modern kitchen are increasingly becoming a place for informal socializiing and dinning if there is sufficient space eating in the kitchen is practical and easy and create a relaxed casual atmosphere at is conducive to convivial occasion if you prefer a more self contained eating areas which also lends itself to formal dinning set aside a corner of your kitchen and create a sense of separation from the main space giving a dinning areas a different floorcovering for example will create a visual rather than a physical divider screen can provide a stronger sense of more intimacy or oppenness as required lighting can also demarcate space in dinning areas it should be dimmable to create a more intimate atmosphere wheres kitchen areas require good task lighting to ilumunate cooking and food preparation activitives