Kitchen diner or lounge diner?

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Which is preferable and why? Pros and cons please. I'd love to afford a separate dining room but not within our budget right now....

We don't have a choice due to layout of house but we have a lounge diner and it works brilliantly. Guests don't see me make a mess in the kitchen 😂 and as a pp said the table is multipurpose - craft, sewing, painting etc can all be done sociably while someone else is sat on the sofa. We have laminate floor so it's easy to clean (2 small children mean carpet would be a nightmare) and a big fluffy rug in the middle of the 'lounge' part.

Our house is pretty multi-functional downstairs. The previous owners had the large lounge just as a lounge/playroom, separate kitchen and dining room. We have a dining table in the lounge, a small island in the kitchen and set up the dining room as a snug/garden room with patio doors to the garden and bookshelves. There are only two of us and to be honest eat off trays most of the time. The only time the dining table gets used is on the very rare event we have our adult children over for lunch - as we all prefer to have a pub lunch (fingers crossed that will still happen) that's extremely rare. It usually serves as a receptacle for the various books we're both reading!! I use the kitchen island when I look after my grandson - he's in his high chair and I can perch by the island with a coffee. We have tiles and laminate floor throughout the ground floor, with rugs - so easy to clean.

In our last house we have a dining room which was open to the kitchen and we hardly ever used it.I can totally understand why people with young kids like the kitchen dining set-up, much easier to keep an eye on them and it's sociable.