A dining room is an area for eating food. In modern times it is adjacent to the kitchen for convenience in serving usually, although in medieval times it was on an entirely different floor level often. Historically the dining room is furnished with a rather large dining table and a number of dining chairs; the most common shape is generally rectangular with two armed end chairs and a straight volume 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 properties 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 grouped family would sit at the top table on a raised dais, with all of those other population arrayed in order of diminishing rank from them. Tables in the great hall would tend to be long trestle desks with benches. The sheer number of individuals in an excellent Hall meant it would probably have had a occupied, bustling atmosphere.Ideas that it could also have been quite smelly and smoky are probably, by the requirements of that time period, unfounded. These rooms had large chimneys and high ceilings and there would have been a free stream of air through the many door and window openings.It really is true that the owners of such properties started out to develop a taste for more romantic gatherings in smaller 'parlers' or 'privee parlers' off the primary hall but this is thought to be due as much to political and interpersonal changes as to the better comfort afforded by such rooms. In the beginning, the Black Death that ravaged European countries in the 14th Century caused a lack of labour and this had resulted in a break down in the feudal system. Also the religious persecutions following dissolution of the monasteries under Henry VIII managed to get unwise to discuss freely before large numbers of people.Over time, the nobility had taken more of their foods in the parlour, and the parlour became, functionally, a dining area (or was put into two different rooms). It also migrated further from the Great Hall, often accessed via grand ceremonial staircases from the dais in the fantastic Hall. Eventually eating in the Great Hall became something that was done primarily on special occasions.Toward the start of the 18th Hundred years, a pattern emerged where the girls of the home would withdraw after evening meal from the dining area to the drawing room. The gentlemen would stay in the dining area having drinks. The dining room tended to take on a far more masculine tenor as a result.A typical North American dining room will include a table with chairs arranged along the attributes and ends of the table, as well as other furniture pieces, (often used for holding formal china), as space permits. Often desks in modern dinner rooms will have a detachable leaf to permit for the larger number of folks present on those special occasions without taking on extra space when not in use. However the "typical" family dining experience reaches a wooden desk or some kind of cooking area, some choose to make their dinner rooms convenient by using couches or comfortable seats.In modern Canadian and North american homes, the dining area is adjacent to the living room typically, being increasingly used limited to formal eating with friends or on special occasions. For casual daily foods, most medium size properties and bigger will have a space adjacent to the kitchen where table and recliners can be located, larger spaces are often known as a dinette while a smaller one is called a breakfast nook. Smaller homes and condos may instead have a breakfast time bar, often of the different level than the standard kitchen counter-top (either increased for stools or reduced for chair). If a home does not have a dinette, breakfast nook, or breakfast bar, then the family or kitchen room will be utilized for day-to-day eating.This is typically the truth in Britain, where the dining room would for many families be utilized only on Sundays, other dishes being eaten in your kitchen.In Australia, the use of a dining room is prevalent still, yet no essential part of modern home design. For most, it is known as an area to be used during formal activities or occasions. Smaller homes, comparable to the Canada and USA, use a breakfast bar or table put within the confines of a kitchen or living space for meals.

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