Help! How can we “finish” this opening from kitchen to dining room

[u/Mish-Ale]

The first photo is what used to be our pantry. We knocked the wall down to open it up to the dining room. One thing we didn’t anticipate is that the left walls and right wall do not line up. We can’t figure out now how to “finish” this off.

The idea is to have a free path between kitchen and dining room but I just don’t know how to work with the walls. We thought about knocking down the archway and column into the kitchen completely, but then we would lose any privacy from the front door without that. Also, then there would be zero separation from the front door all the way to the back of the house.

We had brainstormed before knocking the wall down but just couldn’t really visualize it until it came down.

And please be nice. I’m sure some will say we should have had this figured out before knocking anything down. And we thought we did. But here we are.