Design living/dining area in a semi-detached house

The kitchen should go into the niche at the top with a small counter towards the front. Then a dining table and sofa still need to go in. The living wall would go on the wall to the neighbor. Maybe someone here has a semi-detached house of this size and experience with it.

Many have to deal with such an RH/DH floor plan. One has that drawback, another has that better... everyone has different opinions, but in the end, even such a floor plan works for the family’s satisfaction in the house. Since the pantry is already quite large and usable, the kitchen should also be placed there. I don’t see a counter/island except for a small stub, which usually makes the whole kitchen look terribly awkward like “trying but failing,” so I would rather advise against it. For a really detailed tip, the description is a bit too sparse for me. Therefore, I’ll stick to the tip to simply furnish the room with templates and see where the TV, for example, could go. If you manage to zone everything nicely, you’ll see whether the kitchen stays in the small area (without a counter) or if it can be pulled far forward so that a completely different room structure emerges.

Personally, I would arrange the room diagonally, then you have more “play space” and it looks more spacious: imagined line from bottom left to top right, the sofa along that, TV on the neighbor wall, lower corner... dining table parallel behind the sofa and then see how much or if there’s space for an extended kitchen.

Or shorten the hallway and integrate the stairs. But then extend the load-bearing wall at the stairs a bit. How long, that needs to be tried out. The kitchen would then be totally open but with many communicative possibilities.