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We need help. No, it's not the 2 feet of snow that have blanketed the yard, trapping us inside (the Morabito's left us the name of their plow guy), it's our furniture. We have a couch, love seat and oversized chair in a room with a fireplace on one wall and windows on two walls. We want to put a mirror above the fireplace and the TV between two windows. But that leaves the furniture to all be clumped together awkwardly. There are two alcoves beside the fireplace where we'd like to get built-in shelves made.

We're going to move the book shelf there to the right of the fireplace and have considered putting the chair there but then the chair won't have a view of the TV.

Those white doors are to a closet so that limits what we can do with that space to the left of the fireplace. The chair is too big to fit. It blocks the closet and sticks out in the doorway.

Right now, we want to put the TV on the wall across from the chair and couch beside it. Here:
To the left of the window on the left is the bookcase we are going to move. But we want the TV between the windows (no glare?). It looks pretty ghetto in these pictures but it's not that bad in person. Notice the makeshift shrine. (We have no table yet for the vases with Christmas balls, Kath.)

This is all the furntiure, just waiting for the arrival of the TV. But we're not sure how a coffee table will fit and it looks a little awkward because it looks all clumped together with empty space by the fireplace.

As you can see, it's a little sparse right now but we have big plans. And don't you just love the floor and the paint job?

If you can't quite grasp how it looks from these pictures, you'll have to just come over and see for yourselves. Any suggestions?