your house is totally beautiful. Myself if it was my house i would do a few things. First I would paint some color on the walls, a bit darker maybe in browns, or a sage green, or a soft gold..and then I would find some type of art that I love, or large plates or something..and I would put a colleciton of those items on the wall across the entire space at the same level, above the wall and entertainment center..remember you'll have to clean whatever you put up there so try to make the items things that won't gather a lot of dust..also that other large wall area on the other side calls for something large..maybe you could put something in the same venue on that wall.. some ideas might be, say a collection of clocks, a colleciton of pictures, a colleciton of large platters or tin trays, metal grilles..etc. and then if you want to set things on the ledge, try to tie the items into the art on the wall..and keep it simple. say if you were in the desert or mexican region, you could put up there some large mexican type plates or flat wicker type bowls, with some other large urns in a similar style on the ledge.. Say if you are into antiques..you could put a colleciton of antiques across the wall of similar size and shapes and then put a few coordinating antiques on the ledge.. i do see that you enjoy the wicker look, i think i would go with that look by adding a warm brown to the walls or a sage green, and then I would hang the larges wicker trays you can find in a row across the wall, put the large wicker baskets in the far right hand corner, and add a few more around the room..maybe with magazines in them, make sure the scale of the items you use in the room are very very large..you might check out some import stores like Pier one for large items..they have beautiful large painted wooden items that are dark and would go with your wood..some are the size of doors ..they can be quite expensive though so watch for sales..they would be beautiful up there, with maybe some import items on the shelf that would coordinate??

I agree with Idaclaire. I have a very large coffee table and I do a seasonal coffee table vignette - spring, summer, fall, christmas and then winter. If you google coffee table vignettes or sofa tablescapes it may spark your imagination. I just go to Home Sense and pick up a couple of things each season. You could anchor it with a plant and then add favourite things around it. you may already have some things that you can start playing with. And don't forget you can do small artwork or family pictures and prop them on a small easel which are affordable at Michael's.

I really like what AD did. Although I would not put a plant in the corner. Here are some other options. 1. Hang two sconces on either side of the drapes and extend the shelf to the left almost to the back of the sofa. The sconces will bring the eye up and coordinate with the chandelier (which I think could also be larger and hung a bit lower.) Remove the plant. 2. Sconces and put a floor lamp with a large shade between the two sofa ends. 3. Two tall plants on either side of the drapes and a tall table lamp with large shade on a square end table between the two sofa ends. Beautiful home!

a few large baskets. that's it. or nothing. and to make the door less noticeable, I'd remove the trim work around it and get a better fitting door. paint it all to disappear. maybe paint that wall a darker color so that it recedes, and put a few baskets like deegw pictured, below.