This is the perfect opportunity to bring in something different. Since you lean alittle contemporary, why not a wing back that leans alittle modern? Perhaps something with a pattern and color. Try to find a good furniture store that you can shop in person. Take a cushion with you and pictures.Chances are you will need to special order something. Nice things are worth the wait.

@Rebecca: Do you mean to suggest just buying two new chairs and get rid of the single accent chair?

You could do something like the blue leather chair in the far distance of this living room with a small ottoman. It would look great with your rug and complement the sofa and chair. Get something with wood legs that echoes coffee table, and it'll all work. When adding something new, a piece should have features you already have, i.e. rug, wood coffee table, floors, sofa and chair.

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Keep both and add a third new chair of your desire.

I also like this. It looks quite similar to your living room. BTW, if you have room on the side of the fireplace for a TV, move it over and find some art work for over the fireplace or a mirror if it reflected something pretty.

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Where were you planning on adding, as the chair’s style/proportions might vary. Just based on what can be seen in your photo (a picture of entire room would help) suggest moving black shelving unit to opposite wall and move your chair out a bit on an angle and consider a floor lamp in that area.

I think a wood framed/similar colored chair and ottoman would work well on left of fireplace. A large piece of art and accessorizing fireplace, plus the chair will create a balanced focal wall.

Thanks Maureen. These are great ideas. I really like moving the shelf to the other side as i have an empty corner!! I want to add the chair right next to the current one as thats the spot opposite TV and would like two chairs on that side for comfortable viewing with partner. But that reqmt made it confusing because now it will be one chair matches the sofa and the other doesn't match.

Could you post a diagram of the room with dimensions? It seems you might have the room to have the sofa face the fireplace. This might create a layout that separates the chairs.

If there is room could you purchase two matching chairs to complement the chair and sofa you already have?

Possible new layout?

Have you tried floating the sofa to face TV? Options for layout with floating sofa?

1. One chair in front of window and the other facing the window.

--Chairs flanking the fireplace and facing the floating sofa in a conversational group. Use sofa for TV watching. If you get chairs up on legs, you can easily move them if more than one person watches TV.

Here's floating sofa facing TV and two mismatched chairs as in 1. suggestion

Another:

Floating sofa facing . Chairs angled in conversational grouping. Note the sofa table behind floating sofa--very nice to have a piece like that near entrance to the living room.

Thank you so much for all the ideas. I tried floating sofa to face TV and here is how it looks:

It blocks the entry into the living making it a little awkward may be.

Also @njmomma Yes I'm open to buying two new chairs and have th

@njmomma Yes I'm open to buying two chairs and have them face the TV (may be my best option here) but not sure where to put the existing chair in that case. Any ideas?

I would put the existing chair where the shelving unit is by the fireplace, angled. Shelving unit, on half wall facing fireplace, behind two chairs.

Don't know dimensions, but the other option would be to have shelving unit on left side of fireplace and chair angled on the other side of fireplace.

I like the couch facing the fireplace, but feel in should be pulled further into the room. If there is enough room to mount your TV to the left of the fireplace, you can get a much better height for best viewing. This chart gives a nice guide on the distance between couch and TV.

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I really like the sofa turned to face the fireplace. But bring it forward at least a foot, ditto the rug. They're too far away from the hearth. Then it's less awkward at the entry and makes for a more conversational setup. You could easily bring in two more armchairs if they're not bulky to flank the fireplace. Chair can face window or where you have it.