Bedroom

A bedroom or bedchamber is a room situated within a residential or accommodation unit characterized by its usage for sleeping.

Beds and bedrooms are often devised to create barriers to insects and vermin, especially mosquitoes, and to dampen or contain light or noise to aid sleep and privacy.

A chamber pot kept under the bed or in a nightstand was usual in the period before modern domestic plumbing and bathrooms in dwellings.

[2] Attic bedrooms exist in some houses; since they are only separated from the outside air by the roof they are typically cold in winter and may be too hot in summer.

Furniture and other items in bedrooms vary greatly, depending on taste, local traditions and the socioeconomic status of an individual.

In the times before bathrooms existed in dwellings bedrooms often contained a washstand for tasks of personal hygiene.

In some jurisdictions, there are basic features (such as a closet and a "means of egress") that a room must have in order to legally qualify as a bedroom.

In buildings with multiple self-contained housing units (e.g., apartments), the number of bedrooms varies widely.

This makes for flexibility in terms of the way various spaces are utilized:[9] Each evening, the Japanese unroll their futon directly on their tatami mats, typically close to one another.

The unity of the household is also reinforced by the use of sliding partitions (shoji) lined with rice paper and insulating in every way.

This room is typically situated towards the back of the home, close to the place dedicated to the family ancestors and opposite of the southern façade, the gardens, and the general exterior.

Almost non-existent before World War Two, The Western Room continued to gain traction in new constructions to the point where there is a clear relationship between the age of a building and the presence of Western-style bedrooms.

In the most densely populated cities, there exists a type of hotel essentially consisting of stacks of individual rooms so cramped they hardly allow one to do more than lie down and sleep.