Taking Erinsean's idea about adding drywall to the front of the hearth, here are a couple more ideas. I have kept your existing wall decor, but there are certainly other options there as the wall becomes more of a normal backdrop. Here's how it might look if you drywall over the stones and the face of the hearth and then grey was the hearth and put some slate around the opening with a white mantel surround and our Carolina Window Pane Fireplace Door. To achieve this look you would need to float the fireplace opening out with bricks before installing the slate. Here's the same concept without the slate and mantel just using our Legend Fireplace Door with Custom Tuscan Leaf Surround. You cannot use drywall right up to the fireplace opening because it is combustible, so you would need to float the fireplace opening out with bricks and then plaster over the bricks to finish flush with the drywall. Bit of a challenge, but doable. Hansen Wholesale specializes in Custom Fireplace Doors.

Love the hide the TV art piece idea. And the chunky mantle would be wonderful. The sectional is about 4 feet away from slider. The room isn’t very wide. There is a step down into the living area from dining and main hall so if swapped sectional it would close off access to the room. Off of main hall. I am attaching other photos. There is a weird sink cabinet area in living (house was built in the 80s). I need to figure that out eventually. The end table is too big by the fireplace. I totally agree. We do need a small table there since it has our modem, cable box, security system and cordless phone on it and they can’t be moved due to wiring. As far as the pendant light goes. That was my original thought but instead choice a more practical idea with very large ceiling fan. Although the pendant light would look better design wise. This space had popcorn ceilings and no recessed lights And was bright yellow when we bought it. The kitchen and dining had track lighting. So we made quite a few changes but most of the changes went to our bathrooms.

Trying to find a place to put a large TV is a common problem. Your present TV location is blocking a door and it is a very heavy presence in the room. How about you get a more open, lower, lighter color TV stand and place it under the window? Can you get by without one of the living room chairs? If you move out the green chair to another room, the room will look better once the TV is relocated You can then put the two remaining chairs side by side instead of at their current angled positions. You can put a small table between them to hold a drink, a book, etc. Replace the dark ottoman with two smaller size ottomans that could do double duty as a coffee table or foot ottoman if needed in front of the chairs.

Hi @Seabornman The unit seems to be vented in the front. there are vents placed on the top and the bottom. I believe the oak flooring does go underneath the unit. I will check when we have access to the home again for the make and model. @HU-187528210 yes. I think it is quite oversized. the home is currently staged, and we don't have any furniture yet, so any thoughts about furniture placement is welcome! I think ideally we would paint the walls a different colour than the trim. Is the only way to elongate the ceiling to paint walls and ceilings the same colour of white? Overall, I think the idea is to do something wall to floors for the surround so that the ceiling looks taller. There was debate about installing book shelving but given the right side being so close the door we're unsure. It would have to be tapered on that side if that was the case.