstairs.
Unfortunately, with several days of continuous moderate to heavy rain, a small stream about a foot wide will sometimes form about two feet from the north wall. The stream runs from the east wall to the pump closet and never has fish. The north end of the basement is my workshop with the old Craftsman workbenches on plastic feet. I have a dehumidifier there too, though it doesn't run all that often.
Were suppressors legal in New York City, I'd probably use the basement as a shooting range.
The closet!
The kitchen is the heart of every house.
My apartment is pretty much all one room, the bathroom is its own room and a wall separates the kitchen mostly, but the living/dining/sleeping area is all one big room.
My tent has a little compartment that is like a 'bedroom' so the main part of the tent is the biggest room. I know it's a massive space because when I was setting it up my wife was upset that the living room was "ruined by a giant tent in the middle of it" whatever that means.
@iamdmann When I was in high school I got a backpacking tent for christmas and I set it up in the living room. My mom had a friend over and since they couldn't get at any of the furniture they sat in my tent. So I'd say tell your wife just use the tent as if it was her living room. Worked for my mom.
All the rooms in my house are the same size. I live in a railroad-style duplex. I can see into all the rooms on the first floor as I'm sitting at one end of the kitchen. All the bedrooms are connected. It sucks.
@looseneck I lived in one of those once. Around there they called it a gunshot house because if you opened the front door and opened the back door and shot off a gun at the front door the bullet wouldn't hit the house on its path to and way out the back door.
@Kidsandliz Good name! My kitchen door is off to the side so I can't try that trick :)
@looseneck That sounds kind of awesome.
When I walk out the back door I'm in this huge room with a grass floor and no ceiling.
The garage, and even though its a nominal 2-car its still too darn small; a real American car (much less my truck) won't fit because its not deep enough. Otherwise the great room (living/dining).
@duodec ok, if the garage is considered a room, and I suppose it is, my answer on the poll is incorrect.
@thismyusername I slept in mine once (and not because my wife was mad). So its a room to me. Its got seating, lights, camp stove and heater, fan, a freezer full of food, and the garden hose bib is there... if it was old enough to have the center floor drain it would be a tiny house all on its own, even better than a mere room!
The basement, never been finished, so it's one large room that is the size of the entire house's footprint.