Thanks - interesting and great food for thought.

Did have the furniture centered to window my husband wanted to see what it would be like moved to wall. Wondering if there would be enough room for buffet to go on wall where couch is setting - with chairs infront. Or on wall across from the window placing chairs and sofa facing one another? We are looking at new furniture - so there may be other options.

Curious - why move the china cabinet - didn't think of that before.

Keep leaves in the table if they have an apron so they don't cause a "snaggle-tooth" gap where they're added, and remove the table cloth. Place all chairs around the table and move the china on the back wall after turning the table and chandelier the other direction. Your chandy and china can better be admired that way. Move the buffet to the wall left of the chairs between the two windows where it can take advantage of the outlet for a nice lamp. Place a faux fireplace or a nice big bookcase where the sofa is and float the sofa and two chairs in a "U" around the coffee table facing the fireplace or bookcase. Add art above the fireplace and on the empty dining room wall and above the buffet. Anchor the seating area with a large area rug.

RL nailed it for the layout, especially the buffet on the far wall. (Deco's layout ideas are great, too.) The upholstered chairs should be angled in front of the window and facing the couch on the other side. Bring the upholstered pieces close enough so that the coffee table is reachable from the upholstered chairs and sofa and forms a conversational grouping.

Remove straight chair. Definitely get a large enough rug to anchor the living room. Color scheme should be just tans, some golds from the floor color, brownish red/gold from couch but with pattern and an accent color that you can carry out with pillow s and art.

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The china cabinet is in limbo where it is, not really apart of anything there.

As a side note it is not to late to turn the table and the light fixture. but i still think the leaves need to come out.

Thanks that makes sense. I'll play around with it and see what happens.

Suggestions for what you might do with all new living room furniture. Maybe using the buffet in the living area. Moving the dining table around, placing china cabinet on back wall.

Thanks for any ideas. Want to use the room for gathering, reading, music - relaxing atmosphere.

We really think the table would've look great turned the other way so you can see the table, chairs, and chandelier. We would recommend removing the table cloth. Also if you are keeping the table and chairs how they are we would recommend placing the buffet or china cabinet on the back wall. The china cabinet looks a bit out of place right now and it would be nice to see all of the china. If there isn't a rug under the table, or window treatments, we think that might be the next place to go with the dining area, along with artwork above the buffet and on one of the blank walls.

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For the living room, we were seeing the type of design below, however it'll be slightly different since you're window is placed differently. We recommend a fireplace on the back wall or TV/console if you want on. Then place the sofa facing it with a chair on either side of the sofa.

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