The rich houses were big lavish houses. These houses were usually one-floor houses. At the center of the house there was a garden. These houses had a series of bedrooms. The hall was known as the atrium. The dining room and office were located across from the entrance.
The walls of the house were covered in paintings. Some paintingss depicted scenes in mythology.
The poor live usually in the back rooms of the palaces they worked in or were rented back rooms of upstairs rooms by the people they worked for.
Every house had a family shrine to the family god know as the lararium.
Examples of common furniture would be: wood storage boxes plate with bronze, round top three legged tables, and one legged marble tables.
As far as couches and beds go they were much one in the same. There were wooden frames that came in varying styles with a mattress and cloths.
The cooks in the kitchen were usually slaves. The kitchen most of the time was located behind the hall. The kitchen had a sink, shelves, and stove The stove in the kitchen was a table like stove with an arc under it to place fuel.
The toilets were located near the kitchen so they could share the water system.
The dinning room had three couches that could accommodate nine people. The slaves would serve the guests. Some houses of the rich had summer and winter dinning rooms. People would eat on couches sloping upward and they ate around a large table.
Bibliography
Connolly, Peter and Hazel Dodge. The Ancient City. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998.