A dining area is a room for consuming food. Today it will always be adjacent to the kitchen for convenience in serving, although in medieval times it was often on an completely different floor level. Historically the dining room is furnished with a rather large dining table and a number of dining chairs; the most typical shape is generally rectangular with two armed end chairs and an even range of un-armed side chairs along the long sides.In the Middle Ages, upper class Britons and other European nobility in castles or large manor homes dined in the fantastic hall. This was a sizable multi-function room capable of seating the bulk of the population of the house. The grouped family would sit at the head 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 have a tendency to be long trestle dining tables with benches. The large number of men and women in a Great Hall meant it would probably have had a active, bustling atmosphere.Ideas that it could have been quite smelly and smoky are probably also, by the expectations of the right time, unfounded. These rooms experienced large chimneys and high ceilings and there is a free movement of air through the many door and windows openings.It is true that the owners of such properties started to build up a taste to get more romantic gatherings in smaller 'parlers' or 'privee parlers' off the key hall but this is regarded as due all the to politics and interpersonal changes as to 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 led to a break down in the feudal system. Also the spiritual persecutions following the dissolution of the monasteries under Henry VIII managed to get unwise to speak freely in front of many people.As time passes, the nobility took more of their dishes in the parlour, and the parlour became, functionally, a dining room (or was split into two individual rooms). It migrated farther from the Great Hall also, often seen via grand ceremonial staircases from the dais in the fantastic Hall. Eventually eating in the fantastic Hall became something that was done mostly on special occasions.Toward the start of the 18th Century, a pattern surfaced where the ladies of the home would withdraw after evening meal from the dining room to the drawing room. The gentlemen would remain in the dining room having drinks. The dining room tended to take on a more masculine tenor because of this.A typical North American dining room will contain a table with chairs arranged over the edges and ends of the stand, and also other pieces of furniture, (often used for keeping formal china), as space permits. Often desks in modern dinner rooms will have a removable leaf to allow for the bigger number of people present on those special situations without taking up extra space when not in use. However the "typical" family eating experience is at a wooden desk or some kind of kitchen area, some choose to make their kitchen rooms more comfortable by using couches or comfortable recliners.In modern American and Canadian homes, the dining area is adjacent to the living room typically, being more and more used limited to formal dining with friends or on special events. For informal daily foods, most medium size properties and much larger will have an area adjacent to the kitchen where desk and chair can be put, larger spaces tend to be known as a dinette while an inferior one is named a breakfast time nook. Smaller homes and condo properties may instead have a breakfast time bar, often of your different elevation than the regular kitchen counter-top (either lifted for stools or decreased for chair). If a genuine home lacks a dinette, breakfast time nook, or breakfast bar, then the family or kitchen room will be used for day-to-day eating.This is typically the case in Britain, where the dining room would for most families be utilized only on Sundays, other meals being eaten in the kitchen.In Australia, the use of a dining room is prevalent still, yet no essential part of modern home design. For some, it is known as a space to be used during formal occasions or celebrations. Smaller homes, akin to the Canada and USA, use a breakfast table or bar put within the confines of a kitchen or living space for meals.

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