Go to the Options menu at the top of the page and look in the appearance section of General Preferences. Change the "Show toolbar as" to read "Text".
Also under the Options menu, you'll see a number of items: "Show Toolbar", "Show Location" and show "Directory Buttons". To increase screen area, make sure "Show Directory Buttons" is unticked, if you need more, untick "Show Location" and as a last resort, untick "Show Toolbar" and be prepared to use your right mouse button and the Room's unique navigation tool to navigate about the site.
If your monitor resolution is set to 640x480 and it can support higher resolutions, change it to 800x600. Everything looks smaller, but more fits on your screen. The Room looks best at this resolution. Talking of good looks, if your monitor supports high colour or true colour (that's thousands and millions of colours for Mac users) (or 16-bit and 24-bit colour for techies) (or color for Americans), most of the Web looks better on these settings, so you're not forcing it to adapt to the vileness of 256 colours. If you're not sure how to do this, mail me.
Windows 95 users can drag their taskbar at the bottom out of the way, to give a little more room.
Let me test my newfound window area! Back to the magnificent Size-o-matic® testing site
I've tried all that and I still can't get those blasted arrows to fit!