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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.