My wife and I have had two houses here in The Villages; a Sunflower and a Lily. Both have areas designed to be dining rooms. In both cases, we chose not to put in a dining room table and chairs and instead put in living room-type furniture (couch, tub chair, recliner, end table). People who have visited generally seem delighted by the idea and wonder why they didn't do the same thing as they say they rarely use the dining room table. Or else they are just being polite and wonder what kind of nutcases we are.
In the current house (the Lily), we have a rectangular dining table that seats 6 in the "dining nook" area between the kitchen and the lanai, a circular dining table that seats 4 in the enclosed lanai, a circular table that seats 4 in the birdcage and 4 "captains" chair at the bar in the kitchen. By my count, we can seat 18 for dining. Why would we need another table in the area originally designated to be a dining room?
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