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New ways to serve; Dining room casn find fresh purpose
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There is a room in the house that hardly anyone visits anymore.
Except for limited use on some major holidays, it is lonely. Oh, so
lonely.
The dining room.
"It's a room that's disappearing. It's almost extinct," says Gail
Hammernik, interior designer at Bartelt Filo, a design-build firm in
Menomonee Falls.
The trouble is that the formal dining room is The Space That Time
Forgot. Once it reigned as a home's crowning jewel, where Norman
Rockwell set his classic illustration...
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Live it up when decorating dining room
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 "Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL)")
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Dining room devotion Empty-nesters may decide to downsize, but insist on space for their dining room furniture.(Homes Plus)
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Make your dining room a total joy
Chicago Sun-Times
; Dining rooms are back in vogue, and I, for one, am happy about this state of affairs. Of course, we're doing a multitude of other things in this room, but when it comes to special meals, the dining room is the room we all gravitate to. My own dining room is not large, but it looks out onto a
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