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Originally Posted by Dellie
Dear Future TV Friends... We are going through the decision making period (yikes!)... Not thinking we're going to use three-four "dining areas" that many models seem to feature (formal, nook, breakfast bar, and lanai), what do folks do with the formal dining space? Make that a seating area? Office space? Other? In advance, thank you for helping us with a little more information!
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We've always had a formal dining room up north, but I definitely would do away with it in The Villages.
The "Nook", the breakfast bar and the lanai area for meals would be enough.
The first home we stayed in had a formal dining room off the entry foyer; I would make that another seating area.........really liked JIMBO'S HOME THEATRE IDEA. That's what our "kids" and "grandkids" would enjoy, for sure.........plus us.
That same home on Merryweather Way, had a formal dining set in the area I just mentioned plus another such set in the dining area adjacent to the kitchen (it wasn't a nook)......with sliders to the lanai plus more sliders from the living room area to the lanai.
That model would do perfectly fine with one dining table indoors and one on the lanai.
People eat more casually than they did when we were newlyweds and raising our families.
The second home we rented for a month (with the columns between the kitchen and the dining area which did have a beautiful formal dining room set)........however, I would use that space for MORE SEATING.....of which you can never have too much.
That house did have a "nook" at one end of the long kitchen with a front window.........plus the stools off the open breakfast bar......plenty of space for the grandkids.......who can climb up that high. Those of us with short legs or arthritis would do better at the table.
We really liked the first model with the dining space immediately off the kitchen with sliders to the lanai (rather than in front of the house).
Anyway, I no longer would want a formal dining room table.
Been there, done that. Would downsize to one indoor table.