I live by myself so this situation isn't affecting anybody else. I have a really odd shaped dining room/sitting room as my house has been extended (it is an old one, this room used to be a kitchen-cum-sitting room I think, and my table won't fit anywhere in it without me having to get rid of something else and everything is accounted for. I work from this room so my desk is in here, a sofa (which to be fair I want to replace with a smaller one but not found one I like yet) and two armchairs which I won't get rid of as they're lovely, good quality and were a present when I got my first house.
I never use the table at all-It's currently just shoved in a corner of the sitting room/dining room and again, gets things plonked on it occasionally but that's it.
I have two spare bedrooms, one is set up for guests one is doing absolutely nothing. As I am a slattern I occasionally use it to store junk that doesn't have a home yet but other than that It's empty.
Would it be very odd and weird to put the table in the spare bedroom upstairs? It has a cupboard I could keep some crockery and salt and pepper etc in. I don't like the thought of having to carry food upstairs if someone is here for dinner-but it isn't that much of a hardship is it? And then the sitting room is less cluttered and I'd have somewhere I could use to just eat...
I saw an episode of 'Come Dine with Me' where a woman's dining room was downstairs from her kitchen (a modern spiral staircase, mind) but that's the one and only time I've known of anything similar in a 'normal' house?
I have tried having the spare room as my office by the way. I just couldn't get used to it. I like to be downstairs where I can answer the door, get food, nip out into the garden while I am WFH. In case that is a suggestion 