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   valhalla (valhalla@social.gl-como.it)'s status on Sunday, 12-Jan-2025 01:28:01 JST valhalla

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   • IcooIey

   @Janet_52square @IcooIey @sinituulia not heating the bedrooms was a thing also here in the north of Italy: you would have a cast metal stove like the one above in the kitchen (with an oven and range) with a fire constantly going (and a kettle of water and possibly some soup cooking on the range), maybe a fireplace if there was a separate living room, and nothing in the bedrooms.

   And you only went to the bedrooms to sleep, and use extra warm blankets (and a night hat). And possibly put a perfectly safe metal container full of embers from the fire in the bed a short time before you went to sleep to warm it up. Or later on a slightly less unsafe electric blanket.

   Temperatures here are a bit warmer than in Finland, but winter nights are often just below freezing even today, and of course used to be colder.

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     Sini Tuulia (sinituulia@eldritch.cafe)'s status on Sunday, 12-Jan-2025 01:27:59 JST Sini Tuulia

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     @valhalla @IcooIey @Janet_52square Here you'd often not have very many rooms, so the bedroom was where you spent time when you weren't cooking, eating or working outside! A combined dining room and parlour was a fine thing to have, often you'd also sleep in the combined parlour, dining room and bedroom if you weren't wealthy, or were staying with the owners of the house and needed somewhere to sleep (farm workers, labourers, other people's children, unmarried relatives)... But this was fairly efficient, because the big honking brick oven was also in the same room, so it would be quite warm!
     Attics were mostly for storage and cats in regular people houses, the roof insulation wasn't ever very good. In big houses you'd put the servants there with maybe the heated water bottle or coal pan.

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     valhalla (valhalla@social.gl-como.it)'s status on Sunday, 12-Jan-2025 01:29:57 JST valhalla

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     • Sini Tuulia
     • IcooIey
     @sinituulia @IcooIey @Janet_52square here the room you spent time when not working outdoors was mostly the (heated) kitchen, so basically the same except for sleep time?