A dining room is a room for consuming food. Today in most cases adjacent to the kitchen for convenience in serving, 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 normally rectangular with two armed end chairs and an even volume of un-armed side chairs across the long sides.In the centre Ages, upper course 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 head table on an elevated dais, with the rest of the population arrayed in order of diminishing rank away from them. Dining tables in the fantastic hall would tend to be long trestle tables with benches. The pure number of individuals in a Great Hall meant it could probably experienced a active, bustling atmosphere.Recommendations that it would have been quite smelly and smoky are most likely also, by the standards of the right time, unfounded. These rooms got large chimneys and high ceilings and there is a free circulation of air through the many door and screen openings.It is true that the owners of such properties began to build up a taste to get more detailed personal gatherings in smaller 'parlers' or 'privee parlers' off the main hall but this is regarded as due all the to politics and communal 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 Hundred years caused a shortage of labour and this had led to a breakdown in the feudal system. Also the spiritual persecutions following the dissolution of the monasteries under Henry VIII made it unwise to talk freely in front of many people.Over time, the nobility needed more of their foods in the parlour, and the parlour became, functionally, a dining room (or was split into two distinct rooms). It migrated farther from the fantastic Hall also, often reached via grand ceremonial staircases from the dais in the fantastic Hall. Eventually eating out in the Great Hall became something that was done primarily on special occasions.Toward the beginning of the 18th Hundred years, a pattern emerged where the ladies of the house would withdraw after evening meal from the dining room to the pulling room. The gentlemen would remain in the dining room having drinks. The dining room tended to take on a far more masculine tenor because of this.A typical UNITED STATES dining room will include a table with recliners arranged across the sides and ends of the stand, as well as other furniture pieces, (often used for saving formal china), as space permits. Often desks in modern eating out rooms will have a detachable leaf to permit for the larger number of individuals present on those special occasions without taking up extra space when not in use. But the "typical" family eating out experience is at a wooden desk or some kind of kitchen area, some choose to make their eating out rooms convenient by using couches or comfortable recliners.In modern American and Canadian homes, the dining area is typically adjacent to the living room, being ever more used limited to formal eating with friends or on special occasions. For casual daily dishes, most medium size properties and much larger will have a space adjacent to the kitchen where table and seats can be located, larger spaces tend to be known as a dinette while an inferior one is named a breakfast nook. Smaller homes and condos may instead have a breakfast time club, often of your different height than the standard kitchen counter-top (either elevated for stools or lowered for recliners). In case a home lacks a dinette, breakfast time nook, or breakfast time bar, then your family or kitchen room will be used for day-to-day eating.This is usually the truth in Britain, where the dining room would for many families be used only on Sundays, other foods being consumed 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 considered an area to be utilized during formal occasions or festivities. Smaller homes, comparable to the USA and Canada, use a breakfast bar or table placed within the confines of a kitchen or living space for meals.

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