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Re: What to do with dining room?

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The previous owners of our home removed the wall between the kitchen and dining rooms and it is now one big room. The old dining area or expanded kitchen area is where we eat our regular meals. My better half insisted on a formal dining room, so we took 1/2 of our fairly large living room (just estimating it is 13*25) and placed a dining room table horizontally across the 13 foot wide area and then used the rest of the room for a small living area. We never use the living room, so it is basically for show. We really need the dining room because we entertain a fairly large group of people a couple of times a year. If the group is really large, we take out all the living room furniture and run tables the whole length of the 25 foot room.

Without seeing your kitchen, it is hard to offer any suggestions. If there is little room for an eat-in area as mine was, then removing that wall could make a lot of sense. Do you really use a living room as it is intended? Why not make that the den?

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