# roomset
## English
### Alternative forms

* room set, room-set

### Etymology

From room +‎ set.

### Noun

roomset (plural roomsets)
* (chiefly UK) A model or part of a showroom etc. furnished to look like a room in a house. [from 20th c.]
** 1982, Ivor Matanle, Techniques of photographing the nude, →ISBN, page 75:You can then hang pictures or mirrors - whatever seems appropriate to your setting. The finishing touch is a remnant of thick foambacked carpet which greatly enhances the effect of the roomset, provides the model with a comfortable surface either for her feet, or to sit or lie upon, if your shot demands it, and which also serves to conceal any imperfect match between the floor and the bottoms of your flats.
** 1984, David Kilpatrick, Light and Lighting, page 83:Above: three fairly powerful lighting units were needed to balance the light in this roomset so that the window and room appeared equally bright.
** 1984, Nonie Niesewand, The complete interior designer, →ISBN, page 83:ln this traveling salesman's box (above) used in the 1930s, the samples were cunningly set against roomset cut-outs, with doors and windows, to give the impression of a room.
** 1994, Design Review: The Journal of the Chartered Society of Designers:Each roomset revolves around a large sofa on or near which much of the action takes place.
** 2002, Marcia Kuperberg, Martin W. Bowman, Rob Manton, A Guide to Computer Animation: For TV, Games, Multimedia and Web, →ISBN:Create one or more virtual cameras and view and render three distinctly different views of the roomset that you feel show it to full advantage.
** 2009, Ashley Hicks, David Hicks: A Life of Design, page 154:The completed Bloomingdale's roomset, conceived as a complete pied-a-terre, had both the green dining corner (with navy Jaipur panels] shown in the drawing, but also a curtained bed area seen here, all in blue.
* A collection of matching materials for decorating a room, including wallpaper, friezes, dadoes, etc.
** 1989, San Diego Home Garden - Volume 11, Issues 1-6, page 89:There is the Neo-Grec roomset, a 19th-century re-creation of classical Greek ornamentation. There are roomsets in the tradition of William Morris and Walter Crane, the latter including stylized iris and moth motifs. There is the lovely Anglo-Japanese roomset, speaking to the style for all things Japanesque
** 1989 July-August, “Resoration Products”, in Old-House Journal, volume 17, number 4, page 54:Bradbury & Bradbury Wallpapers offers a complete, handprinted Anglo-Japanese roomset.
** 1997, House & Garden - Volume 52, Issues 7-12, page 41:Created by graduates of the KLC SCHOOL OF INTERIOR DESIGN, each roomset has the sharply defined look of its season.
** 2001, American Bungalow - Issues 29-31, page 50:Bradbury sells its papers across the country and beyond through a color catalog that organizes papers into coordinated groupings called "roomsets." A typical roomset contains between 8 and 15 individual wall and ceiling patterns that can be used together or separately.
** 2001, Paul Duchscherer, Victorian Glory: In San Francisco and the Bay Area, page 176:Dating to the early 1980s, this room project is a Victorian Revival milestone, for it was the first time that a coordinated roomset of dado, filling, frieze, and ceiling papers was installed by Bradbury & Bradbury Art Wallpapers.
** 2006 April-May, Dan Cooper, “It was "love at first site" for a Bungalow”, in Old House Interiors, volume 12, number 3, page 70:Over a dozen Victorian wallpaper patterns from Bradbury's "Dresser" roomset combine in the Aesthetic Movement-inspired parlor.

### Anagrams

* Moreots, Toomers, mooters, rotsome