The Oldest Room in the House 🏠

Morning house guests!

A long time ago, when pretty much everybody was just a farmer.

People used to live in little houses like this:

And these little houses only had 1 main room.

It would work just like a modern house.

Everybody’s crap would instead just be in one room rather than spread across multiple.

Now, people would do EVERYTHING in this room: eat, sleep, wash clothes, play games, talk.

The only thing they wouldn't do inside is pee and poop.

That was reserved for the outside.

But what would they call this one main room?

Well, it's actually a word you might have heard before.

They called it:

We use this quite a bit, even today.

You got: town hall, banquet hall, lecture hall, concert hall, church hall, lunch hall and probably a bunch more.

But originally, the hall was just this:

The single room in your house where everybody does everything.

(except pee and poop)

So what happened to it?

Well, eventually (I would imagine) the farmer's wives got fed up with kids running around everywhere while food was being prepared.

So, the kitchen was the first to be separated off.

And what was left was still known as the hall.

But over time, it continued to shrink and shrink.

Other rooms were added, like bedrooms:

And a dining room:

Until all that's left was this little sliver of a room that you pass through to get to the rest of your house, known as THE HALLWAY.

Modern hallways are basically just used as the room that leads to other rooms, and a place to leave shit.

Like coats.

And shoes.

But once upon a time, the hallway was literally the whole house!

Stay Cute,
Reece, Henry & Dylan 🌈

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