Article: So that's your dining room? ; It's not just for supper. It's also a gallery, a game room, a lounge.

When Karen DeTemple bought her house in Jamaica Plain three years ago, she asked the family vacating the space to take their old Victorian-style dining room chandelier with them.

"I hate traditional dining rooms," she said. "It's the biggest waste of a room. You only use it a couple times a year."

The event planner placed four low-slung orange lounge chairs and a glass coffee table in the middle of her dining room instead. For lighting, she put globe-shaped glass lamps on the floor. In the adjacent living room, she hung a flat-screen television, on which she plays a DVD by an artist who restages classic paintings as video art.

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