We just moved in to our new house and are stumped on what to do with the main room. We want to purchase all new furnishings as everything we have right now came from our tiny apartment and doesn't fit the space.

The room is 13' x 37' and our struggle is that along the 37' walls, there are lots of doors that make it difficult to place a couch - two sliding doors on one side and a basement door that opens into the room on the other (floorplan attached). My main questions:

1) Seating/Living room layout. We currently have our kitchen table in the middle of the room dividing the kitchen from the "living room". Is that too much to cram into this room? There is an adjoining small room which could be used as a dining room, but when we moved the table, the living room felt very empty. We were thinking with a new couch layout might solve that...but we struggle with if its ok to block one of the sliding doors with a couch / chair. And we're not sure what size / type of couch to get.

2) Lighting. Kitchen has a fan fixture and there are two other spots for overhead lighting... we tried track lighting but it felt odd and too low. Any suggestions are welcome! (see 2nd pic)

Side note: please ignore the lack of molding... we took it down when we put the floor in / painted and haven't put it back up yet. :)

If you made it this far and are still reading - thank you in advance for any ideas & suggestions!