What still puzzles me about this stair is that given a 9ft. ceiling height and 7 3/4"+ risers, the thickness of the second floor (ceiling to finish flooring) would be over 16" if there were 16 risers and it would be about 8" if there were 15 risers. For the smaller floor thickness the floor joists could not be larger than 2x8's and for the larger floor thickness the floor joists would be about 14" Since a typical floor thickness is about 12" I am greatly puzzled about your stair construction. Is there something unusual about the floor joists at the second floor? Is the ceiling height 9 ft. plus a tray or coffer? To accurately define the stair riser height you should give us the floor to floor height and the number of risers. To increase the distance from the front door to the stair by turning it, you must put one more riser at the lower run which would extend it farther into the lobby. If this doesn't make sense to you, you should ask your designer to draw the two conditions to scale before telling the builder to modify the stair. I could draw it if I knew all of the dimensions of the existing conditions but what you have posted doesn't seem to add up.

Nothing in picture is staying. All items are from other house and are just there until I decide what to do with room, what can be reused and what really must go. Ceiling in room is near 25feet. Lighting other than lamps will come later. Large art is a must. DH says that will come after the furniture. We have been getting ideas as there are also walls in the entry and stairway that need large art. I kinda like the idea of the curved sofa. Not sure if it facing the big wall will work. It may make room look too skinny. We actually did consider flipping the room at one point but decided to keep it the way it is. The room seems long and skinny but the width is actually decent. I think the real problem is that the windows in corner of the front of the room. It makes one want to either be in the area by the windows or be in the area where sofa is. We tried to overlap the sofa on the window and it looked like we were overlapping into that space. I agree that those sitting on sofa in the current layout feel on display as it is first thing you see when coming down the stairs or coming in the house. At one time I thought maybe doing a loveseat a few feet from arch with a sofa table behind it. DH was not too sure about that. I think he felt it chopped up the flow of the two rooms and when sitting on loveseat your back would be to the diningroom and anyone coming from there and the kitchen beyond. I am really into Feng Shui. Flow is important to me. I am just not sure how to achieve it in this room. Here are other views of room from a while ago- note other paint colors. View across room, looking towards entry from the sofa wall.

Really nice room, well put together, too. Doesn't seem odd at all -- not even odd shaped. But then, I do like bay windows and I'm liking all that natural light. Like the rug. Like the art (3) on the wall behind/over the sofa … but ... maybe not where it is currently hung as it is currently hung though. Do you have a fourth, similar pic that you could have framed with the same frame and hang them in a (slightly longer) row -- sofa edge to sofa edge -- and hang them lower? Unless everyone in your family is really tall, the art seems hung a bit high. The dark art over the loveseat seems out of place. If you put a tall thin lamp atop your bookcase, you could hang that darker piece to the right of the lamp shade (with the tops of lamp shade and art approximately even). In the single window above where the sofa and love seat form a corner, have you considered adding a stained glass window hanging there? https://www.google.com/search?tbm=isch&sa=1&ei=doMtW4DMO5LcswXLnJvwDw&q=stained+glass+window+hanging+square+or+rectangle&oq=stained+glass+window+hanging+square+or+rectangle&gs_l=img.3...2178.3980.0.4244.13.13.0.0.0.0.147.918.9j2.11.0....0...1c.1.64.img..2.0.0....0.h4yPZoUPbdw You mentioned the shape of your living room -- did that influence your putting the table/chairs by the bay window or, is that your usual/only dining area? If the table is actually used -- perhaps for card games or board games or putting together jigsaw puzzles or for arts and crafts or socializing -- if there is any reason the table is there, then it works there. If you just put it there because you didn't know what else to put in that space, perhaps it is time to rethink its location. Try the rug underneath the 3-seat sofa with its edge stopping at the left edge of the loveseat (after you move the loveseat to the right to center it with the wall behind it). Leave the sofa within a few inches of the wall -- embrace the extra room, especially if that is a fireplace hearth across from the sofa (potential stumble hazard). If it is slightly raised hearth (not just a rug or mat), then make sure you set something on each end so it is less of a stumble hazard: fireplace tools, basket … anything that says "look" so a raised edge hearth can be seen. Prefer taller lamps for living rooms -- leaving the shorter ones with tiny shades for desks or bedrooms. Matter of personal taste, though. Is the interesting tall white fabric rectangle to the right of the piano a cover for a tall ?something? handle or is it a lamp? … Do wait for your husband to move the heavy sofa and loveseat; however, you could work on that corner where thy meet: If it IS a lamp, have you tried setting in that corner where the sofa and love seat meet, either on the floor or atop the short table?

A peninsula counter/bar to eat at, can be very convenient also, but with the 45 degree angled wall opposite your right angle of kitchen counters, it may be you don't have the ability to have a direction where you cannot get out of the L of your kitchen? I have seen an L kitchen take a 2nd right hand corner for 3 feet and than kick back in to that 45 degree, to get the penisula, but again, you may need that foot traffic to go thru, right or left in the direction of your current counters, in which case a smaller L as she has above, is perfect, but access to those doors below a lower eating surface, might be fun.. The drop down, lower eating surface may be worth it though!! Try to be able to get access from the inside tho. Maybe you would not have to have a solid wall in that design?