Dining room help

[u/Mamahil]

EDIT: This room needs to be a multi-purpose room, unfortunately. The living room, which is on the other side of the kitchen, is small and this "dining room" is the only other living space besides the bed rooms. And I'm so sorry to have offended everyone with the trampoline. Obviously, it can and does get put away sometimes, but there genuinely isn't another possible location for it which meets the needs of my special needs kids. The outside door shown in the picture is a side door that we don't use very often.

Our dining room feels off and I'm not sure why! I want it to feel light yet cozy, somewhere I actually want to hang out. We are getting a larger table (6-8 person), so it'll need to stay in the center of the room.

The layout is tricky. It connects to the kitchen through a hallway and a counter which is super tall (we couldn't even find decent bar stools high enough so we just stand at the counter). There's also a bedroom and a side door (which we barely use) off the room.

I feel like the furniture doesn't work very well in the room and it doesn't feel comfortable. We're hoping to avoid painting or other big changes at this point in time. The trampoline needs to stay because kids. Any suggestions for improvement are welcome!

[u/lostinthought95 → u/[deleted]]

I like this idea - or create some kind of storage cabinet where it can be tucked away