Concepts

Den

A den is a small room in a house where people can pursue activities in private.

In North America, the type of rooms described by the term den varies considerably by region. It is used to describe many different kinds of bonus rooms, including family rooms, libraries, home cinemas, spare bedrooms, studies or retreats.

Rooms and spaces of a house

• Shared rooms:
  • Bonus room
  • Common room
  • Den
  • Dining room
  • Family room: a large room designed as a recreation center and informal gathering place for members of a family
  • Garret: a room or unfinished part of a house just under the roof
  • Great room: a large room in a residence usually serving several functions (as of a dining room, living room, and family room)
  • Home cinema
  • Kitchen (dirty kitchen - kitchenette)
  • Living room
  • Gynaeceum (harem)
  • Andron (man cave)
  • Recreation room (billiard room)
  • Shrine
  • Study
  • Sunroom
• Private rooms:
  • Bathroom (toilet)
  • Bedroom / Guest room (closet)
  • Bedsit / Miniflat: a one-room apartment serving as both bedroom and living room
  • Boudoir
  • Cabinet: a small room providing an isolated place
  • Nursery
• Spaces:
  • Atrium
  • Balcony
  • Breezeway
  • Conversation pit
  • Cubby-hole
  • Deck
  • Elevator (dumbwaiter)
  • Entryway / Genkan
  • Fireplace (hearth)
  • Foyer
  • Hall
  • Hallway
  • Inglenook
  • Lanai
  • Loft
  • Loggia
  • Overhang: a projection of the roof or upper story of a building beyond the wall of the lower part.
  • Patio
  • Porch (screened / sleeping)
  • Ramp
  • Secret passage
  • Stairs
  • Terrace
  • Veranda
  • Vestibule
• Utility and storage:
  • Attic
  • Basement
  • Carport
  • Cloakroom
  • Closet
  • Crawl space
  • Electrical room
  • Equipment room
  • Furnace room / Boiler room
  • Garage
  • Janitorial closet
  • Larder
  • Laundry room / Utility room
  • Mechanical room / floor
  • Pantry
  • Root cellar
  • Semi-basement
  • Storm cellar / Safe room
  • Studio
  • Wardrobe
  • Wine cellar
  • Wiring closet
  • Workshop
• Great house areas:
  • Antechamber
  • Ballroom
  • Kitchen-related (butler’s pantry/buttery/saucery/scullery/spicery/still room)
  • Conservatory / Orangery
  • Courtyard
  • Drawing room
  • Great chamber
  • Great hall
  • Library
  • Long gallery
  • Lumber room
  • Parlour
  • Sauna
  • Servants’ hall
  • Servants’ quarters
  • Smoking room
  • Solar
  • State room
  • Swimming pool
  • Turret
  • Undercroft
• Other:
  • Furniture
  • Hidden room
  • House (house plan/style/stypes)
  • Multi-family residential
  • Secondary suite
  • Duplex
  • Terraced
  • Detached
  • Semi-detached
  • Townhouse
  • Studio apartment
• Architectural elements:
  • Arch
  • Baluster
  • Belt course
  • Bressummer
  • Ceiling
  • Chimney
  • Colonnade / Portico
  • Column
  • Cornice / Eaves
  • Dome
  • Door
  • Ell
  • Floor
  • Foundation
  • Gable
  • Gate
  • Lighting
  • Ornament
  • Plumbing
  • Quoins
  • Roof
  • Roof lantern
  • Sill plate
  • Style
  • Skylight
  • Threshold
  • Transom
  • Vault
  • Wall
  • Window
• Related:
  • Backyard
  • Driveway
  • Front yard
  • Garden
  • Home
  • Home improvement
  • Home repair
  • Shed
  • Tree house