Why Aren't We More Reverent?

Is there something about our meetinghouses that make Sunday services so irreverant (or maybe it's just the wards I've lived in)? I think it's a good part to do with the fact that LDS chapels are exactly that - "meetinghouses", not "churches". The fact that we have a great big sports hall into which our ward's sacrament meeting overflows hardly promotes a reverent atmosphere! Whenever I've visited old churches back in England it comes naturally to lower your voice and conduct yourself with a degree of respect, yet this is rarely the case when walking into our chapels (= multi-function, practical buildings). Down the road from where I live is the most beautiful little Lutheran church. I pass it frequently and wonder why our chapels can't look more attractive. The Lutheran church has more that one building - a chapel, solely for worship, a small building for offices and a community centre, which houses their equivilent of our cultural hall. This seems to me a much better idea - it allows the chapel building to be just a place of reverence and worship. It makes the worship more special, I think, to set aside a building for that sole use. I understand the want and need to be practical, but I also think this takes away from why we really go to church - to partake of the sacrament and worship our Saviour. I'd love to see a major overhaul of chapel building design, which might in turn produce a major overhaul of reverence in our meetings.