What were the bed chambers in a medieval European castle used for?

Answer 1

They often had stone or tile floors and it was very cold. the main attraction in a bedroom was the fireplace. the fireplace was also made of stone with a stone chymminey. the beds were very big with long hevy canopies to keep the heat in. the bed was the most expensive piece of furnature in the manor. the colors were mostly very deep, rich colors. they did not have pastels back then.the windows had very long , heavy curtains that reached the floor. on the floor were many soft big rugs to keep their feet warm. the walls were decorated with embroidery and tapestry. the furnature was made of dark, solid wood. i hoped this helped!

Answer 2

Most medieval houses were simple cottages with a single room. These were the homes of serfs and other peasants.

Some farmers of Wales, Scotland, Flanders, and Germany lived in long houses which were very big and housed large numbers of people together with animals. The animals had stalls at one end of the house, and the people had rooms in the other end. In such houses, people often slept in structures almost like horizontal closets that could be closed off from the rooms they shared in common with other people; this was more for warmth than for privacy. Between the stalls and the rooms for people was a very large room almost like the inside of a barn. It contained the hearth, where the fire was kept, and was the place where most things happened, including cooking and eating. The hearth was in the center of the room, or more toward the bedrooms, and was the only source of heat. The smoke went up to the roof and out through a vent. The floor was usually dirt. This room was sometimes called the great hall.

The manor houses and other fine houses of the Middle Ages also had great halls, and these were like the ones in the long houses, but of better construction. The great hall in the manor house was likely to have a tile floor, but was also a big room with a hearth and vents for the smoke to go out. People who lived in manor houses were likely to have private bedrooms of their own, but they were not heated because it was only the 12th century that chimneys were introduced, and they did not catch on very fast.

There were kitchens at manor houses, and while they were often in separate buildings, they were sometimes in the manor house itself. A nice manor house usually had more than one kitchen because roasting meat required a big fire, other cooking required a low fire, and baking required an oven. The smoke from these was often gathered by a canopy over the fire and vented out the wall or through the roof.

A very few houses had libraries, sometimes with more than a dozen books.

Merchants often had shop rooms in the same buildings they lived in.

Lodging houses had great halls with hearths that provided what warmth the rooms of lodgers had, and inns were similarly built.

Sometimes the great hall of a building was divided up to provide a number of smaller areas, separated by partitions, like the cubicles in modern offices. These areas could include living quarters, offices, and so on for the owners. This was typical in castles when they were used as homes.

Some manor hosues, and many castles, had chapels.

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Answer 3

There weren't "guest rooms" in the middle ages. If someone was allowed to stay in a place they were given a spot in the great hall or in the stable depending on rank. Monasteries would open their gates to someone on the road, but a barren cell was provided. Most people didn't travel since it was very dangerous and expensive as well as it took a long time.

Answer 4

they don't have a bathroom they do there stuff outdoors

Answer 5

The bed chamber was the bedroom where people slept