Is The Dining Room Dead - DTT Classic
Decorating Tips and Tricks
Bespoke FM
4.6 • 827 Ratings
🗓️ 25 February 2026
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Is the dining room dead? We have lots to say & share on this debated decor topic. Today we delve deep into the dining room & we say, the dining room is .... Well, you'll need to listen to find out!
The dining room has been around for a long time, but many new homes are being built without dining rooms. Is this going to last?
The interior design site Modsy saw a 156% increase in buyers that want a dining room between 2018 and 2019.
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| 0:00.0 | Have a seat and let's dish. |
| 0:10.8 | Hi, I'm Anita Joyce here with Kelly Wilkins, and this is decorating tips and tricks. |
| 0:15.8 | Today's episode is covering the topic, is the dining room dead. |
| 0:23.7 | And some people see the dining room as a vestigial organ, not worth keeping. And I think it's time for DTT to weigh in on the topic. |
| 0:31.2 | What say you, Kelly? Well, I'm not going to tell you my position right off the bad, |
| 0:36.6 | but let's talk about it a little bit. |
| 0:38.7 | As Mark Twain is quoted as having said about his own death, the reports of my death are greatly |
| 0:46.2 | exaggerated. I would think that also pertains to the dining room. So that might tip you off as to how |
| 0:53.0 | I'm going to ring in on this topic. But I think it is a bit over exaggerated to the dining room. So that might tip you off as to how I'm going to ring in on this topic, |
| 0:55.2 | but I think it is a bit over exaggerated that the dining room is dead. The earliest reference that I |
| 1:01.1 | found to the dining room being dead was in 2014. Did you find anything like that? |
| 1:08.1 | Well, are these the same people that said stainless steel appliances were dead? |
| 1:12.2 | Because I want to know who these crazy people are. Yeah, there's a lot of people out there saying |
| 1:18.1 | a lot of things. So that's why we're here to cut through it all for you. Right. Now, I did see there |
| 1:24.2 | are some stats that Modzi, which is an interior design site, they saw a hundred and |
| 1:29.6 | 56% increase in buyers that wanted a dining room between 2018 and 2019, which, you know, |
| 1:36.5 | it's pre-pendemic. But I also found some conflicting information that said that, and this was |
| 1:43.1 | a thousand people surveyed, not really a |
| 1:45.0 | large survey sample, sample size. |
| 1:49.1 | Less than 50% of the people surveyed eat dinner in the kitchen or the dining room, either |
| 1:54.3 | one. |
| 1:55.1 | I mean, they're eating on the couch and the bedroom and I don't know where else, but I feel |
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