That silly little light beside the sofa does not belong you actually need at least 2 more lamps in the space on there and one by the chaise . I would leave the other lamp alone you need some interesting features.The art you have is hung too high so make sure when you hang the others that the center of the grouping is st eye level.

I think you little lamp is lovely. I do agree that having two larger matching lamps would look great. Maybe you can find a nice home for your smaller lantern lamp?

I do actually have a lamp by the chaise but it is not in the pic. I would like a different lamp there but the patterned one is too big by the chaise and I wasnt sure how to match another lamp to it. I was thinking it should go in the corner behind the chaise? Is that correct? I do in fact want to move the tabletop light. And believe it or not but I am 5'2 and I am eye level with the bottom 3rd of that picture.

Your nice brown sofa is the odd man out in the room. Try to bring more brown in via patterned pillows, with a touch of brown in them, or a woven throw with some of that warm color.

Do you live where you have cold weather this time of year? The sheers at the windows could stand to be replaced with some heavier fabric drapes this time of year, with some pattern to it with your room colors, including the sofa color.

The photo to the left of the arch should be lowered to a height similar to the lamp shade on the other side of the arch.

The assortment of pillows on the chaise could be better. Look at the pillows and how they'd be better with your room colors. HERE.

Does anyone read on the sofa? You could use some lamps on either end of it.

The fur rug on top of the larger one looks out of place. Could it be laid across the seat of the gray chair, or is it too large?

Is the throw on chaise white with a purple/maroon color? Something like this from Walmart would bring the colors in the room together better. HERE.

Yes, it's cold to me haha. 40s/50s with occasional 30s until spring. I pull out the sheepskin this time of year, but curtains are on hold because I never like anything I buy. I have a box full of different new curtains that I took down after a few weeks lol. The throw is also just for this time of year and it is a deep raspberry color. I have a weird textural thing and this was the only fabric I liked the feel of, but it was the only color. The pillow everyone is referencing is a mix of coral, orange, and light raspberry but is probably best for spring/summer and I don't like it with the green plaid. Can I leave the green plaid and green/cream with the throw?

Ashtyn, that is such a cute living room. Would you please share the wall color? I love it. I agree with a few tweaks it will look great, such as the suggested moving the print down to the level of the floor lamp shade, additional lighting and pillow coordination.

I also think you have a beautiful room!

I love your room! It already has a bit of a collected look and I would not rush into changing much, just let it naturally grow. If you are traveling and find a special item add it, if you are shopping and spot a fabric you just know will be perfect have drapes or pillows made to use but until then just enjoy your beautiful space as it is. Let it evolve at its own pace do not force it.

Patricia, nice to see you are being your usual charming self.

Your room is very pretty! I agree with My3dogs, the color of your sofa is dark and warm, the rest of the room is cool and light. You need to add more warm colors and visual weight in the other half of the room. You could add tan curtain panels and put the dark print pillows on your accent chairs.

The right rug print that incorporates all the colors in the room would also help tie things together.

Yes the silly little lamp needs to go and I’d shake out the fur and drape it over the back of the sofa, place the trailing plant on the hearth near the chair with the green throw pillow, remove the plaid pillow on the lounge chair, bring the floor lamp to the sofa side of the room somewhere, use the bull fight art way lower to the other side of the doorway to relate to the chair with the green pillow. Bring in the plant from the dining room and use it in this room. Find something interesting to place on the round end table in the foreground.

A narrow coffee table would be nice

Thank you all. I regret every single day that I got the light grey chair and not the charcoal.
The chaise was a recent purchase and the fabric can be easily switched out.
The picture & lamp used to be reversed, but having the heavy, warm lamp on the couch side did nothing to help with the chair side of the room feeling too light and airy. I thought about flanking the sheer drapes with heavier darker drapes. Thoughts?

I had Sherwin Williams mix Restoration Hardware's Silver Sage.

The wall behind the sofa has a lot from my travels. Silk scarf from Paris, an illustration I found in a used book store in Rome some other art and knick knacks from India, Portugal, Spain, England, Belgium.

So,
× Better pillow coordination
× Put a lamp in the corner behind the chaise? Would any attached work? The brass ones also come in black. I'm leaning black.
× I had always liked the attached West Elm rug but some parts are raised higher than others and I think it may be a tripping hazard since this is the main thoroughfare. Should I save up for this rug in particular or something like it with color in it?

Your upholstered furniture does not relate to one another at all. You don't have room for that chaise - it's just too big for the narrow room. You need to pull the other chair a bit forward - it should not be back in a corner. You need good sized end tables and nice lamps. The lamp you dislike is actually quite nice - I like the pattern.

This is a very traditional living room from an architectural standpoint, and you are trying to make it into something it is not. It's really not the kind of LR or fireplace for a TV over the fireplace but I assume it's the only room in the house where you can put it. I was once in that situation in my first house. At that time, TV's were about the size of a VW Beetle. We used a spare bedroom for an old couch and the TV. It stayed there until we built a library on the side of the house and could move it there. Even if flat screen had been available, I would never have put it in my LR. But then I'm old...

Pull the sofa forward just a bit to get it off the wall. I like both the black floor lamps above, but would prefer matching table lamps for either side of the sofa. Stain the legs of the chair darker, like the sofa legs.

Don’t regret the gray chair it’s pretty. But pull it forward a tad and stop highlighting the high tv by putting plants around it. Bring the plants to the floor on the hearth. Just remove the round table, the bull fight art and the big floor lamp for a minute, snap a pic and post it. Thank you.

Picture with everything removed

I have to use the pothos plant to hide wires. It's plaster and behind the plaster is part concrete and part brick. Putting the wires in the wall just isn't something we can do. We tried :/

I also can't really move furniture off the walls or add coffee tables. My pictures must be deceptive. We have to walk right through here to get to the rest of the house.

Never understood why people on this app feel the need to mention the placement of my TV haha. We entertain other young professionals quite often and our guests like having easy access to the TV to play apps like Pandora or YouTube on the screen. We use it for our NYE parties too.

The thought process with the chaise was that it's part of a "build your own" sectional and we were going to do the chaise + 1 seat. It would allow us to seat 3 more people or 2 couples. Once I bought the chaise I decided I didn't want to go that route. I would be willing to buy another of the grey chairs for there, but I hate when homes are super matchy. Too early 2000s.

But let's stay on point. Pillows are an easy fix. I have a million pillow covers. Should I get a beige/light grey rug, a colorful rug, or keep my rug? Should I get rid of the chaise and put another gray chair? I bought one of the lights just to see how it looked.

Buy another chair to match the one you have. I'm not matchy at all, but a pair of chairs in a room often works well and I think it will in here. Buy end tables (non-matching but sane height) and then a pair pair if ceramic gourd lamps. They're all over the internet in lots of colors - you will know which color works in your LR. Not crazy about the rug. I'd rather see something less busy - as you say, it's a small room.

As to playing apps/games on the TV at dinner parties...well that's a first for me. But I'm 74 and my children are in their mid-40's so perhaps it's a generational thing. We actually talked to one another with no electronics involved.

Thanks again! Maybe you should surprise them with a holiday Pandora radio ;) our friends love it.

I don't blame you at all. I love traditional dinner parties but these young folk are all about control and customization ;)

it's cute. just needs some accents to 'home' it up a bit. a plant in the corner by the window.

I'd also do some type of matching art on both sides of the arched doorway. use some photos from your travels or something. hard to find a photo of what I mean,,,but this is the best I could find:

where you once had that 'silly little light', try and find a cool mid century piece to put there.

make your own bar cabinet

see the red chest in the back w/the art over it? something along those lines

i can't see what's going on behind the sofa, but I like how they've arranged this:

Going minimal will help the space feel bigger. Having the fur on the rug and the throw on the chaise and the pillows on the sofa and chairs makes the room feel smaller. The sofa is also pretty deep so a smaller one would help but might not be as comfortable. But it sounds like everything works for you and your guests so yay, that’s what is important.

I would like to say, your room looks like it has that collected feel. I love the wall color and your furniture. I love your chaise! I would NOT get rid of it.

I would take your time with it. I do think adding curtains (when you feel you have found the right pair) would add to the warm feeling and texture of the room. When I am unsure of curtains I just go with beige.

If you could place a small martini table in front of your sofa. You can move it around and have something to place drinks etc. Also it would look great! I have one a love it.Here is a photo. They come several finishes.

https://www.westelm.com/products/martini-side-tables-metallics-h1420/?cm_src=coffee-side-tables||FN-Product%20Type--FN-Side%20Table---_-

I love the collected look of your room. I love the warmth of the sofa and the chaise. I also have a chaise and everyone loves to sit on it. Mine is the same color but has low arms. I agree that another matching gray chair would help as well as a floor plant. I have a round wooden side table that has a nesting table underneath that can be pulled out and moved around for drinks. That may be helpful in your space.

The TV appears to not be centered over the fireplace. There is a brown sofa that looks sort of western, a grey chair that looks MCM, a white chaise that looks contemporary, and a side table that looks 30's-40's traditional. Sage walls, burgundy throw. Everything in itself is attractive but nothing seems to have a logical or complementary relationship to anything else in the room.

Hi Ashtyn --

What great bones you have to work with! Love the way your sofa arms and chair legs echo the pointed archways. I think once you tweak your color scheme you'll have that sort of cohesion throughout.

First, get your dog on the chaise...cognac carried to the corner! One problems solved. ;)

• Seriously, though, the new lights look good there. Adding brass or bronze accents is a great way to echo the cognac sofa and is much less harsh than black against your serene wall color. The arc lamp could be great for the sofa (DR side) or chair (can't tell scale from stock photo).

• I'd try to eliminate as much black as you can -- spray the firescreen with high-temp paint and choose textiles where it's not dominant. I know the TV has to stay but I'd make your touches of black much smaller; a picture frame here, a bowl there.

• For other color cues you could look to your art work (which I'd move to a more intimate spot -- try your planned grouping over by the chair at eye-level when seated...it's ok if a lamp pole intersects with them in photos, in real life people can look at 'em!). Looks like there's some deep slate-y blue in there and maybe a spice or reddish shade that I see popping up in your pillows.

• Speaking of pillows...take a close look at the cognac sofa Beth H posted above. A little more consistency in style and color will work better for you, and square pillows on the sofa will be better in scale (though you can keep roll/lumbar ones there too). I like pillow covers because then you can have velvet or deeper shades in color months and swap out to linen / lighter shades when it warms up. I actually love the West Elm sari pillow covers, but I'd save your pale green for spring.

• As others have said, the curtains feel light for this time of year when mixed with the sheepskin and throws. So just keep looking.

While I agree the chaise is a bit big for the space, I also know the challenges smaller spots can bring to how we want to live! I wouldn't rule it out yet...but yes, a chair that's similar in scale to the other may be preferable.

Here are a few shots for color inspiration that take your wall, sofa, trim/FP, and chair color into consideration.

WOOD & BRASS TONES:

BROWNS & SLATE BLUES:

BLUES & PALE YELLOW/DEEP CREAMS:

SLATE BLUE & MUTED REDS:

Thanks guys. I am having a hard time with color cohesion in this house. My last place I had greens like the lumbar on the grey chair and blues and it looked really good, but sometimes I thought it looked too obvious. Do you know what I mean? I used to have a Ficks Reed rattan chair with the brass tips where the gray chair is but nobody would sit in it. It really made the room though. I like the idea of the martini table.

I do have a plant over by the chaise. It was under the bull photo, but with the picture so high, it looked really strange.

There's been a bunch of hand me down furniture and gifted decor/lamps/furniture from family that I've had to slowly phase out.

Hey, where is cool leggy MCM chair now? If you like it, it could be good in corner to extend sense of openness even more; then you could try grey chair where chaise is.

Edit -- oh, that's the chair no one sat in? Due to comfort or it looking delicate? What if you sit in it when you have guests?

I think your room looked great as it was, and will look better the more you make subtle tweaks to it to figure out what it is that's feeling "off" to you. I like your existing rug (it doesn't look busy to my eye-- but then I use b&w elements as neutrals in my space so may be biased) and loved the lamp where you had it as it relates to the pattern in the rug. If it were my room, I might try moving the black & white throw pillow (that's on the couch) to the chaise or gray chair, where it could also bring that b&w patterned look to the other side of the room.

As for the TV over the fireplace, while it may not be your first choice, I don't see your having other great options for TV placement as you need to be able to pass through the room without being blocked by furniture. You have enough other interesting things in the room that the TV doesn't detract from the room overall.

Your room looks cozy, functional, and unique. I'd take much of the "pro" and super traditional advice with a grain of salt; I would hate to see your space look professionally designed and formulaic.

I can't tell if your rug is brown or grey but I like it, it has a bit of a bohemian look. When there are some disparate elements in the room, I think a rather tight color scheme would work well. If you are keeping the rug I would try neutral tones that relate to the rug. If you have a lot of pillow covers you could give it a shot and see what you think. That furry rug would look good on the chase. You have great bones to work with, not a lot of living rooms have that much charm.

Me again. Don't get discouraged -- many of us know only too well how it can take more patience and/or money than we often have to build a room that's highly personal + functional + "our style!"

I found one more shot in my files that incorporates the colors you're already working with plus a muted deeper blue, some warm light shades, and dark grey.

I know you said you regret not getting the charcoal vs lighter grey chair but feel free to BRING that charcoal or dark warm grey in if you want it!

If your walls were white or grey I think you could get away with a strong black & white element.

However, you have a lovely delicate grey-green so while you can go with deep muted shades, the B&W is gonna fight you. Consider making your higher-contrast choices *less* high-contrast like the rug below or a mix of shades.

[I did like the one you posted upthread but agree the different pile heights could be a trip hazard.]

I love your sofa, b&w large rug, b&w pillow and MCM chair together. I would like the fur on the lower part of the chaise. I'm not fond of the greens or purples in this room and love the black and white patterns, but that is my bias. I like the original room better than the picture posted today. I like @Beth H.'s first photo (the snake plant and the stand) and the last photo (as a full room like yours).

Hi everybody! Just thought I'd follow up with what I've done so far. Thanks for all of the advice & inspiration.
I did decide to try a different lamp and I like it a lot!
I pulled out a globe that I had in the attic (thought I didn't have anywhere to put it... duh!)
Added a photo to the side table
Finished up my gallery ledge. Accidentally hung it higher than I intended...
I'm still looking for a drink table or small, geometric table for by the chaise.
I hung the white wood blinds that are in every other room of the house instead of curtains. It was meant to be a temporary fix, but I think I like it without curtains?
The sheepskin is outside airing out, but I will bring it back in until the weather warms up. Something about snuggling on the couch with my husband, toes in the rug, fireplace roaring... ♡
Still need decor on the small table
Still looking for the perfect pillows. Found designs I like, but not the right shape/size.
Thanks again!

Your home looks inviting and comfortable. I like it.

I can't add to the conversation as you've been given much to consider from the other comments. I spent almost 2 years working on my living room, so my only suggestion is to take your time, use the room, then you may be surprised by your "eureka" revelations that may pop into your head about how you want to finish off the space.

Ashtyn I liked your home the way it was, maybe it needed some fixes like arranging the throw pillows, but it looked cozy, homey and inviting. By the way, is that the Soderhamn chase from IKEA? I love it!

Looks good. I like it. You could put the silk scarf in a large vertical rectanglwe poster sized frame, black edge. The black ties everything together, Ikea has inexpensive C-tables, and I have seen the glass top easily changed to a wood top. That would look nice and be useful next to the chaise.

I loved it before, and think your improvements look great, especially the globe and the throw pillows. It's nice to see the couch wall and how the teal in the scarf ties in with the throw pillows and other things. I also like your new lamp, though liked the old one too ;) Beautiful!

Thanks guys :) I find it pretty comfortable myself. Yes, it has been a long time coming. Bought the house in Oct of 2015 and have been phasing out hand-me-downs and collecting pieces here and there since. Got married in Oct of 2016 and that picture is literally the first wedding picture I've printed (2 days ago) and it's just a 97 cent Walmart print. Really need to get on bigger, framed, and better quality!

Marian, yes it is the Soderhamn. So much more comfortable than you'd think! I plan on switching out the legs with some I found on Etsy, though. May get another set for the grey chair too!

Ashtyn I love it as well, i have the sectional in white too, i dont have the chase though, i use the ottoman, but it is soooo comfortable, i can just sleep there. Your living room is great, it is inviting and cozy.