If this were to be my house the first thing I would do is paint the fireplace the color of the wall. It looks rather dated and also makes the room look smaller. If you were to put the entertainment center in the corner it will compete with the fireplace and chop up the area even more if the fireplace stays as it is. One of your first priorities should probably be to decide on a color scheme so that you'll know what to look for in terms of drapes and a carpet. If you find a carpet you love you can pull out different colors from it for your furniture and drapes, which might simplify the process. Having a lot of dark furniture with dark floors might be too much unless you're only talking about wood furniture and not couches and chairs. Just remember you'll spend a lot of time in this room so take your time to pick items you really love in colors that make you feel happy.

Hey, what is wrong with a Cheetos bag, especially from the perspective of a high schooler? LOL I think I would move the bed unit to the wall that the door is on. That way when you look into the room it isn't the first thing that you see, so that it overwhelms the space. Also, I think the wall it is on currently could be put to better use. Be sure you mount some kind of shelf up on the wall by the bed, so that he can put an alarm clock up there. You will want to mount a swing-arm lamp up on the wall so that he can read in bed and not have to get down to turn off lights. Have a comforter, not a bedspread, for ease of making the bed. This bedding from Penney's might be perfect: stan comforter I would get a drafting table or something along those lines, and put that in the corner where the windows all meet. That will give him great light for working on schoolwork and puzzles. Then the two seating pieces can be down that wall and into the opposite corner a bit near the closet door. Maybe a inexpensive small plastic or RTA table between the two seating pieces. I would do the orange as a stripe that runs around the room, as wide and at the same level as the space between the bottom of the bunk and the back support brace on the bed unit (about desk height. That should put it just above about 30 inches at the bottom, so just above chair rail height. Behind the desk in that area, instead of just an orange stripe, make it orange-painted corkboard or bulletin boards so that he has a place to hang stuff related to school and other reminders, a calendar, etc. I would look for other ways to bring in the orange, like painting the fam blades, a couple of throw pillows in a wild print that includes the blues and oranges, orange frames on artwork or photos. You could also consider adding orange stitching lines to your denim walls, done every so many inches to mimic the stitching on denim jeans. Oh, and I don't think a 14x14 room is small at all. Our younger son had a similar unit in his room when younger, and that space was 10.5x11 with 8 ft. ceilings. Didn't overwhelm that room at all. More room than two people have in the typical college dorm room, too. Looks like you have had fun and done a great job on the walls!

You are fortunate to have a large room! As for the side table next to the sectional, it's not too much if you need it. If someone often sits there, they do need a place to put there drink and/or a snack. Maybe you need the table for a lamp, too. The one you have there now may a bit small, it looks like just the box of tissues takes up the whole table. Before you purchase a new one, why not wait until your area rug comes so you can get a good idea of what type of end table will suit?

Thanks everyone, we are going to make this phase of our lives work and if not then we will change something at that point. I do appreciate so much the words of encouragement. Flo, I will try moving the rug over and see what that does with where the blue chair can be. As you know it isn't easy to move a rug that size so any moving of it has to be this week while DH is here. DD, I agree with you that I might need some more of that color in the room and it is always in the back of my mind. The original plan was to have the doors of the TV console cabinets in that walnut, but they warped so badly that we went back to the ones they came with.