Is it ok to combine formal dining and breakfast?
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Anonymous
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New high in Pimmit Hills. What's interesting is that the formal dining area is now at the back of the house where the breakfast nook used to be. Is this a new trend?
https://www.redfin.com/VA/Falls-Church/1817-Peabody-Dr-22043/home/9396477 |
Anonymous
| If you combine them, you have to include a fainting couch for all who enter the house and collapse from despair at what you have done. |
Anonymous
| It’s not a formal dining area, it’s just the kitchen. A lot of new homes don’t have a dining room or living room. They are a waste of space for a lot of people. |
Anonymous
| They didn't move the formal dining. They just decided not have formal dining. |
Anonymous
I came here to say the same thing. When there isn't enough room, I have seen builders exclude a formal dining room. I have typically only seen this in modern style homes like the one linked here. |
Anonymous
A lot of new homes don’t have a living room: true, they call it library/office now A lot of new homes don’t have a dining room: not true, 99.9% new homes still have formal dining room |
Anonymous
You can lay out a house however you want. In this home you could take the “living room” and make it a formal dining room and take the office or bedroom and make a living room. But I doubt this is some weird outlier .01% home that has no formal dining room. Formal dining rooms aren’t as popular as they used to be. |
Anonymous
| The link isn't working for me but I always wonder about houses that have stools at the island, a kitchen table or breakfast room, and also a formal dining room. For a family of 4 or 5 that seems like a lot of space dedicated to sitting and eating. |
Anonymous
Idk about the dining room stat, but I always assume if we sell our house, the living room will become a home office. Many new builds have a home office across from the dining room. |
Anonymous
1817 Peabody Dr, Falls Church, VA 22043 |
Anonymous
The island ends up as the gathering space while we cook dinner. I like having an island with seating in addition to the breakfast and dining rooms bc it's so much less isolating for the cook(s). If I had to give up one of those spaces, it would be the dining room. It's not at all necessary but it's nice when we use it. You aren't wrong! |
Anonymous
| In the OP’s house they replaced formal dining room and the living room with a garage and a guest bedroom. What’s left is a breakfast area and a family room. Which is fine, if that’s what you want to prioritize. |
Anonymous
| Our current home has only a formal dining room where we eat. We could rearrange the larger living room next to the kitchen to make room for another table but it seemed silly/we prefer seating arrangements for parties as we have a long island with seating already so just didn't need more dining seating. That house could be laid out similarly- just take back living room or office space. |