I'm not the person to give you advice but I'm sure you will get lots of input. Especially with all the pictures of your room showing all the angles. My only 2 cents would be the filler in the two vases on the mantle which you already addressed. Your room is lovely, as are the floors.

Thank you!

It's a beautiful room. I feel as though the blue chair on the left should go. Is there somewhere else you can put it? It's almost too balanced. Same with the mantel. Perhaps three more chunky pieces without the sticks. The maps will look nice above the couch.

Thank you @gduplessis! I thought about that....removing the chair on the left and scooting the sofa up so that it makes an L with the other one and putting a table with lamp, etc. where the 2 sofas meet. I can plan around with it.

Would you remove one of the mantel vases and put 3 chunky pieces on the other side opposite the vase? That's what I was thinking....I just need to figure out WHAT! LOL. What do you think about style/color for table lamps and sofa table, etc.? Thanks again for your input!

I would not paint the walls Repose Gray in an east-facing room. I have it in my kitchen and it works...but the room faces due west with an enormous bay window over the sink. When I come down in the AM, it's a little dark in there. If I didn't have my bright white Corian countertops and bright white trim, it would be dreary. Find a better color for your walls - one that is not gray.

BTW, my walls are painted 1/2 strength Repose Gray (same color as kitchen cabinets). I had them leave out the magenta as it will go mauve in certain lights.

If it must be gray, try 1/4 strength Repose Gray with no magenta in it.

@sheri, thank you! I love the look of my floors, however I cannot recommend them. They are an engineered wood product by Mannington and the wear layer is incredibly thin. We have numerous spots all over the house where the top layer has splintered off at the edge revealing raw wood underneath. And it dents like crazy. I love wood floors and have had the "old fashioned" sand & finish floors and the pre-finished wood floor, but these are absolutely horrid. So bad that we are looking at replacing them asap and they are only 3 years old.

These are 3 sample boards I did for my paint colors. All are SW. Eider White on left, Silverpointe in center and Repose Gray on right. I feel like the Eider White is TOO pale. I like Silverpointe because it does have a bright freshness about it. Repose Gray is a safe bet, but it doesn't have the brightness I'm looking for. I've seen it done at 1/2 strength and it looks nice. But I can see what @Anglophilia said being true now that I look at these 3 together. Another possibility that I haven't done a sample board of is BM Moonshine. Its VERY similar to Eider White, but ever so slightly darker. It might be the happy medium. What do you guys think?

I think, on my screen, that your current wall color is lovely with your floors, rug and furniture. Can you use brighter bulbs and more lamps? Perhaps put the lamps you have on dimmers . Among your samples the one in the middle looks bright and slightly blue which I think would be pretty in your room. It just seems like your sofas need to contrast against the walls. You have a beautiful room. Good luck

Your room is lovely but it lacks color, and especially the warm end of the spectrum. Instead of a mirror I would find a painting for over the mantel. A lighter wall color would be better I think. In addition to the maps I would put wonderful art on all the walls to bring this room to life. Try a glass and metal rectangular coffee table with books on it, and a green plant that is large enough to make an impact.

I'm not finding anything of you in your nice room. Can you find something funky or unexpected to inject into the decor? Maybe some lamps that are a bit unusual, ceramics or other collected pieces? It's easy for me because my passion is antique Chinese porcelain, and there are well over a hundred pieces in different rooms. Your maps of course are a super idea.

Try the Hot Wheels in the baskets under the TV so the little hassock can be eliminated. Think about centering the rug with the fireplace, eliminating the little bench behind that sofa and pulling the sofa back about 18". Change your light bulbs and shades for whiter ones. Ditch the stick decor. Try the mirror, flanked by a pair of candle sconces, above the sofa opposite the FP. Find colorful art, no wider than the firebox opening to hang 5" above the mantel.

While I really like your upholstered hassock/coffee table, the fact that it can't center with the firebox opening and still be centered and 18" from either sofa, tells me you'll need to replace it. Remove it and reposition the rug and sofa. Consider getting a smaller coffee table to use with the floating sofa and end tables for the one on the wall. That way, everyone has a place to put down things, and the firebox is taken out of the equation. Here's a helpful chart for end table/lamp height.

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@decoenthusiaste thank you for the chart! Very helpful! I adjusted the rug already to center up with the fireplace and it definitely feels better. I like your idea about a coffee table for the floating sofa & then end tables for the other sofa. Having 1 coffee table would be nice, but it would have to be so huge in this space, I think it would be overwhelming. What do you think about a couple of X benches (like the ones above, diff color) to go in front of the fireplace? That way they could be pulled over to use wherever.

See if you have room after everything else is in place. Right now, the room seems a bit over crowded with furniture, so remember that less is more. The need for extra seating is one thing but just to fill in is another. You may find that playing with the position of the two chairs is more helpful than buying something else. I think art and improved lighting would be a better investment.

I put together a crude "mood board" of my living room to help me visual things and whether they will "play" well together or not. This is what I have so far. I will streamline my drapery into something more simple, like solid cream color panels with Navy blue banding or trim, something like that. Keep that in mind.

So, this is my actual rug, my actual sofas, & pretty darn close to my actual chairs. I played around with different paint colors and this is SW Eider White on the walls. (of course you can't tell much about paint colors on computer monitors). I really like these black end tables I found on a blog....they are the Noir Bellini tables. I was trying different coffee tables and to my surprise, I think I would like a brass & glass coffee table of some sort for in front of the floating sofa. Seems like any kind of wood finish is going to be heavy in the room, or maybe the room just needs the metal & glass for sparkle & keep things from being so flat. I found a representation of map art for the wall above sofa. A couple of leopard pillows to keep things interesting. I feel like this is a good representation of the "feel I"m trying to create. Something traditional, timeless, and maybe a wee bit eclectic.