The Death Of The Dining Room
More than half a million dining rooms in British homes are likely to be demolished over the next 12 months…
[I]if the trend continues, the traditional home of the formal dining table and best cutlery could disappear completely by 2020. (The Telegraph)
A little too much doom-mongering there, methinks.
That fewer people have dining rooms is hardly one of the signs of the apocalypse, heralding in the end of society as we know it. Besides, just because there isn’t a specific walled-in room called the “dining room” hardly precludes the end of sitting down at a table for dinner, after all.
We’ve always had an “open plan” living/dining room. The dining table and chairs are in one half, and the armchairs, sofa and TV is in the other. We still sit down for family meals, and do so every day, and have for as long as I can remember. I don’t know why people don’t - but it’s not down to knocking the wall to the dining room through.
Just that the dining room as a separated and segmented room is a dying breed really means little. It isn’t necessary to have a separate room just for eating in. And it certainly isn’t the serious problem that seems to be suggested.
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