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SHOPAHOLIC
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Formal living room or formal dining room?
If you had to choose between the two, which would you pick?
Main floor of the house has a large EIK. Island seating and more then enough room for good sized table, and also has a very large family room. Would you use an extra room as a living or dining room?
Message edited 6/5/2014 4:16:40 PM.
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tourist
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Re: Formal living room or formal dining room?
Probably dining room, but it depends on the layout.
I would want an area for family events. If the family room is out of the way form the kitchen, and the room in question is close to the kitchen I would make it a living room.
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| Posted 6/5/14 4:31 PM |
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jessnbrian
Only God knows His plan for us
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Jessica
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Formal living room or formal dining room?
It would really depend on the layout.
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| Posted 6/5/14 4:36 PM |
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AKD
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Re: Formal living room or formal dining room?
Probably neither if I already had a "living" and "dinning" area - but that's mainly because I'm not a fan of formal spaces. I'd try and see if there was anything else I could use the space for - maybe an office or something? Etc...
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| Posted 6/5/14 4:56 PM |
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jessnbrian
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Re: Formal living room or formal dining room?
Posted by AKD
Probably neither if I already had a "living" and "dinning" area - but that's mainly because I'm not a fan of formal spaces. I'd try and see if there was anything else I could use the space for - maybe an office or something? Etc...
I like this idea. I would even consider making it into a guest room if you have out of town guests with any regularity.
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| Posted 6/5/14 5:01 PM |
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SHOPAHOLIC
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Re: Formal living room or formal dining room?
Family room is off of the kitchen. Extra room is off of the dining area portion of the kitchen ( L shaped)
The extra room is 12x20 and off of the front entrance.
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| Posted 6/5/14 5:01 PM |
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jessnbrian
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Formal living room or formal dining room?
I would either do a den, office, or guest room... is it open plan or is it a full separate room with a doorway and not an open entrance way?
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| Posted 6/5/14 5:03 PM |
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SHOPAHOLIC
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Re: Formal living room or formal dining room?
Open plan with no way to close that room off... Then mentally I would also be stuck feeling like I only had two common area rooms - large rooms but still only two. The large EIK and the large den. I just can't decide if it would be better served as a living room or a dining room.
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dianadrw
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Formal living room or formal dining room?
You should think about your lifestyle. Do you entertain a lot? If the answer in yes then you might want an additional dining space. Do you have kids? Would it be better served as a playroom rather than your living room looking like toys r us? These are things to think about. When we built our house we built with a formal living room and dining room. We rarely use the dining room and are in the process of turning the formal living room into a playroom/office. It's what's the most useful for us now.
ETA: grammar
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| Posted 6/5/14 5:45 PM |
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BBD322x0
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Formal living room or formal dining room?
For me personally, I love to entertain so I think I'd rather have an extra room be a formal dining room.
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| Posted 6/5/14 5:45 PM |
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GoodThoughts
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Re: Formal living room or formal dining room?
Definitely a dining room. When we were house hunting, we immediately crossed off any house with only an eat-in kitchen. I find homes without real dining rooms to feel incomplete.
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| Posted 6/6/14 9:38 AM |
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CSK
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Formal living room or formal dining room?
depends on how you use things and whether 1 is more beneficial than the other. I find myself wishing I had a second living area more than wishing I had a "formal" dining room.
we opened up the kitchen to the dining room and now its 1 big space that is more dressed up than just an eat in kitchen, but informal compared to a formal dining room. we can seat 8 at our square table and if we wanted to move things around could push it to 10-12 if we remove the counter stools from the peninsula.
when you say good sized table, I don't know what you mean, good sized kitchen table? or something that you could have 2 other couples over comfortably and eat?
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| Posted 6/6/14 10:22 AM |
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caps612
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Re: Formal living room or formal dining room?
dining room, but we entertain alot and have holidays and nig crowds!
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| Posted 6/6/14 4:55 PM |
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blustar214
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Re: Formal living room or formal dining room?
If the "formal" living room would be the second living space in the house (e.g., no other playroom, den, basement tv space) then I would choose the living room. I would love to have two separate spaces for hanging out TV, kids, etc vs a formal dining room that would only get used a few times a year at holidays.
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| Posted 6/6/14 4:59 PM |
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KarenK122
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Formal living room or formal dining room?
I think it depends on your house layout and entertaining styles. Our new house has a small dining room, a den and a living room. The tv is in the den. Our families like to have alot of seating areas as we all congregate in different areas.....people just wanting a convo or people watching a sports game for example. Our living room will be far from "formal" though. It's a living space with no tv.
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| Posted 6/6/14 6:27 PM |
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limomof2
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Re: Formal living room or formal dining room?
I would go dining room...I never understood a formal living room jmo.
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| Posted 6/11/14 5:41 PM |
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JenMarie
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Formal living room or formal dining room?
Dining room
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| Posted 6/12/14 9:17 AM |
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Kitten1929
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Re: Formal living room or formal dining room?
Posted by BBD322x0
For me personally, I love to entertain so I think I'd rather have an extra room be a formal dining room.
Same!
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| Posted 6/12/14 9:54 AM |
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MrsPenthouse
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Formal living room or formal dining room?
LOVE formal dining rooms because I entertain often.
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