tassel, tuft, fringe, bunch, lock (hair), segment (orange), house, room
房 centers on a cluster or compartment: a bunch of hair or fruit segments, and by extension a partitioned room or small house. The tassel and fringe senses are specific hanging cluster applications.
房 combines 户 (door/house) and 方, which likely contributes the sound. The original idea may have been a side room or partitioned space, later extended to clusters and bunches.
A door (户) with a square (方) inside: imagine a square room behind a door, or a square bunch of hair tied at the door. The shape suggests a compartment or cluster.
For ボウ, picture a bow (ボウ) made of a tuft of hair hanging on the door of a room. The bow cues ボウ and ties the cluster meaning to the shape.
government secretariat
workshop; studio; atelier
tuft (of hair, threads, etc.); fringe; tassel
air conditioning; air cooling
(indoor) heating
wife (esp. one's own wife)
kitchen; galley
breast; udder
study; library
stationery
air conditioning and heating
single-person cell; isolation cell; solitary cell; solitary confinement cell
Awa (former province located in the south of present-day Chiba Prefecture)
atrium
teahouse; coffee shop
Uchibō Line
Sotobō Line
calyx; corolla
Fujimi Shobo (publisher)
(prison) cell; ward