The names of the rooms in the apartment. What rooms should be in a private house

Unusual names of conference rooms and meeting rooms in various companies. The CPU learned how the names of the premises are given in Yandex, GetTaxi, Avito and 2GIS.

Facebook

Former employee social network Donn Lee says that what he finds most witty is a series of conference rooms named after the worst ideas: for example, Windows Vista, Sub-Prime Mortgages (subprime mortgage), Beacon, Running with Scissors (running with scissors), Fighting Chuck Norris (fighting with Chuck Norris).

Facebook office in California

In addition, Facebook has several conference rooms whose names are invented in such a way as to confuse employees. If you pronounce the preposition in before them, then the phrase acquires some ambiguity: for example, a meeting room with the name Five Minutes. The phrase "The meeting is in Five Minutes" can be understood in different ways: as "the meeting will take place in five minutes" or as "the meeting will take place in Five Minutes."

There is more than one such hall on Facebook - there are also rooms called Stagram, Finite, Ternet, Genius, Conceivable, Decent.

Baidu

At Baidu, a Chinese search engine, says Qaiser Guo, the company's conference room names are chosen from the titles of literary works written during China's Song Dynasty. The name for the service, Guo notes, came about the same way.

There is one more rule for choosing a name: the number of hieroglyphs in it must correspond to the floor number. So, on the third floor there is a conference hall Manjianghong (满江红). And the boardroom is named after the poem from which the word Baidu was taken - Green Jade Table in The Lantern Festival.

Avito

Avito employees use the names of planets or celestial bodies - "Earth", "Sun", "Moon", "Mercury", "Venus", "Pluto", "Jupiter", "Saturn", "Uranus", "Neptune". "Sun" is a very sunny conference room, and "Saturn" is very large. In addition, some employees are fond of astronomy, the office even has a telescope. A spokesman for Avito told the CPU that sometimes when talking rooms are mentioned, funny phrases are added up: “Let's go to Mars”, “Anya, we are on Earth”, “Something is cold today on Saturn”, and so on.

Some rooms also have informal names. For example, the meeting room "Mercury" is called by the employees the "psychologist's office". There are only two large blue chairs in it, so you can talk with your interlocutor in private.

gettaxi

There are only four meeting rooms at the GetTaxi head office in Tel Aviv, and they are named after the cities in which the service operates (in addition to Tel Aviv): Moscow, Saint Petersburg, London and New-York.

Flotype

At Flotype, which develops software to create messengers, conference rooms are named after different fonts. Project founder Sridatta Tatipamala gives several examples of such names: Arial, Baskerville, Caslon, Dingbat, Egyptienne, Futura, Garamond, Helvetica and Interstate.

2 GIS

In the cartographic service, the names of meeting rooms, like many other offices, are invented by employees. The most famous negotiation, perhaps, is the "Operating" and "Grating".

There are other approaches to naming, for example, geographical - there are conference rooms "Leningrad", "Amsterdam", "Europe", "Asia".

Representatives of the company also told the CPU about the names of some of the cabinets. For example, in the office there is Bla Bla Room (call center), Galaxy Council (conference room), Right-Handed (the advertising materials proofreading group works in this office). Among the rest rooms there are names "Hawaii", "Veranda", "Marine".

"Yandex"

In the first office of Yandex, which was located on Vavilov Street, there was only one meeting room. She didn't have a name.

The next Yandex office was located on Samokatnaya, and there were already more meeting rooms there. Next to the reception area there were three meeting rooms: "Glass", "Pewter" and "Wooden" - they had tables and other decorative elements made of appropriate materials. In the bowels of the office there were rooms "Yin", "Yang" and "Germany". "Germany" was the largest, but it was possible to build a partition wall in it, and then the room was divided into "GDR" and "FRG".

When the Moscow office of "Yandex" moved to Lev Tolstoy Street, according to company representatives, the employees faced a non-trivial task: the building has seven floors, complex architecture and 50 rooms that should become negotiation rooms. It was necessary to make sure that each member of the team could easily find the right one.

Then the employees decided to come up with a name for each meeting room, consonant with the floor. This is how “7 miles is not a hook”, “6 acres”, “5 point” and many other names appeared. The Moscow office grew, Yandex occupied neighboring buildings and even added another building. Negotiations began to be called contextually to the teams that “live” next to them.

One of the first topics in learning English is the name of the rooms in the house in English. Without knowing these words, it is impossible to describe the place where you live.

We bring to your attention English words with transcription, as well as with examples, naming almost all existing rooms in the house.

house, dwelling;	apartment house - apartment building; country house - house in the village; town house - city house; city ​​apartment; detached house - detached house; dilapidated / ramshackle house - dilapidated house; prefabricated house - a house made of prefabricated blocks;
attic, attic, mezzanine;	E.g. Joke: "attic", head to have rats in the attic - have cockroaches in my head
Balcony [‘b?lk?n?]	E.g. There is the balcony in our flat.
Bathroom bathroom	E.g. What color are the walls in your bathroom? There are two bathrooms in their house.
Bedroom [‘bedru?m]	E.g. How many bedrooms are there in your house? single bedroom - a room with one bed double bedroom - a room with two beds
Box room pantry, closet	E.g. Boxroom is a room where boxes and the other unnecessary things are kept.
Cellar [‘sel?] basement; cellar; basement	E.g. My grandfather keeps wine in the cellar.
Cloakroom [‘kl?ukrum] dressing room, locker room	E.g. Cloakroom is a room where coats and other belongings may be left.
conservatory greenhouse, greenhouse, winter Garden	E.g. Conservatory is a room in the house where a lot of flowers and plants.
Dining-room [‘da?n??rum]	E.g. Is there a large table in your dining room?
Downstairs ['down'st??z] bottom, bottom floor of a building, lower part of a building	E.g. The toilet is downstairs near the bathroom.
flat	E.g. I can't open the front door of my flat as I have no keys.
games room Playroom	E.g. Games room is a room in large houses where games are played.
Guestroom [‘gestrum] guest bedroom	E.g. Rich people have special guestrooms for their friends.
Hall hall(s), hall, dining room (large room for social receptions or events)	E.g. I left my bag in the hall.
Kitchen	field kitchen- field kitchen; kitchen unit - food processor E.g. There is a little kitchen in the place where I live.
Larder [‘l??d?] / pantry [‘p?ntr?] pantry (for edibles), buffet room	E.g. Larder is a room or large cupboard for storing food.
Library ['la?br(?)r?] library	E.g. Library is a room where books are kept.
Living room [‘l?v??rum] / sitting room [‘s?t??rum] / lounge living room, common room	E.g. Living-room is a room in a house for general and informal everyday use.
Study/Study room [‘st?d? rum] study	E.g. I would like to have my own study room.
Toilet [‘t??l?t] toilet, restroom	E.g. Have you got a toilet in your country house?
Upstairs [?p'st??z] up (stairs), upstairs, on the top floor	E.g. There are three bedrooms upstairs. What rooms are there upstairs?
utility room utility room, utility room	E.g. Utility room is a room where appliances such as washing machines are used.

Delightful, nevertheless, there were once words - “mezzanine”, “entre”, “enfilade”, “basement”, “mezzanine”, “ clean rooms"," state-owned apartment. Today, not everyone knows what it is.

Layered functional zones

Dwelling house, dwelling place, vitalische, abode, shelter, living quarters, dwelling, lived, dwelling- a place to live.

Apartments- functional areas.

Front apartments. Residential apartments. Apartments can be a floor (mezzanine, basement, mezzanine). At the barbershop special apartments for ladies. It is also used in the meaning of "half": master's apartment, children's apartment. In addition, an apartment can also denote a separate room in a house or a separate apartment.

Half- a functional area that focuses on its belonging to family members. It almost never makes up half of the house or floor, but only a part. Children's half(two or three rooms). Host half, guest / Hired (hired) half in rental houses. Male half. The female half. Brother's half. half of the parents. Half sons.

In the hut - clean and black halves.

enfilade- row, order, goose, low.

1) a number of doors, arches, openings located in the alignment;

2) a number of rooms, the doors of which are located in the alignment. Enfilade front, city, park, residential, dining room.

Apartment (hvatera, vatera)- premises rented (hired) for temporary residence. Apartments in tenement houses originally intended for rent. Separate zones or premises in residential buildings can be rented out. Entire houses and even manor complexes can be rented out - in this case they are also called apartments.

An apartment differs from a hotel, an inn, a doss house, and tavern rooms by its greater constancy of residence.

Apartments for the military- wait personnel military units in the living quarters of the civilian population.

Government apartments civil officials (director of a gymnasium or library, professor of the Academy, etc.) are kept at the expense of the treasury (maintenance costs, repairs, furniture, lighting, firewood).

Antre- entrance to the house. It can be used in the meaning of the front hallway, vestibule, cold vestibules and openings proper. The Russian word entrance was also used in the same meaning.

Entrance- a place at the entrance to the house, intended for the entrance of carriages. After the master got out of the carriage, the coachman or driver took the carriage aside, to a specially designated place, so as not to interfere with the approach of others. The entrance could be in the form of a ramp - an inclined access roadway. The entrance porch itself, the door, the entrance, the closed vestibule of the tambour type could also be called the entrance.

Porch- external entrance to the house, maybe open- stairs and platform indoor- with an umbrella and closed- in the vestibule, which can serve as a cold hallway. Can be combined with a veranda. Red porch, front, front, reception, elegant- main entrance for hosts and guests. The porch is black, rear, girlish, yard, household- another porch for servants, courtyard people.

On the front porch, welcome or high-ranking guests are met, and on the porch they are escorted.

Tea parties can take place on the porch.

The porch is often a favorite place to relax.

From the front porch, a footman calls a carriage for guests to the entrance.

Pryaslo, floor, tier, housing, living, living, communication- the space between the floors of rooms, the floors of which are on the same level. Floors in a residential building.

Quantitative designations: first second Third etc.

Mezzanine floor, front floor, red tier, red housing, red communication- the most representative floor containing front (reception) rooms. In a residential building, the mezzanine from the side of the street was single-tier(front rooms), from the side of the courtyard - bunk(living rooms). The mezzanine belongs undividedly to the gentlemen.

lower floor- the first in a row, was called so in those cases when the second was the mezzanine. The lower floor could contain a front suite, however, in the general hierarchy of the premises of the house, it ranks lower than the mezzanine suite. The lower floor could be used as housing for both owners and servants, sometimes the entire lower floor was assigned to courtyard people.

From the master's on the lower floor there can be a nursery, a library, an office. There are also rooms for guests and tutors. From the working rooms there could be a kitchen with the rise of dishes to the mezzanine dining room along a separate staircase or special lifts. Shops, taverns, warehouses, craft workshops could be located in merchant houses on the lower floor.

Half tiers:- mezzanine and sub-entresol rooms, which almost never make up half the mezzanine height: the mezzanine floor is higher than the mezzanine, and in total they are greater than the mezzanine height.

The mezzanine can be called mezzanine.

One and a half story house- a one-story house with a mezzanine. Large mezzanines were considered a floor.

Mezzanine- 1) the upper mezzanine of the rear mezzanine rooms; 2) in rooms of sufficient height in part of the room, another floor level with a ladder was arranged - to increase the usable area. In the XVIII century. the front window opening was divided into two parts, of which the upper (fanlight) illuminated the mezzanine. In the 19th century the mezzanine floor had its own windows. Children of middle and older age, teachers, governesses settled on the mezzanines, arranged guest rooms as well as choirs.

Mezzanine (mezzanine, superstructure, tower, half-tier, half-dwelling, tower, room)- the upper floor is only above a part of the main facade, as a rule - above the middle one. The mezzanine is a residential floor for older and middle-aged children, tutors, governesses, for guests, relatives.

Belvedere— 1) rooftop building. It differs from the mezzanine in that it is intended not for housing, but for admiring landscape views, for this reason it is most often round in plan; 2) the name belvedere can be worn by gazebos in a garden or park; 3) some palaces in Europe were called belvederes.

Flashlight- 1) is most often used in the meaning bay window, i.e. a ledge in a wall suspended or on consoles, with well-lit interiors thanks to three-sided lighting. The most common functions are: an office, an artist's workshop, a winter garden; 2) glazed belvederes, or other parts of the house with continuous glazing, could also be called a lantern; 3) a light lantern in the roof to illuminate dark interior spaces.

Dovecote- a light superstructure on the roof, or a place in the attic where pigeons are bred and kept.

Basement, nodklet, podyzbitsa, semi-basement, cellars, ground floor - floor, the floor level of which is buried below the daytime surface of the soil. If the house is buried in the ground for the most part its height is called basement. Semi-basement submerged by a smaller part of the height. Ground floor is determined by facade characteristics, correlation with order elements, when the plinth is the pedestal of the order system.

A detached glacier can be called cellar.

In the basement can be located working rooms: kitchen, laundry room. The most common use of the basement is warehouses, in residential buildings most often food stores, in merchant houses and in guest yards - manufacturing warehouses, and often shops or tavern halls. The basement in manor manor town houses could be used as housing for courtyard people (humans). From ancient times to the 19th century basements were used for prison cells, punishment cells, home prisons. A library could be placed in a dry basement.

Underground is not a floor, most often it is a pit with a hatch in the floor, small in area and used to store food.

Attic, roof, roof, underroof- the space between the ceiling and the roof. Lofts are also often called attics. In city houses, clothes are dried in attics. In apartment buildings, the attic area is divided according to the number of residents. Often attics are used as closets for storing old, unnecessary trash. The attic space used for housing (mansard) was intended for courtyard people, or was rented out. These were the cheapest apartments for students, artists or elderly people living on rent.

Up, up, up, up- Rooms on the top floor. Usually used with respect to the front floor - mezzanine, mezzanine, upper residential floor. When using the term, they mean not a floor, but a very specific, specific room.

Down, down, down- usually a reference point to the mezzanine rooms or the lower non-ceremonial floor.

Inside- a very common term, usually focused on the interiors of the house.

Gallery- 1) is most often used in the meaning of a long open passage outside buildings (as opposed to a corridor). It can bypass the house along the perimeter, it can adjoin only part of it (for example, a portico).

Gallery single-tier, two-tier, three-tier(in one, two, three floors); 2) can be used in the meaning of a room of considerable elongation; 3) a special room for a collection of art objects; 4) covered passage from one building to another.

Veranda- gallery, glazed from the outside, latticed, landscaped. Can serve as a direct synonym for the term "gallery".

Terrace- a wide, spacious porch with a fence, like a balcony. It differs from the balcony by the obligatory communication with the earth's surface. On the terrace and veranda they relax, drink tea, after dinner - coffee and cigarettes. Children play on warm days.

Rizalits differ from extensions in that they are built or planned simultaneously with the construction of the house.

add-ons, like extensions, not planned by the project.

Premises

room- occupied rented area. It can be an apartment, any room, a barracks, a residential building, a hotel room, a hospital ward.

Room- part of the house, limited by walls, partitions, ceilings. Rooms can be: front, residential, utility. Rooms are not only in a residential building, but also in government offices, in a hospital, in a tavern, in a craft workshop.

clean rooms- residential and front rooms, black rooms - utility, work, household, production.

Front rooms for guests, luxuriously decorated rooms.

Names of rooms: library, sideboard, basket, boudoir, pantry, gallery, wardrobe, upper room, living room, girl's room, children's room, sofa room, housing, hall, dining room, huts, office, prison cell, valet, office (home), punishment cell, cell , pantry, classroom, office, corridor, kitchen, coachman's laboratory, lackey, human, workshop, music room, hotel rooms, figurative (prayer), armory, front, cook's room, bedchamber, laundry, reception room, hasty, checkpoint, hallway, salon, room, secret room, canopy, bedroom, dining room, customs, lavatory, corner (coal), tea room, closet - and other rooms.

Rooms: for guests, for rest, for girls, for tutors (governesses), for breakfasts, for the owner, for grandmother, for the servant, etc.

Possible qualitative characteristics of the rooms: dusty, gloomy, cramped, deserted, separate. Orienting terms: neighboring, (adjacent), adjacent, other, nearest, far, back, last, internal. Indicating belonging: ours, his, hers, mine, in oneself, in one's own, in one's own, to oneself, to her, to him.

The term rest is often used synonymously with the room. It carries the same semantic load.

Sidebar, sidebar- a room to the side, on the side of the functional core. The living room for guests, poor relatives, is usually uncomfortable.

Coal, corner- a room occupying the corner of the house, with two outer walls. It can carry any function: residential, hall, living room, bedroom, dining room, study, pantry, guest room. However, if the room is called a coal room and nothing else, its function is not rigidly fixed, or it is ambiguous.

checkpoint- a room through which communication with other rooms is carried out. Front doors - walk-throughs, as a rule. For residents, this is a significant inconvenience.

A synonym for a room, and a very common one, is the term room. The semantic center of gravity is shifted here towards residential, utility and work premises. In combination with the name of the front rooms, it is not customary to use.

In peasant houses, the term upper room means a clean, summer, living room half, a cold hut.

Upper room can be used to designate a mezzanine (svetelka, tower, teremok, top), attic rooms (attic).

Svetelka, svetlitsa is also used in this sense. It can also mean: 1) a room with red windows; 2) a clean, bright room, a white hut; 3) any room.

Chamber (polata)- 1) front room; 2) a room large in volume and area, for example, a cook's kitchen or a prison cell.

Camera- room, chamber, inner peace.

cell- a monk's house; cellar, pantry; lonely, remote deceased; lonely house; secluded housing; housing of a person leading a secluded lifestyle (girl's cell, cell of a writer, scientist, artist).

Number (number)- numbered rooms in the hotel.

Terms for substandard housing

Cage, cage- a cramped room, a small rest.

Kennel- small, cramped room, dirty, dark room.

Nora- a small dark room.

Corner- uncomfortable, uncomfortable, unfurnished housing, often rented, rented, or provided for temporary use.

closet, closet- a small room, a rest, a closet, a pantry, a barn.

front rooms

anteroom, anteroom, front hall - the room preceding the hall. Acts as a receptionist. It can be included in the front suite, but it can also be located separately, however, it belongs to the number of front (reception) rooms. If the first front room in the house is the hall (in the 1st July of the 19th century this is usually the case), then the entrance hall is the front hall.

hall, Hall, first reception, team, assembly- the largest front room in the house, usually the first after the hallway. As a rule, it is part of an enfilade. Adjacent to the hallway, pantry, study, internal corridor, internal staircase to the upper floor, living room, entrance hall. Main functions: reception, dining, dancing. AT big houses there may be separate rooms for receptions, dining and dancing, but in ordinary houses, in most of them, all three functions are combined in the hall.

If there is a piano in the house, it most often stands in the hall, which in this case also serves as a music room. Celebrations, festive and religious ceremonies are performed in the hall: congratulations, engagements, blessings on marriage, the funeral of the deceased.

Often the hall takes on the functions of the living room: communication, card games. If there is a billiards in the hall, then it carries the functions of a billiard room. In the hall, a corner or a separate area for a bureau or bookcases can be allocated, as a result of which the functional spectrum of the hall includes the functions of an office. In the hall they can also make a toilet, cut fabrics and sew. Often the hall is used for children's games, less often - as a guest room.

Reception- is used in two meanings: 1) any front room; 2) a special room for receptions. It is usually located at the beginning of the front area. Neighboring rooms: entrance hall, hall.

The reception can serve as an entrance hall, hall or living room, depending on the social status of the guest. In addition, the reception room of the owner is an office or library, the hostess is a boudoir, a front bedroom.

Dining room, dining room, refectory- room for eating. It is located in the front area, or apart, in the immediate vicinity of the buffet. If the house does not have a separate room, the functions of the dining room are taken over by the hall.

In the dining room they have lunch, breakfast, dinner, drink tea, drink and have a snack. In some cases, it can perform the functions of a nursery, guest room, living room, reception room. In the 19th century in summer time in good weather, the dining room could be moved to the garden, to the gazebo, to the porch, terrace or balcony. In addition to the dining room, tea rooms were very popular in the houses - this is a place for family members to communicate with each other or with guests, ladies and girls can read or embroider here, as in the living room.

The living room is a room for receiving guests. The second front room (after the hall). Usually the central room is in an enfilade, between the hall and the main bedroom. In the 1st floor. 19th century two or more living rooms were rarely made.

The living room must be smaller halls, although it was originally designed for the same number of guests: the hall is for dancing, the living room is for a quiet pastime. In the living room, salon or friendly contacts are made. Often the living room is used as a reception room for visitors of the same social level as the owner (the lower strata - peasants, philistines, petitioners, headman, clerk, police officer, priest - are received in the hallway or hall, friends - close people - in the office or boudoir).

They can enter the living room at the report of the footman or without a report, the owner on solemn occasions himself can lead the guest from the hallway (senai) to the living room. If there is a piano in the living room, it serves as a music room. Card games take place in the living room par excellence. The living room can host lunch, breakfast or dinner. If they dine in the hall, drinks and snacks can be served in the living room before dinner. After dinner in the living room they eat dessert, tea, coffee, or just relax. Often the living room is used as a tea room. In the living room, ladies and girls while away their days: they sew, knit, read. Here, with the mother may be young children. Religious ceremonies are held in the living room. The living room is a place for a one-time overnight stay for guests - a police officer, a doctor, an occasional traveler, a landowner-neighbor, and on holidays - the invitees sleep side by side on the floor. Less often, the living room is equipped for permanent housing.

sofa- a room with a sofa or with sofas. It is most correct to call a room with stationary soft sofas that occupy a significant area of ​​​​the room. Borrowed from Turkey, so the sofas closest to the oriental type are low, close to the floor. Essentially, a sofa room is a small living room with the same functions, but more intimate. It can be in an enfilade, but it can also be placed alone.

The sofa is used to receive guests, friends, relatives. Secret and sincere conversations are conducted in it - in the Moscow house of Khomyakov this room was called the "talking room". The guitar is a frequent guest here. In the sofa they can thread tea, relax after dinner, sometimes arrange guests for the night.

The sofa can be combined with a library or office.

Salon- a room for social receptions, closest in function to the living room, with which it can be combined. It is possible to combine the salon with the hall, and often with the hall and the living room - at the same time.

portrait, that is, a room whose walls are hung with family portraits can be a sofa, a living room, a hall, and a dining room. The name “portrait” is a decorative and artistic semantic landmark, while the main functional load of this room is from the living room or hall.

Separate music room rarely visited houses, most often it was combined with a hall, less often with a living room, even more rarely with an office. A sign of the music room is the piano standing in it.

Boudoir, master's, teremok, svetelka, gorenka- the mistress's room, her study, the reception room and the living room, when it is separated from the bedroom. Can be combined with a bedroom. Despite the chamber intimate character, functionally the boudoir belongs more to the front than to the residential area. The owner's room could also be called a boudoir.

Bosquet, bosquet- the front room, the walls of which are decorated with decorative painting under the natural greenery of the park, under the gazebo. Usually carries the functions of a living room, tea room, boudoir.

billiard room- a special room for playing billiards. Refers to the number of front rooms, most often not in an enfilade, but apart. Can be combined with pantry.

living rooms

bedroom, bedroom, bedchamber, bedchamber, bedchamber- sleeping room.

tumble, tumble, tumble- more often means a common bedroom; in the villages - for the whole family - in the superstructure or in the basement.

Dortoir, dortoir- a common bedroom in monasteries, hospitals, boarding houses.

In the master's house there may be master bedroom, master bedroom, shared bedroom, front bedroom.

Dormitory- for spouses.

Master bedroom- usually in the 1st half of the 19th century. coincides with the main bedroom - the room that closes the enfilade, which at the same time serves as a women's study, boudoir, living room, dressing room, reception room, work room of the mistress of the house.

Not far from the sleeping hostess should be placed children's for younger

children (up to 6 years old), girl's, toilet (restroom), if it is separate room.

front bedroom- as part of the front area.

Men's bedroom- usually combined with an office, located near the hall and the servants' room. Next to the men's bedroom can be valet.

Toilet, restroom- a special room for dressing. Located next to a separate bedroom - both women's and men's. Should have the shortest and most convenient communication with the dressing room, or combined with it.

Cabinet, working, hiding place, treasury, office- a room for solitary homework.

Cabinet- the room belonging to the owner is located at the back of the house, not far from the hall and hallway, Separate mistress's office possible, mainly when the owner does not live in the house. Usually, the hostess's office is her bedroom (the last room in the enfilade). If there is one owner in the house, without a hostess, his office, combined with a bedroom, can also be located in the last room of the front suite.

An office can be a functional unit consisting of several rooms: work room(or, actually, an office), a library, a reception room and a lounge.

If there is only one room, it combines all these functions.

In the reception room - the office can be received: relatives, acquaintances, friends, a lady, a doctor, a clerk, a petitioner from the townspeople. The visitor can be received in the office only after the report. On especially solemn occasions, the owner himself meets the guest in the hallway or on the porch, and then escorts him to the office. The study can simultaneously be the master's bedroom, in which he rests not only during the day, but also at night.

In the office, the owner usually deals with economic and financial affairs: he makes orders, checks accounts, writes business letters. Documentary archive, securities, money are stored in the office.

After dinner, the owner rests in the office, or smokes or drinks coffee with the guests. In addition, in the office, the owner can read, play cards, perform a prayer, a rite of blessing for marriage. For an artist, an office is a studio, if the house does not have a separate room for this; a writer writes, for a chemist an office is a laboratory. The office can take on the functions of a living room, salon, portrait, dressing room, dining room, guest room or music room.

An office can be called a room for storing and exhibiting collections. The most common was the armory cabinet (armory, weapons, ordnance room). could be mineral cabinets, botanical, entomological, natural(shell), smoking, artistic, mintzkabinets(collection of coins and medals), zoological rooms.

library, bookstore, bookkeeper, scribe- book storage room

The library is not often located in a separate room. Usually it is combined with an office, less often with a living room, a sofa and a reception room, even more rarely with a dressing room, a dressing room, in a collection room.

The library is usually in the mezzanine, but can also be located on the lower floor or in the mezzanine.

Children's- kids room. The children are sleeping in the nursery. They play not only in the nursery. Actually the playground - the whole house (hall, living room, hallway, girls' room, corridor, study, parents' bedroom). For older and younger children - different nurseries. Nursery of younger children near mother's room (bedroom) and girls' room. Nursery for older children - next to the classroom, the rooms of teachers, tutors, most often removed from the parents' rooms. Diverse older children have different rooms.

Nurses and nannies can sleep in the nursery for younger children, but they can also sleep in the girl's room, and beyond the threshold, in the corridor, on the rug.

Cool- a room for home schooling for children aged 6-14. There may be one classroom, but there may be several. The room for gymnastic exercises and fencing and the dance class can be located separately from the classroom.

Figurative, prayer- a room in a residential building, specially designed for prayers. Figurative is not a house church. Icon-painting workshops are also called figurative. The presence or absence of figurative depends on the degree of piety of the owners. In the figurative pray, read books of spiritual content. On major holidays (patronal, Christmas), an invited priest sends a service (vespers, prayer service). During the service in the figurative - gentlemen, in the corridor and in the neighboring rooms - courtyards, on the street - a crowd of peasants and children.

Utility and production areas. Rooms for courtyard people

human- a room or several rooms in a manor house or in an outbuilding (human outbuilding) for courtyard people. Lyudskaya could be called a barracks. They could work in the people's room (making boots, knitting nets), but the main purpose of the people's room is rest, soybeans. The human could be combined with the table. The footman on duty could sleep in the footman's room (hallway). In the human, with rare exceptions, the entire male population of courtyard people was placed.

The dwelling place of the female servant was girlish. Here the girls slept, on the floor, on rugs laid out for the night, and often took food - (table). Due to the fact that the female population of the courtyards, to a lesser extent, served, and for the most part produced goods for sale (yarn, sewing, embroidery), the maiden's served as a workshop, a working room. The girl's room should have a connection with the bedroom, nursery, toilet, dressing room, and also have a separate exit to the black (girl's) porch. Usually the girl's room was located away from the male half of the house, but if she happened to be near the owner's office, they had to be separated by a blank wall.

For the hostess, the girl's room could serve as a reception room for people of the lower classes: the headman, the cook, the yard, poor relatives, the matchmaker, the gardener. Punishments are carried out in the girl's room, and beating a hay girl in the girl's room is not as shameful as in the stable.

In addition to common rooms, courtyard people could have their own special ones. The doorman worked while sleeping in Swiss. The valet could have his own valet. The coachmen were placed in coachman. The carpenter or icon painter lived in his workshop, cook - on kitchen, cook, who, as a rule, was free, from the middle class, certainly had his own room. The nurse and the nanny slept on the floor in the nursery. The uncle, the maid on duty and the footman are on the floor on a rug outside the threshold of the master's room.

Entrance hall, front hall, front hall, servants' room, waiter's room, warm canopy- the first note of the cold hallway is a room in the house.

The main functions of the hallway:

1) The entrance hall is the first heated room, a thermal buffer between the cold air of the cold vestibule and the actively used residential and front areas. 2) In the hallway, when entering, they shake off their shoes, if there are scrapers, they clean the soles, take off their outer clothing, which they either hang on hooks and hangers, or put on tables and benches. When you leave, get dressed. 3) The entrance hall is the working room of the male part of the yard people, a place for them to rest and wait for orders. 4) In the absence of choirs on holidays, an orchestra could be placed here. 5) The entrance hall could serve as a buffet (the next room is the hall, which was used as a dining room). 6) In the hallway they are waiting for the result of the report. When the owner (hostess) goes into the hallway for a conversation and holds an audience there, the hallway serves as a reception room. 7) The entrance hall can be combined with the dining room. 8) The entrance hall may not be one room, but a zone and consist of two rooms: a lackey and a reception room; the servant's room can be combined with a buffet, and the reception room can be combined with a dining room.

Guests are greeted in the hallway and, at parting, they are escorted to the hallway. In some situations, the footman, after the report, escorts the guest from the hallway to the living room or office. The elder is received in the hall. The priest is also not allowed further than the front, where they bring him vodka and snacks.

Warm canopy there are at least two in the house: clean and black. The hallway in front of the front staircase is called lobby.

Office- to manage large farms, offices were established and operated that dealt with economic and economic affairs under the guidance of a manager. The office premises could be located both in the main house (on the ground floor) and in a separate wing.

The office could also be called the office. office could also be called the owner's office, where he was engaged in economic and financial affairs, received the headman, contractors, petitioners, compiled and checked accounts, kept money and securities.

Workshop called a room or several rooms in the house (outbuilding) for special work related to the creativity of the owner.

Workshop of the artist (sculptor, painter) can be in a room specially designed for this, or in any room equipped for work (in the hall, living room, office).

In a city house there may be craft workshop- sewing, icon painting, (figurative), wallpaper. One of the most common was carpentry workshop- for household needs of the estate.

Shop- a room in rows or a residential building for trade.

Wardrobe, wardrobe, wardrobe, clothes- a room for storing clothes. Sometimes combined with a ladies' toilet, restroom. In the men's house, it can be combined with a library, an armory, a reception room. Clothes are stored in wardrobes and chests of drawers.

Pantry- a separate storage room.

Lumber room- a small storage room. Used to store household items, food, wine, clothes, weapons, dishes, utensils, jewelry, money, books, furniture, paintings, old trash. Sometimes they sleep, especially in the summer, most often servants, footmen, valet, courtyard people. The keys to the pantry are with the hostess, the housekeeper, the housekeeper, the cook.

Kitchen, cookery, cooking, cooking- a room or an outbuilding for cooking master's food. It should have a convenient connection: with a pantry (glacier), a dining room (buffet). The kitchen is the home of the cook, and often the maid. When guests are treated in the hall, dining room, living room, their servants (valet, maid, coachman) are in the kitchen.

For courtyard people they could cook separately, in a separate room, which was called human kitchen or hasty. The master's kitchen, or the kitchen where they cooked for both masters and people, could also be called hasty.

In the house, next to the dining room could be located buffet, buffet, where tableware and table linen were stored. The pantry should have the shortest convenient communication with the kitchen. In the buffet, dishes await their order of serving to the table. A man from the kitchen carries dishes to the pantry. In the pantry, dishes are taken, served, heated and, on command, handed over to the footmen for serving to the table. From the master's table, the uneaten food returns to the pantry and is eaten there by the courtyards. Kvass, wine, vodka are stored in the pantry. In the pantry they serve tea or vodka to the servants of the guests. If the house does not have a separate buffet room, then in the dining room (hall) a small area with a buffet is allocated, where tableware and table linen are stored.

table, shabby- a dining room for courtyard people, often combined with a fresh one. Could be combined with a girl's. Table - a place of communication of courtyards. In the fall, cabbage cutting takes place in the table.

Laundry, washing- rooms where they wash and iron clothes. Usually located on the ground floor, basement or in a separate outbuilding.

Locker, cold- in some houses there is a special room, where for offenses, in anticipation of punishment, courtyard people were imprisoned.

corridor called a narrow long room inside the house, through which the rooms are connected to each other. The corridor allows you to make neighboring rooms not passable.

In a residential building, the corridor can be combined with a vestibule or an internal staircase. The corridor is not only a zone of internal communication, for domestic servants, it is also a residential zone. The maid girl or the uncle could sleep in the corridor at the door.

In large rooms (halls), corridors could be organized using screens.

ladder, ladder- a stepped rise (descent), connecting different levels of floors. The house, as a rule, has several stairs, the need for which is due to the degree of isolation of individual functional areas.

Front, master staircase- leads to the front and living rooms. Back, black, maiden staircase- for courtyards. Along the same stairs, dishes from ground floor or kitchen outbuilding. Internal staircase — in the inner corridor. Mezzanine staircase, stairs to the mezzanine; loft ladder. Spiral staircase.

Outhouse, outhouse, right place, departure, latrine, latrine room, waste rest, waste place, latrine room, retreat, retreat place - a room for the administration of natural needs. Settled next to the front entrance, sometimes at the girl's porch. Usually not heated.

Water closet- an improved latrine, where sewage is washed off with water and special valves are closed with water, preventing bad air from entering the room. Water closets must be heated.

Place for the ship- a small dark room (closet, closet under the stairs), where there is a container for the mandrel, which the servants regularly empty and wash.

In the bathroom, bathroom- there is a bath for washing. The bathroom area (apartment) can contain several rooms: the actual bathroom, toilet, water closet.

Baths- floating structures on the water were also called baths.

Bath- a building or room in the house containing washing rooms and a steam room. In the estate, there are usually two separate baths - for the masters and for the courtyard people (the master's bath and the people's bath).

1 Related words: Apartment and rooms (sound and transcription)

other words:

apartment- Amer. flat; apartment building- apartment house; penthouse apartment– penthouse; studio apartments- atelier, workshop; duplex apartment- Amer. apartment located on two floors

room- room; floor- floor; ceiling- ceiling; wall- wall; window- window; entrance (front door)- Entrance door; toilet- toilet

2 Related words: Furniture (sound, transcription)

[ɑːmˈtʃɛː] - armchair
[ˈbʊkkeɪs] - bookcase; bookshelf
[ˈkɑːpɪt] – carpet
- chair
[ˈkʌbəd] - cupboard for dishes
[ˈfʌɪəpleɪs] - fireplace
- lamp
[ˈmɪrə] – mirror
[ˈsəʊfə] - sofa, sofa
[ˈteɪb(ə)l] – table
- vase
[ˈwɔːdrəʊb] - wardrobe, closet

other words:

furniture- furniture; couch- sofa, sofa, couch; bed- bed; double bed- double bed; desk- desk

wall(-)paper- wallpaper; curtain- curtain, curtain; cushion – cushion; blanket- blanket

bath- bath; shower cabin(et)– shower cabin; sink- sink; flush toilet- toilet

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3 Videos in English on the topic: Rooms and parts of the house

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4 Song in English: Let's Clean Up / Let's clean up!

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5 Related vocabulary: house rooms and furniture (video)

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6 Names of furniture and household appliances in English

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7 Features of the use of English words denoting an apartment

Nouns denoting location ( apartment, flat, hall, house) are used to indicate a position in a series of similar ones, as a rule, with a quantitative numeral and without an article. The numeral is placed after such a noun. These nouns are often capitalized: Room S, Apartment 20, Hall 5.

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8 Apartment and furniture in English idioms

bachelor flat (apartment)- (lit. bachelor) one-room apartment

hell's kitchen- a place that is notorious; criminal quarter
soup kitchen– free canteen (where soup is given to the poor and the unemployed)
thieves" kitchen- thieves' den
everything and the kitchen sink- almost everything, necessary and unnecessary

arm chair critic- critic, blindly next one. doctrine, dogma

to be on the carpet- to be at the discussion (about the issue); to call smb. on the carpet- call someone to the carpet
to have somebody on the carpet- give a scolding to someone
to roll out the red carpet for somebody- give someone a warm welcome
to sweep something under the carpet- try to hide something

chair days- old age
to take the chair- become chairman of the meeting; open meeting
Chair!- To order!

cupboard love- selfish love, affection (usually in children, when they want to get something from adults)

upon the table- publicly discussed; well-known
to lay on the table- polit. postpone discussion (of a bill)
to turn the tables (up)on smb.- beat the enemy with his own weapon; switch roles
under the table- drunk; secretly, covertly, clandestinely

on the couch- jarg. being at a session with a psychoanalyst; undergoing psychoanalysis

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9 Games, songs and stories: rooms in the apartment and furniture in English (flash)

Differences between British and American English in the names of living quarters and furniture

Buildings, apartments, tenants, agents

Housing area - housing development(Am)- housing estate(Br)
apartment type hotel apartment hotel(Am)- service flats(Br)
sleeping area, sleeping suburb - bedroom(Am)- dormitory(Br)
apartment house - apartment building / house(Am)- dwelling house, block of flats(Br)
apartment building (in which the apartments are privately owned); apartment in such a house - condominimum, condo(Am)- apartment(Br)
flat - apartment(Am)- flat(Br)
one-room apartment - studio(Am)- bed-sitter(Br)
tenant, tenant roomer(Am)- lodger(Br)
furniture store - furniture store(Am)- furniture shop(Br)
real estate agent - realtor(Am)- estate agent(Br)

Rooms

lobby, foyer lobby, foyer(Am)- entrance hall, foyer(Br)
corridor, hallway hallway(Am)- hall(Br)
children's Corner - kidspace(Am)- children's corner(Br)
living room - living room(Am)- sitting room, lounge, drawing room(Br)
restroom - recreation room(Am)- restroom(Br)
study - den, study(Am)- home office(Br)
toilet - bathroom, toilet, john, restroom(Am)- lavatory, battery(Br)
lumber room - lumber room(Am)- box room(Br)
pantry - pantry(Am)- larder(Br)

Furniture and other

Chest of drawers (for clothes) - bureau, dresser(Am)- chest of drawers(Br)
closet, cupboard closet(Am)- cup board(Br)
sofa - couch, davenport(Am)- sofa, settee(Br)
folding bed - cat(Am)- camp bed(Br)
curtains (tulle) - sheers, underdrapes(Am)- net curtains(Br)
curtains, blinds (window) shades(Am)- blinds(Br)
bath - bathtub(Am)- bath(Br)
Water taps) - faucet(Am)- tap(Br)
waste pipe - soil / sewer pipe(Am)- drain(Br)
electric socket – electrical outlet(Am)- power point socket(Br)
elevator - elevator(Am)- lift(Br)

From the book by M. S. Evdokimov, G. M. Shleev "A Brief Guide to American-British Correspondences".

Games and exercises on the topic: rooms and furniture (in English)

English poems that mention parts of the house and furniture

I Never Want to Go to Bed
Kenn Nesbitt

I never want to go to bed.
I like to stay up late.
I "m bouncing off the bedroom walls
and, frankly, feeling great!

I'm dancing like a maniac
instead of counting sheep.
My mom says, "Time for bed."
My dad yells, "Get your butt to sleep!"

I "m not sure what my bottom
has to do with anything
but that's okay because I'd rather
jump around and sing.

I don't know what it was
that made me feel so wide awake.
Could it have been the Red Bull
and the double-chocolate cake?

I wonder if the seven cups
of coffee plus dessert
of Hershey bars and Skittles
are what left me this alert?

Whatever it turns out to be
that made me feel right
I hope I track it down
so I can stay up every... ZZZzzzzz

The Kitchen

A home is made of many rooms
To rest, to sleep, to shower,
To play, and read, and talk a lot,
Do hobbies by the hour.

But the kitchen, ah, the kitchen
Is a room that's made of dreams
Of fantasies... created by
A love of cooking schemes.

To touch, to smell, to visualize
The wonders that occur...
And then to taste, and then to taste
results of things that were.

At one time just "ingredients,"
In their places on the shelves
But become a wondrous mixture
As though transformed by elves.

Yes, a home is made of many rooms.
Each one has it's pleasures,
But the kitchen is the best of all
For finding hidden treasures.

Please remember - don't forget...
Mabel Lucie Attwell

Please remember - Don't forget!
Never leave the bathroom wet.
Nor leave the soap still in the water. -
That's a thing we never ought "er! -
And as you "ve been so often told,
Never let the "hot" run "cold";
Nor leave the towels upon the floor.
Nor keep the bath an hour or more
When other folks are wanting one;
Just don't forget - it isn't done! -
An "if you" d really do the things -
There's not the slightest need to sing!

First floor:

Entrance through a small porch (2 m²).

Tambour - 2.27 m² (room for heat regulation of air from the street). On the left along the wall there is a place for a hanger - here we leave outerwear and shoes in which the owners have just arrived and are going to go again (for example, you take care of the garden and went in for something for a minute, the children are walking and came to drink water, etc. .). To the right is the boiler room. It's convenient that it's near the entrance. Plus there is access from home (no need to get dressed and go out). The plan shows the opening of the door, the door is always closed, it is often not necessary to go to the boiler room.

The corridor. On the left at the entrance there is a place for a bedside table / shelves for a handbag and keys. Along the right wall are wardrobes with sliding doors. In the center of the closet there is a passage to the dressing room. Fur coat / coat, which is actively worn this season, is hung in these wardrobe cabinets (sections on the left and right). The dressing room (6.86 m²) stores clothes and shoes from other seasons. You can also leave the clothes of a large number of guests in it if they came to the event all at once.

Bathroom - 3 m². Accommodates shower, sink and toilet. It can be used as a guest at the entrance, a day room for residents of the house and the owners of bedroom 1.

Bedroom 1 - 10.22 m². Can be used as a guest room, grandmother's bedroom, adult child's bedroom, study or children's playroom. There is a double bed with a mattress 1.4 m wide with comfortable passages on both sides of the bed (the mattress can be 1.6 m wide, there will be room for passage) and a wardrobe.

Living room - 25.65 m². Separated from the entrance area and the guest (sleeping) area. The door to the living room is located in such a way that when it is opened, the toilet is not visible to those sitting on the sofa or at the dining table (if someone gets up from the sofa and passes the door to the bathroom, it is provided that the toilet in the bathroom is not visible - only the sink is visible). The living room is divided into 2 zones - relaxation (sofas + armchairs + coffee table + TV) and a dining area (instead of a separate dining room). The dining area is well lit - opposite the table on both walls of the window. Relaxation area with subdued artificial lighting, there is no window opposite the TV - there will be no glare on the screen.

Kitchen - 16.34 m². There is a passage to the kitchen from the corridor: right from the entrance, in order to immediately bring food, for example. The second entrance to the kitchen is through the living room, separated by double doors. Doors can be sliding or hinged, glass or wooden. The door can also be single leaf. The partition between the kitchen and the living room can be omitted at all at the request of the owners. Separated in the kitchen work zone letter G. In this scenario, square kitchen free round table for breakfast for 4-5 people. The table is placed by the window, there is a glass door to the terrace.

Terrace - 25.79 m². The plan is open, without a canopy. Maybe with a canopy, partially glazed, steps can be located in the place where it is most logical in a particular area. You can mirror the kitchen onto the terrace and make a summer kitchen with a barbecue there. Terrace may or may not be done. Make a second porch or not make a door to the street from the kitchen at all.

Second floor:

3 bedrooms - 22.28 m², 16.04 m² and 19.58 m². Bedroom 2 and Bedroom 3 have double beds with a 1.8 m² mattress, and Bedroom 4 with a 1.6 m² mattress. All bedrooms have bedside tables, 2.5 m wardrobes, computer or work desks. Opposite the bed there is a reserved place for a TV.

2 bathrooms - a toilet with a sink and a small storage system (1.84 m²) and a bathroom (4.28 m²) with a toilet, sink and bathtub.

Laundry room - 4.41 m². There is a washer and dryer, a large storage system, a worktop, an ironing board. Linen does not have to be dried in the bathroom or on the terrace.

This 10 by 10 layout is universal. It has all the necessary standard functionality for comfortable life families of 4-5 people.