Your description is quite clear about what is working and not working for your family. Try swapping the living and dining areas. Remove the bistro table temporarily.

If you want advice on simplifying and reducing to fit the space you have, just ask.

It will cost you nothing to switch your living room and dining room. Also those pillars and half walls can always be made into full walls. Try this first to see how the space function then move onto bigger renovations.

My first question is do you NEED the office space ? You are in desperate need o storgae and IMO first a huge purge of stuff you trully do not need. I do not see switching LR for DR abetter plan for sure that LR is nice size for your family . I do think switching the DR for the office if it has to stay would be much better . Remove the pantry so you have a doorway into the new DR. Those stairs go up I presume . Do you have basement ? Do you have agarage ? How old are the kids . The bar cabinet is not a must IMO The bistro table is useless if the kids can't sit at the counter on a stool how can they sit there . The kitchen is pretty normal as far as the size and even the layout but that raided bar is useless .

MY advice start by purging I tell that to all my clients before we start any kind of big $$$$ reno. I know kids need to have aplay space when they are little but honestly do not need to have every toy they own in the main living space . If you have garage that is the perfect spot to get some boxes for the big purge . Be honest with what you trully need . KIds bedrooms often have 1/2 a closet that is empty and can be a great spot for some extra storage in a cabinet that can be locked . I have lived in small spaces with 3 kids and the big thing is nothing that does not have a home somewhere . Little cabinets for decor are just not needed .

the room switch will be a nice opportunity to do a purge of what you don’t need - sparser interiors live so much bigger than crowded ones

, lamps in the living room area make it cozier at night

Get ready, thicken your skin, because I am going to yell.

Then? Everyone here, is going to yell at me. Care not! So don't bother: ) ? Brutal truths.

First!! Clean up the mess/clutter. All of it, everywhere. Get contractor bags. Toss every darn thing you do not absolutely need, donate toy junk.. You are currently OUTLIVING what a rather awkward home will reasonably contain.

^^......switch room uses!? Somewhat Impractical, with young children in this house. Not to mention there are 21.5 feet from breakfast bar to a tv wall! Too much dining room! Way too much!: (

You are not wrong to want a very near to kitchen breakfast area, in combination with children nearby, not be yelling to a more distant tv/living room to break up the fights. Not "wrong" to want a view of tv from kitchen....

Can you do it today? No you can't have it all today. But you are a looong way from blowing up a kitchen, tearing off a peninsula and that would mean a harder measure for all provided above.

You clearly need storage........! Buy three low cabinets, straight sides, 36" wide. low, and move tv off the fire.

Don't buy any sectional. They limit any future rearrange, paint you into a corner. LITERALLY.

Get rid of the bistro tale, the bar cabinet. Get a 36" x 66" table. Butt it up to the couch, You are four people needing to sit, eat., clear dishes. Is there homework yet? G

Good spot for that , too. Butt together two upholstered top lift top storage ottomans, 18" x 48". Stash the couch blankets, the toy clutter in them. Put your feet up. Seems a 9 x 12 rug,...look at washable "Ruggables"

Will it work? Up to you. For time to plan, save money,assess if you want to stay? Or move?

^^ Would you be able to have TWO couches. Let's just say no on that. You and two kids on the couch, and give hubby a comfy chair. Don't stuff the space, and you need room to enter!!

What's the bedroom floor? Could a laundry go upstairs? Who uses the office? Who works from home? What does the mud entry look like? As bad a condition as your kitchen?: )

Get busy, PRUNE and clear out. First.

Take a couple days, do that, come back with pictures from everywhere in day light. Put dimensions to every single solid wall, window , passage, and opening on your drawing...

That said.......as to above..call it the interim to a long term plan. which would for me, eliminate the corner fireplace. Alas... Never , ever, a good idea. Storage......

Kitchen...dining......low, not invasive!

Whatever.......go shopping and IF the kids are old enough to bench sit? Two chairs and a bench can work too.

The point to all is first do what must be done so you can have an attractive home, then do what can be done.....very near future to make it live as you live.....until a long term plan developed.

Can you take a few more pics with the lights on too? I don’t really see why there isn’t room for a small kitchen table. But as others have said the biggest issue is clutter and lack of storage. I have three kids and get it. The chaos is everywhere. And in the day when playing great but it all needs a spot to go once done with it so you can have peace and calm in your home. We used our office for a ton of toy storage when mine were little. It helped a lot. We also had bins and hidden storage everywhere.

There Is "room"!!..........But you have to be able to exit patio doors!

Trust me..I tried it Every way to Sunday

No guessing:

There are some less than desirable limitations, but they certainly CAN all dine together in the space, at table height. When no reason to exit patio? Can squeeze in two more! and pull it away from couch - you have nine feet of width. The Bistro table as she owns? Sayonara.

I think the Family Room could be arranged in a better fashion. Take that TV off the fireplace and place it on the wall or in an entertainment unit that can handle toy storage.

What is the space from the sectional the the counter? Is there an armoire or something in the kitchen too occupying a lot of space? Can you take a picture facing the slider?

Just my opinion here. Please buy some flexibility? Opinions will differ, even among pros, but the very last thing I would buy is a sectional and way worse than an ordinary sectional? One with a chaise!: ( :(

Buy a 90" couch with at least a two cushion seat. A chair and ottoman gives you yet another seat in a pinch! via the ottoman. I understand the appeal......cuddle etc, but you pay a hefty price and kids will curl up a,n,y,w,h.e.r.e: )

No sectional and for sure no chaise . I like Jans idea for seating and making the LR less of a mixed upbunch of stuff . Is that an actual fire in the FP or what ? I hate corner FPs so just asking. The TV has got go off the FP and thta wall of tiny frme can hold the TV and a ton of storage all along the wall for so much stuff the TV at proper viewing height lots of drawwrs for toys etc .

I like some of the suggestions given already. Personally I would swap the dining/living rooms. I love a kitchen table, especially with kids. The table is the hub of the home and not only for eating - puzzles, games, extra counter space when baking, crafts etc. I would go with a sofa, ottomans and swivel chairs. Could the built in storage in the dining room be adapted to hold the tv?

W.C asked............"can you take a pic facing slider"

She has POSTED a pic, fire is lower left CORNER. There is no armoire.

She included the floor plan......with relevant dimensions (I rotated it to match picture) above.

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From counter edge, to wall that doesn't have fire? She has 21' , and 14' 4" from edge of slider to that same non fireplace wall.

Hence...............

Because you have to be able to seat the family of four at a near to kitchen table and not jam the peninsula, and not crowd slider exit. Give up stools? Will look stupid, and the overhang will still be present, so why?

She also needs a lot of s.t.o.r.a.g.e, we'd assume wants a visible tv from the kitchen and nearby kids.

Knock yourselves out: ) The "family" is two adults, two ( little ) kids.

I would add....COUCHES are not the only comfortable seating on earth. In the case of a home needing a bigger kitchen and more extensive remodel? There is no way I run out and buy two couches, or a sectional.

The house needs a massive prune of possessions, more storage.......along with a longer term remodel plan for living well within it.

It is actually labeled as bar cabinet, not armoire in her plan and no the oic does not show the slider it shows the sectional with a touch of slider.

That's a "touch of slider?" : ) it's 67 % - 70% of what I would call and is in fact......your most 5 or 6' slider. Okie dokey!

Jan, it’s hardly a big request to see an additional picture of the space where a table might go. My god you constantly demand things from posters on the daily. How would more pics be a negative?