What if you relocated smaller chair to another room?

That's a possibility. What would you put in its place? Thoughts on scale of blue chairs? Thanks!

Something organic and green might be nice in that corner if you decide to move the chair but if you were planning artwork in that corner, it may draw the eye up and make the overall corner vignette taller in scale. Did you have any plans to put artwork there?

@annied75 I hadn't thought about that. Let me give that some thought. It's a pretty big rug area... 8x10, but it may work. Would need a pretty oversized coffee table, no?

Love the way you think. Any other design suggestions?

@Joe I had planned to put a plant there. It seems a bit small for artwork honestly. Not sure if photos represent it accurately. The far wall (behind the couch and dining room) definitely need some artwork, that's for sure.

I think they are beautiful and if you place them like annied75 suggests, the scale will look better. The fireplace is large and the chairs will look well scaled next to it.

The chairs are beautiful and look nice with your sofa. Once you rearrange them, add a blue pillow or throw to the sofa to tie them to the sofa.

I think your furniture and rooms are lovely. I too would try flanking them on either side of the fireplace.

Keep us posted!!

Beautiful room and furniture. I, too, just think you need to move them to flank the fireplace. If you don’t love it right away leave it for a few days. See if it grows on you.

On a side note, I just couldn’t seem to love my LR in my past house. A friend suggested moving the furniture in a way I never would’ve thought to. Loved it.

The current placement also cuts the room in half and blocks natural flow. I agree with moving leather chair elsewhere, and either flanking FP with new chairs. That ways walking into the sitting area is easy and the view isn't blocked.

The perfect size of chairs would have been between size of chair in corner and size of blue chairs. However, I don’t think they’re a write-off.

Flanking by FP would work BUT if that is a working FP, you may want to reposition when FP in use as heat/soot may damage fabric, esp. if a synthetic.

i have been guilty of feeling the need to have “enough” seating when I rarely have that many people that will all sit at the same time. When more than a handful, people hang in the kitchen, some go outside, a few sit. I can say with certainty that never has all seating in my house been used at any given time.

LR is lovely with those 2 chairs and sofa.

What a beautiful space you have!

I like the new chairs, but you are right...the leather chair now looks child-sized. Remove from room and repurpose (do you have a good nook for a reading corner anywhere?). Flank the fireplace with the two new chairs as suggested. Then you will have a nice view right through from dining room to back windows & a good flow.

Very pretty space. I agree with others suggesting you flank the fireplace with the new chairs and move the now-underscaled leather chair elsewhere.

I'm having a flashback to a pair of blue chairs I had custom made when I lived in southeast Asia in the early 80s. I longed for wingback chairs, and found a furniture maker who said he could do them for me -- even though he had never seen that style before. I showed him photos of what I wanted, he took measurements, and I waited. On the day that the chairs were delivered, I had a little emotional meltdown because they were comically ENORMOUS. I felt like Edith Ann on the old Laugh-In show in her giant rocking chair. Those chairs are long gone, but the memory remains - and it's one I can laugh about now! That said, your new chairs are lovely and while relatively large in scale, rest assured there's nothing freakish about them. Simply relocating them will make all the difference, I do believe.

I agree with moving the smaller chair. I would move the small chair out of there, and place the two larger chairs on the other side of the room by the windows, perhaps tilted toward each other for some dimension.

If you want to make that area look bigger so it can handle those chairs, get a bigger rug. It seems like the front legs of the sofa and chairs are just barely squeezed onto the edge of that rug. And yes, flank the fireplace with them.

I don't think the scale of the chairs is wrong, the leather chair does look out of place, I would replace with ottomans (sketch attached) you also could benefit from a side and coffee table, find an interesting lamp, introduce some natural materials such as wood or marble to your room, these things will help you define the space a little more

You guys are brilliant!! Here’s how it looks now. The previous set up had really blocked the flow of the room. Thank you for all the suggestions!

Looks much more open and airy. Next step will be a coffee table.

I think they look great- I would pull them out away from the wall just a smidge more- just try it and see- if you have a party or some reason to have a bunch of people looking at TV (Super Bowl, World Series!) you can always angle them more toward the TV.

I wonder how the chairs would be facing the fireplace?

The chairs are fine.

What I do see as your dilemma, is the rugs. In your scheme, each should be the same size.

Scale of blue chairs is exaggerated but you can make it work. I would move the leather chair to another room. Place one blue chair on the left side of couch. Put a tall potted palm where the leather chair is to balance height issues. I also would add a little pop of yellow to the room to mess up perfection. Lovely room though...gl :)

Not worried about watching TV in that room for big parties. We have a separate family room with the good TV.

Will try moving away from wall a tad.

@JudyG I agree with you on the rugs but the challenge is the dining room area is flanked by a stairway on one side and the hallway on the other. I assume I definitely don't want the dining rug to protude into the hallway area, but perhaps would be okay if some went in front of the stairs.

That looks wonderful, but agree to pull them forward just a bit more. They are beautiful!

If that’s the case, I suggest no rug under the table.

Beautiful!!!

Looks much better now! The problem with wing chairs is that they are usually taller than sofas, but balancing them on either side of the fireplace works. I agree that you should move them a bit closer to the sofa.