<Table> <Tr> <Td> </Td> <Td> This article needs additional citations for verification . Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources . Unsourced material may be challenged and removed . (March 2007) (Learn how and when to remove this template message) </Td> </Tr> </Table> <Tr> <Td> </Td> <Td> This article needs additional citations for verification . Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources . Unsourced material may be challenged and removed . (March 2007) (Learn how and when to remove this template message) </Td> </Tr> <P> A dining room is a room for consuming food . In modern times it is usually adjacent to the kitchen for convenience in serving, although in medieval times it was often on an entirely different floor level . Historically the dining room is furnished with a rather large dining table and a number of dining chairs; the most common shape is generally rectangular with two armed end chairs and an even number of un-armed side chairs along the long sides . </P> <P> In the Middle Ages, upper class Britons and other European nobility in castles or large manor houses dined in the great hall . This was a large multi-function room capable of seating the bulk of the population of the house . The family would sit at the head table on a raised dais, with the rest of the population arrayed in order of diminishing rank away from them . Tables in the great hall would tend to be long trestle tables with benches . The sheer number of people in a Great Hall meant it would probably have had a busy, bustling atmosphere . Suggestions that it would also have been quite smelly and smoky are probably, by the standards of the time, unfounded . These rooms had large chimneys and high ceilings and there would have been a free flow of air through the numerous door and window openings . </P>

Where is the location of the dining room in relation to kitchen and serving area