Congratulations on your new home!
In 2024 we downsized to a cottage with small dining room (approx 10'6 x 7'6) that was partially open plan to the living room (chimney breast dividing the two spaces with wide opening to one side). There was also a 6' deep hallway of the same width as the dining space, running parallel to it. We could barely move in the hall due to the staircase and radiator, so had to almost walk sideways to get to the understairs cupboard.
Not only did we take the drastic step to move the kitchen into the reception room, but we removed the (non load-bearing) wall between hall and dining room. The eventual plan is to reposition the hall wall, but as we're DIYing the work, this won't happen for a while!
For now we have a much more user friendly dining space that we use as an extension of the fairly compact kitchen. For example, we don't have a lot of work surface (and had been used to a large island at our last house), so we're installing a marble table for baking etc in the dining space which we can pretty-up with a cloth when entertaining.
Not saying you should do anything as radical @Kayleighfish, obviously, but sometimes needs must!
Our whole reno project is being done on a tight budget, so we sourced second hand pan drawers on eBay and reused some of the existing 1960s drawers from the old kitchen we removed. I've painted walls, cabinets and fireplace in a fabulous colour (Edward Bulmer Pompadour) and we're splurging on solid brass hardware for a bit of bling.
I miss our old huge kitchen (although not the location!), but to compensate, we're making the entire space here cosy and welcoming, embracing the lack of size, and adding loads of stuff we love/collect such as artwork/textiles in the form of tablecloth/curtains - mostly auction/fleamarket finds.