This once essential room has now vanished from homes

Ding dong, the dining room is dead.

Even in this age where butler’s pantries, al fresco lounges and conversation fire pits are popular, all geared towards the art of entertaining guests, one traditional room, made for such follies, has vanished from floorplans.

In decades past, sitting down together for a Sunday roast as a family was not be skipped. This always happened in the separate dining – mum would emerge from the kitchen with a lamb leg the size of Uluru and the best napkins were flourished. Now, assembling around the severy window for wine and finger nibbles is how we roll.

And so, the dining room has become to Australian floorplans what wings are to an emu – redundant.

The Atlantic documented the decline of the separate dining room from US floorplans in a June feature.

As square metreage becomes a financial impost , why have a dining room that gathers dust? Although American homes are much bigger than Aussie properties, much like their food serving sizes and motor vehicles, even they can’t justify a residential extravagance.

So if the country where a small serve of fries is too big to jump over cuts a room from floorplans, you know it is not coming back any time soon.

Here are the best examples of open-plan living for sale on Domain, throughout Australia, right now.

SOLD - $2,810,000

14 Stanley Avenue, Hawthorn East VIC 3123

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The double-fronted Victorian was built in about 1880 but is suited to modern tastes.

SOLD - $1,530,000

98 Kangaroo Road, Hughesdale VIC 3166

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The art deco beauty been expanded with a handsome rear extension.

$1,500,000 - $1,600,000

6 Niemann Street, Bendigo VIC 3550

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The renovated 1860’s home is on a large block on the lip of the thriving Bendigo CBD.