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What's a Bedroom

  Does a "bedroom" in Massachusetts to be considered a bedroom have to have a closet?????
 
  As you realize, the legal definition of a bedroom varies from one place to another.  Sometimes doors and windows are involved, heat, ceiling heights, outside walls, sometimes--but not always--a closet.  Think--especially in Massachusetts -- of landmark houses built in the days when clothing was kept in a separate wardrobe or press, in what were clearly bedchambers.  To find out local requirements, call your town's building department.
    Edith
Originally published on January 28, 2008
 
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