Can you show us some wider views of your space? It's hard to get a sense of size and relationships from these images. Take a photo from each corner of the living area (from as far back as you can) and get as much of the room into each photo as possible.

Here are the updates photos. Hopefully this helps.

Be deliberate with your furnishings.

fill the space with a heavier hook board that can hold heavy things.

with limited space, You don't need to 'style' a table with decor, it just takes up valuable space for items you need to use it for. Look for a long solid bench with shoe storage.

Hang a picture on the angled wall, centered at eye level... OR a small shelf for the little decor you now have on the small table.

I'd look for a large area rug for the entry, fill the floor space in that area.

You could stack a couple framed pieces vertically above the water cooler.

Have you tried your chaise on the other side of the sofa? with the leather chair in front of the window, so you are facing the kitchen? ... How about a photo of that corner?

are you facing the TV?

Center the sofa on the wall

Another option would be to just build a closet in the area with the shoes and angled wall. It looks to be 2 ft wide. The return air would need to be scooted out some.

I’d be tempted to remove the small console table and do a larger deeper bench that spans the wall and then art above - feel like everything is undersized

Sorry, but I, at least, still need more photos--or a floor plan--to understand how the pieces of the room connect to each other. I started to draw a possible floor plan (see below), starting with the entry with the angled wall, but then I got stuck. Where are the living room and kitchen in relation to the entry? I have no idea. Where is the TV in relation to the sofa? Are there other windows besides the one between kitchen and sofa? Where are they and how big? Is there a dining area somewhere? Where do the hallways lead?

Can you take a few more photos? (1) Stand in the kitchen and take a picture of the living area, as much of it as you can include. (Let a bit of the kitchen counter show in the photo to orient us.) Take more than one photo if you can't get it all at once. Does your camera have a wide-angle setting? That can help show more of the space in each photo. It also helps to point the camera down a little, so it shows more of the floor and less of the ceiling. (2) Stand in the entry area and take a photo of the living area. You could also stand in the middle of the living area and take a picture of each wall, in order (clockwise, say), and then tell us what the order is. It helps if the pictures overlap a little, so we can see, "Oh, this area is next to the previous area, because [item] shows in both pictures." Maybe also sketch out a floor plan (with dimensions)?

We ask all this because we try to make whole spaces work well for their owners. "What should I put in this corner?" is a question that really needs the whole-space context to answer well.

A nicer bench no table since all the stuff on and under that table are too fiddly. I see no point in a place to hang purses since I usually make that decision when dressing I do not see the shoes bu in tiny entries shoes go to the bedroom . If this is only for the family entry then I agree build a shllow closet and be done but if used for guests some interesting coats hooks and a bench where shoes can go underneath the n a nice piece of art and done

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Where and what is the clutter, in relationship to ALL this?

We can assume right down here at the "foyer" entry to the house?

How many in the house? You alone? Kids? etc........

What sort of budget do you have? What does the tiny "living" room look like? What does the family room look like ? You need to

put feet and inches, to all the walls, windows and openings on the plan ^^^ and the purse wall does not live in isolation from the rest of your home.

What is opposite from all this purse wall? A dining table etc?

The whole house is 1844 Sqft, the ceilings are 8 foot. Across this entrance is the dining table

It’s just me and my husband in the house—no kids. Our budget is around $1,000 for the updates/furniture.

Our ceilings are 8 feet. We actually use the family room as our main living room because the layout flows much better that way than having the living room at the front of the house. The smaller “living room” at the front isn’t really used as a living space because of that.

I completely agree about looking at the purse wall in relation to the rest of the home. I want everything to feel cohesive and intentional with the way we actually use the space, rather than just making the purse wall look good on its own.

I’ll get the measurements for the walls, windows, and openings in feet and inches as well so you can see the full layout. I know that the living room is 10 x 11.

Dimensions to the whole plan ( the public aspect, all ) and pictures ALL.

all of this.........

Thank you, Jan! I didn't think to check for previous posts.

Kiara, the floor plan and photos on your previous post help greatly to understand the space. It looks like it mostly needs lighting and art, plus a few additional furniture pieces. With a $1000 budget, you can get a start on that now and add more as time and $$$ allow.

Here's an easy spot to start: the cooler corner.

I just added three small pictures (thrift shops are a great source for inexpensive and sometimes vintage art with interesting frames) and a plant on top of the cooler. This one is a pothos, one of the most easygoing houseplants--and when the stems grow long, you can make more plants just by cutting off the last few inches, including a node (where the leaves attach to the stem and little bumps are visible), and sticking it in water until those bumps grow roots. Easy changes, but now that corner looks loved.

Back tomorrow with more!

Here are a few ideas for the entry. (I've tried to minimize cost, to save as much budget as possible for the main living spaces.)

Option 1:

This first option adds a bench on the right that matches the console table as closely as possible, with a storage shelf under. Ideally the bench and table would read as one unit and would fill most of the width of that wall for better scale with it. (Now, I've looked online for a bench similar to the table and haven't had much luck, but maybe you could do better.) This clears the table surface of everything except one low decorative object (here a bowl of moss) and a lamp. It lowers the hooks on the right to nestle into the space above the lower bench, and adds two shorter hook boards on the left, both displaying your handbags as art. (AI also changed your baskets, which I did not intend!)

The focal point, though, is the tall, dark, emphatic, angled wall section. That really anchors the space. It needs some interest in itself, so here it is a length of patterned fabric. (Lightweight, washable fabric can be adhered to walls using liquid starch, which is then easily removable with water. Heavier fabric would need wallpaper paste.) Or you could use wallpaper itself (ask stores if they have remnants). Or hang a long, beautifully patterned scarf (this one is 28"x70"):

You could also use paint (a sample jar or two would be enough), but then the color would be solid, and you might want something in front of it for interest (art hung on the wall, a tall vase with twigs, other?). Floor vases can be expensive, but I lucked out and found a 2-foot length of 4-inch inside diameter PVC pipe at my local ReStore, which I use as a vase of sorts in my bathroom. It doesn't hold water, of course, but holds some lightweight sticks (they're just forsythia cane prunings) and a dried hydrangea from the yard. Provides vertical interest in an otherwise-bare corner. (Decorative elements can be simple and nearly free!) Or find something else tall and dramatic.

Option 2:

If you can't find a bench that works with the table, can you get a second table like the first? Then the hooks on the right would have to be raised instead of lowered. Since the dining area is close, maybe one of those chairs could serve instead of a bench for putting on shoes?

Option 3:

Or, if you need shoe storage other than "pile them into baskets", there are tall narrow shoe storage units available. This is just one of many. You lose the extra handbag hooks, though.

Some options, maybe. You (or others on this site) might think of more.

On to the family room! Here's an AI image of what could be.

You already have most of what's shown here: sofa, wing chair and floor lamp, TV and console, rug and coffee table (although not these specific ones). So, what's been added? A round end table with a lamp and a smaller chair at the near end of the sofa, an ottoman and a little round table by the wing chair, drapes for the sliding door, art, and accessories (pillows, a throw blanket on the chaise, plants, books, a tray, a bowl). The biggest change is the lighting; the room looks warm and inviting when the lights are turned on.

Do you want to try arranging the room as close to this as possible with what you already have (here or elsewhere in the house that could be brought here)? Then turn on all the lights and take another photo from this same spot with the items you actually own. That will give us a starting point, and we can go from there.

And here's chatgpt's take on the entry:

Notice the biggest change is the warm lighting. It also changed the table to a heftier one, added a natural-fiber rug, baskets, and art, added stronger color in what's hanging from the hooks, and used fewer but larger accessories on the tabletop.

Adding a floating frame would make the painting absolutely perfect.

You can also visit my website, AUSJOJO, to pick out the paintings you like.

The front living/dining area, according to chatgpt:

This shows more space than appears in your floor plan. (Cameras tend to exaggerate the depth of rooms.) Here's a to-scale floor plan showing a slightly different arrangement due to the actual space available:

In the plan, I made a reading/conversation area in the very front (pretty much as chatgpt shows it except for the angle of the chairs and the size of their rug). I moved the demilune table and what looks like an electric fireplace (?) to the dining room, and I didn't put a rug under the table since the entry and living area both have rugs. You could move the chair pictured in the living area in your previous post to the family room to be the angled chair shown beside the sofa.

And to answer your original question about what to put in the corner beyond the family room sofa, maybe a small table to serve as a computer desk and also hold a lamp serving both desk and sofa? (But is that corner where a kitty lives??)

Tomorrow we can consider costs.

For the entry area, replacing the cooler with a narrow shoe bench and wall hooks creates a functional mudroom look. In the corner near the couch, a floor lamp, a tall indoor plant, or a small accent table with art above it would tie the room together.

For the empty corner by the sofa, I wouldn’t necessarily add another piece of furniture. I’d consider using lighting as part of the decor instead. One large wall light inspired by the moon’s surface could fill that empty area visually while also adding a warm layer of light to the room.

I recently compared 8 very different moon-inspired lights, including wall-mounted designs, and this corner immediately made me think of one of those options:
https://youtu.be/g-R98L8EdII