Using the bench to divide living/dining areas is a good idea. You could put two chairs in the corner as a separate seating area. I like the striped bucket chairs you chose. I'd suggest placing the chairs in an L configuration: back of one chair is against the piano wall, back of second chair is against side wall. In the corner between the two chairs you can place the side table you have. There is a chance the space will be overstuffed with seating, so I'd suggest buying the bench first and see how it fits. You might realize that once bench is in, adding two more chairs might make the room feel small. Hope this helps and good luck! Update with a pic once you're done, I'd love to see how it turns out!

Maybe move the piano over to the wall under the picture and put some seating against the stairs? Then all the seats would face each other, feel more like one room.

Yes, I agree. If it fits, this will give you two more useable chairs and bring that wall into the LR area. It's in no man's land right now.

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Oh, Iam wowed with that marvelous wood carving! Where is it from? I just love
interesting textural features like that! The vintage keys are very interesting
too, and wood look great taken out of their frame and hung directly on the wall
with some placed higher than others.

As for more
seating, how would it look if you moved those lovely leather chairs so that
they face the cream sofa? Move the piano to the left so that it is in the
corner, if you feel the piano must be in the living room because it is an essential
part of your social gatherings or you simply have no other place to put
it. (If your child plays piano, maybe it can go in the den or the
basement or the guest room, and when the grandparents come you can drag them to
where the piano is to hear your child prodigy

The wooden trunk you are using as a coffee table seems too massive for the rest of your things. I would take it out of the room. You could buy two matching ottomans with wheels
on them, and have trays on them for drinks, etc. They can be easily moved to
face the leather chairs and used for seating. A love seat is an option for more
seating, but it will make the room seem smaller, and when you are not going to
be entertaining crowd on a daily basis, is it really necessary? When you are
ready you can get less heavy side tables as well.

Another question- have you thought about not using such a dark color for your curtains
in your living and dining room? Even if the sun is very bright, you can use
curtains that have lining and interlining that will block the sun (and prying
eyes). If you don't like the light coming through the clerestory windows, you
can just get longer curtains and hang them higher as if the windows started up
at the top of the clerestories. Or buy the sun-blocking (blocks UV and heat)
film at the hardware store for the clerestory windows.

https://www.3m.com/3M/en_US/home-window-solutions-us/

How about some greenery in the living room such as a live plant or some “lucky bamboo” stems in a glass vase on the side table.

Your orange print throw pillows on the sofa brilliantly pick up the colors of the lovely rug. I
would remove the very dark pillows, and add some more, and change out the ones
on the leather chairs. Make sure they are really large enough to provide some
back support, approximately 18” x 18” or larger.

I would use textural multicolor pillows that pick up on the rug colors for the leather chairs as well. It’s hard for me to discern for sure all the colors in the carpet, (is
that a dusty blue or celadon?) but here are some examples of colors that might
work. I am sorry, I don't know how to embed the photos here. There is a way to actually place the pillows on top of your photos, but I don't know how to do that either, I'm not that cyber-hip. I'd love to learn, if anyone here would like to teach me.

[https://www.houzz.com/products/tweak-rectangular-throw-pillow-sedona-prvw-vr~37262777[(https://www.houzz.com/products/tweak-rectangular-throw-pillow-sedona-prvw-vr~37262777)

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[https://www.houzz.com/products/velvet-pillow-with-ruffled-applique-orange-and-beige-prvw-vr~56137343[(https://www.houzz.com/products/velvet-pillow-with-ruffled-applique-orange-and-beige-prvw-vr~56137343)

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You can design your own pillows too, with a nubby textile on one side and a wonderful jewel tone velvet on the other and maybe a fluffy fringe or coordinating welting at the seam.

It looks like you have the right idea, you just need more substantial chairs. Here are a few from a recent design we did:

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