The article highlights that ‘living room-free’ designs are favoured by urban young families, with multifunctional kitchen-dining cabinets emerging as the new favourite. Their popularity stems from alleviating space constraints (adding 8-12 square metres of usable area), aligning with contemporary lifestyles, and enhancing renovation cost-effectiveness. It further details four key design features, three layout adaptation solutions, six customisation pitfall avoidance points, and three major upgrade trends—including smart integration by 2025—to help create practical, tailored dining-kitchen spaces.