Did I ruin the room by putting in the sectional? I'm so confused, never had this type of house before...

Okay, here are a few more pictures...I'm very new at this. Walls behind the sofa

Here is another, more pulled-back angle on the fireplace and windows. Thinking Roman blinds and some kind of light-colored panel. Have never lived in traditional house before...this is new experience!

How can I paint the fireplace bricks cream-colored? Also will paint media stand cream-colored.

Wow, the sectional looks huge. hard to tell from pictures but it looks like TV is too high over FP for comfortable viewing

Your coffee table doesn't help. Maybe a longer oval one? Don't want to crowd the furniture, but that one just looks undersized

Maybe take the box off the coffee table and keep one or two decorative items as was done in the staged pic. How many pieces are there in the sectional? If it appears too large, cane one single-seat section be removed? Simple ivory drapes with a liner might work for room darkening. There is a lot going on in the room, so I would avoid patterned fabric.

(1) Place the seating closer together, so that you may still be seated and reach your "coffee" on the table. (2) If you want to make the fireplace more formal, tile the brick -- smaller sizes of tile may be easier to fit in an established small space, especially if the wood is no longer precisely vertical. Buy a large paint chip (or make one) before painting the brick - you can change the color, but you will never be able to go back to the brick. (3) Shutter companies can stain to match the paneling for the window - consult them regarding the door -- the two treatments don't have to match, especially if you have other nearby openings (windows/doors) that have the same treatment - shutters/drapes/blinds. I would choose a wooden blind with wood paneling, and if so, you may also wish to add side drapes to ensure all of the light is stopped at the window/door -- for a rod above the door, choose a swing rod that will become perpendicular to the wall when swung away from the door to permit the door to open. if you are replacing the door for energy efficiency purposes, consider a blind inside the two panels of glass. (4) Your plasma appears to be a little higher than would be comfortable -- You may wish to consider raising the sofa, up to a seat height of 19" with different or additional feet -- and/or lowering the plasma -- are their wall mountings that swing down and out? (5) colors of window treatments and floor -- slightly darker on the floor than the stain on the walls, plus shoe mold -- and in the drapes, same/darker/lighter tones in a colorway of your choice -- so as not to detract from the screen, or to reflect ambient light in the room -- Or if you want to complement the white sofas -- a rich taupe -- accents could pick up the colors in the window treatments. Stripes or checks would be nice in an informal rooms. A woven fabric is timeless. Finally, it is easier to choose a stock color in blinds, and a custom color on the floor than the other way around -- so choosing the window treatments first allows consideration of all of the wood tones in the room when choosing the stain for the new floor -- but to be safe, consider making all choices at the same time. You can always change your mind before ordering/installation, but an overall plan will give you peace of mind now.