LOVE the traditional furniture ..hate the wallpaper..Love the tray ceiling..it needs a dramatic paint job to play it up..and really go for it..don't use white. Pictures make it a little difficult to tell the origin of the wood, if it is fruit wood or a darker oak..seems a bit too light for mahogany but seems to have a more golden tone as well ..that might be the photo. you are looking toward greens and golds?..the sage green would definately work well with your woods..are you going to keep the wainscoting? I might carry one of the other room colors that adjoin through to the ceiling tray of this room..a soft golden color would add LIGHT to it..and then put a contrast on the rest of the tray outside..you might play it up with some beautiful mouldings..and maybe a medallion if you are staying traditional.. then put beautiful mouldings on your wainscot to match..and under the wainscot you could use moulding frames..sometimes this is a little difficult to figure out how to do if you are carpentry challenged..but you can go to a store and find actual picture frames in a moulding that you love and buy a whole bunch of them and glue them equally spaced on the wall below the wainscot to make panels..or squares..and then have the background painted one color and the mouldling another..i prefer lighter as darker can be a bit "overkill".. say the soft sage behind a soft vanilla moulding with a very pale french cream or darker vanilla on the top 1/2 and then the golden ceiling with the vanilla moldlings and sage up in the tray with a vanilla medallion and an antique chandelier with the oiled bronze finish.. now if you want to get a little fancier..the sage on the wainscot behind the mouldings could be of a waterstained type silk or moire..that would be stunning..saving some of the same fabric for curtains..yum... Then wouldn't it be stunning to have depressionware green glassware with some very creamy and green dishes..they would bounce off that golden reddish wood..

What is on the wall to the right, where the sofa used to be? See if you can lengthen the curtain rods, so that the thicker drapes are not squished.

Thanks for the rug suggestions, I would have never thought to do a striped carpet. The other 2 look very nice too. I really like the suggestion for the coffee table. For the TV stand, I don't think I can get a taller one given the large picture we have above it. You pictured 2 wood TV stands, can I have a dark wood piece given my open concept and very white kitchen? We had ordered a dark wood coffee table but are returning it because it just didn't seem to go. I guess that's what I'm really stuck on, is the style of furniture we need to look for. I completely agree the console table is too small, that one was perfect in the tiny entrance of my previous home. If anyone has recommendations on dining tables and chairs that would go well in this space I would appreciate the insight. (excuse the dining room mess, all those plants are headed outside as soon as the weather warms up) As well as backsplash ideas would be great.

Realty photos are always a little stretched to make spaces seem larger, so it is difficult to get a sense of the room's scale. Is the front entrance in the stairwell area opposite the FP location? I'd say the light/wine rack area was originally designed as a dining area near the kitchen. Do you need to use it that way? For a family friendly corner, it could become the spot for a game/snack table or bookcases/rocker/reading lamp for baby time. Have the light moved or removed to your liking while you reno. You haven't mentioned or shown us your furniture, but a 3-seat sofa and two armchairs are a good foundation for any living room. These arrangements could work well around the FP, leaving the TV where they have itm as these are all swivel chairs. In the 4-chair group, you could do swivels only on the TV side of the grouping.