A room is an enclosed space in a house or other building. A room may have any number of doors and windows regulating light, airflow and access to the room. Large rooms are often named halls, small ones closets. Hall may also refer to a long, narrow room which serves purely as an access to other rooms (for example a corridor, a passage, or a hallway).

Rooms have specific names based on the purpose they were built for, or are being used for. A room for cooking food, for example, is called a kitchen.

Planning of room structure, use and interior decoration are part of the discipline of architecture.

Rooms in a house

Rooms commonly found in houses include:

• Bathroom
• Bedroom
• Dining room
• Kitchen
• Living room

Other rooms in houses:

• Entry
• Family room
• Recreation room (sometimes shortened to rec room)
• Bonus room
• Study (office, library)
• Laundry room
• Furnace room
• Workshop
• Basement
• Pantry
• Storage closet
• Walk-in wardrobe

Other rooms

• Waiting rooms in train stations, bus station and while waiting for an appointment
• A changing or dressing room where a person may try on clothes in a clothing shop
• Schools and other educational establishments use classrooms as a place to teach lessons

Other meanings

• Room also means needed space.
• In Interactive Fiction ("adventure games"), a room is a basic unit of location. A room might refer to an actual room, but it could also be just part of a room, a field, a section of road, or even an entire world.