Houses should have a “dying room” in addition to a “living room”

Posted by dodeca_negative@reddit | CrazyIdeas | View on Reddit | 13 comments

Times are tough and it’s nice to have options

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Atelier1001@reddit

I understand where you come from, but it's important to me that you know houses used to have dying rooms. That was a thing.

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Zarokima@reddit

My home has two living rooms, and I call the extra one the undead room because it's "the other living room" and being undead is basically "other living".

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imamakebaddecisions@reddit

I never understood why one living room was called the "Great room".

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Take this with a grain of salt, I’m remembering something I heard a long time ago, but I believe it’s a historical thing; the great room was for entertaining guests, and was decorated with the finest furniture that the household owned. It was rarely used outside of gatherings for people outside of the family.

The living room was a more casual space for a family to spend time together, think reading books, completing schoolwork, whatever else people in I think the Victorian times to relax after a work day.

Having both was initially something that only the aristocracy had, but as times changed to an expanding middle class, houses were built with similar rooms, but they also became more informal spaces.

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