I wouldn't add an accent wall to the room. The focal point is your fireplace - I'd leave it as the focal point.

Are you purchasing new furniture - or are you keeping your current furniture?

Right now the room is very brown - your sofas and walls look like they are almost the same color in the last photo. However, in the photo of the wall next to the fireplace, the paint looks a lot better. The lighting in your room is causing everything to look more yellow + the room looks dark.

The wall paint looks like it works well with your stone fireplace. I can't tell if the carpet works with the wall paint - will you post photos of the room during the daytime with window coverings open so we can see what the paint/carpet/fireplace stone looks like together. Also, post a photo of each of the four walls of the room.

You have beige walls and brown furniture. The rug looks gray. I'd look for a rug with some brown and blue, pick a wall color from that --- no need for accent walls --- and you'll get a refresh and change.

@dani_m08, my wall color is currently SW Nomadic Desert… everywhere! Picked this neutral when we built the house thinking we’d add color a little at a time. Well, here we are 13 years later and have only painted one small powder room. Hence I’m looking for a change. I will be purchasing some new furniture. Currently couches are greenish brown, carpet is beige, Roman shades are brown. I do have a few blue accents, but lots of brown tones. Maybe I bring in more color with furnishings. I’ll take some more pictures in daylight tomorrow!

I think, the floors would look nicer with some hardwood, lvp, or laminate flooring, and a pretty patterned area rug. The carpet you have goes with nothing much in the room.

@dani_m08, my wall color is currently SW Nomadic Desert… everywhere! Picked this neutral when we built the house thinking we’d add color a little at a time. Well, here we are 13 years later and have only painted one small powder room. Hence I’m looking for a change. I will be purchasing some new furniture. Currently couches are greenish brown, carpet is beige, Roman shades are brown. I do have a few blue accents, but lots of brown tones. Maybe I bring in more color with furnishings. I’ll take some more pictures in daylight tomorrow! Goal is to eventually replace the beige (but dirty) carpet with hardwood or LVP.

The stone fire place is a beautiful anchor... maybe this?

• Accent Wall: Paint the TV wall a deep slate blue or charcoal gray
• Main Walls & Ceiling: Paint all other walls and the entire ceiling a light off-white/taupe to brighten the room and solve the issue with the slanted wall
• Ceiling: Just go with a simple, light ceiling so it feels open and modern

I do like this combo, @Jacob L

The swatch you posted of SW Nomadic Desert looks like your wall look in the last photo you posted - it looks much lighter (and prettier in my opinion) in the close up photo next to the fireplace. Guess we will see when you post more photos with daylight shining into the room.

I understand about selecting one neutral color when building a house with the plan to paint rooms after moving in - I did that. I still have one room (laundry) that is still the original color - but everything else has been painted. I did get "stuck" at the stairwell for awhile - finally hired someone to do it.

Which pieces of furniture will you be keeping?

@dani_m08, I plan to replace most of the furniture. Couches and tv hutch for sure. Will hang larger tv with low console below. Probably do a sectional. Maybe keep the coffee table. Will be replacing candle hurricanes in chandelier with clear glass and Edison bulbs to modernize a little (and hopefully brighten up room and reduce some of the yellow lighting)

Lightened lodge feel?

WHOA NELLIE.........!!

This is all you, yes? Because you have TWO threads of .........everything is shades of brown? : )

Take down the Wainscoting thread, please?

You need a cohesive plan, a budget.....

Post some inspo's pics of rooms you love.

Set paint aside please? This not yet all about paint

First..........draw and measure the family room . Every solid wall, every window, every opening has its own dimension.

After you do that? You will get ways to arrange the furniture , and sizes for a more inviting space.

The first money I'd spend? Extend the hardwood into that room. Get a great rug.

Add some texture, lighten up the massive amount of dull brown tones.

Buying ANY new furnishings means a plan, and a plan comes from the size/shape openings and all in. the .space. you . have. :)

OK. I finally got some daytime pictures of the great room, as well as all the open space on my main floor. I should include: I plan to repaint with a new lighter neutral wall color. Something creamy, but will work with my white trim as I’m hoping not to repaint all of that as well. For the great room, I do plan on replacing the TV and hutch with a larger TV mounted on the wall above a wood console. I also plan on replacing most if not all of the furnishings. I’m leaning towards just using the new neutral wall color throughout the great room, but would like to do something more colorful and dramatic in the dining room. Not sure if that’s wainscoting with paint above and paint in the tray ceiling, or painting the wainscoting and wallpaper above. I also plan on replacing all of the candle-like hurricanes in the chandeliers to a clear version with Edison bulbs for better light. Eventually, I want to replace all carpet on main floor with matching hardwood, or LVP, but that is a little bit further down the line.

Dining room & kitchen

For lighting in the fireplace room - def add some lamps, brighter overhead light is not cozy and won’t make the room feel welcoming like you want. I usually try to have at least three lamps in a room triangulated so the light is dispersed

The first thing I'd do? Stop the obsession on paint, on new furnishings. Rip all the edge to edge carpet and MATCH the existing hardwood flooring asap

Part 11?

Find a great room rug you love, let it BEGIN your palette for the house. No matter the "creamy " neutral you put on the walls.

Might this mean you wait a bit, save, and pace yourself? Yeah.... !! and to a better more lasting result.

Lights?

No welcome comes from chandeliers in the ceiling, and you desperately need lamp light. You CAN have receptacles in the hardwood floor!

While you are at it? Draw and measure your great room.....NEAT. LIKE THIS.

Every wall, window opening. Example of tidy

It will answer the best size/placement of everything everywhere.

So you already have two accent walls the firplace and the wall with the cabinet and the art. FYI Edisonbulbs went the way of the dodo for a reason the light sucked so none of those for sure.No blue wall how would that help??No coffered ceiling but you for sure need lamps and a much better ceiling light too. That carpet has to go too .