The sofa is centered on the rug, however. This helps to add to the illusion of symmetry.

I like the artwork centered on the sofa. That is my preferred arrangement. My mother, OTOH, prefers art centered on the wall. It looks terrible, and I told her that, and she didnt listen! 🤯

The room looks fine to me.

I just had the oversized framed antique embroidered piece hung in the den today. The den (really a small bedroom, or could be an office), for us, is a walk-thru space to take dogs to their grassy area. This is also a room where pieces went that didn't fit anywhere else and I didn't want to get rid of.. The embroidered piece is hung over the sofa, but not centered between the two small high windows. The sofa is not centered since the French dining table used as a library table is to its left holding my favorite interior design books and porcupine quill box collection. It's not a hodge podge, but a collected look. Would everyone agree? Probably not. Jinx probably would love and Pal probably would run screaming.

Then, back to today, I get upstairs to the great room area and I'm looking at the square coffee table (had to swap coffee tables, see dog comment coming up) that DH pushes with his feet. It is not centered on the sofa due to two chairs/one table against windows... and the media cabinet, which is centered under the TV, and is not centered with the sofa because I have a 28" space between wall and sofa so the blind dog (now has no eyes) can make her way from that area to the dining room (and her other bed, she has one near TV too).

None of this bothers me on a daily basis, because when I look at the rooms they are arranged with things I love and in a pleasing to the eye way. Symmetry can be boring.

The plant balances the visual weight of that side of the room and sometimes that is all that is needed to create the idea of symmetry.

It would bug me! It either needs to be completely symmetrical or completely and purposefully asymmetrical.

The room arrangement looks good, however, I could not take that matching furniture LOL!

I agree with bpath. I like things balanced, not necessarily symmetrical.

It looks fine to me. Too much symmetry bothers me - it makes me feel like I am looking into a kaleidoscope.

However, I do have my sofas/lounge chairs centered in the rooms that they are in. One is centered in front of windows with a rug centered in front of it, and the other is centered on wall openings of what used to be windows, before the house was expanded.

I do not have that much matching furniture, however.

Allison knows me well. :D

I’ll post a pic later of my TV wall. It’s asymmetrical, but balanced (I like that phrasing). :)

Leave it alone, it looks wonderful.

It looks fantastic. I sometimes think too much symmetry is boring.