Article: INTERIORS: It's time to reclaim your dining room; HOUSE OF FRASER Gabrielle Fagan discovers that dining rooms are in vogue again.(Features)

Byline: Gabrielle Fagan

Dining rooms used to be the proverbial white elephants in homes - large, space-wasting and unloved.

They seemed to be totally out of tune with our desire for more informal living. But now the tables are turning for this once unfashionable space.

Around half of today's househunters - compared with one in ten two years ago - are now demanding a traditional dining room where they can entertain guests or make family meals into an occasion.

It's partly due to the influence of celebrity cooks like Gordon Ramsay and ...

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