Building a new home, how big to make the dining room, home is 7-9000sf

[Anonymous]

How many people might use your dining room for thanksgiving, Christmas , parties ? I personally like big dinning rooms incase I need to seat 20 plus people.

[Anonymous]

Are you and Janelle and Robin and Christine planning on eating with all the kids every day? And don't forget that Robin is pregnant again!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:How big would you make the dining room?

The architect has made is 14 x 22 but we think its a waste of space and want to make it smaller.

What does everyone think?

This should be the dictionary entry for "not being able to see the forest for the trees."

[Anonymous]

Don't make the dining room any smaller. Our dining room is smaller and it is a tight squeeze during holiday dinners. Will that be the only time you are using it to its fullest extent? Yes, but you will be glad you didn't go smaller on those holidays.

[Anonymous]

I think people building mansions should stop asking advice from the hoi polloi. What do you think will come of it?

But I will also give my general house building advice, which is--however much closer space you anticipated--double it. Then double it again. I would gladly give up my stupid dining room so that the board games don't fall on my head every time I open the coat closet.

Signed,
Person with a lot of kids in a 3000 (or 4500, not sure if they count the basement on zillow) sf home.

[Anonymous]

Unless you feel another room is too small that seems like a good size. If you ever see a time where you'd want to have a table that could sit 10-12 think of a table extended to 10' with 3.5 ' of width (pretty typical) with a nice space around a table being at minimum 3.5 feet that would make a room size to fit those parameters 10.5' x 17'. Add in a buffet to any side and that would be a usual depth of 2' x whatever length. In my dream home - 14/16'wide by 24' long so the architect must have been looking into my mind....

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think people building mansions should stop asking advice from the hoi polloi. What do you think will come of it?

But I will also give my general house building advice, which is--however much closer space you anticipated--double it. Then double it again. I would gladly give up my stupid dining room so that the board games don't fall on my head every time I open the coat closet.

Signed,
Person with a lot of kids in a 3000 (or 4500, not sure if they count the basement on zillow) sf home.

Sounds like have a lot of crap.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You need to have a very large dining room, probably twice the size the architect is recommending.

This is so it can accommodate the table that will seat a minimum of 16 so that you and your spouse can sit on opposite ends to dine.

And, so there is plenty of space for the servants to move about.

C'mon people.....7-9K is not that big....

[Anonymous]

Our house is a bit over 2800 sq ft, not including the basement. The DR is 15' by 16'. You definitely so not want to take anything from your width. We can fit 10 people around an oval table but it does feel a bit cramped around the ends. For complete ease with 10, I'd say 18' would be better. You'd want another 2 feet on each end for 12, so 22 feet sounds about right.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You need to have a very large dining room, probably twice the size the architect is recommending.

This is so it can accommodate the table that will seat a minimum of 16 so that you and your spouse can sit on opposite ends to dine.

And, so there is plenty of space for the servants to move about.

C'mon people.....7-9K is not that big....

Are you kidding? It's huge. It's intentionally pretentious and intended to show you have money. There's no practical reason to build a house of that size unless you happen to be a family with a shitload of kids. The concept of 10,000 sq ft houses being anything other than garish is absurd to me

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You need to have a very large dining room, probably twice the size the architect is recommending.

This is so it can accommodate the table that will seat a minimum of 16 so that you and your spouse can sit on opposite ends to dine.

And, so there is plenty of space for the servants to move about.

C'mon people.....7-9K is not that big....

Are you kidding? It's huge. It's intentionally pretentious and intended to show you have money. There's no practical reason to build a house of that size unless you happen to be a family with a shitload of kids. The concept of 10,000 sq ft houses being anything other than garish is absurd to me

Did you see the 20K size home?

"If you can't say something nice, don't say nothing at all " -Thumper

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You need to have a very large dining room, probably twice the size the architect is recommending.

This is so it can accommodate the table that will seat a minimum of 16 so that you and your spouse can sit on opposite ends to dine.

And, so there is plenty of space for the servants to move about.

C'mon people.....7-9K is not that big....

Are you kidding? It's huge. It's intentionally pretentious and intended to show you have money. There's no practical reason to build a house of that size unless you happen to be a family with a shitload of kids. The concept of 10,000 sq ft houses being anything other than garish is absurd to me

It's ok bud. Not everyone can live large.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You need to have a very large dining room, probably twice the size the architect is recommending.

This is so it can accommodate the table that will seat a minimum of 16 so that you and your spouse can sit on opposite ends to dine.

And, so there is plenty of space for the servants to move about.

C'mon people.....7-9K is not that big....

Are you kidding? It's huge. It's intentionally pretentious and intended to show you have money. There's no practical reason to build a house of that size unless you happen to be a family with a shitload of kids. The concept of 10,000 sq ft houses being anything other than garish is absurd to me

It's ok bud. Not everyone can live large.

Hah, I'm a multi millionaire, I'm just not one defined by being gauche and ostentatious

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You need to have a very large dining room, probably twice the size the architect is recommending.

This is so it can accommodate the table that will seat a minimum of 16 so that you and your spouse can sit on opposite ends to dine.

And, so there is plenty of space for the servants to move about.

C'mon people.....7-9K is not that big....

Are you kidding? It's huge. It's intentionally pretentious and intended to show you have money. There's no practical reason to build a house of that size unless you happen to be a family with a shitload of kids. The concept of 10,000 sq ft houses being anything other than garish is absurd to me

It's ok bud. Not everyone can live large.

Hah, I'm a multi millionaire, I'm just not one defined by being gauche and ostentatious

Well woopty doo. Good for you. Can people just live? It doesn't affect you in any way? Simply ignore the thread. You know nothing about Op.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:And butler's pantry off dining space. So convenient.

We already have that thanks!

Our DR is 14 by 18 - you need that width for comfortable movement and the length for a table that can seat 8. We don't like hutches and crap but have a small piece of furnitue in the corner for stuff.

anything over 18 is fine.