A dining room is an area for eating food. Today it is next to the kitchen for convenience in serving usually, although in medieval times it was often on an entirely 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 generally rectangular with two armed end chairs and an even volume of un-armed side chairs along the long sides.In the centre Ages, upper class Britons and other European nobility in castles or large manor residences dined in the great 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 head table on a raised dais, with the rest of the population arrayed in order of diminishing rank from them. Tables in the fantastic hall would have a tendency to be long trestle furniture with benches. The sheer number of people in an excellent Hall meant it could probably have had a busy, bustling atmosphere.Suggestions that it could 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 would have been a free move 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 additional personal gatherings in smaller 'parlers' or 'privee parlers' off the primary hall but this is thought to be due as much to political and sociable changes regarding the greater comfort afforded by such rooms. In the first instance, the Black Fatality that ravaged European countries in the 14th Hundred years caused a scarcity of labour which had resulted in a break down in the feudal system. Also the spiritual persecutions following dissolution of the monasteries under Henry VIII managed to get unwise to discuss freely before many people.As time passes, the nobility got more of their foods in the parlour, and the parlour became, functionally, a dining area (or was split into two individual rooms). In addition, it migrated farther from the Great Hall, often seen 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 Century, a pattern surfaced where the gals of the house would withdraw after dinner from the dining area to the pulling room. The gentlemen would stay in the dining room having drinks. The dining area tended to defend myself against a far more masculine tenor because of this.A typical UNITED STATES dining area will contain a table with chairs arranged across the factors and ends of the table, as well as other furniture pieces, (often used for stocking formal china), as space permits. Often tables in modern eating out rooms will have a removable leaf to allow for the larger number of individuals present on those special events without taking on extra space when not in use. However the "typical" family eating out experience reaches a wooden stand or some sort of kitchen area, some choose to make their eating rooms convenient by using couches or comfortable recliners.In modern American and Canadian homes, the dining area is next to the living room typically, being progressively used limited to formal kitchen with guests or on special events. For casual daily meals, most medium size properties and larger will have an area adjacent to the kitchen where desk and chair can be located, larger spaces are often known as a dinette while a smaller one is called a breakfast time nook. Smaller residences and condominiums may instead have a breakfast pub, often of an different height than the regular kitchen counter (either increased for stools or reduced for chairs). If the home does not have a dinette, breakfast nook, or breakfast bar, then the kitchen or living room will be utilized for day-to-day eating.This is typically the situation in Britain, where the dining room would for many families be used only on Sundays, other meals being eaten in the kitchen.In Australia, the utilization of a dining room is still prevalent, yet no essential part of modern home design. For most, it is considered an area to be used during formal festivities or situations. 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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