First, revere those awesome windows, clad them ONLY in white wispy sheers, and keep that space OPEN! Put a Murphy Bed against the longer wall outside the kitchen; when closed it provides another "wall" where you can put a small comfy wingback, & table to create a reading nook. Next, get a big-ass rug, 10 x 12 minimum, with colors you like and some kind of pattern - this is the focal point of your home. Throw on floor in front of the 3 windows. Then hit the used furniture stores for a dinged up gate-leg dining table\one w/ leaves, plus 2 - 4 reasonably sturdy dining chairs that don't need to match, and place these on that great rug in front of those delectable windows. Finally, to the other side of the windows add another halfway decent chair, small table and a fat Beanbag. HINTS for Life on the Cheap in a Shoebox: Don't buy lamps - they get knocked over and break; buy SCONCSES that you screw into the wall. For that Big-Ass Rug, go synthetic so it can be hosed off; however, large volumes of burning embers may cause a meltdown which can be covered in a pinch by one of the small tables. Should dining table, chairs, etc. wiggle, drop $10-12 on a dual screwdriver & Gorilla Glue to tighten up those pesky wobblers before you can finish your Foster's. Recovering dining chair seats is the original No Brainer: takes an hour, tops, w/ scissors, ruler, stapler, & $20 for 2 yards upholstery fabric (bolt ends) & equals 4 pretty cool seat covers that coordinate with the Big-Ass rug. Dining Room Caveat: a card table plus 4 plastic milk cartons can host quite the epicurean evening! Finally, a year or two hence, bite the bullet & spring for the highest quality sofa you can buy; get it in a charcoal color, clean-lines, traditional style, covered in space shuttle fabric (dirty shoes, dirty feet, dirty burning embers). In 25 years this sofa will go with your son to his first pad - and let's pray that doesn't take place in your basement.

Sit down dinners for eight? Well, you will certainly be hanging your capacious cookware from that potrack! The dimensions of the room don't allow for a dining table the size needed for eight people to be up all the time, but there are a few ways around that. One is a console table that when folded has a small silhouette and functions as a sofa table that you put behind the sofa table to hold a lamp, your remotes, a drink, etc. When you need it, it expands, and expands, and expands! With that you can use collapsible folding chairs and there are some very nice ones, including wood ones that you can store under your bed, along with the very long tablecloths. In fact, there is an article about just that sort of table on Houzz. Then you may or may decide to not get a small table for two or as you initially thought, just get two bar stools. [https://www.houzz.com/magazine/5-instant-dining-tables-stsetivw-vs~928815[(https://www.houzz.com/magazine/5-instant-dining-tables-stsetivw-vs~928815) Another option is to get a small table that you leave in your room and then a much larger piece of wood or plywood to put on top for parties, (with maybe saw horsesif the table topper is much larger) padding the table and the wood and using a tablecloth, and storing the piece of plywood and saw horses under your bed or in a storage unit in your building. To seat 8 people, tables of these configurations should be of these dimensions: Round: 60 - 66 " diameter Rectangle: 8 feet long

I need to understand the issue of the budget you are working with and what you need in your office. IMO those shelves in that space are just not good at all so I would remove those to start put your crafring stuff in a claset not the DR then If you have liked your desk facing a window why not just leave it there and IMO ther eis not enough space for both these functions so either store the dining set until you get a bigger space or use the dining table for a desk put the chirs awy and get a nice buffet for all the office stuff staired out od sight then all you need to do is out the lap top away when you want to have dinner guests I have that size DR and there is no way I could put a desk like you plan and keep my table

Is your desk a heavy duty piece with drawers etc? If not, maybe put it on casters/dollies and make it a multi-use piece (https://www.lowes.com/pd/WEN/5013732287). Could it replace your kitchen island (can't tell if that's built-in)? Then your desk can be a prep surface in the kitchen, swing around to be a small dining table, and fit against the window/wall as a buffet/bar. Mount the TV on the wall or get a sturdy display stand with a smaller footprint (like this https://www.wayfair.com/furniture/pdp/fitueyes-corner-tv-stand-for-tvs-up-to-65-ftys1863.html). Then you can tuck a bench or 2 small seats underneath it to pull out for dinners.