People so rarely have a sit-down meal that a true dining table is not always necessary; it’d be like a football stadium where you only play eight games a year. Do an eat-in kitchen table or something more versatile like a table that can extend to be bigger or smaller, a table on wheels that can move about the house, or a fold-down Murphy bed–like table.
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