A dining area is a available room for eating food. Today it is adjacent to your kitchen for convenience in serving usually, 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 common shape is generally rectangular with two armed end chairs and a straight variety of un-armed side chairs along the long sides.In the Middle Ages, upper class Britons and other Western nobility in castles or large manor houses 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 top table on a raised dais, with all of those other population arrayed in order of diminishing rank 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 experienced a active, bustling atmosphere.Suggestions that it could have been quite smelly and smoky are probably also, by the expectations of the right time, unfounded. These rooms had large chimneys and high ceilings and there is a free move of air through the many door and screen openings.It really is true that the owners of such properties commenced to build up a taste to get more intimate gatherings in smaller 'parlers' or 'privee parlers' off the main hall but this is thought to be due as much to politics and sociable changes as to the increased comfort afforded by such rooms. In the first instance, the Black Death that ravaged European countries in the 14th Hundred years caused a shortage of labour and this had resulted in a breakdown in the feudal system. Also the religious persecutions following a dissolution of the monasteries under Henry VIII made it unwise to talk freely in front of large numbers of people.Over time, the nobility got more of their dishes 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 dining in the fantastic Hall became something that was done generally on special events.Toward the beginning of the 18th Century, a pattern surfaced where the females of the house would withdraw after meal from the dining room to the drawing room. The gentlemen would remain in the dining area having drinks. The dining area tended to take on a more masculine tenor as a result.A typical UNITED STATES dining area will contain a table with chairs arranged over the edges and ends of the desk, and also other pieces of furniture, (often used for stocking formal china), as space permits. Often furniture in modern kitchen rooms will have a detachable leaf to permit for the larger number of people present on those special events without taking up extra space you should definitely in use. Although the "typical" family eating experience is at a wooden table or some kind of cooking area, some choose to make their kitchen rooms convenient by using couches or comfortable chairs.In modern Canadian and North american homes, the dining room is next to the living room typically, being increasingly used limited to formal eating with guests or on special events. For informal daily meals, most medium size properties and greater will have an area adjacent to the kitchen where desk and seats can be inserted, larger spaces tend to be known as a dinette while a smaller one is named a breakfast time nook. Smaller properties and condominiums may have a breakfast pub instead, often of any different height than the regular kitchen counter (either raised for stools or lowered for chair). If a true home does not have a dinette, breakfast nook, or breakfast time bar, then your kitchen or family room will be utilized for day-to-day eating.This was the truth in Britain usually, where the dining area would for many families be used only on Sundays, other dishes being consumed in your kitchen.In Australia, the use of a dining room continues to be common, yet not an essential part of modern home design. For most, it is known as an area to be utilized during formal situations or festivities. Smaller homes, akin to the Canada and USA, use a breakfast bar or table positioned within the confines of a kitchen or living space for meals.

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