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A dining room is a room for expending meat. In modern times it is usually adjacent to the kitchen for convenience in providing, although in medieval times it was often on an entirely different storey grade. Historically the dining room is furnished with a rather large dining table and a number of dining chairs; the most common shape is generally rectangular with two armed point chairs and an even number of un-armed back chairs along the long backs .

History

In the Middle Ages, upper class Britons and other European aristocracy in palaces or large manor house dined in the great vestibule. This was a large multi-function chamber capable of room the bulk of the population of the house. The household would sit at the head table on a heightened dais, with the rest of specific populations arrayed in order of lessening grade away from them. Tables in the largest hall would tend to be long trestle tables with benches. The sheer number of people in a Great Hall intend it would probably have had a busy, bustling atmosphere. Propositions that it would also have been quite smelly and smoky are probably, by the standards of the time, unfounded. These chambers had large-scale chimneys and high-pitched ceilings and there would have been a free flow of breath through the numerous doorway and window openings .

It is no doubt that the owners of such belongings began to develop a savour for most intimate gatherings in smaller' parlers' or' privee parlers' off the main hall but this is thought to be due as much to political and social changes as to the greater consolation afforded by such chambers. In the first instance, the Black Death that ruined Europe in the 14 th Century caused a shortage of labor and this had led to a breakdown in the feudal system. Also the religion persecutions after the dissolution of the convents under Henry VIII attained it unwise to talk freely in front of large numbers of people .

Over time, the nobility took more of their snacks in the parlour, and the parlour became, functionally, a dining room( or was split into two separate rooms ). It also moved farther from the Great Hall, often accessed via grand ceremonial staircases from the dais in the Great Hall. Eventually dining in the Great Hall became something that was done primarily on special occasions .

Toward the beginning of the 18 th Century, a motif emerged where the madams of the house would recede after dinner from the dining room to the drawing room. The gentlemen would remain in the dining room having guzzles. The dining room tended to take on a more masculine tenor as a result .