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I was told to follow the flow of traffic between the rooms. If the flow of traffic in your house has you going from the living room into the hallway most often (not sure where your doors are), paint the underside the color of the living room walls. If you enter from the hallway to go into the living room, then paint the underside the color of the hallway walls.

Another school of thought is to go with the lighter/more neutral of the two colors.

I think we have the same exact living room layout in our house. The door to the right of the fire place is our main entrance. In our house, the wall opposite the wall with 2 windows is our stairs to the 2nd floor.

We ended up putting the TV above the fireplace. We had no other place for it since we also had to fit our piano in the living room. Our sofa faces the fireplace and TV. The angle is okay if you're on the sofa, but it is hard to see the TV if you're sitting on the floor.

We had a similar issue with beige floor tiles that had to stay. We ended up doing beadboard that will be painted off-white.