New House Living Room- Before and After

The living room is a little awkward.  It is one giant box.  Here is what the previous homeowners did with it.


They tilted a loveseat right right as you walk in.  It was super awkward, and cut the room off if you are looking at it from the dining room.


This is from the view of where my large plant is now.  That would be a Christmas village on permanent display on that weird shelf in the sky.


I can appreciate that they didn't want to block off the gorgeous window.  But it led to problems in their furniture arrangement feeling off somehow.

Here's how it is for us.

 This is from standing by the table so you can see the columns.  I guess they are there for the arched ceiling portion?

 Left side of the living room.

Right side of the living room.
 
View from the kitchen.  What we have on the shelf in the sky is a couple of monkeys that you shoot with your fingers and a sock.  Because of course there is.

Another shot to put it into perspective.

We don't really have any other plans for this room other than painting, and also perhaps putting some type of rug in front of the two black chairs.  I tried all sorts of sizes of jute rugs, but the room is just too large.  We tried a 8 X 10, but it was too small and made the room feel funny, we tried a 10 X 14 but it took up way too much area and looked odd, plus was out of our price range. a 9 X 12 didn't work with the distance of the furniture from each other. Funny enough, a random 5 X 7 rug we have in Kembia and Truitt's room looks great, and will help preserve the white carpet a little bit anyway. But we need one that matches.

We definitely are marking up the white carpet, even though we are pretty good about wearing socks or not being on it.  I may have to look into a carpet cleaner and then become obsessive about it!