A dining room is a room for eating food. In modern times it is usually adjacent to your 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 big dining table and a number of dining chairs rather; the most typical shape is normally rectangular with two armed end chairs and a straight quantity of un-armed side chairs across the long sides.In the Middle Ages, upper class Britons and other Western nobility in castles or large manor houses dined in the great hall. This was a large 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 an elevated dais, with all of those other population arrayed to be able of diminishing rank away from them. Desks in the great hall would tend to be long trestle desks with benches. The utter number of folks in an excellent Hall meant it would probably have had a occupied, bustling atmosphere.Suggestions that it would also have been quite smelly and smoky are most likely, by the expectations of that time period, unfounded. These rooms possessed large chimneys and high ceilings and there would have been a free move of air through the many door and home window openings.It is true that the owners of such properties started to build up a taste for much more romantic gatherings in smaller 'parlers' or 'privee parlers' off the key hall but this is thought to be due all the to politics and cultural changes as to the higher comfort afforded by such rooms. In the beginning, the Black Fatality that ravaged Europe in the 14th Hundred years caused a lack of labour and this had led to a malfunction in the feudal system. Also the religious persecutions following dissolution of the monasteries under Henry VIII made it unwise to talk freely before many people.Over time, the nobility got more of their meals in the parlour, and the parlour became, functionally, a dining room (or was put into two different rooms). It migrated further from the fantastic Hall also, often accessed via grand ceremonial staircases from the dais in the Great Hall. Eventually eating in the fantastic Hall became something that was done generally on special events.Toward the beginning of the 18th Hundred years, a pattern surfaced where the women of the house would withdraw after supper from the dining area to the pulling room. The gentlemen would remain in the dining room having drinks. The dining room tended to take on a more masculine tenor as a result.A typical UNITED STATES dining room will contain a table with chairs arranged along the edges and ends of the table, and also other furniture pieces, (often used for saving formal china), as space permits. Often tables in modern eating rooms will have a detachable leaf to permit for the larger number of folks present on those special events without taking up extra space when not in use. But the "typical" family eating experience is at a wooden stand or some kind of kitchen area, some choose to make their kitchen rooms more comfortable by using couches or comfortable chairs.In modern Canadian and North american homes, the dining room is adjacent to the living room typically, being significantly used only for formal dining with guests or on special events. For casual daily meals, most medium size homes and bigger will have an area adjacent to your kitchen where table and recliners can be set, larger spaces tend to be known as a dinette while a smaller one is called a breakfast nook. Smaller residences and condominiums may have a breakfast club instead, often of an different level than the standard kitchen counter (either raised for stools or decreased for chairs). In case a home lacks a dinette, breakfast time nook, or breakfast time bar, then the 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 utilized only on Sundays, other foods being consumed in the kitchen.In Australia, the utilization of a dining room is prevalent still, yet not an essential part of modern home design. For some, it is considered an area to be utilized during formal events or celebrations. Smaller homes, akin to the united states and Canada, use a breakfast table or bar placed within the confines of a kitchen or living space for meals.

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