Now it's beginning to work! Luv the rug! A few more red showstoppers, and I luv the post about matting your family pic, and larger frame for it. Looks like you might be a bit uncomfortable with the great post idea of moving your sofa out into the room away from wall. If so, could you accept putting it diagonally from the entrance doorway, across that corner where it is, stopping at the edge of your window? That's a bit of a move outward, still can see the fp and tv, and show off your new rug, which could go diagonally in front of the sofa. Then, if you like that, after a while you could move it on out as Deb K suggests. Sometimes intermediate steps are more doable for us than those big changes.Same with painting; if you could first paint just the fp wall, then later paint other walls...seems some color would really make it more homey. Would you cosider a quite contemporary fixture for the light in the center ceiling? Maybe a bit of red could go there!

Nobody's asking, but I wonder what a wood garage door would look like, something to bring out the bit of brick at bottom....I liked our split level.

Love the blue carpet. It's such a nice colour and you rarely see blue carpet!

No, sorry. Can't help. But if you copy and paste your answer in the Australian forum you may get more responses. If this is in the nz forum, aussies can't see it, but we see nz and Australia if we click nz as the country, in settings