miffa14+Common+Housing


 * Common Housing**

Aside from the great palaces of the lords, ladies, and royalty; many houses during the Renaissance were extremely small an simple.





Many of these houses had no more than two rooms and had very low ceilings. A large or moderate family would commonly share a single bed; and there would usually be four or five family members to a bed. The fireplaces were used for cooking, not only warmth, and the tiny house would almost completely fill with smoke; because many houses might not have a chimney or they had a very small one. On warm days, the house would become unbearably hot and the people living there would sometimes have to do work and chores outside the house.



Usually household objects were very simple or old; many times they were passed down generations. A typical Renaissance family usually owned about two outfits and one pair of shoes per person. Each family shared a few kitchen utensils, a single bed, a chamber pot, a table, a bench, a chest, and a few tools in which to repair broken objects.



Here is a recreation of what one of these houses might have looked like on the outside: