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If you are using the sofa or daybed, place this across the windows and place the red chair on the right side. I would suggest installing bamboo shades from the ceiling behind the sofa to allow privacy and to allow light in to the other part of the living room. You can put a sofa table behind the sofa daybed so that when the shades are down, you have an accent furniture and not a plain wall of matchstick shades.

As for colors, I suggest painting the well to the left of the kitchen red for accent, then the wall on the kitchen side, same as the tan paint on the first picture. Leave the wall under the cabinet white while the wall on the left of kitchen (not part of the bigger wall, immediately next to the range) in the same tan shade as the right side of the kitchen. Then put a long, narrow and perhaps tall table parallel to the kitchen (similar to a bar), add 2 bar stools and hang one or two pendant lights. Define your kitchen/eating area with a rug under the table. If you can get a fun rug that will add accent to your room (like zebra print or whimsical geometric prints)

Yeah, I am not a big fan of mirrors. I don't even have one in my bedroom.

As for your issue, I would put a window film. In this way it gives you an illusion of having floor to ceiling windows instead of those mirrors.

I know that AT had featured nice fancy window films in the past but I don't remember the brand names but you may check this one out (from Home Depot)
http://www.homedepot.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/ProductDisplay?storeId=10051&langId=-1&catalogId=10053&productId=100010437&N=10000003 90401 501987&marketID=401&locStoreNum=8125

I would suggest yellow with a shade similar to your pillows. If you can put these pillows along with other green pillows these will tie in with the wall and the rug. Since there are no windows on the walls of your office, the yellow shade would brighten-up the space a bit.

I would strip the moulding and expose the wood. If you live in an older building, the exposed wood would bring some old world charm into your modern space.