A dining area is an area for eating food. In modern times it will always be adjacent to your 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 huge dining table and a number of dining chairs rather; the most typical shape is generally rectangular with two armed end chairs and a straight amount of un-armed side chairs over the long sides.In the Middle Ages, upper school Britons and other Western european nobility in castles or large manor properties dined in the fantastic hall. This was a sizable multi-function room capable of seating the bulk of the population of the house. The 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. Desks in the great hall would have a tendency to be long trestle tables with benches. The absolute number of people in a Great Hall meant it could probably have had a busy, bustling atmosphere.Ideas that it could have been quite smelly and smoky are most likely also, by the criteria of the time, unfounded. These rooms acquired large chimneys and high ceilings and there is a free flow of air through the many door and window openings.It is true that the owners of such properties started out to develop a taste for more intimate gatherings in smaller 'parlers' or 'privee parlers' off the primary hall but this is regarded as due as much to politics and interpersonal changes regarding the better comfort afforded by such rooms. In the first instance, the Black Loss of life that ravaged European countries in the 14th Hundred years caused a lack of labour which had resulted in a malfunction in the feudal system. Also the spiritual persecutions following a dissolution of the monasteries under Henry VIII made it unwise to speak freely before large numbers of people.As time passes, the nobility took more of their dishes in the parlour, and the parlour became, functionally, a dining area (or was put into two separate rooms). In addition, it migrated farther from the Great Hall, often accessed via grand ceremonial staircases from the dais in the Great Hall. Eventually eating out in the fantastic Hall became something that was done generally on special events.Toward the start of the 18th Century, a pattern surfaced where the females of the house would withdraw after dinner from the dining area to the pulling 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 total consequence.A typical North American dining room will contain a table with recliners arranged across the attributes and ends of the table, and also other furniture pieces, (often used for keeping formal china), as space permits. Often dining tables in modern kitchen rooms will have a removable leaf to allow for the bigger number of men and women present on those special occasions without taking on extra space when not in use. Although the "typical" family dining experience is at a wooden stand or some sort of cooking area, some choose to make their dinner rooms convenient by using couches or comfortable recliners.In modern American and Canadian homes, the dining room is typically adjacent to the living room, being progressively more used only for formal kitchen with friends or on special occasions. For informal daily meals, most medium size properties and greater will have a space adjacent to the kitchen where desk and recliners can be positioned, larger spaces are often known as a dinette while a smaller one is named a breakfast time nook. Smaller properties and condos may instead have a breakfast bar, often of an different height than the regular kitchen counter (either increased for stools or lowered 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 customarily, where the dining room would for most families be used only on Sundays, other foods being consumed in your kitchen.In Australia, the use of a dining area continues to be prevalent, yet no essential part of modern home design. For most, it is known as an area to be used during formal get-togethers or situations. Smaller homes, akin to the USA and Canada, use a breakfast table or bar put within the confines of a kitchen or living space for meals.

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