Of course you can put dining room and living room receptacles on the same circuit.

The linkage between dining room and kitchen receptacles is more of an exception than a rule.

Of course you can put dining room and living room receptacles on the same circuit.

Terribletom your answer is completely wrong. Dining room receptacles must be on a 20A small appliance circuit, and SA circuits can NOT supply anything in the living room.

Code requires 2 or more SA circuits, and the fact that there are already 2 SA circuits in the kitchen doesn't change the fact that the 20A circuit supplying dining room receptacles is also to be considered a SA circuit.

The linkage between dining room and kitchen receptacles is more of an exception than a rule.

"Linkage"??? This is jibberish. Code consists of rules and exceptions, but not of some middle-ground mush. You should either read the code before answering, or admit you're making it up as you go along.

Tom, are you serious? I hope this post was meant as a joke.

Samneric is completely correct here.

"Tom, are you serious? I hope this post was meant as a joke."

Yup, groan, I was serious. And I was wrong. Which makes me seriously wrong. Thank both of you for the save.

I think the source of my confusion had to do with switched receptacle exception. I was pretty sure you could run those off of a G.P. circuit but didn't realize that was the extent of the exception. (Yes, I went back and reread that part and you two are, not surprisingly, 100% correct.)

I swear I will wear my dunce cap for the entire weekend--at least. Promise.

terribletom-
Keep the dunce cap available to loan out. Some of the rest of us occasionally need one, too.