A little confusing but I will give this a shot -

First, the half wall with the two spindle posts - can that entire 1/2 wall be removed? Of course you will have to install a support beam but check with a qualified contractor to see what your options and costs are. If you get rid of that wall, it will open up the front room and give you more options for layout (room will appear bigger as well).

I think the dining table, chairs and hutch need to go into the room off the kitchen where the TV and 2 couches currently live.

Then make the living room/TV room the front room just off the foyer (where the makeshift office is now)

The TV would be on the wall facing the front foyer. Float the better sofa in the middle of the room in front of the TV with 1-2 chairs on either side. Move the other sofa to another room.

Think about unifying the space with a color scheme: paint the hutch a color which will work with your wood furniture: cornflower blue milk paint? Blue and yellow pillows? Art work on the walls which pick up your accent colors as well?

Hope this helps.

Thanks visualizemaven. Those are good suggestions.

Agree with the suggestion that if you can eventually remove that half wall w/posts -- or most of it, you should. You'll need to know if it is a load bearing wall -- which it probably is -- before deciding how much, if any, you can remove.

You have a lot of furniture. If you decide you need different pieces but don't have a large budget for them, locate your nearest Habitat For Humanity Restore Store. You may find what you need at an affordable price. They'll also take any usable furniture you may want to donate such as the second sofa should you decide to get rid of it.

The inventory at Habitat changes daily with each donation and sale so check back as needed till you find what you want. I try to stop in at least once each month (sometimes twice). Some trips I find nothing but I've also found a solid oak rocking chair w/cushions in good condition and a solid oak floor lamp/table combo (replaced the lamp shade) -- both at an affordable price.

If the alcove to which you refer is the gray indented shelving above where the gray sofa is now located, yes, you could put the tv on that wall -- try leaving as much blank wall between the tv and the other corner as there is between the alcove and the corner closest to it. The clock currently over the darker sofa could be centered (eye level) on the wall between the alcove and the corner to the left and another decoration could be centered on the wall between the tv and the corner to the right or moved to one side to create a balanced look -- same wall space between corner and object.

You could finish the entire tv wall by adding add wall-to-wall shelving beneath the alcove and tv, leaving some open and eventually adding doors to some -- perhaps some solid doors and others glass doors. Shelving board can be expensive but, since this could also solve some of your storage/clutter issues, it would be worth it. You may even be able to find cabinet doors (or used wood windows to use as cabinet doors) at Habitat. (Think ... upper kitchen cabinets with shelves about a foot deep and with a wider shelving board top set on a 4" kick base as kitchen base cabinets are set.)

The chair you use least often but want/need to keep in the living room could be set in front of the shelving beneath the alcove

Like the idea of positioning the better sofa in the center of the room facing the wall where you'll put the tv. You'll want to put at least a narrow table with a lamp between one wall and the sofa, leaving space to walk on the other side of the sofa. That same lamp and table can be reachable from a chair placed at right angle to the sofa against the wall.

Something you might consider if either part of the room on either side of the half wall is long enough, would be to see if the sofas can set back to back, with one facing the tv in the living area and one facing a wall with the office/school area.

Alternately, will the second sofa fit to separate the dining area from an office/school area? Getting rid of one of the sofas might be necessary to make the space more likeable/usable..

See if the dining table can be moved away from the wall and centered beneath an overhead light, moving the china cabinet to the wall at the end of the room, and then see if the office can fit in the corner of that room, partly against the same wall as the china cabinet and partly against the longer side wall, perhaps with a floor lamp in the corner.

your welcome - show us what changes you make! Have fun-