It is much more common for the front door to open into the living room that the dining room. You can switch the current living room and dining room designations. Map out the paths that the family's normal traffic will take through the house so you will know where furniture should leave wide aisles for walking. Will the family enter by the front door or the garage door?

If you would like comments on size of the dining room table, post a floor plan with measurements.

I was going to say the same thing. Would it makee sense to use the front room as the living room and the room by the kitchen as the dining room?

what is the dimensions of this foyer/dining

That’s what I thought too. This house has a very strange floor plan but this is what we can afford for now. I could move the living room in the front but my husband works in the office so TV (or kids, there is no play room) might be too loud.

This is the floor plan, sorry forgot to attach in the post.

Make that front room the living room and put a door on the office.

Making the front t room the living room is not an option at the moment - too small a space for my sofa plus my kids toys. Also there is no cable outlet in the dining room. There’s a door in the office though.

Hi apple, thanks for your input. We usually enter the garage door.

Your sideboard is too small for the room

The room needs an 8x10 rug

This set would work great in your room.

Some type of demilune table would work great for the foyer/entry.

Wow! Thank you so much for helping me visualize the potential of this entry/room.

Thank you again, Beverly. Do you think I could put the mirror and the demilune table beside the Entry Door? I am just worried there might not be enough space in the hallway as it is only 39” wide. I added the measurements in blue arrows on the floor plan.

Decide on the dining table chairs, rug & sideboard first ..........and then see if there's still room

Plenty of very narrow console tables less than 12" deep.

If you enter through the garage door, do you need an entryway table?

I actually like this layout. Our living room is always messier than the dining room, so this layout is great in case unexpected guests stop by. And sounds like it works better for your family in terms of work and play.

Beverly is a pro so she knows more about proportion. But if you really want to keep your sideboard, try flanking it with extra dining chairs to give it a bigger presence. Worth a try!

Thank you, Beverly! I’ll take your advice to decide on the tables and chairs first.

Great idea on flanking the sideboard with chairs. Appreciate that, k8cd!

I need a to scale floor plan nothing in it All windows, doorways and where those lead All spac enamed every measurement clearly marked posted her in jpeg format on graph paper ina comment . DO NOT start another post all on this suject dealt with here in comments .

Patricia there is a floor plan with dimensions.