Thanks for your comment. I added a few more pictures so you can see more of the surrounding space. In the first furniture arrangement, if I move the sofa back it won’t allow enough space to walk around into the kitchen area.

Hello Trishe, Welcome to the HOUZZ tip table. Here are a couple of questions for us. Thanks for the floor plan that really helps a lot!! Can we get a picture of the room with your back to the sliding doors? Are the two chairs swivel chairs? What are the measurements of the fireplace from the floor to the top of the surround? Marcie

Here's my 2 cents, as a designer with about 20 years experience. Furnishing a room begins with a PLAN. You start your plan by determining what you want to do in the room, which informs everything else. Is it a place for entertaining, eating, TV watching, study, sleeping, playing an instrument? Once you have the function pinpointed, you draw the room to scale, noting positions of every door, window, heating elements, electrical outlets, fireplaces, and anything else of a permanent nature that would affect furniture placement. You look for focal points, natural lighting and views to the outside and to other rooms. The next step is to determine the furniture layout, including upholstery, case goods, floor and wall coverings, and lighting fixtures, keeping in mind scale and proportion as you figure out sizes of furniture, clearances, walkways, sight lines, etc. Only after you have this "road map" for your room will you begin to look at styles, colors, patterns of textiles, window coverings, and furnishings. You take your road map on all shopping trips, as any furniture salesperson will ask "what size (rug, sofa, table, etc.) are you looking for?" If you don't have the answer at the ready, you will waste a lot of time. And the last item you choose before the "frills" is the paint color on the walls. It's easier to match a paint color to your palette than the other way around. The "frills" are the decorative accessories like ceramics, paintings, sculpture, photos, vases, etc. Keep in mind that a room is never totally "done." It will change as your needs change, and should be flexible. Good luck with your project!

Hmm will there be a tv in the room? If there will be a TV, then decide where it can/will go and put the seating opposite it for best viewing. If there is not a TV, what comes to mind is a sofa on the longest wall between the two windows with swivel matching chairs on each corner with matching lamps, interesting curtains on all the windows, and lamps on the end tables. A cocktail table non matching the end tables in front of the sofa. Art work 2/3 the width of the sofa. tall wing chairs on either side of the sofa with built in cabinets on either side of the fireplace and floor lamps for each chair. You can do matching area rugs for each furniture grouping with all the furniture completely on the rug, or just the front 1/3 of the furniture on the rug. I think this room is challenging because it has a lot of walkways criss-crossing it and very little floor space.....I love your vision for a perfect room. Take your tape measure with you when you shop and cut out templates for all your furniture and arrange them on your floor plan to see how they work. You should lan on 3 feet of walking space around pieces I think....not a designer, but just some thoughts about your excitig adventure!