Great ideas @havingfun! Thank You! It's funny, we started physically moving some things around down there, and I'm starting to think the TV should indeed go on the far wall. I'm just worried about it creating a black hole at the end of this long room. Are you suggesting dividing the room into two sections? Like a TV section and a fireplace section? "face couch or appropriate chairs towards the tv. appropriate chairs or couch to fireplace" and then a rug in each section? I like Bohemian, vintage, rustic, industrial styles I think. I liked the first and third rug you suggested. Maybe light bright rugs and warm darker furniture? We really like the idea of leather sofa/s, like the kind with the nailheads. We have cats and friends, so any anti-stain, non-fur grabbing furniture is what we are looking for.

I think, if you accept you are not going to have superwide spaces between things, that you can place a sleeper couch facing your fireplace with a bit of a passageway behind it and enough space to open the closet doors. Add a chair or two to one or both sides of the fireplace. You should be able to unfold the couch when you have visitors, if you move any coffee table you might want out of the way. Aside from the obvious space problem, it looks like a really cosy apartment. Enjoy it.

First of all, can you return your sectional. It dwarfs your room and if your drawing is to scale, it make moving things around very difficult. If it can’t be returned, I suggest that you give up the notion of hanging your tv above the fireplace. It will be too high, to begin with, and will overwhelm the fireplace. The most logical place for your tv is the long, unbroken wall against which you have placed your sectional. I would try and swing the sectional so that its back is three feet from the wall with the little closet and the stairs, facing the window. This should permit placement of your tv in the CORNER to the side of the front window, opposite your front door. Can your sectional be reconfigured in any other way? You have barely any place for a chair or table in the room. And, yes, because of the chaise, the coffee table cannot be centered. But that really isn’t that critical.

It is a 'real' fireplace..it just has a gas starter which are SOOOO nice for eliminating the messy of getting a wood fire started!! The bottom line is in a room with a fireplace and a TV the seating needs to face both for the room to be used to its fullest. Fireplace/TV side by side is the most aesthetically pleasing positioning. BUT the OP doesn't have that option anymore. When that TV dies I would consider putting a new smaller one to one side or the other. For now a shelf makes the most sense to me. A random light fixture for no purpose seems like a missed opportunity for storage. The added COLOR by Celery, to that space is my personal favorite suggestion. I do not understand half the seating in the room with it's back to the TV/fireplace. This room gives the impression most of the TV watching happens in the kitchen/dining area, Why else the need for such a huge TV with little seating in the actual room?