If you don’t see yourself using it much, can you make it your living room and then make your current living room the playroom or your TV/reading space? I can see you spending a lot of time in that center room as a family since it’s right next to the kitchen. As a dining room it’s a pass through space from the kitchen to the living area, which is unused except Thanksgiving.

Yes it is - bathroom is right by the entrance.

Do you need the closet? Because if not, my temptation would be to take off the closet door and build or insert into a very simple buffet/hutch. Where the sellers now have a low sideboard, I would put a dining bench, and in front of that I would put a round table that seats 4, but which has an extension leaf that makes it possible to seat 6 if you bring in chairs from the other room.

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You can swag a pendant chandelier so it hangs over the table even though you’ve moved the table much closer to the wall

i am not american and don’t really understand difference between living room and family room Ahha. Current living room has amazing light so that’s where I want to hang out most, while dining room/middle room is much darker, so I don’t think I’d want it as my living room.

Would this work for the middle room, combo parlor and dining.

Casual front room that you’ll be in most of the time, with toys, storage, tv, comfy couch, etc.

I think the problem for me with switching the rooms is the fact that middle room is dark and current living room great light - so that’s where I’d want to spend most of the time. we’re in a smaller place right Now and spend most of the day in the living room on the couch which is where our TV is and where our infant Plays on the floor.

Yes — sorry Jenna to have missed it in your original post. But the bathroom is one of the reasons I suggested moving the dining table to the other side of the room. I realise it is not far but it still makes sense to me.

I am also curious what exactly is on the other side of the bathroom in the square marked “office” and in the kitchen, what is the square that is right next to the number 57.83?

Office is a built in desk and cabinets - but it’s through the entrance, inside the kitchen room. And that’s a window in front of those numbers.

You can use a smaller round dining/breakfast) table(extendable for when guests are over). I would carve out part of the dining room for a proper entry way. Use a high back bench to separate the "hallway" from the dining nook. Probably fit a 48-54" bench and a 36"-40" round extendable table along with two chairs on the other side and a high chair for the baby at the "head" of the table. A console table or sideboard can fit the space along the wall going to the kitchen(drawn in red).

For the entryway use the space marked by a 2' wide runner. Place a shelf/cupboard behind the dining bench for extra storage/shoes/toys(drawn in blue) And a low bench (drawing in green) under the window where you can sit to put your shoes on or use as a small seat for curling with a book or for the toddler to look outside the window(they just love that!!)

Behind the entry door you can have a few hooks for keys or minishelf for mail or what else you may have in an entry way.

The dining table can be used for your daily meals AND family game time:)- fun times

For example place this bench back to back with this shelf

A few examples of dining nooks

Bench for under the window in the "entry hallway"

Behind the entry door

Or a mirror instead of the art

Do you need a separate office off of the kitchen? Any chance it could become your dining area? I can only see a part of your kitchen, but wondering if you took the left angle of the island-counter and built a wine rack/shelves there, if you could have a table In chairs near the window, including the space that is now the office?

Then you could create a library-play area for the entry room, and include a table that could turn into a larger dining table for guests if needed.

@LilDesignWorks thank you for detailed recommendation! I like it! I need to measure the space for the dining nook in your drawing to see if I can fit it and still leave decent walking path to the patio door and closet.

@User yes I was considering making current built in desk into a dining nook, but it would have to be small as there are cabinets to the right of it with wine cooler. Here is the photo looking from the back of the kitchen. Obviously this is a bigger project and I’d have to consider if I really the Current dining room for something else.

Here is the same kitchen (old photos) where you can see cabinets to the right of the built in desk and window

Hard to tell from the seller’s picture but if you are saying that there is a wine cooler inside the tall double door cabinet, then that cooler would definitely need to be relocated in order to create a comfortable dining area in that space.

If you ever get tempted to do it, I don’t think you would face a big renovation challenge. Once the cooler was gone, you only need to take out everything else and then tidy up the empty square space. LilDesign has posted lots of photos showing combos of round tables, dining benches and chairs that are compact.

But I also think you can make the dining/entry space work for you. Enjoy your new home!