Our upstairs living room (now the dining room) had a gianormous elaborately framed mirror, and two oblong matted pictures. Downstairs (above a shelf that is at about half height and goes all the way around the room), we have a sculpted wood tree with burnished metal leaves. There are also matching metal cut-out stars and a moon placed here and there on the wall. I love both, but the pictures would have needed updating (if we hadn't converted it to a dining room). The colours are slightly outdated, and feature hummingbirds and flowers. I've moved to victorian flowers. I still adore the wood/metal tree though. Dances.

Shine_2009, last winter I moved one floor down & around the corner to get an apartment with better light: the Canned Spinach walls in my old apartment were a way to make the natural darkness of the place--with only one window, it was like as a cave anyway, after 9AM--work for me, not against me. I don't pay any attention to the old advice to paint light rooms darker & dark rooms light, and there, dark walls were a good solution for a space that was gloomy even on sunny days. In my new place, I not only have light till 3PM--even in the dark days of winter--I also have a cross breeze, so much, in fact, that if I drop a piece of paper on the floor, before I know it it's been blown down the hall. Great on fall days like today, with the curtains blowing in the chilly breeze & the wooden blinds chattering like chipmunks. Of course, all that light means more windows, and dead center on two walls at that, and after you factor in a door to the dining room on the third wall and an open archway & a wooden mantel on the fourth, well, there's not much wall space left for art. That's why, in the only room that tends toward the dark, I'll be painting the walls Wet Coffee Grounds brown and the artwork will go all the way to the ceiling on every inch of open wall space. Sort of like the wall opposite my sofa in my old place--except this time around, it will be even more crowded. Right now, though, most of my framed art is still on the floor, leaned up against the walls, and most of my seating has to float out in the middle of the room. In decorating as in life, there's always a trade-off.

the floor plan is to scale for your room, sofa and (from web) a baby grand piano. Without other measurements of the two openings, it’s just a guesstimate. I see the rug as the biggest problem. I like it, understand why you want to keep it, but it just doesn’t fit properly in that space. I see other seating behind the French doors. Could you use the rug there? Two sofas will not work. The piano must be kept away from the windows. I was able to get two swivel chairs into a seating arrangement with the leather sofa and the (great) coffee table. I put a wing chair in the other corner. As you can see, I just couldn’t fit another sofa into the room. The rug…if it were centered on the fireplace and windows, would all legs of the piano be on it? If you give me the rug measurements, I will put it into the floor plan. As for swivel chairs which would look good with the sofa, I think these, from Target (good reviews) would work nicely. With all the big pieces in the room, don’t do smalls. Get a large oil painting (or good repro canvas) in deep colors. Not quite the sofa tone…just a place holder.

@kathy rie you might want to see if you can make the arrangement work that Dane Austin shows. If you look there isn't a large amount of space between the table and the seating so pulling the seating closer together might make it work with a rectangular coffee table instead of the square one so the coffee table isn't as wide. Although your furniture does look deep. It is hard to tell what the dimensions are in the space, but the dining area looks to be roughly 12 ft wide to the edge of the fireplace, so it is possible it could work if your furniture isn't extra deep.