Putting your chairs in front of the window facing each other is not going to block the window, it's going to make it a part of the arrangement and enhance your view. If you are walking through, you will be above the furniture looking out the window. And if you are seated, if the furniture is perpendicular to and next to the window you will see out of it fully. The worst arrangement for blocking the window is to leave your chairs where they are and add more furniture under the window. Then when you are seated in your chairs you will lose the lower half of the window view and the couch under the window will just look at the wall and there will be a walkway between them. Actually, this is what I thought I suggested...Barcelona's facing each other in front of the window. You could have a small scale sofa or loveseat pulled up and the passageway behind them. [Industrial Bedroom[(https://www.houzz.com/photos/industrial-bedroom-ideas-phbr1-bp~t_715~s_2113) by Birmingham Interior Designers & Decorators Tracery Interiors Or side by side facing a loveseat but on the window side of the room. [Modern Bedroom[(https://www.houzz.com/photos/modern-bedroom-ideas-phbr1-bp~t_715~s_2105) by Culver City Architects & Designers spfa.com

Thank you all, again! Les-I love your idea...it was one of the first plans that I tried when we got the new furniture. The EC was a bit large for that corner unfortunately. (It's been in both corners and along the couch wall already!) I also tried the couch on the wall where the EC is, but that wall is shorter and the couch pretty much went from end to end (from what I remember), so no room for a table. But I'll measure and try again. While this is the room that we do watch tv, I agree with you...I do not like it looking as though it's the center of our lives, b/c it's not! I'm wondering if maybe I put the tv on a smaller table (I have one or two that may work) and put it in the corner you said, then move the couch, either to the windows or the back wall, if it works. Thanks for your help! kswl: I love your idea about chairs with legs, for a more roomy look. That never occurred to me. I like the idea of a slipper chair as well. I'm considering turning our DR into a reading room, since with small kids, we don't use that room much at all! We have a morning room with a table large enough for us and more, so losing the DR is not really an issue. So if we change the DR, the overstuffed chair would go in that room. I don't love the EC...it's a Sauder piece that we bought years ago. The *only* nice thing about it is that is has great storage for dvds/cds/kids puzzles & games and even the sides have tons of storage for books etc. Our plan is to send it to the basement, if and when we ever finish it. In this market, we don't want to do it, b/c we may move in the next few years and would never recover the $$. One more question?? Can I do decorative curtains on the two far ends of the windows? So the middle window would be open? I do want to add some color, softness, coziness, but it seems like curtains on all 3 windows is way too much. I've tried valances on all three, but they did nothing for the room and made it seem very choppy to me, if that makes sense? Thank you again, everyone...I wish I knew what I was doing...this is really helpful. At least I know for sure to measure next time before I make a purchase this big. :)

After calculating what was written above me, it looks like you can fit the same size table I have in my dining room, which is 42" wide by 78" long with the leaf in. We can fit up to 8 people at our table with the leaf in. I also love having a rectangle table! I have two openings in my dining room - one to the living room and the other to the kitchen. I have a door on the other wall and a window on the 4th. Just place your table in the middle of the room and it will work.

Did you see this on their website? I would do a plain Parsons chair, with or without the skirt. I think this shape would work, too, but not the tack head detail. This barrel shape looks good.