It might not be your thing, but the BBC series "Your garden made perfect" might be of use for some space arrangement ideas. It doesn't look at planting, but is concerned with designing spaces to a purpose - looking at aspects like how the sun moves across a garden, coping with a slope, designing a path, shading, tying a divided garden together, providing screening and creating areas for socialising. It might not give immediate solutions for you, but might spark a few ideas or questions to carry forward.
Many of the families featured are mostly wanting to create socialising spaces - bbqs, area for evenings, morning coffee etc. I wouldn't worry too much about hard landscaping at the moment. Just get a feel for what you have and get to imagining your ideal scenarios.
There are two series on iPlayer. This means you can happlily fast forward through the yadder.
A blank canvas can be a bit daunting. I'd watch a few garden makeover programs (Garden Rescue, Your Garden Made Perfect, Love Your Garden) to get an idea of just how much can be done when you start out with just a lawn and patio. I wouldn't get too many planting ideas from them though, I've recently seen a presenter think it was a great idea to plant a tree that grows to 20 metres in someone's average sized back garden 🤦♀️ Pinterest is a goldmine, that's where I pinched the design for mine from 🤭 Also, this forum is full of people with amazing ideas to help you out!
If you want less of the patio that you have and some paving in a different place, you might be able to lift and re-use some of the slabs. Repeated materials usually look better than a mix of different types and it would save a few quid.
Doncaster, South Yorkshire. Soil type: sandy, well-drained
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I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...