Hey everyone, The community at Houzz has been amazing! Thank you!

In June we took possession of our new condo and demo'd the entire 2 levels to the exterior walls of the unit. We're just finishing framing over the next couple of days, but have some design dilemmas. Attached are some pictures and a floor plan layout for reference.

Questions:

Dining Room

a) Should we have built in banquet seating with a table in the middle, maybe chairs on the outside of the table. Cons: window ledge may be too-short for the back of the banquet seating. We also have a potentially great space for a recessed liquor/wine cabinet that couldn't be used with banquet seating (this can be seen in the Dining Room pic).

Living Room:

a) We're looking to mount a tv on the wall. Below it, we're debating building a shelving unit to the screen left under the window, and a built-in (elongated) fireplace below the TV, also within a built-in shelf. This way we can place ie the cable box etc on top of the fireplace shelving.

b) Seating, coffee tables/end tables: It's an odd shaped room. Looking for ideas for seating, that won't look odd when walking up the stairs (surrounded by a glass railing). Also ensuring a good sight-line to the patio doors. *note: the patio doors will be changed to one large door instead of 2.

Desk area:

a) Looking to place an L-shaped desk in this nook.

Thanks in advance for everyone's help!! :)