Your furniture is playing "the rug is lava" and the coffee table just died! You have a lot of big furniture in this room, so I'm going to recommend letting go of most of it. I hear you on the sentimental sofa. I have some pieces like that, so it'll stay put. Figuratively. Literally, I recommend turning your mum's sofa so it faces the fireplace. I love your wingback chair, and it goes great with the sofa, so let's keep that where it is for now. Let go of the rug, and let's look for a coffee table that suits the style of the sofa and chair, rather than what you have now. So far, we're just keeping the sofa and the wingback chair. You with me? Let's move the sofa table behind the sofa, that way you can keep some reading lights/task lighting. Next, we're going to remove everything from the walls. Yes, everything. This lets us see how the room looks without the distraction of frames and photos. Then we're going to curate the art and photos to create a collection that goes together. The other pieces can be distributed appropriately through the house. Once that's all done, post another photo so we can offer continued advice.

To be honest where you are and where you want to go are too far apart to make use of most of your furnishings...in concept cozy and zen are sort of opposites...zen is crisp and minimal and every element needs to be perfect...and functional....the most successful path would be to select new zen furniture and arrange it in a more cozy fashion...also scale really matters as your room needs to offer more open and unfurnished space...so your zen furnishings need to be on the small side to allow the room to feel almost empty while still accommodating the number of people who usually use this room and also guests if you entertain in this space...this is a worthy goal as a successful zen room is a joy to inhabit... a restful uncomplicated zone to escape all the normal pressures in life...

I think the blue panels are way too high of a contrast in the room; would you consider softening the windows with a blue, white, beige geometric print, but with lined panels to add the darkness you requested for the room? ....another timeless look, is a bamboo styled room darkening or regular shades in the windows in a mid shade relates to the floor color?

Wow - yeah, that's a lot of windows and doors. Holy cow. Have you thought about doing different colors on these walls to divide the spaces? I have no advice on the color because my computer and I are having a dress moment - I can't tell if those cabinets are green or cream. That being said, if you want to appeal to the masses, white and greige are major crowd pleasers lately. I agree that the rugs are the wrong sizes and I would say the red rug especially isn't doing this room any favors. I also agree that the island really isn't helping you. Here's my solution: I would take out the island and put in a built-in dining table. That will likely leave you with a patch in your floor, so put in a cabinet that faces toward the living area and that is table height, not bar height. If you're really crafty, careful, clever and lucky, you may be able to use the cabinet from the current island with some modifications. Buy two table legs from a hardware store. Paint or stain the cabinet and the legs a darker color than the kitchen cabinets. Then, get a nice, big, solid wood table top. Maybe something like this? or this? I don't know anything about these companies - I just did a quick Google search to get examples, so do some research. I'd go with a dark wood; don't try to match the floors. Because this built-in dining table is lower and longer than the current island it will block less of the view to the patio doors and it will actually draw the eye to that view. You'll be able to place any dining chairs around it and it will be more family friendly than your current bar height island. I wouldn't make it too long because you don't want to block flow between your fridge, sink, and oven range, but I bet you'll be able to sit 5-8 people around it depending on the size you go with (hard to tell dimensions from photos). In the end, you'll have an eat in kitchen with a patio view and a separate large living area. I'd recommend adding a pair of comfy, smallish chairs to your living room set to make that space more useful, as well.