I do not have any furniture for this room, currently I have two dining room chairs in there so it's not just an empty room- so anything you can imagine in a living room is fair game. I am neutral about having a television in this room. I can always mount one above the fireplace if needed or use a tablet. I plan to use this room as a gathering place for a few friends/family to sit and talk sit. I would also use room to read or relax in my free time. My home was built in the early 1900's the house is pretty traditional. I have very high ceilings (12 ft) and very tall windows (6ft.) Windows are just normal double hung windows. My fireplace is dark Mahogany wood (very similar fireplace photo attached) Stairs are also traditional/colonial- dark hardwood floor on stair treads and white risers. (Very similar Staircase photo attached below- I do not have wainscoting though)

I have a similar angled fireplace. If you're not wedded to the TV over the fireplace, I would suggest putting it next to the fireplace and angling your furniture around the TV. That's the way mine is. You can see the TV face on from some pieces of furniture, and the fireplace face on from others, but all can see the TV and fireplace. I use my fireplace daily in the winter so don't want a TV over it, it gets too hot up there. I would advice against a sectional. You can get the utility of a sectional from a couch and a lounge chair or two. I'd be more apt to angle the couch where the chairs are in your picture. A floor drawing would probably help with furniture placement. I think you could totally redo the room to match your inspiration picture, keeping the wall color unless you really want a dramatic change. I love the curtains in the inspiration photo! Your house is open concept like mine. Hard to figure out whether to repaint or not, because once you start with one room, it snowballs to how that affects the other rooms. You could always do one wall another color like the current owners have in the photo. Wish I knew what that color was in your inspiration photo. Browns and tans are the worst for me as far as choosing the right one. I burned up a lot of cash in sample paints when I moved into my new house. But it is the right time to repaint, before you move all the furniture in . . .

Really nice room, well put together, too. Doesn't seem odd at all -- not even odd shaped. But then, I do like bay windows and I'm liking all that natural light. Like the rug. Like the art (3) on the wall behind/over the sofa … but ... maybe not where it is currently hung as it is currently hung though. Do you have a fourth, similar pic that you could have framed with the same frame and hang them in a (slightly longer) row -- sofa edge to sofa edge -- and hang them lower? Unless everyone in your family is really tall, the art seems hung a bit high. The dark art over the loveseat seems out of place. If you put a tall thin lamp atop your bookcase, you could hang that darker piece to the right of the lamp shade (with the tops of lamp shade and art approximately even). In the single window above where the sofa and love seat form a corner, have you considered adding a stained glass window hanging there? https://www.google.com/search?tbm=isch&sa=1&ei=doMtW4DMO5LcswXLnJvwDw&q=stained+glass+window+hanging+square+or+rectangle&oq=stained+glass+window+hanging+square+or+rectangle&gs_l=img.3...2178.3980.0.4244.13.13.0.0.0.0.147.918.9j2.11.0....0...1c.1.64.img..2.0.0....0.h4yPZoUPbdw You mentioned the shape of your living room -- did that influence your putting the table/chairs by the bay window or, is that your usual/only dining area? If the table is actually used -- perhaps for card games or board games or putting together jigsaw puzzles or for arts and crafts or socializing -- if there is any reason the table is there, then it works there. If you just put it there because you didn't know what else to put in that space, perhaps it is time to rethink its location. Try the rug underneath the 3-seat sofa with its edge stopping at the left edge of the loveseat (after you move the loveseat to the right to center it with the wall behind it). Leave the sofa within a few inches of the wall -- embrace the extra room, especially if that is a fireplace hearth across from the sofa (potential stumble hazard). If it is slightly raised hearth (not just a rug or mat), then make sure you set something on each end so it is less of a stumble hazard: fireplace tools, basket … anything that says "look" so a raised edge hearth can be seen. Prefer taller lamps for living rooms -- leaving the shorter ones with tiny shades for desks or bedrooms. Matter of personal taste, though. Is the interesting tall white fabric rectangle to the right of the piano a cover for a tall ?something? handle or is it a lamp? … Do wait for your husband to move the heavy sofa and loveseat; however, you could work on that corner where thy meet: If it IS a lamp, have you tried setting in that corner where the sofa and love seat meet, either on the floor or atop the short table?

take the lamp with the yellow shade and set it on your end table. It will give you a feel for size. Im not sure you can go much larger on the end tables might start to get stuffy. Also, do you have floor out lets? IMO, not at pro. But I think that whole back wall could be better sorted. maybe a sofa table behind the could be a better place for lamps? OR maybe a long narrow console table on the back wall. move your art around and put lamps there?