This house is typical of a well-established couple in the north; while it's not opulent, it's comfortable. With a main room, two bedrooms, and a pantry, as well as a wood floor instead of dirt, it's spacious enough to raise children but not so large as to call attention to its owners. The main room houses the kitchen area and the family table; the pantry includes plenty of shelving and a cellar door, where cold goods and vegetables are kept.
Though this family isn't wealthy enough to have closets in the bedrooms, they do have a separate bed for each child. The extra bed in the main room, curtained for privacy, either belongs to the mother of one of the parents or else to a child of a different gender than the others.
A house like this probably started life as a one-room cottage and was expanded as the family grew. It could have been in the family for a hundred years or more. It's a town house, though similar homes also exist in the country.
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