Pompeii and Hurculaneum housing

Housing in pompeii and hurculaneum ranged greatly in size from the small, few roomed houses of the poor to the 50 roomed mansions of the very wealthy. the poor people usually lived in small apartments or above the shops and workshops built into thee front of the wealthier houses. the wealthier houses were never set out the same nut all had many simular features. the outside walls of the houses were painted white and usually had …

…weren't very concerned with hygiene. pompeiians had very large gardens as a rule and many of the gardens would've looked very beautiful. the most popular kind of garden was the peristyle because it had colonades which one could walk under in the heat of the day. a good example of the typical pompeiian and hurculaneum house would be the "house of the surgeon" because it shows the normal layout of a house in those times.