We're a family of 4 and were very lucky to have a "delegate" dining room!
However we knocked walls out of our kitchen to make way for a kitchen diner in 1. We're refitting a smaller kitchen with storage solutions to maximise what we have. No breakfast bar and certainly no big fancy American fridge freezer!
It makes life easier. When the kids are having dessert, I can load the dishwasher. When I'm cooking, they can do homework! It's a family room to all do what we need. As such we're going to make our old dining room into a seperate living room/playroom/man cave for the kids as they grow as I love them dearly but don't want them and friends in my living room as they grow! If she had sense she'd think of the future and things like this. Where will these 3 girls go when they're all teens?? Sat with a friend each and they're embarrassing parents in a row on sofas??? This house will last them 2 years tops before they realise it's not at all practical!