I’ve renovated and now am at the exciting step of purchasing furniture. I was hoping to have two sofas and two arm chairs. It’s a large space but the layout is awkward. Any suggestions would be appreciated.

I like the suggestion from groveraxle to mark out furniture locations with painters' tape. The other thing I've found useful is cardboard boxes - wine boxes are ok, bigger ones are better! And when you're ready, I love Ben Pentreath's wise suggestion to hire professional movers to shunt your rugs and furniture around for you. You sit back and feel pampered with a glass of wine, while they do all the sweating and grunting, and don't argue with your decisions like family members and good friends do! You may have to wait a couple of weeks for a good team, but when moving "season" calms down you should get lucky.

If the storage is being used and also enjoyed as a seat, I would leave it. Float your sofa in the room, perpendicular to the short wall between the kitchen door and that little nook. In the nook, create a little seating area. You could slide a desk into it if you enjoy sitting at a table to write or use your devices; add a floor-to-ceiling bookshelf and position a chair in front of it; run an 18" counter top along the back wall and add two swivel stools; tuck a daybed in there...With a great piece of art and some lighting from a table lamp, hanging pendant(s), or floor lamp it will be a cozy corner for one or two people :)

Depending upon her age, you could ask your daughter and follow her preference for her room. If the issue for you is the visual of it rather than spacing: With curtains on the window that hide the side window frames, you couldn't tell that wall behind the headboard is not as wide as the headboard. That might help the visual vibe. If you like the no curtain open window look, you could use both sheers and a pair of drape panels for each window and only cover the side window frames, leaving the shears in the middle to "cover" the window itself. Alternately, you could use a double rod and have the sheers on the inner rod and have the option to leave the curtains or drapes open or closed. You might also consider a different option: Change the bed to a metal frame (with wheels) -- without any headboard or foot board -- and use the window to the right of the chest of drawers as a headboard -- leaving the other windows unadorned, use curtains to create a theme at the head of the bed that represents your daughter's current interest.