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Article: Create a great dining room with these tips
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- November 21, 1999
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Dining rooms are special places in the home. Like many families,
we don't use ours every day, but for most of us the holiday season is
when we start to focus more on the dining room and the role it plays
in our home.
Here are some basic dining room principles to keep in mind:
Designing your dining room is in many ways a straightforward effort.
Unless you are using the room for another purpose - say, as an office
or den - and you need a collapsible table, the dining room table
should be placed so that everyone can sit at it comfortably and yet
people can still enter and exit the room easily.
Choosing a style with leaves or an extension is always a good idea
if you don't need a large table all ...