I love the guitars on the wall.

Do you use the fireplace? Please add a photo from the TV toward the French doors.

What a nice room! guitars, and clay-brick accent wall - in person, not too dark?...

idk if this helps, but idea for rug with lighter background... also like your wood tree piece.

I'd experiment with your blue pieces in this room. You need light, and the patio door brings light - where's it goin'? ;-)

Playing guitar: do you/yours like to sit forward in the chair - or lounge back? I ask cause I play. Have you ever tried a different wall for them? Just idea for a straight line on long tv wall [rustic wine barrel]

You have a lot of big brown/dark blocks--sofa, ottoman, TV cabinet, TV itself, dark fireplace. May I suggest that you get a very long, low console style cabinet for the TV wall and sell the ottoman, which looks out of place.

Maybe current, or ikea cases on outsides - bench placed inside? on long wall.

I assume the change of the sectional is not an option?

You need to break down all that brown. If the bulk of the sectional stays, add throws, add bold pillows to create some rhythm. illuminate your guitars. Hang light or bright curtains as high as you can (right at the crease with the ceiling), add a big light, or bright rug.

I would think of adding curtains at the french doors as well.

Hope it helps.

Got it, to choose your seating - observe how everyone sits in your family, if all members like to lay-down - get a sectional, if you are more of a seating type of people 2 smaller sofas or a sofa and some chairs will fit the space better.

As of the color - you can not make a dark room bright by paining it. (since adding more light is not an option) Maybe opt to turn the other way and go to cozy or seductive theme? The brick (if my monitor is right) has some blue notes in it, and with the honey toned trim - Gray/blue/aubergine or any other that will agree with the brick for the walls, and cream for the curtains and the rug.

Beautiful room. Here are a few things that I would try, see if you like them. I would move the small table and picture from beside the fireplace to behind the sofa.

Remove the large wall hanging from this wall. Move the floor lamp to the right corner with one of the chairs from the guitar wall.

Your TV console is a little too small for the room. I have enlarged it in the pic below.

Thanks for responding... another comment about ikea cubes just a few feet high - did you get what I meant / vertically on each end of a bench in between - to look a bit 'together'. Maybe the tv at its left [on the long wall].

From photo, current guitar area looks within a walk-through....? but they look nice on taller wall [but sorry don't think the metal piece brings it 'together'].

Another is to place Ikea/bench arrangement where guitars are now -- and arch their placement, and place a round item: maybe 3 vinyl records in the space "under" the arching guitars...

[filling the V just a little]

Hey, I never recommend colors online, need to see the light of the room, sorry.

I do not think that your 2 tall walls are conflicting - but, I will rehang the guitars to accent the vault - in a more triangular (kind of informal triangle fashion), I will also think that if you go darker - that your ceiling does't have to be white. Just a lighter shade then walls, maybe. Then I will pick a horizontal line (maybe when you put up your curtains - pick a rod as that line) and will reinforce it with the arrangement of art too creating a "hug" of sorts.

One reason the room is dark is you don't have enough lamps, and most of the ones you have point towards the ceiling. That works great on the back wall with the guitars (might even add more up-lights there) but meanwhile the center of the room is unlit and dark. In other words, it may not be the dark sectional that is the problem but the fact you have no lights illuminating it.

Before painting, I'd add more lamps and fix the lighting. For example, an arc lamp placed in the corner of the sectional and arching over the coffee table (or ottoman, as I see in one photo you are using it as coffee table) would light up the sectional / middle of the room. I suppose you could also do a long skinny sofa table and place two lamps on either end of it. You're going to want substantial sized lamps -- sorry that table lamp just seems out of proportion and isn't doing much.

With the vaulted ceiling the floor lamp you have is probably not doing much either.

I'm not an interior designer but I just think that addressing the lighting situation will make a world of difference, and that's what I'd think through first before painting or replacing furniture.

22" tall transtionally 'mod'... well sort of.... how's it goin'?

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Why don't you get a head start and clear the room of anything that isn't staying? I like the round piece above the mantel but it isn't showing well there. Maybe the tall piece between the guitars would look better at the mantel. A bigger TV will probably never be cheaper than at this time of year, and will come in well below the cost of new seating for this room. Put the TV between the French door and the FP and on a swivel base so you can adjust for viewing. Then move the sofa so it is on the wall where the TV is. You can put a floor lamp in the corner right of the FP and bring the sofa close to the wall so you get more floor space in the back for jamming. Hang big pretty art (not from the big box stores) 5" above the sofa.

They make battery powered lights for this exact purpose, when you can't have cords running in trippable places. That said I think you can easily run an extension cord under the sectional, under the rug, to the outlet where the t.v. is plugged in.

I also like decoenthusiaste suggestion too for a new layout.

Love this room. I would consider painting the room a lighter version of any color in the brick because that is your focal point!

The layout looks good too as you can see the tv and the fireplace while seated on the sofa.

I think you should decide on the paint that will coordinate with the brick.

Then choose a light large rug, maybe broadloom in a light tweed rug to banish the dark flooring and create contrast with your sofa.

I would also put the cool guitars on either side of the TV in a long horizontal line to fill the wall.

Try the copper piece between the two doors.

Put a large rectangular mirror on the brick fireplace

Find large art work for the far wall where the guitars are now...maybe a triptych to fill the area;

Matching lingerie type tall chest on either side of the fireplace with colorful lamps on them.

A console table behind the sofa facing the fireplace with a pair of low fat lamps, possibly brass or silver or zinc.

A pair of lamps on the new art wall where the guitars are hanging now. Something that will look good with the art work; clear glass with colored lampshades?

A large lounge chair between the TV console and the fireplace, basically where the ottoman is now with a side table and a lamp for reading.

This will give you six pair of lamps for lighting and one floor lamp for lighting plus storage. They should be large and fat to fill the room. and light colored will give you contrast....Have light, white cream natural fabric, fur throw pillows on the sofa to lighten it up too.

Light curtains, roman shades white pillows large art

LIght rug, roman shades light pillows, light walls

Colorful lamp shades and colorful lamp, ligth pillows

Again light rug light pillows