Parlour

The Parlour in a Player-owned house is one of the only two types of rooms a player can build starting at Level 1 In the Construction skill. Every player's first house starts with this room and a garden. Building this room will cost the player 1,000 Coins.

This room is initially for low-level training, and later its main useful item are bookshelves, which save bank space by making available every reference book ever unlocked by the player. This means books held in your bank are no longer needed. However, once a Study or a Quest hall is built, these rooms also contain bookshelves and therefore the parlour can be deleted without significant loss of utility, especially if you are short of rooms. The only other practical use for a parlour is the experience gained from lighting a fire in the fireplace. Based on a player-submitted poll in March 2009, the Parlour was voted the least useful POH room.

There are 7 Hotspots available:
 * Chair
 * Chair
 * Chair
 * Rug
 * Fireplace
 * Bookcase
 * Curtains

Chairs
Sitting on any of the chairs does not regenerate run energy faster, as believed by some players. All the chairs can be made as flatpacks in the Workshop.

Fireplace
You can only use regular logs to light the fireplace, giving some Firemaking experience. If you light a fire in your fireplace, then change the graphic settings, the fire will disappear.

Curtains
The curtains can be replaced with an Oak decoration if it is facing another room.

Bookcase
The bookcases can be used to browse through all the books the house owner has encountered on his/her adventures. Each bookcase can store the same number of books, regardless of the wood used. All the bookcases can be made as flatpacks in the Workshop.

Parlour