Thanks for all of the ideas!!! I knew I'd find some good advice on GW. Let me address the tv issue. We like its present spot (but can move it down) because you don't see it when you walk into the room. The cable box and DVD player are stashed in the closet directly behind it so no media console nor visible cables (the tv will be moved over the ones in the photo) neither. In our last apartment, the tv took center stage and we definitely watch tv less now. If it were smaller, I think it could go elsewhere and not be such a focal point, but a 46" tv is not so easy to work with. Here are extra photos give you a sense of the rest of the space. That is not a clear table, we haven't gotten our tabletop yet! LOL In the corner, we've put stacked chairs and a media console temporarily. We are planning to put an upright piano here. Tibbrix - interestingly, the glare hasn't bothered us. Maybe because it's winter and often overcast and snowing? But once we get our window treatments, we'll just close them to watch tv. That particular window is quite small and doesn't have a great view. The view's actually great from the kitchen and dining area! I think we're okay with losing the view from the living area. Aside from the glare and loss of view, do you see anything wrong with having the sofa with its back to the window? Olychick - thanks for "validating" my sofa and its placement! I've been back and forth about it, sometimes I think it looks great in the space, other times I think it's too big. I think your idea for tv placement is interesting and could work if our tv were smaller. Ours is such a behemoth... Celticmoon & Camlan - I saw in another apartment something along the lines of what you both suggest. They utilized the back 2/3 by the window as their living area (two sofas facing each other) and the remaining front 1/3 as a kids' play area. There was no tv to contend with. I thought this looked great, but couldn't think of what we'd do with that extra space. Your suggestions are definitely giving me some ideas though... Teacats - you said to float the chair under the mirror. Where would you put the mirror? I thought about a sectional, too. The only thing is we would want it to be flexible in that it can be rearranged to a different configuration for a different space. We may live here for as little as 5 years. Everyone's ideas have been really helpful! I'm planning to move the sofa with DH this weekend so that it faces the tv. I'll try it out both 2/3 of the way back and all the way back and let you know what we think. I have a couple questions for now - 1. Mirror being too high. Our sofa back is only 31" high and if the mirror is hung much lower, you could see the reflection of the back of our heads when we're sitting there. This is weird to me. Another reason I hung the mirror high is because I read that with low ceilings, you want to hang mirrors/art on the high side because your eye gets drawn upward, which makes the ceilings appear higher. What do you all feel about that? 2. One thought I'm having is to put a different kind of seating where the chair is where DH and I could sit together to watch tv in its current position. It'd have to be big enough to accommodate both of us, but not a full-on loveseat, which would not look right in the space. Something sized between a loveseat and a lounger. Should have a back and arms for comfort. Does what I'm picturing exist outside my mind?

I imagined the mirror on the wall closer to the long wall, not the one closer to the entry. I think the room needs something to open it up, not close it in more, which is what a screen might do, although I think in a much larger room the screen would be a great idea. Here's one from Horchow for a pretty reasonable price (Google "horchow gold leaf floor mirror"). I agree that you should have a sofa, and I like it under the window. I usually prefer that the main seating of a room not face a wide entry door. And I would shop for one in a clean, classic form, that has more of its mass dedicated to seat space than arm space. The Bryant sofa from Ethan Allen is a good example of one that is a good size, a rational price, at home in a traditional setting, and that would look great in a traditional striped or small-scale patterned fabric. Click the link to look at it from the side (the arrows on the picture give you more views). Although your pair of chairs is very pretty, their small scale emphasizes your space constraints. To give the room more ease and life, I would move one of them elsewhere, and use the leather chair in the space to the left of the chest as you face into the room. Using a few larger scale pieces in a small room works much better than fitting in a lot of smaller things. For that reason, I would also rethink the brackets and plates on that wall, and consider replacing them with two slender pin-up wall lamps, possibly tole-painted (with paintable cord covers). This one is an antique, but meant to show you the look I mean: I'd move the lamp that's there now on the round table between the chairs, and use the one now on that table on a sofa-side table in the corner away from the entry. Then I would consider hanging something paler (not smaller) over the chest, like perhaps a large-scale botanical, or an Audubon bird, with a wide cream mat, and hanging the painting as part of a grouping of pictures on the part of the angled wall that's closest to the entry. And I don't think your coffee table is too small! Here is a link that might be useful: Ethan Allen Bryant sofa

odd i do this regularly and this is the first time i saw your post?! what do you do in this room? have you got good views? how many usually use it? is tv a big thing here? i do not see it.

Hello! A few things I notice right away. •The couches against the wall could be moved closer to the entertainment center. I would suggest forming a ‘U’ facing the entertaining center. Also this will ensure the coffee table will be closer to the couches and not lonely in the middle of the room. ;) • On the Wall that currently has the couches on them, the art/frames are much to small for a space that size. I would get a large mirror for that wall, it will brighten up the room. ( This could easily be the Gold you were wanting, a gold framed mirror) • You might consider also a larger rug-if not-make sure the couches are arranged more closely to it. • Lighting! Lamps or sconces are frosting on the cake. I believe the ‘rule’ is a least three sources of lighting. Overhead, low lighting and (I can’t remember) a third.