The new barn home dining room actually has nothing to do with the fact the room is new; we all know dining rooms have been around for ages. What is new are the options available to new-build homeowners. Here at Yankee Barn Homes, we’ve seen just about every configuration you might imagine, from separate, formal dining rooms to totally integrated and casual eat-in areas within the confines of the kitchen; and just about everything between. So let’s take a peak at what today’s dining room looks like according to some of our most recent clients. I think you’ll agree, the only rules for a dining room these days are the ones you require! 
The Formal Barn Home Dining Room
These rooms are separated from the kitchen area, either by totally enclosed walls, but more often by walls with windows, sliding barn doors, large fireplaces; that sort of thing. However, they are usually located just off the kitchen for reasons of convenience. The one thing all these formal dining room homes have in common is a bar stool counter space area within the kitchen for less formal and/or quick meal consumption.
- This dining room uses over-sized barn doors to separate it from the kitchen just beyond. It is also delineated from the living room on the near side by two step-downs.
- This formal dining room is separated from the living room by a shared fireplace and delineated from the kitchen by a shared half wall (just out of view on the left).
- The kitchen, just off to the left in this photo, is actually quite open to this formal dining room, making it both separated and integrated. The owners can choose to “dress it up” or “dress it down” as the need dictates.
- A close-up of the first dining room shown gives you a better idea of the height of not only the doors, but of this room. I love that floor!
The Integrated Barn Home Dining Room
The integrated dining room spaces are just as varied as the formal dining rooms. The needs of their family is what is on each homeowner’s mind as they plan out the space and flow of the most-used room/space in their new barn home. Therefore, what you’ll see in the following pictures is how each client worked out a design which met their needs best.
- This kitchen/dining area is so integral to the home, it takes up the entire width of the back of the home.
- This home’s foot print is smaller, but the designer created a great deal of “bang for the buck” with this combination kitchen/dining room area.
- This open and roomy approach to a vacation house in upstate New York, is just what this family with active teenagers needed.
- This family of four needed a dining room that would effectively link their 18th Century home with their new barn home addition while keeping an open floor plan.
- This is the same dining room/kitchen as the first photo, from the opposite end of the room. Plenty of open space and light – two things I love in a home!
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