A storage room or storeroom is a room in a building for storing objects. They are not designed for permanent residence, and are often small and without windows. Such rooms often have more lenient requirements for fire protection , daylight entry and emergency exits compared to rooms intended for permanent residence.
7-537: An undercroft is traditionally a cellar or storage room , often brick-lined and vaulted , and used for storage in buildings since medieval times. In modern usage, an undercroft is generally a ground (street-level) area which is relatively open to the sides, but covered by the building above. While some were used as simple storerooms, others were rented out as shops. For example, the undercroft rooms at Myres Castle in Fife , Scotland of c. 1300 were used as
14-460: Is unable to get rid of or have big plans for. The value of the mess is often small, especially if the people who live there have a compulsive hoarding problem and if the objects are stored in such a way that the condition becomes very poor. The TV show Hoarders is one of several TV shows that try to help people with such problems. In some cases, there may be valuable antiques that have been stored and forgotten. The TV program American Pickers
21-505: The main floors of the building, such as in a basement or an attic . A storage room can be lockable, and can be located in a housing unit or a common area , indoors or outdoors. There are companies that rent out storage space for self storage , where individuals and companies can rent storage rooms. Sheds , garages and other storage rooms can become overcrowded and cluttered with items that are not in use, or old scrap that has neither been thrown away nor repaired yet, things that one
28-630: The medieval kitchen and a range of stores. Many of these early medieval undercrofts were vaulted or groined , such as the vaulted chamber at Beverston Castle in Gloucestershire or the groined stores at Myres Castle. The term is sometimes used to describe a crypt beneath a church , used for burial purposes. For example, there is a 14th-century undercroft or crypt extant at Muchalls Castle in Aberdeenshire in Scotland , even though
35-634: The original chapel above it was destroyed in an act of war in 1746. Undercrofts were commonly built in England and Scotland throughout the thirteenth and early fourteenth centuries. They occur in cities such as London , Chester , Coventry and Southampton . The undercroft beneath the Houses of Parliament in London was rented to the conspirators behind the Gunpowder Plot . In modern buildings,
42-547: The storage is a place where the employees can put their goods and then take them out when the store starts to become empty or when there is a high demand. In dwelling , storage rooms are used to store less used tools or items that are not used on a daily basis. The term shed is often used for separate small independent buildings for storing food, equipment and the like, for example storage sheds, toolsheds or woodsheds. Historically, storage rooms in homes have often been narrow, dark and inconspicuous, and places on floors other than
49-445: The term undercroft is often used to describe a ground-level parking area that occupies the footprint of the building (and sometimes extends to other service or garden areas around the structure). This type of parking is, however, discouraged by some urban design guidelines, as it prevents the ground floor from having activities (shops, restaurants or similar) that provide for a lively streetscape. Storage room In businesses ,
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