To live without a dining table??

lol can’t believe people are doing property searches to prove that houses can fit a table in. Goodness me.

You've chosen a cheaper area of the country to search in there. I've seen 'flats' in London that are one room, a separated tiny bathroom with the bedroom put above it in like a little loft. And people do rent them.

For families? Maybe in that case they should 'get on their bike' and move somewhere they can afford enough room for their family.

I know that my small kids eating on the sofa would be grim, especially the toddler. He's bad enough on the fully wipeable wooden dining chair with no nooks and crannies - was secretly pleased when he gave up on the high chair!

Wow, some of the replies are so snobby and SO mumsnet. We have a drop leaf table in the kitchen but no one liked eating there so we eat on the sofa watching Pointless as a family. Funnily enough my kid can still hold a conversation and eat properly at restaurants and other people's houses. We like it. But apparently it's 'yuck' and 'grim' according to this thread.

It's your house, see how you get on? It will evolve into useable space. Any room for a narrow breakfast bar and stools?

Another vote here for a gate leg table, so it can be folded away when not in use.

@Hellotheresweet

You've chosen a cheaper area of the country to search in there. I've seen 'flats' in London that are one room, a separated tiny bathroom with the bedroom put above it in like a little loft. And people do rent them.

Lived in a 2 bedroom terraced house myself that didn't have room for a dining table even a fold out one without meaning you couldn't walk around properly and would be constantly bumping into it. It only had room for one 2 seater couch too because it was that small. Thankfully only rented that.

You can find small houses that you can fit a dining table in, but not all can. Ops house is one of them, and why should she get rid of an expensive sofa in replacement of a £50 table just because a bunch of people online tell her to? That will be fun, she gets rid of that and those old chairs are all she has to sit on. Very comfortable.

Maybe rather than people saying it's grim, disgusting etc you should appreciate what you have and stop looking down at others and maybe just be thankful that you can afford better. You might find at some point, your luck ends and that precious dining table will have to go. How will any of you cope then?

I love eating around a table and I have a dining room but I got rid of the table when my kids were late teens.

We don't have a table in the dining room. Used to, but decided it was wasted space. We eat round the kitchen table.

We have room and have a table in the corner but rarely use it. I bought some spartan stools when we moved in and I have a bony bum. We were lucky to be given two second hand sofas so we have one each and can make eye contact while using the spartan stools as side tables.

www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/86232067#/

This one

Under £100k tick
New build tick
Very very compact tick

STIL room for a fold up dining table!

No space no space no space

And posters are snobby if they question this.

This house. Couldn’t get a much smaller two bed. Under £100k. Clearly there would be room for a fold up table

www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/69592240#/media?id=media1

So literally, your room is smaller than the size of a modest table? Or, as I suspect, you’ve chosen to furnish the room with other furniture that doesn’t leave room for a table?

More like no doubt with the way smaller homes are designed, doors are in the way so even if you put a small table in, you've made navigation around the house more difficult.

Not everyone can afford big houses. Can we all understand those simple words or do we need to go over the alphabet again?

We have always prioritised eating at the table, all food goes in the middle and people serve themselves, surely if your plate is pre plated then there is a chance that if you are watching TV you will just keep plugging away regardless of whether you are full or not.

It's really not great to have children eating meals on their laps. Also where do they do homework?

Meal times are where children learn about how to use a knife and fork politely, about dinner table etiquette and social skills around conversation maintenance and turn taking.

Not having a table really isn't very classy.

Yikes. Wish I hadn’t opened this thread! In my circles we don’t have homes big enough to accommodate a table (small lounges and alley kitchens) nice to know us folk are uncivilised

We used to have a table where both leaves folded down and the chais folded up and slid into the table for storage so we could eat at a table. Now we have a bigger flat with a big kitchen table and dd and ds never eat at it!

My kids all have a desk in their bedrooms, but even so, we had to use our bigger table so I could work and homeschool at the same time. It's hardly pearl clutching to prefer eating sitting around a table and preferring a dining table to make your life easier

If she lived alone rhe responses would be different. Folks have to remember the comments are aimed at rhe op not at them.

People stop seeing it as a massive sofa and start seeing it as a tiny room you can barely fit your sofa in.

I’ve always had a table, but I think a lot of the horror on here is from people who don’t think about people who live alone. You may find it ‘grim’ to eat on a sofa but if you live alone setting the table can feel really sad.
I live alone and, despite table, eat on my knee unless I have visitors.