Would you mind posting a couple more photos? One with your back to the fireplace looking into the room and one looking square on to the fireplace wall. Would you be open to a change in furniture layout?

Room is only about 10 feet wide.

A better idea of the whole space is needed. But so far it seems that Pam's suggestions would distribute the mass of the sofa to the more open end of the room where it could balance the mass of the fireplace.

And, of course, in addition to bringing the TV down to a better viewing level, you'd free up that nice fireplace to make the best of it as an architectural feature.

If you did that, would behind where the sofa is now work for a gallery wall? To keep it from looking too heavy in any location, though, maybe just copy the light and medium tones of the rug in the frames and mattings, allowing the pictures to blend harmoniously with the wall. You only need relatively few dark contrasts in strategic accessories to make the room pop, the direction you're headed anyway.

Our posts crossed. It's a shame you feel the sofa can't go on the end wall. It certainly wouldn't make the most of those windows, of course. But the room being 10' wide, presumably not including the intrusion of the fireplace, would be a good reason for putting the sofa there and the relatively lighter chairs, which allow the gaze to continue on past them, in the narrower end.

You all make a good point about moving the sofa. I guess I didn’t consider it because those windows face the front of the house and I didn’t like the idea of seeing the back of the sofa through front-facing windows. If I moved the sofa as suggested, I couldn’t put a gallery wall behind it because of the windows.

I think the idea would be the gallery wall would go on the wall behind the sofa in its current location. I like the idea of moving the couch this other direction.

I like the chairs. I think they could maybe work in this scheme.

Leave the sofa as it is. Put your pictures on the wall behind the sofa. Place a large, live potted plant by the fireplace to hide the cables. Remove everything else except the wing-back chairs. Put a table between the chairs. I Love your room!

I think Pam's suggested layout would probably work better in this room. You'll have to move the furniture and see if it interferes with all the doorways. Your gallery wall can still go on the wall opposite the fireplace. It will just be behind the chairs instead of the sofa.

If you switch the sofa and chairs, you may have room for the ottoman.

Float the sofa with its back to the windows and move the console behind it as a sofa table. Place TV left of the FP on a credenza 25% wider than it, and use a swivel base under it so TV is adjustable for viewing. Angle your chairs with a round table between them, opposite the fireplace. Table should arrive 1" above or below chair arms. Top with a lamp to bring the overall table/lamp height to 58-64" above the floor. Instead of a gallery of family photos, have a professional family portrait done to hang above the mantel.

Such good detail. I'm still grateful to the nice lady in a local fabric/upholstery shop who resolved my dilemmas with a crisp instruction or two.

Richmondmichelle, if you do move the sofa in front of the windows, for the sake of appearance both inside and outside, you might not only do side drapery panels to widen "the windows" to back the sofa but perhaps also run a center curtain panel across, probably at the height of the middle rail. No new ideas here, of course, time-honored treatment.

I like the furniture placement as is, unless you are uncomfortable watching TV at that angle. I agree a smaller coffee table versus the chunky ottoman you have now, would be best. I recently updated a small living area in my house and used an old farmhouse table bench as a coffee table. It works perfect and take us less space than a traditional sized coffee table.

As for your cords, and cable box, get an electrician in to relocate the cable box and wiring out of site (to the basement or in a cabinet). You can do so, using an AR extender, like this.

For the chairs, I'd consider a blue velvet pattern, to pull some of the blue from the rug. The blue would be a nice compliment to the burnt orange sofa and rug colors. It will probably be cheaper to buy new chairs than to recover the ones you have. I"d place a small round table between the two chairs like this one:

Or this one

And a table that could complement the glass and black piece that you already have in the space like this:

I also want to add that I absolutely love your rug! Where is that from? A recent purchase as well?

Last but not least, a fabric ideas for two curtain panels:

This is a chambray - I stuck with a traditional/transitional pattern since that seems to be your taste. :

It almost seems with your door openings, that is your best option for the couch and tv placement is how you currently have it. Will the glass/metal console table fit on the window wall with the chairs?

You guys are great!! Thank you so much! We are going to play with the arrangement this weekend and see how it affects the egress in the room. I have a feeling that the couch against the windows is going to interfere with the natural walkways of that room. But, that being said, I just have to see it to rule it out because I really like the idea of the large sofa on that longer wall.

I have already purchased a solid blue drapery panel for that window but a pattern might actually be a great idea and add a little something extra to the room. Rebecca, that rug is from the Magnolia collection and it is by Loloi rugs. Thank you, it was actually the first thing I bought for that room. My last several houses have all been in the darker words and darker red‘s, browns and when I saw this house, I knew I wanted to go with something a little bit different hence the blues and the grays. I was also thinking about doing a dark blue on the chairs but then wanted the dark blue on the window treatments and didn’t think I would want to put a dark blue chair against a dark blue window treatment. I hope that makes sense. So my thought was maybe going with more of a natural linen color on the chairs and then adding a pattern or solid blue pillow.

Thank you all so much for the feedback and food for thought. I really love all of your suggestions and it really helps to try to see the room in a different way, through someone else’s eyes. .

Your sofa would work better where the chairs are currently. If you get some nice window treatments as well, it will bring everything together more. You could move the chairs where the sofa is now, and you could still do some form of a gallery wall there, just not behind the sofa.