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This is an amazing home! You have great style. What's really interesting is how masculine this space is. All the suitcases and industrial touches make it look like a place a hardworking old-style private eye would call home, and I mean that in the best possible way. I can almost smell the parchment paper of files of old cases and stacks of grainy photographs. Love it!

I feel like you could leverage a lot more bedroom space if you partitioned off the end of your livingroom as a bedroom and moved the dining or office part of your living area into the former bedroom. You could use IKEA wardrobe units or older freestanding wardrobes that would double as both partitions and closets. It's hard to tell how your kitchen is accessed, but if it's through the bedroom, this switching of spaces seems logical.

Charming as all get out. I demand a house tour!

I agree with you, Pi, the Instagram treatment on these pictures isn't doing anyone any favors.

The mustache obsession has got to be the stupidest trend ever. I don't know where it came from, but I can't wait until it finally goes away.

A couple of suggestions:
1) Turn the couch sideways, as a few people have suggested, and shift the living room layout accordingly. You could move the chair to the other corner, get an ottoman for it, or both.
2) Move the white rug into the empty space and get an additional rug for your living room. You seem to have an excess of squares and rectangles in that area, so I'd recommend going for something round, oval, or asymmetrical and curvy.
3) I'd definitely recommend putting together some sort of kitchen island configuration to break up all that empty space in the kitchen. A countertop that sticks out far enough to slide a couple of barstools under would give multiple people a place to sit down while prepping food. It doesn't have to be cluttered or super expensive. I've seen some pretty creative setups done on the cheap over on IKEA Hackers.
4) As for the empty space... Moving the rug to it will make it seem a lot less empty right away. What you do with the space then is up to you. A comfy chair with a footstool right in front of the bookcase would be cozy, or you can set up a home office area, a music listening area, or a place to show off whatever you might happen to collect.

Is that a real warthog head?

Seriously, you deleted my comment because I asked where the color was? The room is a whitewash. It's a legitimate question for an entry in a contest called "Room for COLOR." Good lord.

Absolutely love it! What a delightful little jewel box of a room.

If you don't like the way it looks, turn it into artwork. Buy a canvas that will cover the opening at a craft supply store, staple fabric to it, put hinges on it, and turn it into a vibrant beautiful door.