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Every household contains a living room but only the better off can afford a guest room.
Traditionally, a guest room was a fairly large room with a built in sedir or divan but nowadays many households are building smaller guest rooms. To possess a guest room of any kind is a mark of wealth and standing. Moreover, the owner must be able to provide fuel, either wood which is scarce and very expensive, or a plentiful supply of cakes of dung and straw, which depends on a fairly large household with surplus materials and female labour. The standard word for putting or keeping a guest room in use is yakmak, to burn or kindle. Sakaltutan possessed roughly sixteen guest rooms in 1950, though several people wanted to build them, and by 1955 at least six new ones were in use.