Please disregard the style of what I've put in below, I just found things that fitted together for placing. Is your TV small enough to fit on a corner unit like this? It seems to me the most logical place for it, and easily watchable from seating that faces either the window or the fireplace -- giving you some flexibility on that score.

If you should decide on a corner TV, please don't put it on something that is just shelves -- to me that always looks apologetic and temporary. You would want something more solid, that looks as though it really belongs in that corner.

Thanks so much! That's an interesting idea but I'm not sure there is space for a corner tv.

And if you put a tv there, what seating would you recommend, Rina? Thanks so much.

And Bev, I'm curious do you will think I should group furniture around the fireplace when it's on the short end of the room?

Thanks for the helps!!

I'm thinking something like one of the layouts below could work, but beware -- some of the pros here can do a brilliant job of measuring layouts, I'm not one of them. I'm just going by feel. You would need to measure to see whether either would fit anything you might want to buy.

So I'm actually thinking of maybe mounting above the fireplace and doing something like this. Does this work?

As a conversational seating plan it does. I'm not so sure it's super convenient for TV watching -- not so much that the sofa is perpendicular to the TV (so is mine), but that the recliner faces away from the TV -- and of course the TV is going to be rather too high for comfort. I do wish more architects would design rooms with TV placement in mind -- maybe they're assuming that it goes over the mantel or nowhere. It's a really lovely room aside from that problem. Have you considered the possibility of putting it to the right of the window? Sofa with its back to the kitchen wall, recliner as is, other armchair to the right of the fireplace?