A pimp up my dining room challenge for wannabe interior designers

[chicaguapa]

We're buying a house which has an extension behind the garage. This is being used as a dining room and we would too. But it literally just has a dining table and chairs in it at the moment. There seems to be no room for any other furniture like a sideboard as it's so narrow and you can't put any furniture at each end.

It's 12'10" x 6'10" (3.91m x 2.08m). It has French doors at one end (12 o'clock), a door to the garage at the other end (6 o'clock) with a radiator next to it (6.30) and a door to the kitchen on the side wall (5 o'clock) so the two doors are in the corner 90° to each other.

All walls are external (original or extension) or I'd have put some inlaid shelves in between the joists. I don't think you can put them in brick walls can you? I could put a radiator cover on but I can't think of anything else. Knocking through to the kitchen isn't an option at this stage as we wouldn't be able to afford it with it being the original external wall.

Any ideas please? Thanks.

Is there a table in the kitchen? Are you looking for an every day dining area?

Is there another space that could become a dining area, perhaps with potential to knock through to the kitchen, if this area became a tv room / play room / utility room?

There'll be an everyday table in the kitchen, so the dining room would be for dinner parties or when we have more than 4 people to sit down.

Because of where it is, it wouldn't be used as a family room. The ideal would be to knock it through but the wall we'd have to take out is the old outside wall so it's a big job. It'll be one for the future.

I'm thinking of putting some slim wall kitchen cabinets up with glass doors and store wine glasses etc in them. But I don't want them to look like display cabinets. And I still think it needs something on the floor.

I also thought of putting shaker style panelling around the bottom half of the walls, but that's a bit Changing Rooms and out-dated now, I think. It just really looks like a rectangular box with a table in it.

What about a fireplace with a mirror over? You could get a biofuel one.