A formal dining room was once a quintessential part of the average home. According to The Georgetowner, dining rooms evolved into symbols of wealth and status, with Thomas Jefferson being one of the ...

The era of open-concept brought an end to most formal dining room ideas. Without walls to set the tone, an inherent casualness took over the way we dined. But then there was Covid, where rooms were ...

Breaking Free from Tradition You know that feeling when you walk into a room and it just feels… right? Well, I recently had a ...

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If you’ve noticed fewer formal dining rooms in homes lately, you’re not imagining it. For years, open-concept layouts blurred the lines between kitchen, living, and dining spaces, pushing traditional ...

Call me old-fashioned, but I’ve always loved the idea of a formal dining room – probably because my parents used to host glamorous dinner parties in theirs back in the 1980s and 1990s. It was the ...

The formal dining room, long considered a symbol of wealth and privilege, has been the subject of much debate over the past 30 years. Some declared it dead, a relic of a bygone era when families sat ...