I'd say your room is big enough for single person portraits, or at a push, a couple. For families then, well if it's couple plus small child then ok. Big family groups? Probably not.
Clearing out the furniture (even on a temporary basis as needed) would help a lot. For lighting, Clive's setup is good but perhaps not the cheapest. There are some reasonable lighting kits available at relatively low prices from Warehouse Express but with the window/patio door arrangement you have you could produce some quite beautiful portraits using available light on the right day at the right time, especially if the patio door is North facing.
I don't know what sort of lighting lesleyr uses for some of her indoor portraits........
Duncan
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