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For about two years I have been taking a picture of things I love and be in jeopardy of buying. If I take the picture I "own it". I review my pictures and when I delete it I have fallen out of love. In two years I have found there was only one thing that I wish I had purchased that was sold...not bad.

Picture it own it!

I think you will be very happy. I don't recommend a larger rug as in my experience that is the part that people will walk and it tends to look different from the rest of the rug.
You do not have to keep you furniture all on the rug, but move it off an or so and your rug will cover a bit more wood but not too much.

I would go for texture in the rug although you don't mention what else you have going on in the room. Texture is just more interesting on wood I think.

I would still use the fireplace as a focal point. .In other corner opposite the fireplace why not put a folding mirrored screen..to ecco the fireplace... might use a sofa or grouping then angled in the right corner as you enter the room;you would be looking directly at the fireplace. If you want a media space put that along the left wall as you enter. I think you do have a focal point--the fireplace. It will be a really pretty room. Great size.

Grew up in a small town in Ohio..we walked everywhere. Live in a small (if 20,000 or so is small) in CT..we can walk everywhere. We have a library, two grocery stores-one local with organic produce; many small shops, tons of antique stores(no $100 farm tables! but farm tables). and a movie theater! Plus we can walk to the train and be in NYC in less than an hour. No gated communities. All the houses are different from 1700's colonial to the "Glass House". I love being close to a big city but far enough away that we have quiet and still very civilized.

I think most of us are ready for this! I am a "collector" so I rationalize my "need". However with age I have stopped.

I now take a picture of anything I see that I "need". I even take magazine pictures. If I have a picture in my phone I "own it". If I go back to a particular picture months later and long for it and think it would be used I might buy it--but something has to go first.

I have a ton of scarves and often would wear not some becasue I could not see them. Used three towel bars. Now I not only can see my scraves but I have a pretty color arrangement on the entire wall from top to bottom.

Great bones to work with and all your additions perfect! Love the nursery too.

Agree with so many other posters:

1. Most obviously to me-the blank back wall. Huge scale wall mural like the brich one from IKEA, a very graphic quilt, fabric in big scale like Marimekko. Whatever your taste but big scale.
2. Buy matching woven baskets in interesting texture but rather close in tone to wood..put them rather close together to give the illusion of cabinets that go all the way up. You should be able to use them for storing anything.
3. change out the light fixture.
4. Have mirrors cut so they are nearly the height of your backsplash. Do the right side as we see in in thirds and then frame from an online frame place. On the left do two on either side of the range...they are practical as easy to clean. Keep them clean and they will bounce the light around your kitchen.
5. Your fridge sticks out and can also be less obvious by covering a large rectangle from the top of fridge to near the counter with either a framed mirror or a blackboard.

You don't mention what room opens to this kitchen..make appropriate choices to tie in with that room.

You have really beautiful floors..I would pick one that is smaller than your original one for the winter-Flokati great-no rug at all in the summer.

I really believe that in the future most people will prefer to live without many walls--and this is really lovely. Love the center of you home the bright red kitchen. Great job on the walls--not just a rectangle--a home that suits life.