The rise in your ceiling is so gentle that I don't think it needs to be featured. If you are choosing a soft neutral color for your walls, I would paint the ceiling the same color, to make the shape of the walls seem more natural. Your room needs better lighting almost everywhere, and I agree that you need a larger, lower chandelier over your table. I'd also recommend the following steps, before you make a big investment in furniture. Move the big picture toward the corner cabinet, so that its center lines up with the center of the table, and hang it lower, so that the top of the frame lines up with the top of your china cabinet. If your corner cabinet is not a valuable antique, paint the inside to match the wall, which will lighten the look of that corner. Take everything off the top of it, too. Try shifting your loveseat another foot away from the wall, and move the console that is now along the long wall to stand behind the loveseat, facing into the dining room. Use that wall like an art gallery, and cover it with pictures you like, and your children's drawings in inexpensive frames. Add a more substantial end table between the loveseat and the wall, with a larger lamp. Try shifting your larger sofa forward into the room, at least a foot away from the railing, add a skinny table behind it, and a nice pair of floor lamps to stand behind the outer ends of the sofa. Find a big, rectangular mirror and hang that vertically over your drop-leaf table in the living room. It will open that wall visually, break up the space, and reflect light from the window into the room, as well as add some sparkle and glow. Consider replacing the two unrelated shelf cabinets in that end of the room with a pair of very tall, slender bookcases painted to match your walls, perhaps with a deep contrasting color inside the boxes. Move everything that's now in and on top of your two cases, as well as all the photos on the table, into those bookcases, to unclutter the surfaces, and pull all those things into some sort of order. Then you'll have room to put a lamp on that table as well. Those changes should pull your nice things together better, and solve the light issue, and then you will know what else you want to do.

If the headboard isn't overpowering and a statement in itself, I'd go ahead and put lightweight art above... even though I don't live in earthquake country, I'd be nervous about anything heavy up there. Agree with arcy, I wouldn't want to have anything so low as to be hitting my head on anything over the bed when sitting up in it. So a photo of the bed would be great.

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I don't get much chance to comment so I may not be a lot of use, but just to get started, I think you'll find that your advisors here will need a better idea of the size and shape of the room. More pics from other angles. At the moment the furniture positioning looks awkward, and we'd need more idea of the space you have to play with for that. My other initial thoughts, curtains certainly . Can you change the carpet? It doesn't look ideal, colour wise, on my screen. Or you might consider a rug on top of it. You'll need a coffee table and/or side tables. I suspect both. Lamps on side tables would help make it feel cosy. Think art for the walls to bring life and personality to the space. You need to define a colour palette, I think, that includes the colour either of the existing carpet or a replacement; the stark black and white of the cushions look like they belong entirely to another room. That choice on its own could help you on the way to a palette that would work. There's a lot of inspiration to be had. With the wooden walls, I'd recommend an earthy or textured look, or nature reference: Introducing orange and navy: Green eyes,, blue eyes, take your pick: Still monochrome, but warmer: