So glad this brought a laughter to your life Victoria. We ask cause it doesn’t hurt too, maybe somedayyy someoneee that actually has it could share with us a link where we could go and pay for it. I certainly would do it. If you have nothing positive or helpful to contribute, then don’t post uncooperative comments. Thanks.

Cpartist, you reminded me not to be so stubborn! :) Well I'm about as stubborn as they come and think I know it all. ;) Plus I'm from New York and I'm um, slightly, um, blunt. Realize our critiques are not critiques about you, but how you can possibly improve your space. And of course you're free to take the advice or ignore it, but before outrightly ignoring it, be sure the reason you are is because you truly thought it out. For example, in the kitchen forum, multiple people suggested I put my prep sink on my island and my cleanup sink on the perimeter, which is the more common way most people do it. I spent a lot of time before hearing the comments, and many more after thinking about why I wanted the prep sink on the perimeter and not the island. Mostly it has to do with how we live and aging in place and I realized in this example, for DH and myself, the way I designed it was the correct way for the two of us. I'm a little afraid to change anything major because we have already waited four years to be at this point and neither one of us want to delay much longer (we are so done with this rental!). But if it means a smarter design for the home, we may end up doing so. I don't know if you read my saga, but we started our journey 2 years ago this week by putting down a deposit on a lot. Had a plan that went into permitting in December of 2015 and then pulled it out of permitting less than a month later, when we realized it was still not right and the only way to make it right was to see if we could purchase a bit more land. (We're on a city lot. A 6100 square foot plots originally.) We asked if the builder would be willing to sell us an additional 1/2 lot. Well that set us back another month, then it was another 3-4 months redesigning the house. Then it was 4 months in permitting (don't ask, but I'm no fan of the city), and even during the permitting process I was making changes which are all documented in my threads. But now I feel our custom house is just right for us. As far as the bathroom/guest room hallway issue. Should we make an "indent" there, (without slanted walls), and have the two doors facing one another? That would make it a little more private I think. I think that would be a good solution but I think I'd also put a wall up where the dining room is so there's absolutely no loss of privacy. I put the wall in on the drawing below. Your living room would still be open and you'd still have that wonderful view from the front hallway through the living room out to the rear. Your entry to the master bedroom still concerns me because you're taking space away from the living room. Room to arrange furniture, etc. How about moving the right side of the house down so the door to the master now enters into the bedroom from the hallway. Haven't changed the bathroom at all, but now the porch would start at the bathroom wall and then extend the length of the front of the house. One other thing to consider. Are you and your DH on the same wake/sleep schedule? If you are, then the bathroom and master closet are fine, but if you're like my DH and myself where I'm a night owl and he's a morning person, that can create some conflict with the two doors to the bathroom and closet with lights, noise etc. (It's why ARG's solution of the extra door is so genius for us.)

Hi Carrie. Your friend is right. Get the smaller sofa and go from there -- as you say, the current one's time has passed and it's dragging you and your home down. You don't need to have a plan for every square inch of the room -- and honestly I don't know that you NEED to do much, if anything, else. I think when the new sofa is concrete vs abstract -- when you are looking at its color, shape, and texture in your room -- you'll have a renewed sense of what additional touches you want. I may post a thread on this soon as I'm curious about people's process -- I am often a collector of ideas until I get a catalyst piece, then it's easy to make follow-up edits or choices from there. Alternatively I may have a space that's pretty much done but missing something...and when I find it that "something" fits right in with all (or most!) of what I have. I kind of feel like your TBD sofa is that complete-r piece for you but only time will tell!

With that location of the outlets, I'm thinking the FP end will need two sofa's facing each other and perpendicular to the FP or in an "L" with one side for a pair of chairs. The outlets will serve end tables with lamps. At the TV end do the 4-chair arrangement in front of the window. Swivels will work well and you can put TV on the same wall as the door; computer area left of the window. You may have room to bridge the gap between the two seating areas with a backless settee. If you do a rug, it will have to fit in the area left between the two outlets (unless you want to cut a hole in it! lol)