Also, Here's the whole floorplan. so you can see the relationship between the kitchen and the rest of the house. !

Thank you so much for your feedback, lavender_lass. I cannot believe how much your design opened up the space. I previously though that a wine fridge would have een out of the question, but am beginning to rethink that given the way you redesigned the space. Thank you very much!!

Perhaps it WILL work for you to put the tv against that long blank wall, if you think outside the box. Furniture doesn't have to always line up straight against a wall, it can be outside in the room and at angles. I can't quite imagine why the set you describe wouldn't work in that room with the TV where the PO's have it. I too think the fireplace looks overly tall for mounting a TV. You could reconfigure the fireplace but maybe more work than you want to do to the room? I'm not crazy about that fireplace surround especially with those windows they way they are. You can do better with that fireplace wall than the PO's did. What's up with those windows above the windows? With three big windows all on that side of the room, not sure what they bring to the show. I just realized that with windows above windows, you could keep drapes closed there all the time and still have light during the day from the upper windows! So putting a TV in front of them wouldn't really impact the room that much. Unless someone is home during the day, you'll probably be in there mostly at night anyway.

Congrats on your new house! It looks like your layout is similar to mine. I wouldn’t put the couch against the stairs even though it gives you more room. If you do, then you have to walk through the living room to get to the stairs and other rooms and it’s usually better to have a defined path if you can. I really wanted a sectional but couldn’t make it work. We’re getting new furniture and this is the layout we will probably have - no loveseat but two chairs at an angle. We walk from the kitchen into the living room all the time, so we wanted to keep an entry between the chairs and the sofa.