Dining room

Traditional formal dining rooms are not as necessary as they were a generation or two ago. A recent study by Realtor.com found formal dining rooms are often the most underutilized square footage in homes, and a significant percentage of Millennial and Gen Z homeowners prefer flexible "lifestyle rooms" over dining spaces.

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Traditional formal dining rooms are not as necessary as they were a generation or two ago. A recent study by Realtor.com found formal dining rooms are often the most underutilized square footage in homes, and a significant percentage of Millennial and Gen Z homeowners prefer flexible "lifestyle rooms" over dining spaces.

So what can homeowners whose dining room tables are covered in mail or the kids' homework do to repurpose the space into something they will actually use? The following are five ideas to repurpose a formal dining room into a more usable space.

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