Those lamps are not MCM design.

Get rid of the side table and lamp near the fireplace. It is too close and crowded next to the built-in shelves.

You have too many small things scattered around the room. Try and group some of the items and definitely the art.

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I have rearranged the placement of some of the art in the room

The issue with the lamps IMO is that the antique brass doesn't work in the room. A better choice would be some type of lamp with a ceramic base.

Additionally the area rug should be minimum 8x10 and could be 9x12. The front feet of the funiture should be placed on the area rug.

Fantastic suggestion. Recent split cause half of my art to go in the settlement, Hence the open spaces and wrong scal theramsramshackle spaces

Agree, the lamps don’t work. Maybe just one ceramic as Beverly suggested. One in a color would look good, not necessarily this one, but something similar in look / feel.

The lamps you have remind me of the more traditional looking Stiffel lamps in the 70’s.

A few fixes for your MCM living room. Your area rug is too small, The lamps don't look MCM, I'm suggesting one table lamp and one floor reading lamp at the fireplace end of the sofa. Your pictures are hung too high on the wall. I would group items on the fireplace mantel and eliminate some of the pictures and replace with one larger one. Here's the idea..

If you need to use those lamps, a shorter harp will bring down the height.

The sofa is your inspiration piece. IMO, there is no need to over do wall art. So, to answer your post, way too much of a lot of disparate pieces.

The Stiffel lamps are not MCM....more Hollywood Regency, although the two styles overlapped. Great quality, but as you can see, over sized with the sofa. They belong on a console or sideboard for your scheme.

They would work very well on tables, next to your fireplace. Would the end tables you have fit in the space next to the fireplace (if the shelving were gone?). Both the tables and the lamps would be striking, presenting as floor lamps.

Your Morrocan style rug can work , but again you need to bring it in with accents pillows on the sofa.

Those lamps seem the appropriate height and size for the room and the MCM era. However, bookended as they are, they are making your sofa look too short. Therefore, I'd only huse one. Have it be the one nearest the fireplace.

For practical consideration, do you have enough light with only one lamp next to the sofa? Do you sit and read paper anything here? Is the room well lit enough from overhead or other lighting?

I think the lamps are a bit too tall for where you have them. (And yes, they may be mid-century, but they are not mid-century modern.) The lamps themselves are very nice. Can you find another place to put them, or perhaps two places, splitting the pair?

For all the talk about lamps, just don’t place them in front of a pice of art as shown in in your first pic.

debra

^^^ No wonder I thought they were too tall!

Pretty sure I have those same Stiffel lamps in my collection. My mother had several pair that she cherished.

Just because those lamps were ubiquitous in the early sixties, does not make them "wonderful" vintage.

My parents had them, the lampshades were the size of a typical garage garbage can. BYE!! Had a client a few years back. Same thing,,,"But they are Stiffel! " So what? They were ugly then, and they still are. Sorry, not even worth a lamp shade change, jmo.: )

If you love them ? Take them to a bedroom, visit a lamp store and lose the border trim shade..

.Some things.............don't need a repeat. Did their time? lol

My first concern would be pull the furniture away from the walls to make the seating more relatable..

next …stain the stonework to a more unified color ..

then limit the art to about 2/3 of the couch width…and not too close to the ceiling

….then narrow the art above the fireplace to the width of the fireplace opening….at the same height…this brings everything into a better scale for the room ….
Pieces on the fireplace mantle should be limited to the sides with no art above…

Thank you for your feedback back. Smaller ceramic lamp and large Moroccan rug would on order. Still working on lowering and rearranging pictures. cheers

Making progress on the living room. I’m still looking for the perfect lamp and working getting art sorted and alignment.

That larger rug looks great!

Already looks better...