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Do you want to keep everything you have now in that area or do you want to keep a few things? For style: Dramatic and black? Cosmopolitan? Goth or Gothic? Rock band?

There is a door to the exterior it appears and a lightfixture . If a table were centered under the fixture you'd have real passage problems. The area where boxes are on floor closer to tv might be better for a table . It appears more spacious. The tv wouldbe

moved and the light fixture removed. But I don't know what you want /need for table seating size. You have a pub height table : why don't you get the boxes off the floor put an area rug you have under the pub table in the spacious area and start to think of best placement and sizeof table first. . Pub table can be used till you figure this out, then on to decorating.

I like the idea of moving the table over to the tv area. Then you could put a console table in the former table spot.

A rug will definitely help visually define an eating space wherever you decide to put it. What is opposite of the sofa? Is there room for the TV there?

It wouldn't really be possible to move the tv anywhere else because in front of the couch is a staircase. So we mounted the tv on a pivoting wall hanger. I'm open to updating/changing things as I just put whatever we had in empty spots to serve a purpose but I'd like to keep the general vibe. My husband is in a full time touring band SO his equipment gets messy all over the house daily.

We only need seating for the 2 of us and the height of the table breaks up the monotony (we had a few tables before this one. All bad)

Sorry about the boxes, I havent taken care of them since I just exchanged christmas present last night :)

How will we watch tv, if the tv is on the wall next to the couch?

In front of the sofa is a staircase. See above photos

There was some posting overlap and some speculation about your space before the rest of the pictures loaded. That is why some of the advice doesn't make sense :)

I would pull the table away from the wall and put a rug under it, as big as you can fit in the space.

The other issue I see is that many of the things on the walls are hung too high and/or look lonely. You have higher ceilings but you don't have to fill up all the wall space. If you decorate nicely at the people level, the ceilings will look light and airy and not bare.

I hate everything I have on my walls and want to replace them. Especially between the front door and the fireplace. I appreciate the advice and understand the overlap. This website is glitchy

I just dknt know what to put cause it's such a big long, open space

For the longer wall I would look for a triptych. They are the sets of art that come in groups of three. It will fill up the space nicely and you'll have plenty of room if you move your table away from the wall a bit.

that's what I was thinking but I havent found any that I like, plus it's such a long wall, it wouldnt fill up the space and leave an empty spot between the fire place and between the table and window.

in a perfect world I'd like to make the area by the red bench feel like an enterance to take your shoes off

You don't have to fill up the whole wall. If you give the eye solid arrangements to focus on, like a dining space with art and a rug and colorful vase or tray on the table, the bare space looks like an intentional break.

If you just spread everything around the room the eye doesn't have any focal points and the space doesn't look grounded.

Here is a crude mock up that shows how substantial art and a rug will help define your dining space.

Thankyou! This helps me so much! I love this crude mock up

Can you give me advice on what I can do with this space as well? Between the fire place and couch, and the wall with the light? Or just how to decorate the area better?

the problem is the fireplace in your pic

You can also replace the light you have with a pendant on a long cord or chain and you can swag it to the location of your table. For example:

the fireplace creates a bottleneck with my tv wall/closet door.

the fireplace creates a bottleneck with the closet door/tv wall. I cant turn the couch that way because it was be facing away/backed up into the fireplace.

Sorry I didn't label the fireplace. It is the bump on the right wall. If you make the fireplace the focal point and put the couch across the room it will make the room feel less long. keeping everything off of the left wall preserves the walkway.

I get what you're saying. but if I put the couch in front of the fire place, it would be in my kitchen! it's a small place.

That fireplace really does make things very difficult. Can it be removed? Instead of shoving the couch in the corner, can you turn it and float it in the room so the back is in front of the window?

thankyou, it gives me a good idea. i can find TRY to find things I like in a similar size and placement. these are good ideas. but I wonder how all the area rugs would look together... if I did one in my "kitchenette" and one in the living room, it would be alot of carpet

would the sway away ceiling pendant look strange since I have the ceiling medallion though?

@Designgirl it could, but I would rather work around it, since it's original. I thought of moving it to the far corner but theres a giant mirror there and would cost like 10k to have everything moved/removed so I'm trying to work with the space I have.

@Golde Sohn - I get it, you'd just have more options with it gone. Try moving the sofa so that the front of the sofa faces the door (with the back against the window wall.

I'll give it a shot, but it may take several attempts. First, if the two two pictures flanking the FP are personal photos, hang them up the stair well, and that might be a place to hang guitars too. Move the little bookcase to the wall between the big window or slider and the huge mirror. Hang that arched black lattice piece that is leaning against the fridge, or the cathedral window piece that is on the wall now, 5" above it. Turn the sofa so it is perpendicular to the spot where the bookcase was. Switch the red cabinet with the bistro set, and lower the faux mirror to form a unit with it, flanking the mirror with the sconces. Pull the black chair over by the stove and red cabinet, angled so its occupant can converse with those on the sofa. Then remove all the other pieces on the wall and take more pix. Do you own and can you remodel the kitchen?

we own and yes I want to remodel the kitchen. what faux mirror? you mean the tv?

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The black oval above the bistro set. Sconces should be beside it, not above it. Are they for candles or for oil lamps? Just didn't look like it had mirror in the frame.

Do you use the stove/fireplace? If not, can you remove it? If yes, then you must work around it. I would like the size of the living room part of your place. Is there room for only two chairs rather than a sofa and your TV on a console or wall closer to where you can watch? (on the wall using a swivel if necessary.) Maybe sitting on the red piece of furniture. Seems your table eating area is bigger than your living area. But maybe not.