The house that we're in contract with has a difficult living room layout. The house was built in 1921 so I'm thinking they weren't concerned with where we modern day folks would be able to put our flat screen tvs. ;)
I attached photos to the thread to show you what we're working with. The original thought was to hang the flat screen above the fireplace, but my husband fears damage to the tv. But I see and hear of/see people hanging their tvs above their fireplaces all the time and it seems to work out fine. So I'm not sure how much of an issue this really would be. The second thought was to hang it on the bare wall. But the problem with that is our couch would essentially be sitting right in front of the fire place (we use the fireplace pretty frequently in our current home so we would want it to be accessible for use in this home too). We have a large sofa and an oversized chair. The sofa, in this scenario, would run along the big window (which I already don't like that idea because we'd be blocking that nice window seat) and the oversized chair would be blocking off part of the fireplace. The third, and least likely to be chosen option, is to put the tv on a stand of some sort opposite the blank wall... But I really, really don't want to block that beautiful stained glass window with a big, ugly tv. So there's pretty much no way that's happening.
My ideal situation is to hang the tv above the fireplace. Have the long sofa against the bare wall, and the oversized chair in front of the window.
Does anyone else see any other layout options/ideas that we may not be thinking of? Can anyone offer any insight to the pros/cons of hanging a tv above the fireplace? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

*The first picture is the living room area that we would be working with. The second picture is looking at the room in the other direction, just to give you a better idea of the entire space.