Is it ok to build a new house without a formal dining area?

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Anonymous wrote:If I were building a house I would not include a formal dining room. It's simply not the way we live anymore.

No, but I use it when we have dinner parties, holidays, etc. My kitchen table is in the kitchen and seats 6. Formal dining room is more private and seats 10.

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It's a weird floor plan. Half the square footage is taken up by endless closets and corridors and excessively big bathrooms and pantries. The actual living spaces are less than half the square footages. Double master suites? What for? Multigenerational living? There is no grace or charm to the house. It feels like a big echoing barn.

I wouldn't look at it. While I don’t need a separate formal dining room, at that price level I'd expect it, at a minimum I'd want a more thoughtful and elegant dining area aligned with the kitchen and great room and capable of hosting at least 20 people for Thanksgiving.

Dining rooms also are great as doubling as homework room for kids, away from the distractions of bedrooms and family rooms.

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I think if a garage is that huge it needs to be detached from the house.

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Its smart!!

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Anonymous wrote:Mistake. Doing rooms are making a comeback

No they're not. They've been cashed in for offices or guest rooms for quite some time now. Most people do not want a formal dining room anymore.

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White Americans don’t have dinner parties anymore. A formal dining room is pretty much obsolete!

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Our formal dining room really functions as a study space. The kids have books and papers everywhere. One DC is into art, so it’s also a great studio space. For our family, it’s really nice to have this big with Take that we don’t need to clear off at dinner. I’d carve some kind of unique space next to the kitchen. It could be a study, a library, a sunroom, or a playroom. It just needs to be big enough to fit a table and 8 chairs when you stage the house to sell.

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Anonymous wrote:Our formal dining room really functions as a study space. The kids have books and papers everywhere. One DC is into art, so it’s also a great studio space. For our family, it’s really nice to have this big with Take that we don’t need to clear off at dinner. I’d carve some kind of unique space next to the kitchen. It could be a study, a library, a sunroom, or a playroom. It just needs to be big enough to fit a table and 8 chairs when you stage the house to sell.

Same. My DH often works from home in our office and I’m usually busy cooking after picking the kids up from school, so they usually meet with their tutors in our formal dining room. This is at least twice a week. We also use the formal dining room for actual dinner parties a couple times a year. Typically we just eat our family dinner together in our eat-in kitchen. Lol

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Anonymous[b wrote:]That would be awful, but you do you. We yse the dining room daily.

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Op, you can do anything you want but you do affect resale value because there will always be families, like ours, who want a dining room. I wouldn’t even go to see this house.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Mistake. Doing rooms are making a comeback

No they're not. They've been cashed in for offices or guest rooms for quite some time now. Most people do not want a formal dining room anymore.

It’s swung back again. Dining rooms are en vogue for multimillion dollar properties. Maybe not smaller homes that have to maximize efficiency?

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Anonymous wrote:White Americans don’t have dinner parties anymore. A formal dining room is pretty much obsolete!

A lot of people aren't cooking any more. No need for a formal dining room when celebratory meals are eaten out. And if people only get together for holidays no use in wasting a whole room that is used so infrequently. Like having a guest room if you never have guests.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Mistake. Doing rooms are making a comeback

No they're not. They've been cashed in for offices or guest rooms for quite some time now. Most people do not want a formal dining room anymore.

It’s swung back again. Dining rooms are en vogue for multimillion dollar properties. Maybe not smaller homes that have to maximize efficiency?

Not really. People are building out kitchens to be even bigger with massive butler pantries, prep kitchens, large breakfast nooks to accommodate a bigger table, and huge islands. No need for a separate dining room.

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For the 2 million plus price point, I would make sure there is a room someone could use as a formal dining room, but I would use it differently.

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Anonymous wrote:For the 2 million plus price point, I would make sure there is a room someone could use as a formal dining room, but I would use it differently.

$2m pp? You get crap for $2m now. This is not year 2010.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:For the 2 million plus price point, I would make sure there is a room someone could use as a formal dining room, but I would use it differently.

$2m pp? You get crap for $2m now. This is not year 2010.

That house is just tall with 3 floors. Rather than have a bunch of tiny chopped up rooms, they planned for a large 2nd suite on the first floor so the builders must know that is what the people want. Perhaps a lot of multi generational families buying at that price point who need more first floor sleeping space than extra dining space or formal sitting.