House style? Furniture style? Personal style? For house style the easiest thing to do is hop in your car and drive around and see what houses have the most impact on you. Research house styles online, saving ones that appeal to you. As you see more and more homes you'll find that you're drawn to certain types/styles of homes. For furniture, just go to some furniture stores and walk around and see which pieces "speak to you". Again online searches, saving things you like will help you refine your style. Unless you're into strict historic styles, both in houses and furniture, what you're most likely to find is that there will be things that appeal to you in various styles. There are very few unchanged styles. Everything's been updated.

I'll make a guess since you don't mention the size of the foyer, no on diagonal. I'd guess you're going to get 3 plus tiles in the middle section. How much does it narrow at the entrance and at the end? The pattern may need to centered with cuts happening on both sides.

Thank you all again, so much. I genuinely appreciate the time everyone has put in to help me (and my family) come up with a solution that will improve our living situation!! Some overall thoughts... I hate to just stone wall any suggestions, because I'll take it all and you never know what will stick - but some things that are probably hard limits for us are: The sectional has to stay. Blah. It has to stay together, all in one piece. Also blah, I know, but although it's a relatively small thing, we actually sorely need the arms on all ends with two toddlers literally bouncing around on it all day. We DO use our fireplace! Only in the winter months, but I admit I love it (more than my husband, who is in charge of log chopping/lugging/fire building/cleaning XD) and having a fireplace was a big sell for me in getting this house. So I would be heartbroken to cover up the fireplace. I can't find the exact measurements of our living room, but... we probably have about 5 inches of squeeze through space between the sectional and the walls. It's awful!!! I know, I know. We learned our lesson big time. However... @rrah Hello, you have blown my mind. WHOA!!!!!!!!! I am thrilled to share that you've inspired a huge paradigm shift in how we look at our entire house. SO the update is: We are measuring and brainstorming and seriously trying to move our entire living area - blessed sectional included! - into our sunroom! Which up until now has been a playroom/dirty living room where the animals hang out. We are measuring and trying to see how to move our entire dining room into the living room! I may even get a new kitchen table out of this! Woohoo! Maybe best news of all - this shift will leave our dining room empty, and in a spontaneous moment, my husband half-jokingly suggested that it could be my craft room aaaaaaaand the idea has taken root and will not budge and now I may have a ground floor craft room (easy for me to work on my many many projects AND cook and keep an eye on the kids) and my husband will have his home office back without getting wrapped up in yarn and thread every step he takes! I'm SO excited! Wow! I never would have thought I could have every single thing I wanted in a house from this house and I was okay with that, but now I'm actually maybe going to get so many things! Now what's best practice going forward? Everyone's help here has been invaluable! When people ask a design question here, is it customary to start a new discussion for every new question? Shall I just keep adding new questions here? I feel like as we embark on this whole shift I will need more advice! Thank you so much everyone!

Unless you have a linear fireplace the TV, if mounted over it, will be too high. The bottom of the TV shouldn't be more than 36" high. Putting it over a fireplace usually places it over 50". It's not comfortable for viewing at that height, especially since you will be less than 12' away from it. Which rooms do those two doors lead to? Where is most of the traffic going to be?