Just like your own residences, a public house has its rooms with several purposes to serve. Each room is made in order to provide for the needs of guests and locales of the area. You may be wondering what these parts are and whether they bear significance to the entire public house.

It is better to divide a house in several portions and give each part a name that will certainly ring a bell. Since you may also enter into public houses, it is wise to make a note on the wide range of rooms it contains. Learn more about this with the facts below:

• Lounge or saloon. The incorporation of a lounge in public houses was introduced in the 18^th century. This was in connection with other well-known rooms of a pub such as the entertainment room, card room and billiards room. The lounge or the saloon is a place for you to get exclusive services provided you pay a higher cost. You get to be served your own drinks, watch drama and comic performances as well as sing your hearts out and dance your feet to the groove. Some pubs have activities such as strip teasing and live band performances.

• Public bar. The name itself denotes that a public bar is open to people from all walks of life. Even during the transitions made into lounges from the 18^th to the 20^th century, public bar served the same purpose. Cheaper beers, sitting on hard benches as well as spitting around were common sights in the public bars. After several introductions made in the market, however, what were true to tradition were eliminated in the public bar. These days, the difference between the public bar and lounges is the price and exclusivity of the area.

• Snug. This place is more popularly known as the smoke rooms. This room is usually very small thus more private than other rooms in the pub. Your actual access to the bar is through a small window where your drinks may be served immediately. It is relatively more expensive than the lounge or the public bar since you get to have privacy for your public house visits. The snug was utilised by ladies who were not yet accepted to be seen in pubs; by high-end people in society who do not want to mingle with others; and by couples who would want to share an intimate moment together.

• Counter. If you have watched films with traditional public houses, you may know how the counter started. In typical old movies, you will see how cowboys ordered their drinks on the counter and just sit down there until the drink is served or even up to the time they finished their drink. The introduction of the counter as a part of public houses provided a venue for waiters or bartenders to easily deliver the drink rather than going out to serve the drink to tables and benches to satisfy customers’ cravings.

• Beer engine. This is a place where pumping of beer was done. It is an area wherein beer seems to be overflowing. Conventional public houses made beer engines available on the basements through wooden barrels containing the popular drink.