Is your kitchen/dining table the hub of the house?

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We have an open plan kitchen and dining area with a reasonably large table. It seems that everything gets done here - dd does most of her homework there, I work there during the day, etc. We both have our own desks, but they don’t get used as much. I guess there is something convenient about it. Dd can chat to me etc while doing homework if I am cooking. During the day when I am wfh, I can multitask and unload the dishwasher, etc. Also, our desks are much smaller than this table so it’s handy for art projects etc!!

Downside is that it gets covered with paper, laptops, etc so today I purchased some plastic containers for all the debris so we have somewhere to eat!

Ours is!

I tend to do everything at the kitchen table during the day (when I'm not at work) & when the girls get in they sit and have a drink, chat, do homework etc while I'm doing whatever I'm doing.

Friends tend to sit in the kitchen too, we all have our preferred seats at the table

I agree that the downside is all the stuff that accumulates there. We clear it every evening to eat but it doesn't take long for bits and pieces to make their way back (my latest sewing project is already back on 'my' side after tonight's tea).

Nope. The living room is.

Sadly not, we are not modern.
The kitchen is lovely, but food is eaten in the dining-room and anything else takes place in the drawing room.
The kitchen is more than big enough to have people in it, whilst cooking is happening, I just do not care for open-plan living (or the smells!).

No because the WiFi doesn’t work in the kitchen.

Dining table has become that but it is in the dining room nit the kitchen. We're not open plan and no space for a table in the kitchen.

Yes I think so. We have a large kitchen/dining room (it takes up half of the whole downstairs area) with a big, wooden table in the middle of the dining part. To get in the house we always use the side door and as soon as you come through the cloakroom bit you're in the kitchen. There is a large south facing window next to the table so it's bright and warm in there whereas the living room is small, dark and noticeably cooler. The fireplace is in the dining room too so the room has a nice focal point, unlike the living room.

When people drop in we always sit around the table because it's easier, especially if we're cooking or making lots of drinks because of course the kitchen is right there.

When the kids have their friends over they play in the dining room because that's where most of their toys are. Our plan is that once the dc are a bit older and we can get rid of the majority of toys we'll buy a new bookcase/entertainment unit thing, put a TV in there and then a comfy chair or two seater settee to watch it from because it's a much cosier place to sit.

We have all meals at the table, the dc do their homework there and if dh or I have a zoom meeting for any reason we sit at the desk in the corner. I also do all of my photo editing at the desk in the dining room.

@FraughtwithGin

Sadly not, we are not modern. The kitchen is lovely, but food is eaten in the dining-room and anything else takes place in the drawing room. The kitchen is more than big enough to have people in it, whilst cooking is happening, I just do not care for open-plan living (or the smells!).

By “drawing room” I presume you don’t mean the living room but some other room? Which is...?

I have not heard that term used by anyone in real life.

During lockdown the dining table was the home learning table. The craft table. The Lego table. The drawing table. I'm reclaiming it for eating now. (Helps it's an 8 seater and there's 4 of us). But since our living room, dining room and kitchen are seperate, there isn't a central room where everyone is doing different things. Which I like, I hate competing noise.

Drawing room?!?! Wtaf is a drawing room haha

Absolutely. Large kitchen diner and everything happens in there until after our evening meal.

drawing room is a shortened version of withdrawing room and is the formal room to which women would withdraw post dinner to let the men drink port and smoke cigars...

now it tends to be a more formal type of living room, in a house which has more than one room downstairs other than kitchen or dinning room, the more casual might be a living room, the more formal a drawing room - generally a room used for pre-dinner drinks etc...

other room names which might exist: morning room (where you sit in the morning - sun direction based), library, conservatory, orangery (more formal conservatory) billiards room, study, etc...

not all houses have only 2 or 3 rooms downstairs!