Wow! Those windows going out to the porch are beautiful. What a great view! I think you should have two separate sitting areas because the smaller chairs don’t work with the larger chair. I love how the larger chair looks with your sofa and pillows...just lovely! Is there room to remove the end table on the right and slide the rug, sofa, and big chair down a couple of feet? And keep the big chair angled towards sofa like in the first photo...away from the chase part. Then I would leave the two smaller chairs under the opening but pull them out a bit so that sitting area stands in it’s on. Looking forward to seeing photos of what you do especially when the bigger rug gets in! I like the black idea too.

It does look like the room where leftover furniture goes because it doesn't play well with others. The china cabinet could be a good focal point as JudyG suggests, but only if you have something to go inside it that's worth looking at. Otherwise, lose the loveseat and put the china cabinet on that wall. Fill it with books, if nothing else. Alternatively, lose the china cabinet and keep all the seating. Add art above the sofa and loveseat, a rug and curtains, and call it done till you're ready to decide how you actually want to use the space.

I find it even easier to just draw the floor plan on graph paer , Cut out the furniture pieces and play with them to see what works. Make sure all the pieces and the floor plan are to actual scale . It is hard to read the numbers on the drawing you posted so maybe just a simple to scale floor plan on the same graph paper would be helpful with the room sizes done large enough to see. Yes we need to know about TV and where windows are and I assume when you say FR you mean the great room. I hope you have an actual kitchen designer not a cabinet salesperson I finf that kitchen is not making the best use of the space but again a floor plan would be helpful

I moved some things around and I think I like it better. I know the rug is too small and it shouldn't be "floating" but I don't want a new one until we get the other changes done. I moved the dresser into the dining room and hung (probably too high but couldn't convince 6'3" hubby to lower it and he had a point about being out of reach of the tornado. haha) the sign and pictures that had been on the mantle in the dining room. We also took off the ridiculous trim board they had up because we will be replacing the slider soon. So many things in this house like that silliness. I organized most of the books and moved the bookshelf. And grabbed a few canvases (I know they are small but can't remember where we left my big one) I did the flower, my dad painted the one on the right in Vietnam in '68. We need to fix the coffee table my dad built that's in the garage, I'll put it in front of the sofa, it's a little under 6'long, so it might be technically too big but, again, it's what I have. How'd I do?