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Here is another variation you can try as well:

1. TV: In the diagram where you have the white arm chair, move the chair and place the tv there. (this solves the looking down the hall and seeing the tv)

2. LIVING ROOM: Next angle the couch so that if faces both the tv and the fireplace. Place the coffee table in front of the couch (you look down the hall or from the master bedroom door and you see an inviting chair that you want to sit in)

3. Place the chair with foot stool on a line with the coffee table on the master bedroom door way side of the room. If the room is smaller than the photo suggests you can place the chair against the wall, but at an angle and inline with the coffee table.

4. READING NOOK: Slide the low buffet down a bit, towards the hallway door. Take the white arm chair and the side table/red hide away ottoman and place it in front of the buffet at an angle looking towards the patio doors. Add a lamp on top of the buffet. Clean out your buffet, and now it becomes your book shelf, and the chair in front of it becomes your reading nook with deck view.

5. DINING ROOM: Two suggestions for the dining room: a) either turn the table at a 90 degree angle and place a chair on each side of the table OR b) eep the chairs how they are in the diagram and turn the dining room table on an angle paralell to the patio door. It allows the reading nook to appear bigger without taking up any additional dining room space.

6. THE CAT CARRIER: Take the cat carrier you have in the dining room and place it (if it fits) inside the red hide away ottoman. If it doesn't fit, put a table cloth on the dining room table long enough to place the cat carrier underneath the table and out of eye sight. By removing the carrier from view, it gives the room more visual space.

Hope all these suggestions help.