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Article: Dining Room Still a Must // Builders Find Its Popularity Remains Intact
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- November 11, 1994
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Despite reports on the imminent demise of the family and trends
toward more casual plate-in-your-lap dining, the formal dining room
remains one of the most important rooms in new homes in all price
ranges.
A random survey of both production and custom builders in the
Chicago area reveals that the dining room is right up there with the
flag, apple pie and mom as one of the untouchable icons builders
ignore at their peril.
"Any builder who says dining rooms aren't important just
hasn't been listening to his customers," said Siobhan Wallner,
marketing administrator for the Illinois division of Centex Homes.
According to Wallner, the trend toward cocooning is continuing
into the '90s ...