Thanks guys for your continued input. I am making a simple turkey dinner for the family (It is Thanksgiving in this part of the continent) so can't play around with furniture arrangements until later in the week or next weekend. However, I plan to rework the furniture arrangement multiple time with my little furniture cut-outs to see what I can do in both the great room and the dining room if the window seat moves there. I will post some alternatives later this week and hope you will come back to see them when the post pops up again. Here are few replies: Oakleyok, Your idea of placing a love seat in front of the window seat had not occurred to me at all. I will try out your idea with my furniture cut-outs. I agree that we should have room for a couch facing the TV if we lose the end table. The plant idea on a window ledge is great, although I tend to send plants into palliative care quite quickly LOL. I do see the family using the window seat for reading. Given we are in Canada it is rarely too hot or too sunny near a window. Thanks again for your help. Lavender_lass, Wow that dining room bump out is so beautiful!! Sadly, we won't be able to do that at this point in construction as the brick cladding is already on the back of the house. Also, we have a climber rather close to that side of the back now that the addition is done, and I wouldn't want to reduce the passage between climber and house any more. Yet, I will draw up a window seat in the dining room as I like that look. I was going to make a shallow shelf for decorative plates in the south/west corner of the dining room (top right corner). Maybe I can make some sort of combo window seat/plate shelf. I just have to find a way to accommodate that smaller dining room window on the west side. Thanks for your help and inspiration. Rosie, I am totally with you on disliking the "turn your back on family" seating arrangements. I do think Lavender's arrangement improves upon that problem. I am not worried about anyone walking in front of the TV. We don't even have cable, so mostly use the TV for movies once in a while. The kids use the one in the basement with their X-box a bit more frequently. I will do just as your aptly described to try every possible arrangement with a variety of furniture. Maybe the TV has to move so we are facing the dining room more rather than having our backs to it. Do you think we need a new spot for the TV?? I hate to think about moving that fireplace other than scooting it back a bit as the vent is installed through bricks, but if it has to move....don't tell DH just yet. Thanks ever so much for your kind help, Rosie. Carol P.S. Please come back everyone to see the various alternatives I post by next weekend. In meantime, if you have any more ideas I am all ears.

Very nice. I love your gutsy color choices. The only thing I would change is the lamp on the sideboard to the right of the fireplace. I think it needs to be taller. It looks a little squat. I like to see a lamp that comes about 1/3 the way up the window.

aaronb192 I think I've found a few similar. They're all advertised on Kijiji, which is our version of Craigslist. I searched "French," "Provincial," "Ethan," and "antique," and came across several similar, none identical unfortunately. If any is what you're looking for, I'd recommend you approach the seller and include this conversation, so they realize you're for real, and then figure out shipping. If you offered to pay them with Paypal, and arranged for shipping, I don't see that there'd be a problem. You've got nothing to lose by asking! Here's the one I thought was most similar (bonus, you get two more pieces): https://www.kijiji.ca/v-couch-futon/mississauga-peel-region/three-piece-furniture-set-couch-love-seat-and-chair/1405352769?enableSearchNavigationFlag=true Back to your earlier post of one ... did you try doing a google reverse image search? Google will tell you how to do it - it looks like an old ebay listing. Maybe try posting a wanted ad on Ebay and Craigslist, including all the terms I listed above, plus any more you can think of? Off to see if I can find my old Ethan Allen catalogue! I can't believe how unhelpful they were, geesh. Why aren't their catalogues digitized and available to the public, I wonder? Even if they charged for access.

Hey Noah, There's a company called Resource with flexible seating like this. You can choose your own configurations and sizes. Good luck!