Kitchen-Diner Styles by UK City: The Regional Data
Britain's kitchen diners divide into two types, and the difference decides the furniture, according to new analysis from UK furniture retailer Furniture in Fashion. The report distinguishes between squarish dining zones in extended semi detached homes, which take conventional tables and chairs, and the long narrow spaces created when terraced houses knock through or extend into a side return. In the latter, the analysis finds that pushing the table to one side with bench seating is the decisive move, because a bench needs only around 30cm of clearance behind it against the 75cm a chair requires. It sets out table sizes against the total floor area needed, recommends allowing 60cm of table edge per diner, favours round tables in narrow through rooms, and advises checking the leaf storage mechanism on any extending table before ordering it. Self storing designs keep the leaf inside the table, while separate leaves need cupboard space many British homes do not have....
