Lighting of long narrow living-dining area in terraced mid-terrace house

Dear forum users,
we have purchased a mid-terrace house and are currently working on the electrical planning. Our biggest concern is the lower open living-dining area with kitchen, or rather the middle part with the dining table. Since it is a mid-terrace house (something else was unfortunately not possible with the current prices), we unfortunately do not have a side window in the dining area, and the house is also very narrow and long (almost 12m in length outside, only 5.88m in width outside). Our big worry now is that the dining area will feel like sitting in a long dark tunnel :eek::eek::eek: We would like to counteract this with furnishing, room design, and especially lighting design.
Are there any concrete ideas on this, possibly with pictures, or are there other builders who have a similar living situation and could give us some tips?
For your information: The house side in the living area is virtually fully glazed and facing south, our kitchen window is also quite large, the front door will also be equipped with glass elements, and the partition between the vestibule and dining area will be made with a glass door. However, our staircase is closed off (the wall is load-bearing), which of course promotes the tunnel feeling in the dining area.
The lighting outlets we have planned at the moment are:
1x ceiling outlet in the hallway
1x ceiling outlet in the hallway in front of the stairs (there will be a wardrobe there)
2x ceiling outlets in the kitchen (1x in the middle, 1x above the breakfast bar)
1x ceiling outlet above the dining table
1x ceiling outlet in the living room
We are also considering a wall outlet for indirect lighting in the dining area on the wall to the staircase and/or on the opposite wall, but we do not yet have a concrete lighting idea here.
We are grateful for all constructive suggestions and ideas!

It's best if you link your previous post as well… :) And please don't keep apologizing that it's "just" an RH. It's a completely legal and honest house ;)

I would probably simulate a window in the dining area with a daylight surface light. Or something like that. I would probably arrange the kitchen, counter, and table in a row with equal spacing. Then place the table and counter outlet at the stairs (as a square) and plan a pendant light or floor lamp in the corner for the living room table.

I would add a few more sockets near the table. For floor lamps.

By the way, I also have a terraced mid-terrace house with very similar dimensions to yours. Although you practically apologize for such a house (and thus consider it inferior), I can only tell you that the middle section is okay when it comes to daylight.

The daylight reaches about 5 meters far. This way, the light from both sides meets. That’s the nice thing about a terraced mid-terrace house: the attention is focused on the light. My house has an east-west orientation. I always have sunlight coming in, except at the scorching midday hours. Plus, there is enough space along the walls. What more could you want? I am totally pro terraced mid-terrace house. Don’t worry so much about the light. The large windows let in a lot of light.

By the way, I have the WC under the stairs. That saves a lot of space in the entrance. Would that be an idea for you? Your entrance area seems a bit tight to me, especially with children.

With us, it will look exactly like that, and the standard fixtures are exactly the outlets you have planned. In identical houses, many have suspended the edge of the ceiling or alternatively a drywall partition for the TV and installed indirect lighting there. It's not my style, but I do think it creates a cozy atmosphere.

In our living room corner, there will be a large arc lamp, and over time we will probably replace the door to the hallway to generate even more light through a glass element. I also like the idea of the daylight panel lamp, let's see if we can make something of it.

On the social media platform with the "i", you can find quite a few examples with the hashtag deutschereihenhaus; I like to get inspired there.