It looks stylish but some nice art and a new light fixture can improve it. Pink chair needs to be pulled out of the corner and moved to another room. It stands out like a sore thumb. Get another chair or chairs for by the windows. A large round coffee table in carrara marble would be nice... your current one is crazy small for no reason. Kudos to you for matching your dog to your paint job, dark on the top and light on the bottom. :P Hard to tell what shade of white the bottom is but if it's not bright white, I like it and would leave it.

• The rug should be brought out from the left
• Pull all the seating away from the wall by a few inches
• Swing the red chair around into the conversation area so it's not stuck in the corner.
• The mirror doesn't do a thing for the space so I would recommend replacing it with art.
• The scale of the coffee table is too small to compete with the scale of the seating and should be replaced

could you show a picture of the other 2 walls too please. I think it would help alot with making the room feel more comfortable and right if you center your rug in the room so there is the same amount of flooring showing on all sides. then bring the furniture up to it. really only the front feet need to be on it. also bring the furniture away from the walls so you can open and close the drapery easily which are fine if you like them. the lighting makes me think it was ment for shared dining. maybe think of adding a small table between the windows with a couple swival chairs. it would make a nice place for morning coffee and a place for games or puzzles. I'm not crazy that the mirror reflects the tv, a mirror should reflect something nice. would it be better on the wall we can't see above that part of the sectional? I think a larger picture where the mirror is would be better. find another place for the smaller picturein the corner.

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Here’s the other side of the room. It’s a fairly small room (very old New England home) so I’ve struggled a bit on how to arrange chairs with the sectional and the two doors. We have an oar as a placeholder on the one wall, I like the idea of 3 framed photos with oversized mats vs that but haven’t decided.

Lovely home! I too would center the rug, pull thesctional a bit off both walls and pull side chair up closer to the fireplace between the two windows instead of in the corner. It could also ace the sectional there for a better conversational arrangement.

I like the idea of painting the bottom half navy.
But would you consider wallpaper on the top half? Navy based to match the top half … but something with a little pattern to break it up some…

Then, I’d pull out the sofa.
Remove the corner chair.
And add two benches on the window wall.

The coffee table is super cool. But I think it’s too small…

Some inspiration (remember - pull out the sofa and the rug a little bit. I can’t do it on my phone…)

Thanks for the extra pictures. It really does help to get better answers for your dilemma. Seeing those you definitely have to move everything. There is so much wasted space between the fireplace and your seating area. I would center the rug with the fireplace bringing everything closer by turning the rug 90 degrees. Your seating is so far away from the tv. You have a beautiful home

Thanks all! Cheryl, I’m not sure what you mean about turning the rug, I don’t think it would fit any other way but I can see pulling everything up and centering!

I’m assuming it is rectangular and the longest side of the rug looks to me like it is from the windows to the chaise part of the sectional wall. Hard to tell from the pictures but the room to me looks longer from the fireplace to the mirrored wall. Example… if the room is 12’x15’ and the rug is 8’x10’ … the rug should sit with the 8’ side along the 12’ wall and the 10’ side with the 15’ wall. Centered in the room to start. Everything builds around the rug. If that is true Try turning it centered with the fireplace so the shorter side is at the fireplace. Ideally you’ll have 1’-2’ of wood flooring showing all the way around the rug. Our eyes want balance. Hopefully the rug then is closer to the fireplace so you have that reveal instead of a lot of space like it is now it will help make it look less disconnected.

More to go but moved off the wall!

Well, that took a while. Coffee table is still too small and the pink chair still needs to go into another room.

I just recommended this for someone else and thought it would work here really well bringing all your colors together:

I would get rid of the chair rail and 2-toned wall and paint it all the navy. Nice color BTW!

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I went with a round marble coffee table, any side table recommendations? I agree I need to get rid of the chair but not sure what to replace with in that space.

The curtains would look better hemmed to not touch the floor. They are not long enough to gracefully puddle.