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[desertrat8]

@Dinaki 

Good for you!  It's great to know people still enjoy eating on beautiful dishes and making each meal special   Fine dining is truly a lost art.  We try to do that as often  as we can.

[4kitties]

We are not using the formal dining room right now as we have a double sink bathroom vanity sitting in there.  😳😳😳😳😳. It is quite crowded with the table, chairs, hutch and server and the big old vanity.  

We had just started getting the items needed to redo an upstairs bathroom when the virus stay at home thing started.  We will be getting it in place as soon as we pick the tile and have it installed.

I do have a set of good china.  It is Noritake, plain white with a silver trim.  We have not used it in years.  I hope to though, as soon as the dern vanity gets out of there!  My girls are all married and I think Mr. 4 kitties would enjoy having a nice meal in there with the China once in a while.

[Miss Pepsi]

Our formal dining room is used for our antiques and our office stuff.

I have a nice table and china hutch in the kitchen and i use my China all the time not every day as we don't do a sit down dinner every day (it is just the 2 of us_.  Life is short and every day is special but anytime we sit at the table to eat we use it. 

[Meowingkitty]

I don't have a formal dining room or china. Our dining room has a pool table in it and a rowing machine. It's just the two of us so we use paper plates or Corelle for dishes. Nothing formal in my house. 

[Regal Bee]

@wilma   Yes, we have a formal dining room.....a small room that is open to our living room. We also have formal china. I don't use either a lot.....Christmas, Thanksgiving and having guests over but I am so happy I have these. 

I love that this space and these things are there when I want to make my guests feel special.

[alicedee]

My apartment is small....there is a tiny dining room area on the other side of the kitchen counter.  I live alone...have a small square table and two chairs there.  

I never eat at the table...I use it for a desk, and my laptop sits on it every day.  I fix my plate and eat in the living room watching tv!

If company comes over we eat out.  The few times I've had someone to dinner I put my laptop in the bedroom, and we have used the table.

Never use my "good" dishes, which are a set of Franciscan "Desert Rose" stoneware.  I will give them to a family member at some point....my DIL expressed an interest in having them.  My Fiesta dishes work well for me.

[spiderw]

Since I was a young girl a formal dining room was always part of my home .  My parents entertained often and needed the big dining room table with chairs of course to accommodate the family and friends who visited.  Birthdays,, Thanksgivings, Christmas and other events were celebrated in the dining room.  My mom also had a huge breakfront because she loved antiques and would display them and the china in the breakfront.

I inherited the dining room furniture and when I moved to my house I had to make sure there was a dining room.  While I too entertained in the past, I rarely do now.  However, when anyone does visit, we always gather around the dining room table.  There are so many wonderful memories which go along with the furniture and I wouldn't think of getting rid of it and hope it will be passed on to family.  My mom's antiques are still in the breakfront along with many of my own collectibles. I love formal dining rooms.

[Mom2Dogs]

Our house was built in the early 70's...dining room, living room and a family room.  The dining room is used 1-2 times a year, what a waste of space.  The living room is used when dh or I talk on the phone and don't want to disrupt tv watching in the family room and I do read in there on occasion.  The dog loves to sit on the chair and watch the neighborhood dog watchers.

Oh how I would love to move.......

[stevieb]

I don't have a formal dining room, but do have two sets of fine china. I rarely use the china, though my collection of  dishes is extensive and the dishes I use are all nicer and, to me, very pretty. I like to mix and match patterns, though I rarely set what most would consider a formal table.

[Mominohio]

We have a formal dining room (well, it's set up that way, but some would say the lack of a third full wall makes it not really formal), and it is the only place we can fit a dining table, so we use it every day for eating. I have table pads and a lace table cloth on it always, and we use cloth napkins every day too. 

I never had China, but do have what are 'good' to me dishes and I get them out on a regular basis to use. 

I like more formality in dining that just paper plates and plastic silverware. I think it makes a meal special. And I've gone to great lengths to set up my kitchen and dining room in ways that all my better things are more easily accessible (not packed in boxes in the basement, or shoved in the back of a deep cabinet/closet, where it's more trouble to use than is worth) so I can enjoy them on a regular basis. 

I will admit I tend to set a nicer table in the colder months, as we don't have air conditioning and in really hot spells, the meals aren't very fancy many days, and get served on Corelle!