There are several types of rooms in a house, apartment or some other building. Here is an index that showcases those various rooms, be it the basic or the extraordinary.
See also Bathroom Tropes, Ceiling Tropes, Door Tropes, House Tropes, Room Shuffle and Wall Tropes.
Not to be confused with Room. Or that Room. Or that other Room. Or either video game with the Room.
Tropes:
- Abominable Auditorium
- Bad Bedroom, Bad Life: If a character's bedroom is small, badly furnished, or otherwise low quality, it's a sign their life sucks.
- Bedroom Adultery Scene: A character walks in on their romantic partner cheating on them.
- Boss Room
- Closet Punishment: A kid is locked in a closet as a punishment.
- Closet Sublet
- Cool Garage
- Creepy Basement
- Dead-End Room
- Developer's Room
- Disgusting Public Toilet: An extremely gross public restroom.
- Empty Bedroom Grieving
- Empty Room Psych
- Empty Room Until the Trap
- "Getting My Own Room" Plot
- Glassy Prison: A prison cell with transparent walls.
- Go to Your Room!: A child is made to go to their bedroom as a punishment.
- Hacker Cave
- Hogging the Bathroom: A character is spending an unnecessarily long time in a bathroom, to the chagrin of the other character(s).
- An Interior Designer Is You
- Kitchen Chase
- Locked in a Freezer: In particular, a walk-in freezer.
- Locked in a Room
- Locked Room Mystery
- Madwoman in the Attic
- Male Restroom Etiquette: The unspoken rules of the men’s bathroom.
- Mysterious Teacher's Lounge
- Off-Limits Room
- Oh Look, More Rooms!
- Poster-Gallery Bedroom
- Rats in a Box: Locking all the prisoners in one room.
- Room 101: A room you do not want to be sent to.
- Room Escape Game: A game that revolves around escaping a room.
- Room Full of Crazy: An insane or troubled character writes all over the walls and ceiling.
- Room Full of Zombies
- Sauna of Death: Getting trapped in a hot steam room.
- Sealed Room in the Middle of Nowhere
- Secret Room
- Sexiled: When a character can’t get into their room because of what's happening in there.
- Soulless Bedroom
- Standardized Sitcom Housing
- Super Multi-Purpose Room
- Surprising Domestic Discovery: Somebody discovers something unexpected about their own home.
- Ten Minutes in the Closet
- This Is My Side
- Torture Cellar
- Treasure Room
- Trojan Cellmate Ploy: Someone is planted as a cellmate with a prisoner in order to secretly get information.
- Trophy Room
- The Walls Are Closing In
- The War Room
- "Which Restroom?" Dilemma: A character does not know which bathroom to use.
- White Void Room
- Wondrous Ladies Room: The women's bathroom is much fancier than the men's.
- Wrong Bathroom Incident: A character walks into a bathroom meant for the opposite gender.
- You Wake Up in a Room