Is Dining table is most important part for eating meals?

To me a dining table is not a must. What is a must is having dinner together. To share the meal, to listen to eachother, to have quality time together. This is not possible if everybody is sitting somewhere else or having his dinner alone. With us it's normal to have at least 1 meal a day together, we do sit at the table since it's too cold here to sit on the floor (lot's of draft no carpet on the floor). If I am with my husband everybody is eating alone, even if we visit family. We all eat separated and we hardly meet or speak to eachother. I accept/respect it if I am over there but I would never do that since the way I am raised this is also respectless and rude. You don't let your guests eat alone or even don't speak to them for a whole day.

Thanks for sharing this discussion. Well yes u are absolutely right. A dining table not only helps u to eat properly but also avoids chances of spilling the food here and there when ate on the ground. It also gives u a chance to have food properly without having to sit on the ground and spraining your back and legs to sit down and eat and get up while washing your hands. What say?

My first priority when i moved in to my new house was to move in a set of settee and a dining table. I bought a simple wooden dining table first. I like the marble dining table but it is too expensive. I might buy it though once I've finish furnishing the rooms. It all depends on your budget when it comes to buying a dining table. Marble tables look classy and last a lifetime.

Surekha, i think dining table is very important to every home. My home have dining table which we used daily for taking our meals. Every morning, afternoon and dinner time, we cook and eat at the dining table. In my home, we have a wooden dining table, since it can last long. We have no interest to buy glass dining table since it is easy to break. You are right glass dining table is hard to take care especially when we have children around. So far, i never asked my guest to sit on the floor to eat.

surekha: Dining table is a must. Go for wooden dining table modern design - with four seats or six seats. Nowadays old people cannot sit comfortably on the ground for eating. Glass means we have to fear when some children come --they may throw ball on it --also sometimes in our household out of anger we may keep some vessels with force and glass will be affected. take care.

yes, it is a must now, even small families with small houses are managing dinning tables. The important point is , most of them don't use the table for eating, mostly they eat by sitting on the floor, this may be because they are used to it. Aged people are also preferring dinning tables because ,now a days they are prone to joint pains so cannot sit on the floor.

I think that one of the most important things in life is to eat together as a family. Often, we are so busy in life that we don't get the time to spend with our family that we might have been able to in the past. One of the bad things about the current economy is that there are a lot of people are having to work longer hours than they have ever done before. In my family I like to cook in the evening and make sure that we all sit together and eat. My younger brother doesn't like it, but I think that he will appreciate it when he gets older.

A glass table probably won't break if it is a decent well made table though I personally wouldn't buy one because i don't think they look very nice but that's just my opinion.I don't always sit at the dining table to eat but it is a nice thing to do when you are with your friends and family as it allows you to spend time together and talk.We used to eat of our knees in front of the TV,which used to distract us and stop us from talking to each other.

Funny that you should have brought this up. I was thinking about it myself. :) I have one, which is quite old, but it will be alright for another few years. :) So that purchase can wait I suppose. :) Anyway what I thought of is a table that can be broken down into three parts. That way, it can serve as a carom table if you want, or as table tennis table, if your room allows it. There are nice Neelkamal plastic dining tables and chairs. If you have kids who are young and are therefore unable to maintain furniture, you could buy such furniture. There are second hand dining tables you could look up on Internet sites like Olx. Otherwise my choice would be steel or glass. Glass tables blend everywhere. Steel you need specific type of decor. You can opt to buy dining table with Marble top or granite top if you so wish. Wooden tables are the most ordinary ones. Marble top or granite top tables are also easy to clean. you might want to add castors arrangement at the bottom for shifting it easily while cleaning.

Surekha beti Glass table as dining table, tea table is the latest trend, you can go to market, select one that has 2 inch thickness, rounded corners and polished edges, i have one that i purchased 10 years ago for 20 thousand rupees, it is 8 feet by 5 feet, complete with 6 chairs...

Hi if you want a nice table check the second hand store and antiuqe store there you might fid something nice but even when you have a talbe if there a foot ball game on every one going to be on the floor eating and watching the game ok have good day.

Surekha beti Professor has responded already, our was purchased 10 years ago, it is 25mm thickness or 2 inches, rectangular with rounded corners is preferred over oval shaped.

We always had a dinning table. I think that the stronger ones are in wood. If you sit on the eating, it is harder to keep your clothes clean and it is hard on your butt too, anyway, I wish you to find the right table to suit your needs , because a table is cleaner to eat on and you can invite guess, have fun.

Hi, You are right. Dining table is most important part for eating meals. But it is very useful when guests come at your home. But sometimes we have more than 10 guests then it is difficult to serve food on the table. At that time we sit together on the ground and take the meal together and have a fun of chatting and joking with meal. We have folding dining table which have two flaps. We can open one flap when we are only family members and open both the flaps when we are more than three. Our dining table is suitable for only six people.

I think dining table is a very important part of eating meals. In fact not only meals, it can become a center of discussion too. i love to have my food there because the whole family gets there for lunch. We discuss some interesting things. Its not only about food, but also about family bonding and compassion. I think dining table does help in reinforcing our relations too.

Hi surekharathi, dining table is essential for us when having dinner together with all the family members, especially during family united days that falls on Chinese New Year Eve and Moon Cake Festival or any other festival days. Dinning table is the best place for family members to get along harmoniously and intimately eating and chatting happily after the reunion. The atmosphere is pleasant, sweet and peaceful and of course full of delight to see one another after back to home town from different parts studying or working. Initially I wanted to purchase a glass dinning table while browsing in the furniture showroom few years back. a round marble dinning table attracted my view and I paced approaching it. Wow, it's cool and comfortable for people living in tropical region where the weather is scorching all the time to own such a wonderful dinning table. Without any hesitation I purchased it straight away after I felt satisfied with the reasonable price. I'm so happy that it serves its purpose so well and it's easy to wipe after every meal served Happy posting

HI Surekharathi I agree with your FIL that you should have a table and I would not like to eat on the floor either. we had one when I w as growing of oak with lions heads for feet and now its an antique. I asked them to send it to me while they were selling stuff getting ready to move to Arizona. I really wanted it bu t alas they sold it.I too would be leery of a glass top table,as I am too clumsy ,. ours when I was growing could be pulled apart to add leaves to make it larger for extra guests. I liked that idea very much. you need a table no two ways about and it could be very pretty too to go with other furniture you may own, em]happy[/em][/em

A dining table is a standard thing in most homes. I've lived in a couple of places where we just had seating at a counter; one absolutely didn't have any space for a table, and the other one we just didn't stay in long enough to really buy any furniture. I'm not a big fan of glass-topped tables. They worry me, because there is the danger of breaking them. In my household, there is a really good chance of that. I like nice, solid wood tables--something that can handle things being dropped on it, cats bouncing off it and my boyfriend putting heavy stuff on it (he sometimes seems to mistake dining spaces for work spaces... *sigh*).

Hi surekha I had the chance and joy of eating food in different environments with different people and to me people and friendship make the best of table!...but of course my custom is to have a dinning table...my dinning table is made of wood and is square it have a place for 12 people...and I tell you is not big enough when family and friends get together so we have additional tables as well! now I live in a smaller place so the additional tables are stored in the garage and when we have a party they are placed in the courtyard! but surekha at the end of the day where you sit at a table or not it does not matter...what really matters is the friendship and family together!

I have both the centre and dining tables with glass tops (3/4" thick) and oval in shape. We have had it for many years and look as good as new even now. Dining table is a necessity and all homes should have one.