A dining room is a room for eating food. In modern times it is almost always adjacent to the 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 sizable dining table and a number of dining chairs rather; the most frequent shape is normally rectangular with two armed end chairs and an even quantity of un-armed side chairs over the long sides.In the Middle Ages, upper class Britons and other Western nobility in castles or large manor homes dined in the great hall. This was a huge 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 all of those other population arrayed in order of diminishing rank from them. Desks in the fantastic hall would tend to be long trestle dining tables with benches. The pure number of folks in an excellent Hall meant it would probably have had a busy, bustling atmosphere.Recommendations that it could have been quite smelly and smoky are probably also, by the specifications of that time period, unfounded. These rooms had large chimneys and high ceilings and there would have been a free movement of air through the many door and windows openings.It is true that the owners of such properties started to build up a taste for further personal gatherings in smaller 'parlers' or 'privee parlers' off the main hall but this is regarded as due as much to political and public changes as to the increased comfort afforded by such rooms. In the beginning, the Black Loss of life that ravaged European countries in the 14th Century caused a lack of labour and this had resulted in a breakdown in the feudal system. Also the spiritual persecutions following dissolution of the monasteries under Henry VIII made it unwise to talk freely before many people.As time passes, the nobility took more of their meals in the parlour, and the parlour became, functionally, a dining area (or was put into two distinct rooms). It migrated farther from the fantastic Hall also, often reached via grand ceremonial staircases from the dais in the fantastic Hall. Eventually eating in the Great Hall became something that was done mostly on special situations.Toward the start of the 18th Hundred years, a pattern emerged where the women of the house would withdraw after dinner from the dining area to the drawing room. The gentlemen would remain in the dining area having drinks. The dining room tended to take on a more masculine tenor because of this.A typical North American dining area will contain a table with recliners arranged along the sides and ends of the stand, as well as other furniture pieces, (often used for holding formal china), as space permits. Often desks in modern dinner rooms will have a detachable leaf to allow for the larger number of folks present on those special occasions without taking up extra space when not in use. Although "typical" family dining experience reaches a wooden stand or some kind of kitchen area, some choose to make their dinner rooms more comfortable by using couches or comfortable chairs.In modern Canadian and American homes, the dining area is adjacent to the living room typically, being progressively more used limited to formal dining with guests or on special occasions. For informal daily meals, most medium size houses and much larger will have a space adjacent to your kitchen where table and chairs can be positioned, larger spaces tend to be known as a dinette while an inferior one is named a breakfast nook. Smaller residences and condo properties may have a breakfast bar instead, often of an different level than the standard kitchen counter-top (either increased for stools or lowered for chair). If a home does not have a dinette, breakfast nook, or breakfast time bar, then the kitchen or living room will be used for day-to-day eating.This was the situation in Britain traditionally, where the dining area would for many families be used only on Sundays, other foods being ingested in the kitchen.In Australia, the utilization of a dining area continues to be common, yet no essential part of modern home design. For most, it is considered a space to be utilized during formal activities or situations. Smaller homes, akin to the USA and Canada, use a breakfast bar or table placed within the confines of a kitchen or living space for meals.

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