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Here is an easy and quick solution that will add lots of impact while working with what you have:
I agree with Lacey C and would absolutely paint the brick white if you can and leave the other walls as they are. Bring in a standing lamp in the corner to the left of the fireplace to visually pull you into the room. You have a great pieces but the color of the brick and the sofa are too similar which is adding to that feeling of drabness. Also punch up the color of the throw pillows on your sofa, bring in some of the brighter blues/teals or fabrics that pick up on the tone and colors of that great floral pillow you have. Good luck I think you're almost there!

These are awesome, thank you!

kids shoe boxes are pretty sturdy, empty tissue boxes, toilet paper and paper towel rolls, old food/cracker boxes . . . our ornament storage is completely hodgepodge

Really well done. And the style description of "elegant circus" is just too perfect.

that's awesome.

We've been traveling in the car a lot lately with our 2yr old and he always asks for audiobooks. Shorter stories seem to work best for us right now and often he wants to listen repeatedly to the same story. "Where the wild things are" is fantastic. Other favorites are "the giant jam sandwich", "chicka chick boom boom" read by Ray Charles, and "the little enginenthat could".

Wooden pallets are treated with chemicals many of which are carcinogenic for example urea formaldehyde and methyl bromide. Think twice before you use them, especially around children.

hmmm . . . if the text was shortened to just the food item, i.e. "veggies", "protein" etc. it would be more interesting and the message would probably be more powerful . . .

A couple more ideas:

Since the whites of the two furniture pieces don't match you could swap out the Lack shelf for one w/ color such as the RED one which would reference the orange/red color happening in the room beyond.

If you want to keep it simple I would just move the equipment to the far right of the shelf (which would help minimize the cord action), and have a couple of horizontally stacked books underneath the tv.

Introduce something in a natural wood tone (bowl/vase/sculpture/object) to the shelf to add some warmth

Definitely paint the wall a dark color, a dark gray would work.

we were in a similar situation last year when we were expecting and didn't want to move out of our brooklyn 1 br.. We created a room in part of the living room by having a contractor put in drywall and a semi-transparent partition (we were blocking a window) from nyslidingdoor.com. This has worked well for us. If you don't have that much room to work with you could also partition your bedroom by using a ceiling mounted curtain track and a curtain (the heavier the better to block light, noise etc.). I agree w/ the earlier post, purge, purge, purge and go easy on what baby stuff comes into the house, you really don't need that much at all (although there are so many cute well designed items out there it can be hard to resist).