Sorry I'm a little late to the party, but I think I have a similar room in my home. Mine is smaller and has a taller ceiling, but some pics may help your decisions Our room is 28' x 18'. We have separated it into two seating areas. One is an area where we can gather around our TV. The other is used as an eating area (adjacent to kitchen) or a game table. The TV seating area is anchored by an area rug; the other are is not. We have a chandelier over each area, although the chandelier is not directly centered over either area. This was a concern, but was wasted calories as it looks fine. We do have higher ceilings, although the spring point for our barrel vault is at the same height as your ceiling. There was an earlier comment that 10' is not high enough for such a large room, but I don't think that is necessarily true. I pushed for a 15' ceiling height in this room, but now think 13.5 would be better. Some nice beams might look nice on your ceiling. We do not have any cans in the room. I don't like cans and the round ceiling wasn't conducive to cans. The chandeliers are plenty of light, however each one has 8x40 watt bulbs. Your chandeliers or cans should be on dimmers for flexibility. We have two sconces over the fireplace and two lamps behind the TV area. We don't have a ton of natural light, but that is due to the shape, height and orientation of the house. Your site may differ. Our room is large in square footage (though not nearly as large as yours), but feels very cozy. The furniture layout can make a cavernous room feel warm. Anyway, here are some pics to see what I'm talking about. Hopefully this helps you. From Family Room From Family Room From Family Room From Family Room From Family Room

The "marble" is actually the brick hearth, sprayed with drywall mud (but I'm glad it looks like marble in pictures!). Most fireplaces in New Orleans don't work like normal wood burning fireplaces - they used to hold coal and then, in all the houses I've ever owned, seemed to be converted to some (must have been inefficient and dangerous to boot) gas operated space heaters. They were still in this house and operational when we bought it. So no, the fireplace doesn't actually work (the chimney was capped off in the attic). Because the hallway/bathroom was once a bedroom, the wood floor was already cut to accommodate the fireplace hearth, so we didn't mess with it. All we did was remove the mantlepiece to facilitate traffic flow. I think I will go with a runner and tuck it over the hearth with a little padding to even out the edge of the transition. That seems like a workable solution to warm up the space and not crowd the runner (or the walkers in the hallway!). Maybe next you all can help me figure out to do with the incredibly nice rug from Turkey that my in-laws gave us as a wedding present to go in our formal Garden District living room. Sadly, try as I might, I cannot find a place in this house where it will go...unless I just decide to not worry about it being smack dab in the middle of the traffic pattern of my storefront (it's a pale gold/spa blue/spring green/cream oushak)! Right now it's in our bedroom (all wrong) and the only other place it could conceivably go is in our breakfast room (under the table...where we eat neatly, but I've noticed my daughter's friends...not so much!) At 8x10 it always seems too big or too small for the space. Does that make sense? Moving house is so difficult. How do other people keep the same beautiful stuff for years and in many different homes?!

They may. I don't usually buy sets. My rugs on the main floor share some colors and blend from room to room and in the hallway(runner), but they don't match exactly in pattern. They should certainly be able to find ones that will go together and they may even have sets. Doesn't hurt to ask. :). Good luck. The store is at one end (not attached) of the strip mall. If you are familiar with the restaurant The Peking Gourmet Inn (sort of a well-known spot), it is across the street from that strip of shops (maybe a tad further west, but only by a matter of yards).

A ton of great information from all, thank you! I am not incredibly used to front load washers other than the ones I sometimes use at the laundromat. I grew up with top loading only; I'm not even 5ft tall so the front loading can be nice lol all the top loading washers require a step stool or me practically climbing in to reach everything haha I don't particularly have any preferences as far as the cycles go rather than options of hot, warm, cold washes. I have never had anything beyond that and never a machine with its own water heater. I didn't even know that was a thing. I typically do large loads frequently as I have allergies and we have 3 cats. I'm allergic to wool and I don't own any silk or cashmere clothes. I'm pretty basic I guess! I just prefer to know if there's issues with any of them being more reliable or not. Especially as I figured most are more computerized than old basic knobs. I usually will pick whatever has the least plastic parts and as little computerized things to go wrong or break since it gets expensive and we are in shortage of all those things currently. I have never heard of the Miele brand until on here and so that's one I would have to really read up on. I don't know what the options will be where we are going. I did find that they have a local speed queen sales floor though.