Since you are not focusing everyone on a TV, I would suggest not thinking of arranging one rigid furniture group focused on one anything. Instead, think of more varied furniture pieces and looser arrangements that turn different directions, focus inside and outside, include lighter weight pieces that can move to join others, and in general and specific serve those different functions. The fact is, the living ("family") room arrangement has been contracting for some time. For more and more of us there's no need for a reading or sewing lamp if 95% of everything we read is on an iPad and many of us don't read or sew anyway. Less need for a dining table for those who often eat in their favorite chairs facing the TV, messier kids maybe kneeling at a coffee table. Of course absolutely no need for a table to spread a newspaper out because we don't take newspapers. Once-important desks have become strictly decorative objects now that we pay our bills, write friends and chat on our cell phones from easy chairs. No need for a game table when the games are in our laps and we're playing by ourselves with one eye on the TV. The classic little sewing table? Gone, with its lamp. Fact is, the standard living room arrangement these days needs to provide one favorite sitting place per person, equipped with one place to set a drink, from which the entire weeks' home leisure can be lived and many chores performed. In most homes at least a couple of those seats recline, and almost all are pointed at a television screen. The "window treatments" typically frame one view--of a standard back yard (not several views out over 52 acres). The typical family is not there most daylight hours anyway, and the seating typically ignores it to focus on a TV plus fireplace. This trend does not reflect every family's life, of course, but it has profoundly influenced what furniture is found in the typical living room these days (fewer and fewer pieces) and how they're typically arranged. (And, no, I don't admire this lifestyle contracture. I love, love, love my computer, and my own favorite chair, but hate that a beautiful, once-important old desk mainly gathers dust.) In any case, it doesn't sound as if you live your lives quite that way, You even knit, and with no TV you all presumably require other light and surfaces for leisure tasks. So maybe turn away from current standard arrangements to decide what pieces your lifestyle needs and where? You might try looking at pictures in old, pre-computer decorating books and magazines. Back when people typically turned the TV on to catch a favorite show, then turned it off.

I'd think about two sofas in an L-formation. Round nesting coffee tables are flexible in that they'd serve each of the sofas. They're also easier on the knees. A credenza type piece behind one sofa would provide storage and also provide some interest when looking in from the kitchen. There may be room for a small scale swivel chair as well. The sofas could share an end table in the corner. A basket on the hearth could corral the doglette's toys. The TV is on a console to the left of the fireplace. The below arrangement would seat five with room to spare, seven if you want to get cozy.

Hi Stephanie. First of all, congratulations on the house. It's really beautiful. I would like to help you visualize your room in an interactive 3D build where you can play around move things, add or delete. To be able to do this I would want your floorplan as the build will be a mock-up of your room.

Cabinet trim and kitchen backsplash still need to be completed .......