Thank you for your comment. Since the stairs are currently carpeted and open on the sides, the installer recommended to not put LVP on them.

If you decide to use a round table, I would look for wood, or a wood base with glass. Don't add more stone - you have enough of that with your floors. I think you could use a rug instead though, with your current furniture. I would be inclined to use a large rectangular rug in front of the doors instead of a round one in the middle of the foyer. Darker colors would be a nice contrast to your lighter floors and walls.

Good question! I've mapped out a table - would have 4+ feet of space around it in all directions (hard to tell scale from this floorplan). If I don't put SOMETHING there it is a giant space with nothing in it. I know negative space to balance positive is a good thing, but this definitely feels like a hole. I'd send photos of this but we are finishing up a kitchen reno - right now all our stuff is in back and this entire area is empty.

Hi Lori. Glad some of the ideas are helping you! Here is a living space I designed with a tv over the fireplace. (not a Frame). I brought some decorative elements in that kept it simple, but still highlighted the fireplace. You don't have as much space on the mantle, but you could at least add a bread bowl or (if that is too casual for you, some other long, decorative element. It will take away some of the formality and a wood item would pull in the bamboo shades. For the dining room, it looks like there are 8 chairs. Could I see more photos of the dining room? How often do 8 of you eat there? I am thinking moving leaving 6 chairs in the room on a regular basis. Could the other 2 chairs live in the office? Somewhere else for most of the time? I'd place 2 on each side between the trestles and then the other 2 on the ends or beside the buffet, whatever works best.