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HOME DINING DESIGNING
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home dining DESIGNING
INTRODUCTION
Dining room design details relating to dining space seem to fail more often than any other subject of home design. Now, we’re not just talking about a formal dining room design; we’re also talking breakfast room design and eat-in kitchen space design. Anywhere folks sit down to break bread together or alone – that’s what we’re talking.
Whassup with this? Sufficient space is up with this, that’s what. Way, way more often than not, there’s not enough dining space around the table, at the eat-in bar, at the kitchen table.
DINING SPACE DESIGN DETAILS
Dining areas, that is, surface areas and including breakfast and other informal eating areas, are often undersized.
While it is impossible to be sure of a client’s dining table size unless ask-and-tell proves fruitful, it’s not impossible to setup an area for seating within reasonable limits.
Ask-and-tell can produce wonderful, helpful results . . .
“For formal dining, never more than 8. Any more and it’s family and buffet-style works best."
“We’re only three now, but two more planned.
“We regularly dine formally and catered for groups to 12. For my business and for his business."
“Just bought the dining table. It’s 42 linear inches x 96 linear inches.
“All three boys and their wives and their children come together to visit and eat at least once a week, sometimes more. 17 in all and 2 on the way. Our kitchen table’s 14 linear feet long and 34 linear inches wide. One slab." [No kidding; really was so.]
 | And one can adjust for
missing facts based on reasonable assumptions and experienced design metrics
(sort of reverse engineering a dining table size based on the unobstructed
surface area of the dining space and the style of dining varying from
informal and simple to formal and complex . . . for example . . .
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| Or one can determine within a given space the maximum dimensions of a dining table and gauge reactions, as drawn below |
| Clearance from table
edge to nearest obstacle (not including doors that can travel through)
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Comment: The statements about clearance come from a comprehensive and useful design Guide to Standard Kitchen Planning Dimensions, “40 Guidelines of Kitchen Planning" by the National Kitchen & Bath Association, http://www.superkitchens.com/sk/asp/catId.59/itemid.123/ks/page.htm. While not immutable, the algorithmic rules therein have for years provided Before The Architect with a heads-up sense of kitchen layout metrics and latitudes.
Comment: In dining areas like none other, adequate surface area is skimped in most all the plans this home designer sees of others.
Comment: In informal settings, a banquette can be a valued alternative to standard-set table.
HOME DINING SPACE PLAN
| Here’s a plan view that commonly gets included by Before The Architect in floor plans involving dining spaces – even bar stool dining spaces | ||||||
| In this instance, the
dining table had been client-undefined as to size but the dining space
itself was specifically client-determined; therefore, Before The Architect
established maximum dining table dimensions based
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| Note the labeling of areas and dimensions for future reference | ||||||
| Note exterior door swing |
Comment: See the ˝ linear inch lets for wallboard as the dimensions are to rough. Also, please note the swing-flat double doors.
Comment: Yes, the serving stage could be longer, except as-is possibly makes room for floor-loaded accessories, e.g., adult beverage cooler, roll-in cart. Kitchen is below bottom of this pic.
HOME DINING LIGHTING
Such detail thereafter enables exact placement of pendant lighting, door swing clearance, etc. once this layout is approved, as presented below.
Home Dining Lighting, Plan View
| Note that pendant
lighting is identified by
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| Note also that other
lighting
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