The Keeping Room

C/O Winter Berry Primitives

A keeping room is an area just off the kitchen of a home. Keeping rooms date back to Colonial times when families would sleep in that area when the rest of the house was cold.

Since the area could be heated by the kitchen stove, it often provided the only heated place in the house.

In Colonial times, children played there and families gathered there to read, talk, play games and often keep warm by the fire.

Today, a keeping room is called a family room, a great room and a hearth room.

To read more about The Keeping Room, click here...

Picture listed above,  is posted with permission from Winteryberry Farm Primitives, they can be visited online through their website at: http://www.winterberryfarmprimitives.com

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Tracy - Simple Living
My love of vintage goods, antiques
and handmade primitives!
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