By living/playing room - do you mean playing as in toys or the piano?

you have way too much furniture.

Remove everything you don't need/use in the space.

Bring in only the pieces you must have.

Multi purpose can be use a piece of furniture for more than one thing.

figure out where you want the piano and make it work.

I need to see how this space now relates to the rest of the house. Play room for what age of kids? Who plays the piano . our kids played for company when they got a bit beetter at playing so we added chairs facing the player to an odd space we had.I agree it looks like you just put stuff in there you did not know what to do with so remove all of that. I never like toy spaces where they can be seen by guests so a bit more info please. Post all info, pics floor pland here in comments the plan on jpeg format . DO NOT start another post about this space .

You have a lot of furniture shoves against the walls and a big, blank space in the middle. You also have muddled your zones. Your chairs and reading nook are interrupted by the desk. You have a table for coffee? in another place. Your piano is far away from any comfortable seating.

I would create two zones and define them with rugs. If the desk isn't attached to the wall, I'd move it.

As for a play room, what kind of play? Crafts at the table (and spilled paint on the rug)? I can't see a space for board games. Or any play that's not on the floor. I'd think a reasonably sized table would be something you need for a playroom. Maybe a folding table, if you don't think you have room for a permanent one.

I'd move/remove the desk and make a music/reading nook by the window. I might put a gateleg table between the chairs, so it can be used for board games, lego building, etc. I'd anchor it with the rug.

If you need the desk, move it to the wall with the checkered cabinet and move that, if there's room to where the white cabinet is or the far side of the door.

What a spectacular room. I'm going to assume that you want to use all or most of the furniture that is in the space now.

Sitting area

1. The vignette with the chest, mirror, side pictures and plants that is in between the arches - take that entire set up - wall art and wall, and move it to the wall where the desk is now.

2. Move the table and chair set up underneath the other window where the white chair are.

3. Keep the white chairs where there are but flip them to face the window and pull them back a bit. (They will be facing the table and chairs that you just put under that window.)

4. This is now a sitting area. Find a large rug to define this area. Play with how far back to pull the chairs and how big to make this area feel. Does it take up half the room? 2/3 of there room, less?

Still thinking on the other part of the room. Who uses the desk set up and how often? It is the odd piece out in this room for sure. If you can find another place for it in your home or sell it, I would.

What age people live in this house and what kind of play will happen in here?

Remove the basket from the right of the piano and center that piano on the staircase. It feel smooshed in the corner.

Thank you for your help! we aren’t attached to any furniture in the room but the piano. it is quiet literally all the random furniture we have shoved up against walls. going to try your suggestions. i do not want the desk in the room at all just don't have a better place.

we are my husband and i in our 40s and our two busy boys age 5 and 7. we have the floor open because they like to do blocks and magnatiles and it gives them space to run around and dance for the time being.

I moved the desk and rearranged the items as kendrah suggested for the mean time (except for the wall hangings). i will add a floorplan later today. as you can see my kids have already dumped toys and taken over the space 😂

Here is a floor plan i made from an app please let me know if i can provide a better one. dimensions of windows and doors are in details on other pages

Looks great and perfect that they are already playing in it. Did they sit in the chairs because you asked them to for the pic or did they naturally gravitate to them?

I’d live with this layout for a while and see how it works for you. Next step seems like lighting. No overheads. Seems dark in here.

They naturally gravitated to the chairs and played on the rug. my husband and I like how it feels better but we both agreed the chairs looking toward that window isn’t our favorite view it’s my neighbors driveway. ultimately would rather have a proper sofa or a comfortable love seat instead of the chairs, get a small coffee table, add a narrow console, and probably replace the tiny bistro table with a small table and chairs (i like the drop leaf idea) to do puzzles at and play games.

I would put the piano on that inside wall between the arched openings.

Center the rug on the beautiful stained glass window and put the two chairs in the window facing in... for your piano recital audience.

I would get another complimentary rug to center in fron of the other window and make that another designated area. a larger table, four chairs? Good light for games/puzzels/homework/crafts