A dining area is an area for consuming food. Today it is next to the kitchen for convenience in serving usually, although in medieval times it was often on an entirely different floor level. 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 Western european nobility in castles or large manor residences dined in the fantastic 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 head table on a raised dais, with all of those other population arrayed in order of diminishing rank away from them. Desks in the fantastic hall would tend to be long trestle desks with benches. The pure number of individuals in a Great Hall meant it could probably have had a active, bustling atmosphere.Ideas that it would have been quite smelly and smoky are probably also, by the requirements of the time, unfounded. These rooms experienced large chimneys and high ceilings and there would have been a free move of air through the many door and windowpane openings.It is true that the owners of such properties started out to develop a taste for further personal gatherings in smaller 'parlers' or 'privee parlers' off the key hall but this is thought to be due as much to political and communal changes regarding the greater comfort afforded by such rooms. In the first instance, the Black Loss of life that ravaged Europe in the 14th Century caused a lack of labour which had resulted in a malfunction in the feudal system. Also the religious persecutions following the dissolution of the monasteries under Henry VIII managed to get unwise to talk freely before large numbers of people.As time passes, the nobility got more of their meals in the parlour, and the parlour became, functionally, a dining room (or was split into two independent rooms). In addition, it migrated farther from the fantastic Hall, often utilized via grand ceremonial staircases from the dais in the Great Hall. Eventually eating in the fantastic Hall became something that was done mostly on special events.Toward the start of the 18th Hundred years, a pattern emerged where the ladies of the home would withdraw after meal from the dining area to the drawing room. The gentlemen would remain in the dining area having drinks. The dining room tended to defend myself against a more masculine tenor as a total effect.A typical UNITED STATES dining room will contain a table with chair arranged over the attributes and ends of the table, and also other pieces of furniture, (often used for storing formal china), as space permits. Often desks in modern eating out rooms will have a removable leaf to permit for the bigger number of individuals present on those special events without taking on extra space you should definitely in use. However the "typical" family eating out experience reaches a wooden desk or some sort of kitchen area, some choose to make their dining rooms convenient by using couches or comfortable seats.In modern American and Canadian homes, the dining room is typically adjacent to the living room, being progressively used only for formal eating with friends or on special occasions. For casual daily dishes, most medium size houses and larger will have an area adjacent to the kitchen where desk and chairs can be placed, larger spaces tend to be known as a dinette while a smaller one is called a breakfast nook. Smaller residences and condo properties may have a breakfast club instead, often of the different height than the standard kitchen counter (either increased for stools or decreased for chair). If a home lacks 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 case in Britain, where the dining area would for most families be utilized only on Sundays, other foods being ingested in the kitchen.In Australia, the use of a dining area is prevalent still, yet not an 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 table or bar placed within the confines of a kitchen or living space for meals.

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