I like everything I see at your website homepage and have been following your kitchen progress from onset at the Kitchens forum. A young newlywed couple embarking on this whole house DIY renovation is truly ambitious and impressive! Your progress pictures and narratives of the plans and dreams make me look forward to MORE. A hallway connector from the breakfast room to the sunroom would look great and better serve you than an outside-only narrow alley betweeen the two rooms. (You'd be hard pressed to turn around with a broom in hand in a deadend alley between the two tall walls.) I have no doubt you'll find a perfect connection solution. So, who will be riding the lawnmower come spring? A huge homesite spread you have at seven acres (compared to So. Calif. standards anyway), but fortunately it looks that a goodly portion is wooded. Oh, the energy of youth!

Back to the Living Room if you don't mind. What are ways to place the TV in that corner or wall next to the fireplace. Obviously if in the corner then somehow the window will be partially behind the TV. I personally don't have issues with placing the TV above the fireplace and I want the furniture to reflect the fireplace as the rooms focal point. I just can't seem to completely wrap my mind around how to layout the furniture best if the TV is on the front exterior wall and/or in the corner.

Hey guys! so I wasnt intentionally not replying...my phone got stolen from a department store (I accedentally set it down, lol!) So I got a new phone and had forgotten my login info (I was automatically logged in) I have still been searching for inspiration. I shouldnt be, but I am still so embarrassed of my house. A lot of it is because due to indecisiveness I have not replaced the furniture I cant stand. I feel like the things I pin on pinterest or save to the ideabooks still just dont fit my living room. I feel like because of the rectangleness of the room the dining room and living room almost have to match/coordinate. It also has to match the floors and the taupe wall color since those arent going anywhere anytime soon. In the ideal world I like shiny dark furniture, especially a dining table but in my head those are all diffrent dining rooms, or open dining rooms that match the kitchen. When you walk in its BAM living and dining room. So I feel like it's just making due with the space. I'm just not really a big fan of my house layout in general, but I am embarrassed to have people over.. My husband absolutely does not want to spend a lot of money on it. We were in a place to, but when we could I couldnt make up my mind. I found this on an Instagram bloggers. Her house really resembles ours, the couch against the window wall, the open living and dining room. I like how her coffee table and dining table match each other, it looks very coordinated. And I also like the black coffee table top with the black on her TV (in the same place as ours). But she posts links to her furniture and I def cant afford that or I'd just be copying lol! I wish I could just copy someone by the book but these bloggers all have a diffrent budget than I do! Hers does have a bit of a farmhouse vibe, but I like it because it is modern. I also like the dining table because it is not cloth chairs and with kids that doesnt always end the best! The style though farmhouse is very popular right now and modernized, from what I can tell. I like walking into target and seeing the target style. I know its modern and popular. I just want to make sure the dining room matches the living room. But I'm in a play or safe kind of vibe. Rooms to go and ashley is more in our budget, cheaper furniture sets and financing options. I like the ones at world market, wayfair etc. but they can be pricey and no financing.. This is that bloggers page:

Maybe something like this?