What would actually be inside a villager's house?

>>55053482
A village wife.

>>55053482

A little vague there. What's the setting? High fantasy, low fant, realistic, gritty?
What's the location of the villager's house?
What is the surrounding culture?

For example, if the people are centered on ancestor worship they might have a shrine indoors, whereas other cultures might not.

>>55053514
That's a really good point, a cooking area's pretty universal and the only reason it wouldn't be there is because it was outside or the cooking was done communally. Somewhere to sleep, and in a lot of cultures until recently this area was shared by whole families.

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They would probably have tools for their occupation as well. Spinning wheel, a loom maybe if they make textiles. Woodworking tools if they are a carpenter or wood worker.

>>55053482
>What would actually be inside a villager's house?

His wife or other female family members doing house chores.

A few beds.

A fireplace and sepparate kitchen.

Chests and closets.

A food storage room.

That's about it.

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>>55053482
That's a fun question.

I've seen reconstructions based on findings from early medieval (viking period) Scandinavia peasant houses. Those homes were extremely sparse, one dividing wall between the living area and the stable - you took the animals in during winter time to both protect them from the envoirnment and to get their body heat into the house. It got seriously cold in the winter, so every little bit of heat helped.
There were benches along the walls, so people would sit relatively far away fromeach other when eating or socialising. Or sit closer together on the floor, which they may have done to get closer to the main feature of the house, the fireplace.
The fireplace was in the middle of the living area. You had utensils hanging from racks over the fire, and a cauldron to be used for cooking. The vikings liked their food boiled, meat, cereals, vegetables - all got chugged into the cauldron.
Sleeping must have been on the floor or benches for most people.

>>55053529
It's actually really interesting to look into sleeping habits, especially during the Renaissance - men slept with the other men of the house, women slept with the women.

Pretty much >>55053716.

If they weren't an artist, a poet, mathematician, or anything that would involve obvious seclusion and writing - they'd probably also have a writing desk/Easel, and the better off ones might actually have a small office / sectioned off room as a dedicated workspace.

>>55053916
What sort of food did they eat in the winter? Where did they store it during the rest of the year?

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>>55054112
Root vegetables most likely as they store quite effortlessly in an underground cellar. Also plenty of dried fish.

>>55054112
I don't know a lot about their eating habits. Best source I can come up with on short notice is a link (in danish) :
http://www.ribevikingecenter.dk/da/viden/mad/mad-forraad.aspx

It mentions smoked or pickled fish (herring was and is popular in Denmark), sourdough bread (which can last a long time) and pickled, smoked or salted meats. Bread, meat and fish could hang from threads in the ceiling (to protect them from rats) or be stored in sealed earthware jars. These were put in basements or storehouses built for the purpose.

>>55053482
So few things that you wouldn't bother describing them. Such poor loot that you'd only take the food.

>>55053482
Several (possibly locked) chests and other containers, each holding a mixture of small quantities of money, food, clothing, tools, unusable household accoutrements, and perhaps a minor potion..

Earthen floor covered with bundles of rushes that are changed every few weeks.

A shelf for cutlery.

Small fireplace in the middle, just a circle of stones big enough to prop up the cooking pot.

Large wooden box for storing grains.

Vegetables and dried meat hanging from the ceiling in nets so pests can't get at them.

Small hand-powered millstone.

An average medieval household would also have buckets for making butter and cheese, and a very basic brewery and an earthen oven for baking, but those two would be somewhere outside.

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>>55053529
There is another option and that is a detached kitchen. The reason for it was to control fire risks. It came into and out of popularity several times in many places. In Japan everyone who could pay for it had a detached kitchen from about the 11th to the 17th century for example.

>>55053482
Villagers, presumably.

>>55053501
and if it's a WOTC game that village wife is male

>>55056571
And they have two children because magic?

>>55056596
they only have a nephew, apparently

>>55056571
>OP: what can you find i a villagers house?
>Anons: well there's this, that, those..
>You: HEY AND GAYS AM I RIGHT FUCKING WOTC RANDOMLY INSERTING GAYS INTO ANY CONTEXT AM I RIGHT?
Literally the only one talking about gays before you showed up was you. Fucking faggot.

>>55053482
Salty milk and rusty coins.

A nice loli.

>>55057173
>oh noes someone has ben poking fun at WOTC
kys

>>55057490
But that's not the point, is it? The point is that someone showing up and saying 'WotC puts gays in everything' in a thread that has not even the most tenuous connection with WotC or gays is, in fact, the one inserting gays into everything.

That is the point being made. Not 'muh I'm buttmad you said soemthing about WotC'.

>>55058300
>oh noes someone made an off-topic reference to a current issue in a pointless thread
kys still

>>55058523
>issue
lolwut

>>55058523
>pointless thread
Take your own advice and go back to tumblr or /pol/, I don't care you're all the same

Damn if I had my photos from the family farm. The old main building is from mid 1800's and represents quite typical, not too poor nor too well doing Finnish farmstead.

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>>55053482
Pots. Lots of smashable pots.

I really like the aesthetic and layout of (larger) traditional Djerban farms. Maybe a good idea for a desert/island/Arabian Nights setting.

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>>55053529
Cooking area is universal.
The size of that area, equipment, and dining area isn't universal. Ovens are pretty popular, even if they range from primitive(glorified bonfire pits) to advanced(huge masonry).

>>55054112
A stupid amount of dried/cured meat/fish
Pickled vegetables
Pickled Fish
Dried flatbread
Root vegetables

>>55055510
>Eartheren floor
Oiled wood in layers is more common. Even more so if the area encounters winter.
>A shelf for cutlery.
Cutlery today means knife, spoon and fork. So there would be no shelf for that, as none of those really existed in such a form.
A large knife shelf might be a thing. Forks might be a thing, huge ones for impaling and cutting.
Spoons are a thing, but those are super personal properties, and generally somewhat ornament status.
>Small fireplace in the middle, just a circle of stones big enough to prop up the cooking pot.
Just be honest and admit that masonry is expensive, and its the only separation between a real stove, and a fire pit. Nobody would settle for bonfire stoves. Nobody. Its a lot more complicated than that.
Useage of oven for central heating, and for cooking, varied between region.

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>>55058799
>Eartheren floor
>Oiled wood in layers is more common. Even more so if the area encounters winter.
also hay and loads of it

I like how people used to sleep back then. During warm times, just on benches that surround the main room and during winter on top of the bread oven. That is one cozy spot to sleepytime when it's cold and dead outside.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3tuFXvje6i4

>>55053482
Maybe a few little knickknacks as decoration? I could see someone slowly working at a half-done wooden statuette, making some figure from their dreams whenever they don't have anything else to do.