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3/18/08

As Brits Look For Open Plan Living | News ... Dining Room Under Threat - Nightlife

Dining room under threat as Brits look for open plan living | News ...


BedroomTake part in our survey: Do you have a dining room? But it's not just the dining room which is at risk: 190,000 living room walls will be lost to create larger communal areas this year, and around 170,000 utility rooms will become incorporated into kitchen areas. David Rochester, Head of Underwriting at Halifax Home Insurance, said: 'Britons have clearly fallen for open plan living and are looking at ways in which they can make better use of the space inside their homes. For more information, please refer to the social bookmarking websites. If this trend continues, Halifax estimates that the traditional dining room can be extinct by as early as 2020. In many ways it's sad to see the decline of the formal dining room, but it appears that they may have become superfluous to modern living where people are perhaps less likely to eat together.' Top five rooms which people want to knock through1. It found that 2.9 million rooms have disappeared over the past five years and a further 2.1 million homes are set to go under the hammer this year as well. It's certainly the most popular room to 'knock through' with more than half a million (590,000) dining room walls earmarked for demolition in the next twelve months,' it states. Social bookmarking allows you to easily share things you find on the web with other Internet users. Some of these services may require you to have an account in order to post a link. These are links to social bookmarking and community websites.

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