Thank you molly, you replied to my thread from last night then I realized the system gave me another name. I prefer to use my original name.

I will upload a few photos un a little while. I am overwhelmed with the entire room and set up. Right now it's not set things are like stored there in a hap hazard way. I am just simply going nuts. I still have the red floral settie and it's a beast to work around. I need advise with reupholstering some other antique pieces as well as color coordination and how on earth to work around a corner wood stove. Plus overall placement of furniture. I want cozy but not cluttered and I don't want more reds. Will get pics up soon.

This is the house as well as photo of large room with digs is my living room and we put in dry wall with arch and new flooring to separate dining room. It's quite a big room and so intimidating to work with. and that big door is eating up space.

Thanks for the pictures. The furniture does seem disjointed in terms of color and style. What sort of vibe do you want for the room? Will you be watching TV, doing formal entertaining or just relaxing and reading? What pieces have to stay? For now, I'd keep the couch and red chairs as is and take the other chairs out of the room. Do you sit in front of the fireplace? If so, maybe a chair on either side, do you have another wicker one? What colors do you want to want to use? Do you have furniture in other rooms we can play with to get different looks?

What do you normally do in there? Do you watch TV in there? That has some bearing on how to arrange and use furniture. Are you going to be doing a lot of entertaining? Are folks going to be doing a lot of moving between dining and seating area?

No TV at all. That's in a bedroom. Its primarily for entertaining eith us or friends. It's a large space and I want cozy yet not cluttered. Also need window treatment advice, and rug for coffee table. It's just mind blowing. And that new corner wood stove drives me nuts because it should be a focal point in winter but not in summer. I put a mirror on wall, not sure either. I like modern black and white wall art tho. The red set is lovely in real but I don't want any more red. I need accent pieces. The white antique chairs I redid from original walnut color. I need to polster them. Should I match both or each one different color? Here is a close up of the colors in the set

Here are a couple of ideas. I tried to keep the rugs kind of solid looking so as to not fight with the couch pattern. You can play around with rugs on RugsUSA.

https://www.rugsusa.com/rugsusa/rugs/amer-rugs-lau-3/Gray/266LAU3-P.html - I thought this was blue, but it says gray.

https://www.rugsusa.com/rugsusa/rugs/rugs-usa-chunky-loop/Blue/200NCCL01H-860116.html

https://www.rugsusa.com/rugsusa/rugs/rizzy-rugs-br801a/Indigo/287BR801A-9012.html

https://www.rugsusa.com/rugsusa/rugs/bashian-dr05/Azure/362V106DR05AZ-860116.html

I hear your pain on that one with the corner fireplace. I have one too in my family room. I think you need to think out-of-the-box and have two seating areas, using the credenza as a low room divider. I am not one to fuss with diagrams, but posting a scanned picture of your room with wall dimensions and windows marked might help you visualize the space. Me, I'd just move stuff around until I found a way I liked. But anyway, the couch and/or credenza can be used to define and separate the two spaces. We had that in my house growing up, with a HUGE living room that my mom separated into two spaces by using some low cabinets on one side with the couch pushed up against them on the other. She had a writing desk on one side but there are many ways to use the second space, such as a quiet reading area or small card table, etc.

I think I would do that to separate the fireplace area and put the two red chairs around the fireplace, to avoid the really RED visual with having them all together with the couch. You could shop the house for a little table or some bookshelves so you could use it as a reading or game area in the summer months. Then focus your other chairs and couch around a coffee table for when you have guests. OR, focus the couch and chairs around the fireplace (who cares if it's not going in the summer, put a big fake fern on top of it then, that's what we do) and then set up another seating area on the other side of the room.

Hi molly, thank you. I still have the red set but I need help with accent chairs in my photos. Rug is the last thing. The room is huge and I need overall placement advice and color coordination. Also placement with that corner wood stove and wasted space the big glass door takes up. I basically need the whole room put in place.

NOTHING is in place it's like a storage room for now things are just pushed together.

Hello pink pumpkin, thank you for taking time to help me. I never thought of a second area. That's sounds great but how exactly should I do it? The sideboard eats up my longest wall. Its teak mid century, but i shabby it up a bit. The thing is. I want the red set mixed in with my other chairs. The green is over 150 years old and that remains original. White are 40,'s walnut wicker that I painted annie sloan cream white. Not happy with the white. Those two chairs I had hoped to use as fireplace chairs. I do have other chairs I will be refurbishing and it must pull the color out of the red pattern with fabric that comes together but no red. I need drapes too. I am clueless.

Btw, the room is one big square I will draw a plan and photo it and post. Now I am thinking the whole room might have been easier to work with than putting in dry wall.

I cant draw to save my soul but here is what it looks like empty

Can you add dimensions of the space and your furniture?

Like how wide in feet? Our floor plan is from 1901 and barely visible, so I will measure manually. Give me a few

Generally the width of the wall space and windows/doors so we can tell what will fit where.

Ok try this. Where the wood stove is left and right is brick . That area right of the arch is 5 inches higher than the wall right of it. For German standards this is a large room. What annoys me is the large doors that eat up valuable space but has a fantastic view . But you cant really put Jack squat there. Thanks for helping me.

Sideboard alone is 86 inches, 7 1/4 feet

I would angle the sofa and chairs in the room perpendicular to the fireplace...for a start...

Molly sweety, neither of those will work as the chimney sweeper will give me a fine or warming. All those things I have are highly flammable and must be minimum 1 meter away. I wish you can literally draw a plan. The chir is antique silver green. Looks more green on photos but it's very subtle. I want an Eclectic type room.

Pumpkin, should I try the sideboard/credenza placed at exact angle as corner fireplace?

Please remember it's just furniture stored here, and not really livable.

I love your settee and green velvet chair!

If you are aiming for eclectic, I'd go even more eclectic, but use varying shades of green and black to tie everything together. I'd get a large geometric Persian rug which has a primarily black field but with red and green in the pattern, and make sure it is large enough to put a lot more room for movement between the red chairs/sofa and the coffee table. I would switch the extra couch pillows (now brown) to pale green velvet the exact color of the green chair, repaint the white wicker chairs a vivid malachite green, (with green velvet cushions the same as all the others) and paint the coffee table a green so dark, it looks almost black in certain lights.

You could do white curtains with a black detail, and a coordinating but not matching white and black pillow for the green chair. plus black and white art on the walls. With less brown in the pillows, you could have more brown in the furniture. You could take the buffet back to its original teak, and use it as a console table behind the sofa. Keep that adorable corner hutch exactly as it is, and swap out the short tables next to the arch for a narrow and tall mcm bookshelf, also in teak.

As far as the arrangement, I don't think I would have any chairs directly facing the wood stove, it's not quite cute enough to make a focal point, but if you slide the center of the whole seating arrangement closer the the hearth so it is nestled in the corner of the seating arrangement, I think it will get just the right amount of attention every season.

I am atrocious at mood boards and mock-ups, but here is my humble attempt at trying to put my ideas into pictures. I had no idea how large your furniture is so I put only one wicker chair next to the window, but you might be able to fit two. So, just my two cents, I'm sure whatever you settle on will be cozy and charming.

Hello Hillary, thank you for your support. I must however repeat that nothing is really in place. The cushions are just there because it's just storage. I just placed stuff in the room until I figure out a plan.
The hutch and sideboard are a set and I don't like granny browns so I painted them both. The sideboard is 7.5 feet long. My couch is half that size so it won't look good behind. The coffee table and old clock are the only pieces which I wont repaint. It's old and has the character of vintage I want. I said eclectic but really I want a mix of pieces but not psychedelic. Looking for cozy French country with a bit of color and charm. The woodstove in person is really very pretty and has a large fire pit. But that's irrelevant. I like the idea of redoing the white chairs. Even thought of annie sloan duckegg or Paris gray. See the mirror? It's also Paris gray from annie. Maybe redo in that shade and pale pale blue velvet or pale sage green upholstery? I don't want to much matchy matchy yet that they fit together. Sorry for my wishy washyness. I spend a lot of time in France and I just don't know how they do it to look so darn good every time. I thought Eclectic meant just different era pieces. I am just overwhelmed and to he honest, pulling my hair out . About rugs, I don't like those floral persians they are a bit to granny. And only grannies here use them lol.
The settee is really very pretty and just happen to be very French made and bought in France. I just want that special look. Where my antique table is, it's a good place for a book case but where will the old clock go and what will happen to my table it's very old mid 1800's England. I paid quite a fortune for it? Would hate that it becomes oblivious. See the area where the door opens and it's right next to table? What can that space be used for?
Thanks again.

Penny, I saw pink pumpkin and now rechecked its pink mountain. Lol I need new glasses. Haha

Winter or summer it's pretty outside from the sliding doors. Just took this.

I think you need to get your basic layout established so that you know which pieces will be used...then you can start to work on the look...

Nothing has been done yet. I am still waiting on fabric samples from England, snail mail. I am sti waiting on advice as to how to use credenza/sideboard to separate second seating area. I have no clue. Thanks.

Well, how far did you get? Did you decide on a layout and which pieces you will be using?

I didn't see you mention that you wanted two separate seating areas...

Hi penny, all that's in photo then a 95c wide bookshelf. One member suggested second seating but I dont know how. How far I got? 0%

I do not mind being called pink pumpkin. If I don't get my stress eating under control it may have to become my new nickname!

Oh jeez now I see I'd be torn between wanting a place to cosy/cozy (depending on your continent) up to the fire and a place to look out the window!

Seems like the furniture should be in the middle of the room to facilitate movement but the angling can be varied.

Lol@pinkpumpkin. Was my crutty poor eyesight.

Yup, I am in a helluva jam with the room. I may have to ditch the sideboard if its going to drive me to the crazy farm. Its the longest piece of anything I have. Should I tone down the white walls? I still need to put in decorative ceiling trim too. I am just jammed against a wall

Don't move the credenza then. Get an area rug, center one group of seating around fireplace and conversation and then maybe get a tea cart or something and put a small chair or two around that near the doors/windows to the outside. You can sit and sip your tea and watch the birdies outside there in the winter! When the weather gets nice you can carry the chairs out to the deck to sit in the sun! Then roll the cart out there with some cocktails later in the day!

Try a couple of the arrangements suggested/shown here before making any other decisions. The sideboard may or may not stay where it is depending on the best layout for the seating...

I will work on it over the weekend. Still no fabric samples. Soon as I get the white chairs reupholstered I can start something. I guess rug comes in last? Pink I will move stuff around and see how it looks. I actually have a wheelie tea cart in basement gathering dust.