I think moving furniture around is a really cheap way to find out if you like it.

It seems pretty low-risk to me. If you don't like it, you can just move it all back, right? (I sometimes think people should just movetheir furniture around sometimes, just to refresh things)

Get some silicone furniture glides (Walmart has them, even), and maybe even a set of furniture-moving slides/pads like this, if something is heavy. To make sure you don't mess up floors, and to make it easy to do.

Sometimes it feels weird for the first room you enter to be the dining room.

In my home, the dining room is the first room you enter; but there's an official entryway, and the room is large enough that you're not right up against the table; after you step out of the entryway, there's a very wide spot on the floor w/ the table ahead a bit to your right and an archway to the living room to your left, so it doesn't quite feel as though you open the door and step right up to the table.

For you, but you have that little alcove-y area w/ the piano, and the room is open, so you also won't have that "wow, it's the dining room right away!" feeling. I would suggest you do NOT fall prey to the tyranny of symmetry and try to force the table to center perfectly on the fireplace; treat the fireplace as decor on the wall of the room instead of as a focal point.

Instead, treat it as one big room with several functions going on in there.

(you could even put the TV on a stand going across the room to divide it into two pieces, though wiring might not make that possible)

Don't put the TV in front of the picture window.

So if you move the sectional to the dining room area I guess these are your two choices if there is enough room on the window wall to accommodate the sectional. Two possible locations for the TV. The piano will have to remain in the other area.

A bonus to switching the rooms is that a foyer is created from the front door, past the window, to the piano (there's no place else to put the piano). But when you need to expand the table, you have room to expand into the "foyer". You could put a narrow console table under the window with a lamp. Pretty and welcoming.

(Love your ceiling, btw, and the paint color on the walls.(

Cable is cheap to add an extension to. Go to the hardware store for matching cable/cord, rubbing alcohol, and little clips or cord covers. Run it along the baseboards to the wall where to the sconces are, and hold it fast to the wall (wiped clean with rubbing alcohol) with the clips or covers. Cheaper than a new couch.

There are many ways to move the TV hookups, perhaps look having it run into a different area of the house from a basement or crawl space? We think flipping the areas should be fine, however we would look into downsizing your furniture.

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