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30-410: A mailroom (US) or post room (UK) is a room in which internal, incoming, and outgoing mail is processed and sorted. Mailrooms are commonly found in schools, offices, apartment buildings , and the generic post office . A person who works in a mailroom is known as a mailroom clerk or mailboy and the head person (sometimes the only person) is called the postmaster . The mailroom is responsible for

60-512: A combination lock . Newer locker rooms may be automated, with robotic machines to store clothes, with such features as a fingerprint scanner to enroll and for later retrieval. Locker rooms in some water parks use a microchip equipped wristband. The same wristband that unlocks the lockers can be used to purchase food and drinks and other items in the water park. Some communal changing rooms are only supposed to be used by groups of persons, not individuals. In this case, there may be no lockers. Instead,

90-418: A dining room for large banquets, or cleared of tables, provided with music, and turned into a ballroom . Off the side, or in a different part of the house, might be a drawing room , used as a room with greater privacy, for the owner's family and their friends to talk. A sitting room , living room, or parlour is a place for social visits and entertainment. One decorated to appeal to a man might be called

120-403: A man cave ; in an older style, the cabinet was used by men who wanted a separate room. Some large homes have special rooms for entertainment; these may include a library , a home theater , a billiard room , a game room , or a music room. A bedroom is the room where a bed is located, and whose primary purpose is sleeping. A master bedroom may have an en suite bathroom . A guest room

150-469: A bedroom might have a separate closet, for praying and seeking privacy; this architectural idea lives on in the storage closet. In the United Kingdom, many houses are built to contain a box-room (box room or boxroom) that is easily identifiable, being smaller than the others. The small size of these rooms limits their use, and they tend to be used as a small single bedroom, small child's bedroom, or as

180-485: A changing room exists as a small portion of a restroom/washroom. For example, the men's and women's washrooms in Toronto's Dundas Square (which includes a water play area) each include a change area which is a blank counter space at the end of a row of sinks. In this case, the facility is primarily a washroom, and its use as a changing room is minimal, since only a small percentage of users change into bathing suits . Sometimes

210-424: A company's incoming and outgoing mail. A mailroom clerk prepares outgoing mail and packages prior to their being sent out via the post office or other carrier. In a large organization, the mailroom is the central hub of the internal mail system and the interface with external mail. The postmaster manages the department, clerks assist them and mailboys deliver mail for other employees in different departments using

240-655: A department store. The rooms are usually individual rooms in which a person tries on clothes to determine fit before making a purchase. People do not always use the fitting rooms to change, as to change implies to remove one set of clothes and put on another. Sometimes a person chooses to try on clothes over their clothes (such as sweaters or coats ), but would still like to do this in private. Thus fitting rooms may be used for changing, or just for fitting without changing. Retail establishments often post rules such as maximum number of items allowed in changing room, e.g. "no more than 4 items allowed in changing room". It appears that

270-417: A kitchen or bathroom. A sick room is a specialized room, sometimes just large enough to contain a bed, where a family member could be conveniently tended and kept separate from the rest of the household while recuperating from an illness. In smaller homes, most rooms were multi-purpose. In a bedsit , communal apartment , or studio apartment , a single main room may serve most functions, except usually

300-404: A mail cart or a trolley doing regular rounds throughout the day. Sometimes the mailboys will trolley sort using the departmental slots on the trolley to reduce work at the central hub and to speed internal mail. Working in the mailroom is a stereotypical entry-level job in an organization, and working one's way up the corporate ladder "from the mailroom" is a common idiom. At a few companies

330-934: A person may change their clothes in a toilet cubicle of a washroom. Larger changing rooms are usually found at public beaches, or other bathing areas, where most of the space is for changing, and minimal washroom space is included. Beach-style changing rooms are often large open rooms with benches against the walls. Some do not have a roof, providing just the barrier necessary to prevent people outside from seeing in. Various types of changing rooms exist: Changing stalls are small stalls where clothes can be changed in privacy. Clothes are usually stored in lockers . There are usually no separate areas for men and women. They are often combined with gender-separated communal showers . Most public pools have changing facilities of this kind alongside communal changing-rooms. Some other places also offer these changing stalls such as fitness centers. Locker rooms are thus named because they provide lockers for

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360-461: A private room, private washroom and access to a communal kitchen. The washroom generally includes an en-suite shower, a sink and a toilet. "En-suite" usually indicates a private space, especially if it is student accommodation. En-suite rooms for students are intended to provide study space and a peaceful environment. Changing room A changing room , locker room (usually in a sports, theater, or staff context), or changeroom (regional use)

390-555: A storage room. Other box rooms may house a live-in domestic worker . Traditionally, and often seen in country houses and larger suburban houses up until the 1930s in Britain , the box room was for the storage of boxes , trunks , portmanteaux , and the like, rather than for bedroom use. In Ireland, a return room is a box room added between floors at the turn ("return") of a staircase. Return rooms may be added as extensions, and are sometimes used or converted for other functions such as

420-792: A variety of room types, including some of the earliest examples of rooms for indoor bathing. The Anasazi civilization also had an early complex development of room structures, probably the oldest in North America, while the Maya of Central America had very advanced room configurations as early as several hundred AD. By at least the early Han dynasty in China (e.g. approximately 200 BC ) , comfort room complex multi-level building forms emerged, particularly for religious and public purposes; these designs featured many roomed structures and included vertical connections of rooms. Some rooms were specially designed to support

450-483: Is a bedroom used primarily by overnight guests. The nursery is a bedroom for babies or young children. It may be separate from the playroom , which is a room where the children's toys are kept. Bedrooms may be used for other purposes. A large house might have separate rooms for these other functions, such as a dressing room for changing clothes (also seen in clothing stores and businesses where people need to change clothes, but do not need to sleep). In Tudor times,

480-537: Is a room or area designated for changing one's clothes. Changing-rooms are provided in a semi-public situation to enable people to change clothes with varying degrees of privacy. A fitting room , or dressing room , is a room where people try on clothes, such as in a department store. Separate changing rooms may be provided for men and women , or there may be a non-gender-specific open space with individual cubicles or stalls, as with unisex public toilets . Many changing rooms include toilets, sinks and showers. Sometimes

510-410: Is merely a secondary purpose often also have such labyrinth openings. Many washrooms have security cameras in the main area with a view of the sinks and the urinals from a viewing angle that would only show the back of a user. However, when a washroom is located near a fountain, wading pool, or the like, and is likely to be used for changing clothes, some believe that washroom surveillance cameras would be

540-410: Is not total privacy. In particular, the perpetrator of a crime would not know whether or not other users might be undercover police or security guards. Many modern changing rooms often have labyrinth -style entrances that have no door, so that people outside cannot see in, but security can walk in at any time without the sound of an opening door alerting persons inside. Washrooms in which changing clothes

570-412: The 1995 French film Les Trois Frères . Some homes may have dedicated rooms solely for the purpose of dressing and changing clothes, typically with fitted wardrobes. In larger Victorian houses it was common to have a private room called a boudoir for the lady of the house that is accessible from the bedroom, and also a dressing room for the gentleman (and sometimes a man's cabinet ). Because of

600-457: The toilet and bathroom , which may be combined or which may be in separate rooms. The public equivalent is the restroom , which usually features a toilet and handwashing facilities, but not usually a shower or a bathtub. Showers are only available in athletic or aquatic facilities which feature a changing room . In the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries, among those who could afford it, these facilities were kept in separate areas. The kitchen

630-515: The different room types could be identified to include bedrooms , kitchens , bathing rooms , closets , reception rooms, and other specialized uses. The aforementioned Akrotiri excavations reveal rooms sometimes built above other rooms connected by staircases , bathrooms with alabaster appliances such as washbasins, bathing tubs, and toilets, all connected to an elaborate twin plumbing systems of ceramic pipes for cold and hot water separately. Ancient Rome manifested very complex building forms with

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660-433: The entire room is locked in order to protect belongings from theft. Locker rooms are also used in many middle schools and high schools. Most of them include showers for after Physical Education. At an outdoor sports facility, the changing rooms may be integrated into a pavilion or clubhouse, with other facilities such as seating or a bar. Fitting rooms, or dressing rooms, are rooms where people try on clothes, such as in

690-492: The first store fitting rooms appeared with the spread of department stores . Émile Zola noted their existence in his novel Au Bonheur des Dames (1883), and that they were then forbidden to men. Some years later, when Henri Gervex , who painted Jeanne Paquin in 1906, that was no longer the case. In any case, Buster Keaton worked in one in an American 1928 silent comedy The Cameraman . Since then, they have continued to provide comic scenes in films, for example in

720-696: The mailroom is the basis or metonym for a training program for highly promising early-career hires. U.S. talent agency mailrooms, starting with the William Morris Agency mailroom , became famous for alumni rising to the highest levels in the entertainment industry , documented in the book The Mailroom: Hollywood History from the Bottom Up . Room Historically, the use of rooms dates at least to early Minoan cultures about 2200 BC, where excavations at Akrotiri on Santorini reveal clearly defined rooms within certain structures. In early structures,

750-417: The privacy afforded by changing rooms, they create a problem in the trade-off between security and privacy, where in it may be possible for crime to be perpetrated by people using the cover of privacy to sell drugs, or steal clothing from a department store. Some department stores have security cameras in the changing rooms. Communal changing rooms pose less of a risk of theft than fitting rooms, because there

780-463: The storage of one's belongings. Alternatively, they may have a locker room attendant who will keep a person's belongings until one comes to retrieve them. Locker rooms are usually open spaces where people change together, but there are separate areas, or separate locker rooms, for men and women. Sometimes they are used in swimming complexes. Locking devices used in locker rooms have traditionally been key or coin lockers, or lockers that are secured with

810-422: The toilet and bath. Types of multi-purpose rooms include the great room , which removes most walls and doors between the kitchen, dining and living rooms, to create one larger, open area. In some places, a lady's boudoir was a combination sleeping room and place to entertain small numbers of friends. In others, the boudoir was an anteroom before her bedroom. An en-suite room is a type of room which includes

840-476: The work of the household, such as kitchens, pantries , and root cellars , all of which were intended for the preparation and storage of food. A home office or study may be used for household paperwork or external business purposes. Some work rooms are designated by the intended activity: for example, a sewing room is used for sewing , and the laundry room is used for washing and ironing laundry. Other rooms are meant to promote comfort and cleanliness, such as

870-412: Was detached from the main part of the house, or later put in the basement, to reduce the risk of fire and keep the heat and smell of cooking away from the main house during the warm months. The toilet, often a simple pit latrine , was put in an outhouse or privy, to keep the smell and insects away from the main house. A variety of room types have been distinguished over time, the main purpose of which

900-424: Was socializing with other people. In previous centuries, very large homes often featured a great hall . This room was so named because it was very large, regardless of any excellence in it. It was originally a public room and most likely seen in the main home of a noble estate. In this room, people who had business with the local landowner or his household could meet. As the largest room, it could also be used as

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