Dining rooms have been around for a long time.
Medieval dining would have been in vast halls, which were cold, draughty and probably very noisy.
Dining room furniture was basic, solid and functional.
Huge open fires, stone floor and very little comfort would have been other features of medieval dining.
Gradually there was a shift away from the large dining halls to smaller more compact and no doubt cosier parlours.
Initially the room would have been next to the great hall, but grew in popularity as somewhere to dine.
It got to the stage where the great dining hall would have been used only for celebrations and special occasions.
Dining room furniture would have had to be scaled down to use in the smaller parlour room.
The room for dining had been born, and it has continued to evolve and change over the centuries.
The changes to dining room furniture have been gradual, but in many respects, there are still the same elements in any room used for dining.
We have the table of course and the chairs.
We no longer live in houses with parlours and drawing rooms, but one room that has remained popular is the one for dining.
Many of us have a room for dining, and even smaller houses that are more modest have at least a dining space.
There has been an increase in popularity of the kitchen diner, and whilst this may not be as grand a place to eat as a dining room, it still contains the basic dining room furniture.
It doesn't matter where it is you dine; you still need a chair to sit on and a table to rest your plate of food on.
The dining room furniture we have today would be immediately recognisable by anyone that happened to pop back from Medieval Britain! Let's face it a table is a table, four legs or a pedestal to rest the tabletop on.
That said it makes the table sound purely function over form but that is certainly not the case.
Furniture for dining these days is extremely stylish and beautiful.
We probably don't use our tables ever day to eat at, but many of us do use the table for our traditional Sunday lunch gathering.
You can of course still go for grand dining style if that's what you wish for.
A beautifully decorated and furnished room can be very grand looking with the right dining room furniture.
If you just have a small family and a small space there will still be furniture to suit.
Therefore, if you dream of sitting together once a week as a family to eat, then it can be a reality.
All you need to do is you buy furniture that will fit the dimensions of the space you have.
Then you can have your family dining experience.