What do you have in your dining room?

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We are moving house soon and will have a proper dining room for the first time (our current house has a living room/dining room rather than a whole separate room). Apart from table and chairs what else do you have in it? I feel like our table will look a bit silly if its the only thing in the room.

Not finished but will have a fireplace with built in cupboards and bookshelves either side. A small wing chair either side of the fireplace. A desk and filing cabinet. Table and six chairs.

Ours is open plan, so our dining room is open to the living room on one side, the kitchen on another (with a work top separating) and the extension/play area on a third. So open plan but distinct areas. In the dining room bit we have a table and six chairs. In its corner between the kitchen and living room is a drinks cabinet with my Lego hogwarts on top. On the only full walk, there is a chimney breast with a painting on, and an alcove either side. One alcove has a dresser, and the other has floor to ceiling book shelves.

Bookcase and a kallax with DC’s toys and reusable nappies. Plus the pram folded in the corner. So glamorous .

A dresser, a sideboard and a bureau.

A table with 4 chairs, a piano and a sideboard.

A fireplace
A computer desk/cupboard that's full of crap
A toy kitchen that the dc don't play with anymore but won't yet part with
A book case that's falling apart
A few toy and Lego boxes
My sewing and knitting bags and boxes
A large wooden table and chairs

Our dining room is messy but it's the most used room of the house due to its size and, with it being SW facing, the brightest and warmest. It's joined on to the kitchen so whoever is cooking can still talk to whoever is in the dining room.

You have to walk through our dining room to get to the front door.

It contains
A console table with shelves. This is where we keep our bags, keys and phone chargers. A coat stand and a small shoe rack. One pair on, one off.

Then you come to the DR itself.
A bookcase and china cabinet built around the piano.
My reading/sewing/iPad nook with an armchair, sheet music holder (used as a place to put mugs) and reading lamp.
A 6-seater table not used for dining! We use it for WFH, craft, home admin, sorting laundry into piles and as a general dumping ground!
2 radiators and a door to the balcony. Pictures and a mirror.

We jhave a big kitchen diner and our dining area has table and chairs, 2 armchairs, a big larder cupboard, a chest of drawers (plus freezer, tumble dryer, ironing basket and clothes horse)

Table and chairs, cupboard/sideboard thing no room for anything else, big table

Oval table and 5 chairs. One wall has a small sideboard and floor to ceiling bookshelves Will shortly also have a piano

Table and chairs
Bookcase
Armchair
TV
X-Box
Piano
Flute
Various percussion
2 x Guitars
Usually clothe airers against or near the radiator
Very often a load of climbing gear
Oh, another bookcase with music books on
Some recorders
Couple of music stands

We don't eat in there except at Christmas or if we occasionally have guests. We have a table in our kitchen for daily use.

Corner sofa
Exercise bike (needs moving, never used)
Tall lamp
Storage cabinet
The Hoover lives in their too just because it's out the way

Mines probably not one to aim for. We've got the table and 4 chairs, a large guinea pig cage (bigger than the table) with boxes of supplies for the guinea pigs underneath. A tumble drier, a computer desk with a printer on, a bookshelf full of textbooks, a box of school equipment like calculators, exercise books, stationery, visualiser (a camera I can point at my page to record video lessons), etc. And the clothes airer which is constantly full of drying clothes.

So whatever you do, don't let yours get quite as cluttered as mine. I don't really have anywhere else to put the stuff though, so it's needs must.

Table and chairs/bench, a bookshelf, woodburner, small sofa, ercol armchair, small sideboard and floor lamp. Also currently a Christmas tree.

A dining table that is unusable due to having a 3D printer and associated bits on it
A covered cat litter tray
Cat food and water bowls
Two dining chairs that never get used

Mine is a bit of a nightmare! There's a table and chairs, a sofa, and an office set-up (desk, swivel chair, shelf). Plus a tall shelving unit with my artwork (the desk used to be my art desk until I had to work from home). There's too much in there really, but I don't feel able to get rid of any of it. Definitely not show home material!

Two side boards and a ridiculous shaped dining table. It has so many legs that it makes sitting more than four people uncomfortable.

Dining table, 6 chairs but it’s a squeeze. Despite being decent sized it doesn’t have much useable space (same as the kitchen) so we’re planning to knock through and extend out to get the space we need.

A table and right chairs, shitloads of Lego, a massive drinks cabinet and my office desk/chair

Aside from the table & chairs, a dresser/side board, display cabinet, a large painting, uplighter, cat litter tray and cat bed. The dresser has a mix of dining paraphernalia (placemats, table mats, candlesticks etc) and art stuff, stationery and gift wrapping supplies, as the table is used for art projects and present wrapping when we aren’t dining.

We have a dresser which holds some baking things and other stuff, a crap drawer and stationary drawer and then a top with decorative items then we have a couple of square box storage sets for shoes.

Ours comes off the kitchen and is partially open to it due to a half solid half beam wall. It has table and chairs, the range in the fireplace, built in cupboard and piano one end. Tv cabinet and tv, dog bed and the "dog sofa" the other end - the one sofa in the house that is allowed to be jumped on with muddy paws! It's dual aspect so nice and light and is a very well used room since we added the sofa as people tend to sit there and talk to whoever's in the kitchen or play with the dog.

Dining table 6 chairs
Desk/home office set up with cabinets printer and shelving
Piano
TV and arm chair
whole wall of books n shit plus CD racks, floor to ceiling shelves that I bitterly regret
Dogs water and food
Big mirror
more crap under the piano
a washing rack with stuff drying on it
The will to live is somewhere in here under all that

Interesting how many people have similar crap stuff in their dining room.

You will never use it. I would repurpose it
Why wouldn't you use it?we use ours at least twice a day for meals, and for the children's homework.