It's a lovely room but I would choose a larger rug which will make the room look even more elegant and rich. A rug with a border, such as the two directly above, gives a more finished look. Also, a rug with a bit more color variation, perhaps gray or cream with a soft terracotta, would lend more life to your dining room.

When we renovated our home including the kitchen 24 years ago, I assumed our decorator would say that our colonial style oak harvest table and chairs would need to go, and I was prepared to fight for them LOL. (She was new to us, British, with a plummy accent and lots of style.) But she was horrified at the thought that we would replace such a quality piece. Along the same lines, Prince Charles apparently wears suits with visible mending (apparently his tailor keeps the cutting scraps, for future repairs). I am constantly amazed that people think that a kitchen that was beautiful 30 years ago is suddenly ugly because it is oak. And, heaven forbid, with cathedral arch raised panels. How can they be ewww when they were wow?

Be sure to read up on the pruning of this particular kind - overly tall, bulging appearance (in relation to surrounding plants) of this example plus bare base, existing percentage of dead twigs easily remedied with hard pruning in spring. Without interfering with flower production same year, if done at recommended time. And bearded iris may resume flowering if no longer beneath shading top of hibiscus. So that you then get a spring bloom and a summer bloom from the same spot.

Modernizing your living room (after taking down a lot of the small decor items, which date the room): --A highly patterned more graphic rug (doesn't have to be this one because I don't know if the texture is dog friendly, but this palette that goes well with wood floors, tan pieces, wood items: --Bolder art and no small pieces over fireplace: --More modern lamp on corner table--wood base echoes your other wood pieces but has more modern lines --Take down clock --Add modern basket of chunky wood logs on the hearth and remove all the small decor items there except for seasonal like pumpkins