If you are looking for a way to make your eating even more efficient, or if you do not have much space, then dinette sets may hold the answer for you.
These are a way of combining a little design with simplicity and functionality.
As the name suggests, the dinette set is not quite a fully-fledged dining room ensemble.
On the other hand, depending on what you pay, it can make a positive contribution to setting the tone in your kitchen or dining area.
Typically, the basic configuration for dinette sets comprises a smallish square or round table and four dinette chairs.
This group of table and chairs can then be put in one corner of the kitchen or, for example, in a verandah that is adjoining.
Style for dinette sets runs almost the whole gamut.
If you have opted for a fifties style kitchen complete with black and white checkered floor, then you'll be happy to know that you can also buy a dinette set to go with it.
You'll get that classic chrome table with the laminated top, as well as the steel frames of sufficient gauge for long life and optimal resistance, and the vinyl and molded foam seats that will make your eating experience a comfortable one as well.
Of course, you don't have to stay at the level of the conventional kitchen table for your dinette sets.
There are versions available which elevate the surface of the table to the same height as that of the kitchen counters.
In this case the chairs are also correspondingly elevated, again with the typical configuration of four chairs around a small round or square high table.
Looking for a different style? Then try dinette sets in cottage oak or sophisticated black wood.
Change the table for a glass-top pedestal style.
Go further with contemporary designs that have the glass top sitting on innovative frames and trestles.
Get a dinette table that can fold out to give you double the surface area.
Even if you do not increase the number of chairs and just stay with four, everybody gets the benefit of more space on the table and more elbowroom on either side.
Naturally, there's yet more in the way of different styles.
You may even opt for a "twinning" of the style you choose for dinette sets with the style that you choose for a larger dining room table with six, eight or even ten chairs.
Manufacturers and designers often make small four-place tables and large dining tables part of the same range, so you could have a dinette set in an alcove between the kitchen and the dining room, and at the same time the same design for a complete dining table ensemble in the dining room itself.
Given that you are likely to find almost any style that you desire, it simply remains to check where you want to put dinette sets and to make sure that they integrate harmoniously with both the design and the family traffic patterns of your kitchen and your household in general.