re: Do you use your dining table?

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I do woodworking and about 15 years ago I built my own China cabinet, buffet and dining room table big enough to seat 8 when the extension is put in.

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Wow!

Pics?

Just got finished with lunch at it with friends after church. I turned my breakfast room into a sitting area and “deformalized” my dining room. We use it all the time. In the past week we did school work, painted, worked remote, and ate there.

I have seating for 18 (without adding extra leaves) at 2 dining tables. It’s an extremely open floor plan,
To the point where the people at both tables can actually see each other.

One table is closer to the kitchen, and one is closer the the main living area, but more formal.

One is used every day, but both frequently enough to justify it (holidays, parties, etc.). I hat do you “no table” heathens do? Eat on your lap in front of a TV?

Only for holiday meals, really. Not used for anything else other than a prep area for upcoming projects that we’re working on.
But our dining room is full of family heirloom items that remind us of our childhood and families.

We eat at the dining table every night aside from 1-2 a month we go out to eat.

Grew up in a house with a breakfast nook and a dining room. We rarely used the dining room.

I live in a shack now. My wife always has a bunch of bull shite on the table so I eat on the couch like I'm living in a trailer or some shite.

wife and i made some life choices early on in our marriage

-rent until we found the “perfect” house
- wait until we were settled in before trying to have a family
- if we had kids, raise them in a traditional family setting as much as we could

so we bought an older house (built 1936, 1800 sq ft) in a nice neighborhood, which had a modest dining room between the kitchen and the living room, wherein we ate 90% of our meals as the kids grew up

frequently when they would have friends over for dinner, they would comment on how the only time they sit down for meals around a dining room table was at our house

while nowadays with kids grown (one still living with us having recently graduated from college) we usually eat the evening meal off the coffee table in the living room while watching a movie, but still eat in the dining room at least 3-4 times a week

that said, every family is different, but this works for us

Only during the holidays

Yes for nicer dinners.
Easter.
Kids birthday.
It’s mainly used as the room where our bar is lol

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Do you use your dining table?

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I just now used it to fold cloths, we paid $1,800 for the set and have never eaten a meal on it.