Do you consider a bathroom a "room"?
A problem came up on the Pepa thread for beginners.
Do you consider the bathroom a "room"? In Spain, remember "Spain is different" 
, we don't.
Actually, when we say
three room apartmente, piso de tres habitaciones
We mean: flat with three bedrooms, kitchen,-----etc.
In my thread I simplified and counted the kitchen and the living-room as a room, not normally done in Spain, but the bathroom?
Look, this you can find on the web everywhere:
Hola, se busca chica para compartir piso , consta de tres habitaciones (--bedrooms!!) un baño, cocina grande,salon .
18 Answers
Being in the building industry I can tell you Heidita, a bathroom does not count as a room in the USA although the way homes are going I've worked in some that have Master bathrooms larger than my living room. 
Well, then I don¡t understand....some people asked why were there four room mentioned in my text and I said: I live in a three room flat. hmmmmm 
I agree with Dan. 3 bedroom, 2 bathroom house...I think bedroom is almost always specified...I don't think that you'd see an ad that says 4 room apartment, for instance, because that would be unclear and would probably be considered a 4 bedroom apartment.
In fact, if I were describing my house to someone, I would say: It's a 3 bedroom house, with one and a half baths, a kitchen, a living room, a dining room, a sun room and a laundry room. I'd never say: It's an 8 room house. Though I might say: It's a 3 bedroom house.
As someone has already said, whenever people talk about a house they would say (for example) a 3 bedroom 2 bath house, we don't usually say, "I have a 9 room house...". However, I still consider a bathroom a room!
After all, the definition of a room is : A portion of space within a building or other structure, separated by walls or partitions from other parts.
Therefore, I think a bathroom qualifies. 
In France when we talk about 3 roomed-appartement, we usually mean 2 bedrooms and a livingroom. We don't count kitchen or bathroom as a room either.
Where I am, the number of rooms normally just refers to bedrooms. So a 2-room apartment should be understood as having 2 bedrooms. However, to avoid confusion, some just say 2-bedroom apartment. Bathrooms are never counted as rooms.
In my country, if an advertisement says "three-roomed flat to rent", you can expect a flat with three rooms (a living room and two bedrooms etc.), a kitchen and a bathroom.
People in my country don't consider bathroom a room, but there is usually a bathroom. However, when doing your exercies, I thought the thing which was not a room in your opinion was kitchen.
In the US, the property appraisals do not include non-living areas in the rooom count. So, a bathroom would not be counted. I thought the Pepa exercise listed the rooms exactly as they should be.
In the USA, I believe it is almost always specified as "X bedroom" (2 bedroom apartment, 3 bedroom house, and so forth). The bathroom, laundry room, utility room, attic, basement (unless it is a bedroom), kitchen, front patio... are not counted as rooms in this sense.
I think that maybe one reason for the confusion could be in the interpretation of the word "flat". Honestly, to me, I picture a flat as a New York studio apartment, where everything is basically in one room. This is a misconception, I realize, but I tend to associate the word "flat" with "studio" when it comes to an apartment. Perhaps others had this misconception, as well.
If you are listing rooms, you would count each one (bedrooms and all).
- example: My house has 11 rooms: 4 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, kitchen, dining room, den, and living room.
Naming a "type" of house doesn't count each room in the house.
- example: My house is a 4 bedroom home.
In English we would say it has ___ bedrooms and ___ bathrooms. You can assume it has a living room and a kitchen.
In Japan they say things like 2dk or 3dk (where the number represents rooms (bed/living)and the 'dk' means (dining area & kitchen).
The reason why I stated there were four rooms in my translation was because there were four rooms specifically listed.
Normally, if someone said to me they had three rooms in there house, I would assume two bedrooms and a living room. Although, here in England it's more typical to say, "I live in a three bedroomed house."
I genuinely wasn't trying to pick faults with your work (which I'm very grateful for) I thought that you had originally listed three rooms (a bedroom, a living room, a kitchen for example) and then later decided to add another room and forgot to change the amount of rooms you had listed from three to four
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I'm sorry I started this whole issue :(.
