A dining area is an area for eating food. Today it is adjacent to your kitchen for convenience in serving usually, although in medieval times it was often on an totally different floor level. Historically the dining room is furnished with a rather large dining table and a number of dining chairs; the most frequent shape is normally rectangular with two armed end chairs and an even variety of un-armed side chairs along the long sides.In the centre Ages, upper category Britons and other European nobility in castles or large manor residences dined in the fantastic hall. This was a sizable 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 in order of diminishing rank from them. Desks in the great hall would have a tendency to be long trestle desks with benches. The sheer number of men and women in a Great Hall meant it would probably have had a active, bustling atmosphere.Ideas that it would have been quite smelly and smoky are probably also, by the requirements of the right time, unfounded. These rooms acquired large chimneys and high ceilings and there is a free circulation of air through the many door and window openings.It is true that the owners of such properties began to build up a taste for further romantic 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 regarding the higher comfort afforded by such rooms. In the beginning, the Black Death that ravaged Europe in the 14th Hundred years caused a scarcity of labour and this had resulted in a breakdown in the feudal system. Also the religious persecutions following the dissolution of the monasteries under Henry VIII managed to get unwise to discuss freely before large numbers of people.As time passes, the nobility needed more of their foods in the parlour, and the parlour became, functionally, a dining area (or was put into two independent rooms). It also migrated farther from the fantastic Hall, often utilized via grand ceremonial staircases from the dais in the Great Hall. Eventually dining in the fantastic Hall became something that was done mostly on special situations.Toward the beginning of the 18th Century, a pattern emerged 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 room having drinks. The dining room tended to defend myself against a more masculine tenor as a result.A typical North American dining area will contain a table with recliners arranged along the sides and ends of the table, and also other pieces of furniture, (often used for saving formal china), as space permits. Often desks in modern eating out rooms will have a removable leaf to permit for the bigger number of folks present on those special events without taking on extra space when not in use. Although the "typical" family eating experience reaches a wooden desk or some sort of cooking area, some choose to make their eating rooms more comfortable by using couches or comfortable recliners.In modern Canadian and North american homes, the dining area is adjacent to the living room typically, being progressively more used only for formal kitchen with guests or on special events. For informal daily meals, most medium size homes and greater will have an area adjacent to the kitchen where table and seats can be inserted, larger spaces are often known as a dinette while a smaller one is named a breakfast time nook. Smaller residences and condo properties may instead have a breakfast bar, often of any different height than the regular kitchen counter-top (either lifted for stools or decreased for chair). If the 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 dishes being ingested 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 celebrations or events. 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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