We too will be having a layout very close to yours (someday). I'm a stickler about symmetry too so I totally understand where you're coming from about the sink being in the middle. Having the entire kitchen in symmetry and only the sink off center seemed off. The more I thought about it though we finally moved it off-center like Taggie suggested with the DW on the end with the sink next to it. Your eye will naturally fall to the back wall with it's perfect symmetry of windows and vent hood. The sink is in a sense out of sight since it's on the flat surface and only takes up about 6 square feet of flat space. Your eye mostly goes to the vertical surfaces of the room (windows, cabinets, vent hoods) and secondary to the flat surfaces (cooktops, counters). The only thing that will be noticed much will be the skinny stem of the faucet. Even a goose neck is small in comparison to everything else that is going on in the kitchen. I will have almost a 10' wide island, with a 24" DW, 36" sink, 18" pull-out trash, and a 36" base drawers. I can't tell if you have a pull-out for your trash on either side but perhaps you do. Bottom line, I would move the sink and make sure I had a pull-out trash.

Thanks for your kind words Woodnative. I have a mini green house and use an ultrasonic humidifier to keep them from drying out. However, as for the moss, it can never stay indoor for long, so I have to take it outside twice a month. During the summer, the moss will dry out and become dormant, but it will be nice and green again in the winter.

The fist think I noticed is the confusion created by the 2 cascading branches. My eye kept going back and forth between them and wouldn't stop until I focused on what I'd do about it. I'd get rid of one or shorten it considerably so as to end the battle, but I think I'd wait until the tree recovers from the severe pruning you gave it. More movement needed in whichever of the cascading branches you choose. Al

Hi, Holly-- Agree with our other posters who recommend against an accent wall in this space - open-plan spaces further limit those options (especially with the bullnose outer corners that your home includes), but I do hear you for a bit more color contrast in the space. Your current palette is so restrained it might be easiest to consider alternatives in a larger rug and complimentary artwork - both for your current placement, and, space allowing, on the wall behind the door swing, too. As other folks have recommended, a larger area rug here offers you the room's largest palette to bring in additional colors that play with your warm greige neutrals - navy, persimmon, coral spice, mustard - that you could echo up into side chair upholstery options, too. Also think that a rectangular light fixture here - brought to the recommended height over the tabletop that decoenthusiaste shares and always on a dimmer - could help introduce interest here. If more light layers are needed and your space allows, a very narrow console table under your key artwork would offer you a placement for a set of narrow, tall buffet lamps as well. Good bones here but think a little tweak with lighting and some additional tones in the right places could help you make a world of difference. Cheers!