I know that you are against it, but the best thing to do is to paint and get the new curtains up before buying any wall art. Really. If you need to keep the walls blue for a while, it would be better to leave the walls bare than to have garish orange/red art up there waiting for new paint color to go behind them years down the road. IMHO of course. Putting flaming orange art up on a pastel blue wall because you are going to paint the wall beige sometime in the future, would be like wearing orange shoes with a blue dress because you are have plans to buy a beige dress someday that will go great with the shoes. If you are not going to be painting for quite a while you may decide on another whole color for the room when it comes time to paint than what you have decided already now. You won't like the art then. Judging from the style of the bed, both styles of lamps, the floral arrangements, and the new art that you like, I am guessing that you wish for a British Colonial look for the room. I would start browsing British Colonial look rooms in blogs and such to become more confident in selecting colors and accessories. When it comes time to paint you will know just what to do with accessories. Or maybe down the road you will decide to take the room in another direction possibly going completely Victorian or do something Eclectic.

Thanks everyone ... I appreciate all the help and compliments I received on this! The rug isn't new, but it was my 3rd try until I got it "right" You know I didn't even think to move the picture up a little, to cover the box, but I will definitely do that. Unfortunately my whole house needs to be rewired, so I will have many more of these type holes to patching paint!

Awesome suggestions! I've been sparked! @njmomma: I like this example. As the original buffet comes with a mirror, I don't like it. Perhaps a separate vintage mirror would be nice to reflect some light in the space. Then I can hang pictures around it. @yvonne: I have hordes of pottery and you bring up a good idea; instead of buying more art I should hang my pottery on the wall, after taking off the mirror top. We have quite a few family pictures; in our previous home the buffet was flanked by those vintage items. However as this space has less traffic than the front hallway where I was considering for the family pictures, I'll keep the pottery in this location and the family pictures in the front hallway. @holly: I'm refining my mint favorites. I'm looking at reds, oranges in abstracts and landscapes. However previous suggestions of using pottery may put Minted on the back burner. @tedbixby: yes I have considered putting the wicker chairs on either side of the buffet..To the right of the buffet is a dry sink which is normally in the living room but due to the Christmas tree we had to switch it out with a drop leaf table (which is usually to the right of the buffet under the window). @grover: the room functions as it is. There's a dog pen because we have to pen them when we're gone. We don't use a dining room table, so it doesn't need to function as that. And we have an abundance of antiques but less room than our previous house so we have to find a wall for them. I wish we could put them in storage, but these are my husband's family pieces and he's not interested in doing that. And he's not ready to reduce the inventory, so we have to work with the pieces in the square footage that we have.

Definitely don't choose art to match the furnishings. That's an uninspired look if ever there was one. Find a piece that practically sings to you, and delights you each time you lay eyes on it. Please don't settle for anything less than that.