Pilgrim houses were always one-room houses with an attic that they needed a ladder to get in. This one room was called the keeping room because they kept everything in there. Everybody lived in the keeping room. The keeping room had the fireplace where they cooked all their food and kept themselves warm.

The baking was done in community ovens that were shared by several families.

All the family's beds were also in this one room. Everybody had his or her own bed. Some beds were really fancy and even had curtains around them. This curtain gave each person some privacy and helped keep the Pilgrims warm at night. Some beds were made out of bags stuffed with scratchy straw and some were made out of bags stuffed with soft feathers.

The keeping room also had the eating table, benches around the table, and cupboards to keep their clothes and food. All the furniture was made out of wood and animal s

Unlike modern construction, which uses nails for fastening, 17th-century building depended on joints, which fitted the timbers together in a precise fashion. Over the centuries, carpenters created numerous types of joints, and variations on those types, to solve particular design problems. Some of the joints which appear commonly in the simple, framed English cottage are the lap joint, dovetail lap joint and scarf joint, all of which removed wood from both pieces, allowing the timbers to fit together smoothly. The mortice and tenon was also used frequently, with a slot cut in one piece and a corresponding tongue in the other. Hardwood pegs were used to hold joints together where needed. The whole created a box structure so secure that it could be turned upside-down and still remain in one piece.

There was no bathroom in the house. Everybody went in the outhouse that was on the outside of the house. Many families shared the outhouse.

kins. This was pretty much all the furniture in the house because the whole family had to live in this one room house.

The procedure I used to build the cabin was to first get my wood then cut my wood to size then cut the mortice and tenons. I then connected my frame and drilled holes to pin it together. After I had it pinned together I started putting on the clapboards. After I was done with the clapboards I started to put the wooden shingles on. The reason I only did half of the house with shingles and clapboards is so every one could see how I did it.

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