Renee, I look for old sheet music to frame! Found a song with the name of our street in the title, and I picked up some seasonal/holiday music that I change out during the year. So fun! Fori, As for the music "library", I bought an old sheet music cabinet from a neighbor. The condition isn't great, but a word of caution: I think they are intended to hold SHEET music, not books. The shallow drawer bottoms are not solid but slatted, and don't feel super strong. It's cool, but not as easy to use unless you are very organized and know what you keep where. I also have a small metal Bisley 5-drawer unit (from the scratch-and-dent corner at a The Container Store, it's missing the bottom drawer, which leaves an open slot for music) Each drawer has one of those little slots that hold a label, so the jazz goes in one, the video game music printouts in another, etc. and we can find them, and put things away easily. The books are in two large "boxes" beside the piano: one is a sturdy basket, the other used to be a deep kitchen drawer. One sits on the floor under a small table, the basket sits on too of the table, which is just the right size to hold them. The music stands upright and it's easy to flip through. The whole set-up is not that attractive lol! My friend and here husband are both musicians, and they installed cabinetry in the living room for the music. Shelves close together to hold loose paper flat, and shelves spaced for books and binders, as well drawers for metronomes, pens and pencils, instrument tools, etc. The shelves are also attractively labeled to suit their needs; I think it's a removable/movable label. Our piano came after we'd lived here for a couple of years, it is in a corner but it is a great spot! In this living room, only a buffet or console type piece of furniture would work, because it's where you enter the LR from the foyer, so our console piano is perfect.

Hi Gabriel G- Sorry it took so long to get back to you. Real life sometimes interferes with social media participation. I don't know whether or not you have already ordered your light fixtures rendering my comments moot, but here goes. From what I can see of your dining room. you have great taste yourself already, that is contemporary, fresh, and hip. If I had to guess, you probably dress that way too. (When you aren't constrained by on-the-job dress-codes.) So think of how you pick out your clothing and accessories. You look at women who have a look you like and then you deconstruct it as to what you like about it, what are the pieces they are wearing that you like, and what do you like about them, and would they look good on you? Or do they need to be tweaked? Longer, shorter, a different color, a different fabric,, a different belt because of your waist or height. You also look at magazines. Maybe you look at award shows to see the gowns and the jewelry. Maybe you look around in church at the outfits and the hats. And here's a great thing to do if you haven't done it- Go to the best high-end store and see what they are showing and how the things are accessorized. Try on what you like and feel the material and read the labels. Look at how the seams are constructed, where the darts are and how they are made. Look at everything and how you look in it. Then go to a store you can afford and buy something that most approximates the quality you found in the high end store. Okay, so why am I talking about clothing in a thread about lighting? We've already established that you have an eye. Trust yourself to use it with your chandeliers, too. Scour through the design magazines like Architectural Digest and look at the chandeliers, especially the ones for the rooms you want to buy for. Do web searches for dining room makeovers. Foyer furnishings and re-dos. They will have new fixtures, too. Do web searches for lighting awards, lighting designer awards. Look at the credits for the manufacturers, then go to those manufacturers websites to see their full lines of fixtures. Look up on line high end lighting manufactures and high end lighting stores Yes that's a lot of work, but you know, you will look at those fixture every single day until you sell that house. And before you jump in to say, but those fixtures will cost a fortune, yes they will. You don't need to buy from the Needless-Markup of lighting fixtures unless you want to and can afford it. What you are going to do is get an idea of what is out there and what you like. Do you like round fixtures, do you like fixtures that have folds, exposed bulbs shaped liked torches, rounded globes that are big, rounded globes that are small, do you like a little bling? A lot of bling? Do you like things that are branched? You need to educate yourself to even know what is available. Because with clothing you have been doing that your whole life. You've never done that with light fixtures, and this is a huge purchase that you can't just wear once and throw out if it doesn't make you happy. you and your family and friends will see it every day for as long as you have that house. And then you go around to different places to see what looks most like your dream fixture at a price point you can afford. Just like you do for your clothing. And do go to good lighting places in your area. They have sales and sometimes they will customize a piece to your liking, and even install it for you. Not just the Home Depot, Lowes type places. Your money isn't burning a hole in your pocket. Wait and take your time and buy something you love, love, love. You should look up at it and say this is gorgeous, it really enhances the room, it is art. Because it is. That's why I can't tell you what to pick, because like art it is so individual. For example, lots of people think Dale Chihuly fixtures are just wonderful but I think they either look like Medusa's hair (crazy snakes) or millions of sperm attempting to penetrate the egg. You couldn't pay me enough to have one! You can do this. Trust yourself and your taste. You know you have it.

Just looks like only 1 person can sit on it the way it is! Unless all the pillows are removed. Don't get me wrong, I love decorative pillows. I have 5 on my lounger sofa. Everyone but me takes at least 1 or 2 pillows off to sit/lounge on it. If you are ok with people taking the pillows off, then it's ok. But maybe have a basket on each side of the sofa for storing them.

Perhaps you can put the chairs as a pair on the big window wall, add a lounge chair opposite the corner walls between the sofa and the pair of chairs. Either keep the matching end tables and get a new cocktail table, or keep the cocktail table and get different matching or non matching end tables. The sofa is so pretty, I would not use any throw pillows, and just put narrow wide pillows, one on each chair. Introduce a color in the lounge chair, add a floor lamp for it and a pretty Chinese stool as an end table for the lounge chair. Simple curtains, with a possible color border on edges and hem that relates to a color in the lounge chair. Just some thoughts. Change out your lamps to a color lamp, either solid or small pattern in a color and white.