Can you add a cool dining set to this area? Where do you live?

Cute kitchen! Anyway you could sketch up a floorplan for us so we can give you more helpful advice?

Here a (very) rough floor plan... We want a breakfast bar with stools under window 1. Also to include a casual sitting area preferably. It's just trying to get a balance. It's our first home so were struggling. It's Liverpool by the way.

That is a tricky layout! When you say a casual sitting area, do mean like a casual dining area or just seating like a settee and chairs?

There are several options. Do you have any existing furniture that you are using?

Is there an opening to the kitchen? Is that a pass through along that entire wall? Or is it one big opening?

Is the box that you labeled "BEAM" really a COLUMN???

If you are thinking of buying any new furniture, some stores will provide a free design service of laying out the options for you.

My immediate thoughts would be to place an 8' couch in the middle of the room facing the 17' window wall.........The back of the couch would be about 9 feet from that 17' window wall.
I would place two big chairs facing the couch with their backs to the windows with a few end tables and lamps and a coffee table. You could put a long thin 36" high table / buffet behind the couch.

Next to the "Beam / column" I would place a dining room table. It could be a small rectangle right up againt the column or a small round table in the middle of that space.

I would build an L-shaped bar starting along the window and then turning right in front of your kitchen, if that makes sense. You could have bar stools along the window area and facing kitchen as well. Then you can have storage on the kitchen side of the bar and more work countertop area as well while cooking and entertaining.

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Here's a simple bar at a window....and I'm attaching what layout I suggested earlier. Hard to describe really. Tried scratching it out.

Thanks so much for all the suggestions. Some really good ideas. My fiancé and I particularly love the idea of an L shaped breakfast bar unit. This would utilise the view and also provide more storage. Just what I was looking for. Thanks everyone. We're completely starting from scratch to all who've asked. We have no furniture yet as it's our first home, so it's exciting as it's like one big project.

Have a blast and think outside the box! :)

Even though you have another area for entertaining, this area would be great for that too. You could go with a folding bar and bar stools on the opposite side. That way you have a morning section and an evening section. Go with some nice art work too.