Assuming they hired a professional designer to do the model living room, what I see is that under the best of circumstances, that living room is awkwardly set up. In the model room, there is space for three, maybe 4 people to sit. Only one seat directly faces the TV set. Look at the furniture in that room. One small sofa or loveseat. One armchair. One TV stand. One end table. One large coffee table that was chosen to fill up the empty space in the center of the room to make it look more furnished. Imagine that room without the coffee table and it starts to look a lot like the OP�s room. There are three lamps, one of which appears to block part of the TV. And then at least 4 plants, to make the room appear more furnished and welcoming. I think they did a wonderful job making that room look open and inviting, and hiding the more obvious flaws in the design of the room. The room�s layout simply doesn�t function well. Either you have the sofa on the wall in the model room, and then you have a hard time watching TV, or you put the sofa on the window wall so you can see the TV set, and then you lose the view out the windows and have an awkward layout. OP, it�s not you. It�s the room. Working with the furniture you have, the first thing I�d do is take out the two small chairs. They don�t work with the rest of the furniture. Then I�d try to put the sofa on the wall where it is in the model room, and buy a table top TV swivel stand so that you could easily watch TV from there. Move the blue chair to the same position as the woven chair in the model picture and place an end table between the sofa and the chair. Down the line, look for a coffee table similar to the one in the model picture�glass or Lucite to keep the space looking open, and slightly oversized to fill the space better. And maybe a smaller unit to hold the TV.

Your hood has mesh filters - baffle filters are better because mesh filters get clogged quickly with grease, making the hood very inefficient. Baffle filters don't have this issue. Unless you are willing to clean the mesh filters every time you fry something or make hamburgers or the like, I'd try to get a different hood with baffle filters. I am also not a fan of those flat-bottomed hoods. A canopy-shaped hood captures steam and grease much better. i just did a quick search on the website you linked for a wall-mount 30" wide hood with canopy shape and baffle filters in the same price range: http://www.ajmadison.com/cgi-bin/ajmadison/AK7500BS.html a little more expensive than the one you picked: http://www.ajmadison.com/cgi-bin/ajmadison/DHW301.html

This house just popped up on my Pinterest feed, and it made me think of this thread. It has the same spaces as the four houses in question ...and it's just under 2500 sf. It's a much better layout ... I like the connection between the laundry and the master suite ... the main living areas seem more proportional and comfortable ... it has a nice, big pantry convenient to the garage entrance ... and it'd be very possible to re-do the area near the garage entry so you could have a third similar-sized bedroom + one bath. https://www.architecturaldesigns.com/house-plans/handsome-craftsman-house-plan-69677am

If she is receiving her nutrition in other ways, she may simply not feel the need to eat, and may not feel like eating, but is still keeping her nutrit I up. And I found with my loved ones that actual questions or statements were easier for them to answer in some fashion than "I love you" which, while nice to hear, doesn't demand a response. It is good medicine, though! (And I don't know about your mom, but mine would think "omg, if they are saying that to me I must be in bad shape." Lol) Many hugs to you, and listen to the doctors (thru your sister). It's hard to be far away, and it's hard to be the one who's right there, and it's used to be the one with POA, and the one without. And it's hard to be the string one. We all know. Bring it here.