What can we do with this room....

greenbee

Plenty of families want a kitchen they can both cook and eat in, like the OP does, so that cooking and eating are part of family life. And a utility room is a great way to keep the mess out of the way.

Ultimately it's the OP's house, her family are the ones living there, so she needs to decide what works best for her family. I don't think any changes she makes will affect value - they might make it less attractive to some buyers, but more attractive to others. In the meantime, the family needs to enjoy living there.

lostinrates

We have just built a kitchen,(the room, not fitted it he furniture yet) that is also a room to eat in and sit in during the day.

I felt I didn't want a room I used as a 'reception room' however in formal' to look like 'a kitchen'. There are some beautiful designs out there that look basically like cabinetry. Our room the far short wall is going to be entirely cabinetry and a cooker(and extractor) and then an island dividing it from the eating/ living space, which is a double sided thing with a sink opposite the cooker. It could in a more modern house, have Been an L shape, but ours is just the two runs, essentially making a galley kitchen at one end, an 'entrance' to the kitchen area at either end of the island? right now before its fitted we have made a mock up with free standing furniture, but a free standing kitchen would be another way to make this feel less 'kitchen utilitarian, I want something fitted to our space).

By choosing the design to not be 'kitchen' ish we have retained the feel of a reception room that we happen to cook in, rather than a kitchen that we eat in, IYSWIM.