Survey #253—Full Response from JM

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Which of the following statements describe your living situation with respect to a dining room and dining-room furniture?
  • My home includes a formal dining room that I/we use for multiple purposes, but rarely or never for dining.
  • My home includes a dining area as part of the kitchen.
  • My home includes a dining area as part of the living room or “great room.”
Please complete the following statement: “Members of my household and I eat most of our meals _____.”At the kitchen table which is where our "formal" dining table is (not in the formal dining room which is where our piano, drums & multiple instruments reside.
Please complete the following statement: “When I want to entertain guests for a meal, we usually eat _____.”In the kitchen "breakfast nook" at our formal dining set.
What feelings or memories—positive, negative, or in-between—does the phrase “dining room” evoke for you? How have your attitudes, beliefs, or practices around dining and entertaining changed over time? What impact, if any, do dining and entertaining have on the clutter in your space?I love the idea of a formal dining room and we had one for years, but as the kids grew we turned it into a music room and have never looked back. About a decade ago, we remodeled the kitchen & spiffied up the breakfast nook for our "formal dining set" so seamlessly that I actually forgot we had once used the formal dining room for its intended purpose. (It's been the music room for so long, I actually forgot it was a dining room until I took this survey!) The kitchen table and counter get the clutter. There's no table in the music room so it doesn't gather much clutter.
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