I dislike orange/yellow and prefer cool tones or neutrals (kitchen counters are black with brown speckles). I was thinking of getting neutral couches (tan) and adding color with rugs and pillows and other decor. I’m avoiding gray as it seems it doesn’t go well with the lighter wood floor. I’d welcome any thoughts or ideas.

I would move the sofa off that wall and make the long end of the sectional be parallel with the kitchen peninsula, so the sofa faces the sliders on the long side. I would get a rectangular dining table to go in between the living room area and the dining kitchen area. The wall with the high windows could use a bookcase, or a console table, a lamp and some colorful art. Some large plants would be good too. You have great light and need some more contrast in your color scheme. See about a stronger color rug and throw pillows if you can. It's a lovely room.

Where and how do you access the sofas? It looks like there is barely any room to walk around them to go sit down. And from where do you enter? Is that big round thing on the right supposed to be a hanging lamp from ceiling? If so, that space needs to be utilized. Or is it a round table?? Are those windows next to it? And the dark square shape in front of kitchen counter - is it a chair or... what? First, since your kitchen counter and wall to the patio are both angled, could you angle your loveseat and place it where the TV is now? Then, we'll just have to help you figure out where to put TV and big sofa, haha. You do have a bit too much furniture for this space, if the dimensions are scaled correctly. Can you sell the sofa and get a smaller one? These pieces look gigantic in that space. Photos of room would be helpful. I can see this image big and fine on my laptop, but room pics would help.

Yeah, I did wonder if this room needed to serve other purposes, being in NYC, but we all know a coffee table can serve many purposes! :)) If you need a real desk (and can't squeeze it into a bedroom), I think I'd suggest drawing your room to scale, on graph paper, and then cutting out the various pieces to try. Here are some places I would start: 1) If you give up on the fireplace as a decorative element, you could put a desk against the kitchen wall and get a desk chair that has a swivel (so that it can be turned away from the desk when you have company. (Keep a loose runner you can throw over everything on it, heh.) 2) If you keep the couch toward the window and keep it "apartment size," then there should be space between it and the hallway for a desk. It may have to be a little narrow to not cause a pinch point there, but you could tape it off and see. 3) you could get a small workstation-size desk just a couple of feet wide and put it in the window/white wall corner, facing the windows. then just start your couch ensemble a little farther down the wall and put an end table and lamp at the kitchen end. or I guess you could use it anywhere, and roll it away when company comes! While I'm thinking about it, the trick to tiny apartments is to make everything do double duty. Coffee table with a drawer underneath for remotes and coasters (and placemats); end table that hides a cabinet for computer gear; etc. Good luck! hope this helps.