Dining room - wikipedia Dining room This article is about the room. For the play, see The Dining Room. For the band, see The Dining Rooms. This article has multiple issues. Please help improve it or discuss these issues on the talk page. ( Learn how and when to remove these template messages ) The examples and perspective in this article may not represent a worldwide view of the subject. You may improve this article, discuss the issue on the talk page, or create a new article, as appropriate. ( December 2010 ) This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. ( March 2007 ) Historical example of a domestic dining room in Germany. A dining room is a room for consuming food. In modern times it is usually adjacent to the kitchen for convenience in serving, 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 common shape is generally rectangular with two armed end chairs and an even number of un-armed side chairs along the long sides. Contents 1 History 2 Contemporary usage 3 See also 4 References History Dining Room in the Łańcut Castle, Poland In the Middle Ages, upper class Britons and other European 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 house. The family would sit at the head table on a raised dais, with the rest of the population arrayed in order of diminishing rank away from them. Tables in the great hall would tend to be long trestle tables with benches. The sheer number of people in a Great Hall meant it would probably have had a busy, bustling atmosphere. Suggestions that it would also have been quite smelly and smoky are probably, by the standards of the time, unfounded. These rooms had large chimneys and high ceilings and there would have been a free flow of air through the numerous door and window openings. It is true that the owners of such properties began to develop a taste for more intimate gatherings in smaller ' parlers ' or ' privee parlers ' off the main hall but this is thought to be due as much to political and social changes as to the greater comfort afforded by such rooms. Over time, the nobility took more of their meals in the parlour, and the parlour became, functionally, a dining room ( or was split into two separate rooms ). It also migrated farther from the Great Hall, often accessed via grand ceremonial staircases from the dais in the Great Hall. Eventually dining in the Great Hall became something that was done primarily on special occasions. Toward the beginning of the 18th Century, a pattern emerged where the ladies of the house would withdraw after dinner from the dining room to the drawing 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. Contemporary usage Example of a modern - day dining room from the United States. A typical North American dining room will contain a table with chairs arranged along the sides and ends of the table, as well as other pieces of furniture, ( often used for storing formal china ), as space permits. Often tables in modern dining rooms will have a removable leaf to allow for the larger number of people present on those special occasions without taking up extra space when not in use. Although the `` typical '' family dining experience is at a wooden table or some sort of kitchen area, some choose to make their dining rooms more comfortable by using couches or comfortable chairs. In modern American and Canadian homes, the dining room is typically adjacent to the living room, being increasingly used only for formal dining with guests or on special occasions. For informal daily meals, most medium size houses and larger will have a space adjacent to the kitchen where table and chairs can be placed, larger spaces are often known as a dinette while a smaller one is called a breakfast nook. Smaller houses and condos may have a breakfast bar instead, often of a different height than the regular kitchen counter ( either raised for stools or lowered for chairs ). If a home lacks a dinette, breakfast nook, or breakfast bar, then the kitchen or family room will be used for day - to - day eating. This was traditionally the case 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 use of a dining room is still prevalent, yet not an essential part of modern home design. For most, it is considered a space to be used during formal occasions or celebrations. 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. See also A Japanese example : the dining room of the Fujiya Hotel in Hakone Cafeteria Refectory References Jump up ^ `` dinette - definition of dinette by the Free Online Dictionary, Thesaurus and Encyclopedia ''. Thefreedictionary.com. Retrieved 2013 - 02 - 15. 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Question: where is the location of the dining room in relation to kitchen and serving area
Answer: usually adjacent to the kitchen for convenience in serving