Help me with my house layout

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Floorplan attached.

Room labelled kitchen/dining room we use as a kitchen/living room as we haven't got enough space for 2 sofas and a table. We like to eat dinner on the sofa in front of the TV and it wouldn't be practical taking dinner up every night.

Room marked lounge we use as a guest room.

Study/bedroom 4 we use as a study as it is too small for anything else.

I would really like a dining table to use for occasional entertaining- say once a year Christmas time!

Please send me any ideas you have and how you would use the rooms!

P.s. no kids yet so second floor rooms are empty.

I'd have a proper dining table in the ground floor dining room (possibly with bench seating against the wall that has the hob in). And a small TV on the wall so that you can see the TV while eating dinner. But if you are planning on kids one day, you will need a proper table in that room for them to eat.

there would still be space for a couple of comfy chairs near the garden doors too.

Then I'd have the lounge as a proper room with sofas and a big TV for movies. And make an effort to make good use of it.

Not sure of size of room/budget but would moving the 'L shape' sink section along the wall give you more usable space? Allowing for a table (maybe a space saving one where you put the chairs inside the table)?

If you knocked down wall between kitchen and study would that give enough room for a dining table with two benches? Then use kitchen/dining area for lounge/kitchen as you are now doing and make area of lounge or 2nd floor bedroom study area. On ground floor is most important to get flow right as it’s where you will spend so much time especially with children as will need to be able to watch them while doing jobs not in separate upstairs room.

If it’s just two of you right now, do you really need 2 sofas in the kitchen? Could you not have one sofa and a dining table? I had a specially narrow dining table once which was brilliant for occasional use.

I've lived in a similar townhouse. And we used it just as @parietal described. Proper kitchen table and a wall mounted TV. Get really comfy upholstered dining chairs so you can carry on watching after you finish eating. Then go upstairs during commercial break and have a good sprawl!
But I hate eating a proper meal on a sofa...

We also tried squeezing a kitchen, island, sofa and dining table into our kitchen but it didn't really fit, so I looked for ways to combine sofa and dining seating, especially for our kids who like it comfy. In the end I went for upholstered banquette seating, as you would find in a diner/restaurant. It's pretty comfy. You could also get two settee type of sofas (a bit slimmer and more upright) either side of the table, or wooden gustavian/swedish style sofas with a thick comfy mattress and loads of cushions.

This would be v expensive as the wall between the kitchen and study has kitchen cabinets attached to it. Otherwise it would make sense!

2 sofas means we can speak to guests who sit on the opposite sofa.

To be honest i think i would use the house as intended and put up with carrying food up in the evenings. But i agree that very comfy dining chairs and a wall mounted tv would make a difference too whether youd eat at the table more than christmas day.

I’d get one of those comfy almost diner style dining tables with built in comfy seats around and have that downstairs, with your proper lounge upstairs

Agree with the comfy bench seating in the kitchen for the table and eat there with the TV. Take guests up to the living room for visits.

Would you really not eat at the table if you had a tv in there? I'd keep rooms as they're labelled, but if I were ever to change the kitchen, I'd have the study as a utility.

Stick a table in your kitchen dinner with a telly to watch if you must have you dinner in front of a screen. Turn guest room back into living room. Move guests to top floor.

Or take down wall between study and hallway and put a table in there. Could add a hatch to kitchen wall if needed. Or take down wall between study and kitchen and turn that into a breakfast bar with table?

If you only plan on using the table at Christmas, have you looked at folding tables and then you shift the sofas around when you need to?

2 sofas means we can speak to guests who sit on the opposite sofa

I think I would have a dining table and sofa or comfy chairs in the kitchen and then 2 sofas in the guest room (one being a sofa bed for overnight stays). Then if you want people round for a meal at least you have a proper dinner table. Once guests are done with the meal, or if guests aren’t there for a meal, you can all go upstairs and sit at the sofas.

Our DD has a massive table but only a small sofa in her kitchen diner.
If guests are there, they all end up sitting round the kitchen table as her chairs are ultra comfy

I'd have a dining table and banquet seating downstairs, maybe two chairs by the doors for warm evenings. Then use the lounge as intended. With guests, move upstairs after eating.

If you have children later, move your room upstairs so you're near them on the top floor and turn your current bedroom into a guest room. Currently you're wasting a third of your house and never using it.

Any recommendations for dining tables with comfy chairs would be appreciated!

We have a similar layout and have a dining table (and TV) in the kitchen/diner and eat down there and then our main sitting room upstairs. We used to eat on the sofa in our old flat but it's nice nicer have a separation now. It's great having a dining table now we have a preschooler and we spend most of our time down there doing stuff at the table.

You can look up booth dining table or sofa dining table. Won't be as comfy as an actual sofa but good for dinner/tv then you can go upstairs.