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Originally Posted by rubicon
I really don't believe that we are in the minority when utilizing our dinning area with a fully extended dinning room table throughout the year. common folks somebody out there has formal dinning, a gourmet club, poker night???????
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The first "Lifestyle Visit" Home we were in had a formal dining "spot" after you entered the foyer....to the left, with a large dining room table, chairs.
It also had a good sized (not a nook) dining area "off the kitchen" which was also "off the lanai" via sliding doors. The sliding doors continued on across the entire back of the living room.......a full big wall of glass.
There was a "second formal dining room table and chairs"....not the average kitchen table.......in that spot off the kitchen, with easy access to the kitchen.........and also to the lanai which had a dining table.
In that particular model, not sure if it was a Lantana? on Merryweather Way in Creekside Landings......that dining area would be all that we'd need, plus the dining on the lanai.
Just as we do here, we like "lots of xtra comfortable seating" for when all the adult children and grandchildren visit......so yes, I'd rather give up having "two" dining room sets vs. having more seating.
Also, as other posters have mentioned.......having a "seating area" for reading, relaxing, etc.........that isn't part of the main living room setting with the television, etc........is nice to have....
The open floor plans provide opportunity to have a big "great room" as we call them up here. People, us included, added them on to our homes........and still kept the traditional living rooms and traditional dining rooms, but if truth be told........everyone gravitates to the great room.
Also the lanai is plenty big for a good sized table or two......and for those with pools and summer kitchens, it would be convenient to just eat out there............unless it is UnGodly hot out.
The guys with the "home theatre" arrangements are also on to something. Very popular with the 20's, 30's and young 40's college grad generations..........
Have had the formal dining room for 48 years of marriage.
Been there, done that. Don't play poker.
For someone who does play poker, how about a folding poker table that is stored away in one of the walk in closets?
What I'd like to hear a solution to is where do all the grandchildren sleep and the adult "kids" if they all came at once????? Obviously we would get the three bedrooms..........and I guess sofa beds in the living areas?
Up here we have three "master sized" very large bedrooms with 3 King sized beds, 2 blow up Queen sized beds for the grandkids plus a porta crib.......sold our two living room sofa beds and replaced them with regular sofas.........so the blow up beds do come in handy.....
However, the bedrooms in the TV homes are smaller, except for the master bedrooms. I've seen a few of those murphy beds in the walls.
Thanks in advance............