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Article: New ways to serve; Dining room casn find fresh purpose
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- The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, WI)
- Article date:
- March 23, 2008
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There is a room in the house that hardly anyone visits anymore.
Except for limited use on some major holidays, it is lonely. Oh, so
lonely.
The dining room.
"It's a room that's disappearing. It's almost extinct," says Gail
Hammernik, interior designer at Bartelt Filo, a design-build firm in
Menomonee Falls.
The trouble is that the formal dining room is The Space That Time
Forgot. Once it reigned as a home's crowning jewel, where Norman
Rockwell set his classic illustrations of Thanksgiving dinners being
served to glowing traditional American families.
But that was more than a half century ago.
"The old formal dining room space is inadequate. When you get
together only a few times a year, you ...