You can still move electrical boxes in a modular - I moved the one in the center of the kitchen before we had the house painted, it wasn't going to be anywhere close to the center of the (site-built) island. Also a recessed light that had "wandered" into the family room. But now that we've spent all this money just repainting (the modular factory fixed the cracks for free), DH does not want to tear apart the dining room ceiling and have to repaint all the way into the foyer. Plus, as he reminded me, I wanted the chandelier closer to the front wall because the table would be too close to the china cabinet if we centered it front-to-back in the room. The problem, as I discovered last night after digging through emails to the builder, was that they didn't place the sconces where I wanted them. Not a big deal, I'll move the sconce later if it looks really awful when we put the table in. Some of the cracks were really just bad tape jobs, edge of tape showing. Others were actual cracks factory said my builder should have taken care of before we painted. But my builder was very inexperienced (had just signed with this modular factory we wanted to use, they gave him our territory so we really had no choice). He was just throwing more mud on the cracks without retaping. Once they put the tape on, no more cracks (just some humps). Our old (1988) house had swirled plaster ceilings and skim-coated drywall, but I understand most stick-built houses these days are just sheetrock, flat painted ceilings anyway. We wanted to move in less than a year from when DH got new job, didn't think we'd make it if we stick-built. Plus a lot of my family has done modular, we thought it would be better quality since it was built in controlled conditions. And I couldn't keep an eye on a stick builder living 100 miles away with son still in school. Now, I just dry-mopped the dining room floor and we have a cracked board (splitting from end) 3ft from center. It'll be hidden under the rug. Either the end was split already, or it split when installer hammered it into the pattern (spiraling rectangles). Unless he can split it with a wood chisel, pull out the pieces, and just face-nail the replacement, we'd have to pull out the whole center of the floor (about 12 sf) to get to it. I have a lot of wood left over - should I ask installer to replace that piece?

I like the Instagram picture. If you're going to go asymmetrical, it has to be way off center so it looks like a design feature, not an accident. I like the look of the stone (I'm assuming you plan to remove the small brick surround you have currently). I think going floor to ceiling would actually add some visual height to the room which would be nice. If you're unsure, you could try painting the wall (and the brick surround, if its definitely going away) to emulate where you want to put stone. It would help you get the feel for what it would look like. This would let you play with proportion as well, to figure out how wide you want to go. (I think i would go more narrow that it is tall. I like the proportions you mocked up in scrap wood.)

We are almost finished with our LR makeover and I painted our old brick fireplace. So my husband decided that's where we needed to move our tv to after purchasing a new (much bigger) one. We purchased a ceiling mount from Amazon to hang it from and it works great. My husband installed it at an odd angle I thought in the corner BUT it looks great and the tv doesn't cover up all my hard work painting. If you hang it from the ceiling, it frees up so much room to add things like plants, shelving etc. Good luck!

In my very humble opinion... I would suggest painting the Ceiling the same color as your surrounding walls, by doing this it will taKe away from all the angles and not drawing more attention to that ceiling... I would paint that wall and get some drapes in the same color, ( you don’t want to add more to make it stand out) add two pendant lights above each night Stand, you need all the space on those night stands and the lamps are taking up valuable real estate. Like this... don’t. Mind my rough drawing...