A dining room is a room for consuming food. Today it is adjacent to the kitchen for convenience in serving usually, although in medieval times it was on an totally different floor level often. Historically the dining room is furnished with a rather large dining table and a number of dining chairs; the most frequent shape is generally rectangular with two armed end chairs and an even variety of un-armed side chairs across the long sides.In the Middle Ages, upper class Britons and other European nobility in castles or large manor homes dined in the great hall. This was a big multi-function room capable of seating the bulk of the population of the homely house. The family would sit at the top table on a raised dais, with the rest of the population arrayed in order of diminishing rank away from them. Furniture in the fantastic hall would tend to be long trestle desks with benches. The absolute number of men and women in a Great Hall meant it would probably have had a busy, bustling atmosphere.Recommendations that it could have been quite smelly and smoky are most likely also, by the benchmarks of the right time, unfounded. These rooms acquired large chimneys and high ceilings and there would have been a free flow of air through the numerous door and screen openings.It really is true that the owners of such properties started to build up a taste for more close gatherings in smaller 'parlers' or 'privee parlers' off the key hall but this is thought to be due all the to politics and public changes regarding the better comfort afforded by such rooms. In the beginning, the Black Fatality that ravaged European countries in the 14th Hundred years caused a scarcity of labour and this had resulted in a break down in the feudal system. Also the religious persecutions following a dissolution of the monasteries under Henry VIII managed to get unwise to discuss freely in front of large numbers of people.As time passes, the nobility needed more of their meals in the parlour, and the parlour became, functionally, a dining area (or was split into two separate rooms). In addition, it migrated further from the fantastic Hall, often reached via grand ceremonial staircases from the dais in the Great Hall. Eventually eating in the Great Hall became something that was done primarily on special situations.Toward the beginning of the 18th Century, a pattern surfaced where the women of the house would withdraw after supper from the dining room to the pulling room. The gentlemen would remain in the dining area having drinks. The dining room tended to defend myself against a far more masculine tenor as a result.A typical North American dining area will include a table with chairs arranged over the factors and ends of the desk, and also other furniture pieces, (often used for keeping formal china), as space permits. Often tables in modern dining rooms will have a removable leaf to allow for the larger number of folks present on those special occasions without taking up extra space you should definitely in use. Although the "typical" family eating experience reaches a wooden desk or some sort of kitchen area, some choose to make their dining rooms more comfortable by using couches or comfortable seats.In modern Canadian and North american homes, the dining room is next to the living room typically, being progressively used only for formal eating with guests or on special situations. For casual daily meals, most medium size properties and bigger will have an area adjacent to the kitchen where table and chairs can be positioned, larger spaces tend to be known as a dinette while a smaller one is called a breakfast nook. Smaller homes and condominiums may instead have a breakfast pub, often of any different elevation than the standard kitchen counter (either elevated for stools or decreased for chairs). If a home does not have a dinette, breakfast nook, or breakfast bar, then your kitchen or living room will be used for day-to-day eating.This was the case in Britain traditionally, where the dining room would for most families be utilized only on Sundays, other meals being ingested in your kitchen.In Australia, the use of a dining area continues to be prevalent, yet no essential part of modern home design. For some, it is considered a space to be utilized during formal get-togethers or events. Smaller homes, akin to the USA and Canada, use a breakfast table or bar positioned within the confines of a kitchen or living space for meals.

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