Hang a picture above the thermostat and call it good.

I think to start with I'd place TV on the left and paint the door and frame to match the wall color. You may have bigger fish to fry once you move in (HVAC, plumbing, etc.) All kinds of issues can arise once you're in the home to eat into any leftover cash you have. Once you live with it for a while, you may find it isn't the issue you thought it would be. There may be more urgent items that need your attention and cash. Dream, plan, make ideabooks here, and take your time.

Since you have a family room elsewhere, you might want to rethink this room and create only a small conversation area left of the fireplace and, perhaps, add a desk/table where sofa is located to create a home office area there. If you can access the hallway or any other room from more than one place including this front entry room, consider closing off the door to that space from this room. On the right wall from the entry door to the rear of the house, you may need to limit that to furnishings that do not include seating. Take some measurements and see if the sofa fit with its back against the wall in that left far corner so that the left arm of the sofa is parallel to the front exterior wall? It may be that you need undersized pieces -- a pair of love seats rather than a full sized sofa or a "ladies" recliner rather than a huge one -- in the room to make the seating a good fit. Something that might be helpful could be drawing the room, to scale, on graph paper and then drawing the "footprint" of each piece of furniture you may want in the room as well so you can cut out the outline of the furnishings and see what fits where -- better than lugging the furniture around until you get it the way you want.

We might recommend dealing with the living area first, the dining area next, and then the entryway. From what we can tell, that loveseat or settee is really in the way. We might suggest closing off some of the openings between the dining and living. We also might suggest, if you want to keep the living room where it currently is, to get two chairs that are smaller and can be on the wall with openings once the wall is closed up some. This will allow you to be able to walk into the living room with ease. Once that is done, then you can look to the dining room. It's hard to tell from the photos but are you able to add a console with art above it once the openings are closed? If so, then we would recommend that and a rug to help ground the area. In this first image below, please note how the sectional is facing a wall (which could be similar to yours once you close some of the openings between the living room and dining room), and you could easily put a TV over console on the closed up wall: This space is similar to yours, once you close up some of the openings between the living and dining rooms, you could add two chairs on the closed up wall, like you see below: Here you see a dining room, and how your closed up wall could look with a console on it once the holes are closed: