Bold choices but it looks like a waiting room with all of the pieces lining the walls. Your drum chandy over the dining table is too small scale. Needs to be 1/2 the width of your table and hang 36" or less above it. The one you have now would look good hanging with the portrait of the girl above the buffet or in a powder room or foyer. Lower all your art. Free standing art with centers at 60" above the floor. Pieces with furniture 4-6" above the piece they're with. Don't hang a mirror in the dining room unless it will reflect something beautiful or interesting like the view from one of your windows. Turn your rug the other direction and put the sofa on it perpendicular to the division between the two windows. It should face the single window. Flank the sofa with the two striped chairs, facing each other over the table you have in the corner. Try the striped bench/hassock in the corner where the table was. Raise the curtain rods to the ceiling. If the curtains are too short to kiss the floor, add a wide bold panel to the bottoms in the bright orange of your pillows. I think you should add a fun element like a bright orange bean bag chair on the floor in front of the window. If that is too much for you, add orange or yellow lumbar pillows to the dining chairs.

I would consider getting a corner/modular sofa and putting it in the bottom, left corner of the lounge room. I would put the TV on the shared wall between the lounge and kitchen, but with a "swivel" arm so that you can angle it when watching TV from the sofa. I know that the sofa will partially "block" two big windows, but I'm not sure the viewing distance is ideal if you have the sofa opposite the TV and this also means that you are left with a bit of dead space at the other end of the room while the "entrance" is very crowded. Alternatively, depending upon how you view TV, I would consider having two sofas opposite one another and placing the TV on the far wall between the two big windows where the console and painting is now. Of course, to view the TV you would then need to lie back on the sofas and if more than two people want to watch TV at the same time, then they would need to sit on the floor in front of the TV. Good luck. It's a tricky layout!

Thank you for your comments and your sympathies, it is a difficult room to work with. But there is a light at the end of the tunnel, behind the far wall is an enclosed garage which is used as a storage space and we are in the process of getting a shed built to move everything out of there and extend out, so the room will become more of a rectangle rather than a square and everything should fit into place nicely! We have tried different variations of furniture placement which did look nicer but weren't practical for the age of our kids, like Lego at our feet when sitting on the couch etc. I think we will leave the furniture as it is for now, however I love some of your ideas. Good point about the shag, that's gone, I will have a look for a low pile wool rug. choices flooring have some nice styles I like. I hadn't thought of incorporating a blue or terracotta toned rug, that could work well to better hide stains. I love the idea of artwork, what would you suggest, something abstract? Incorporating colours from the room or more a statement piece? I also love the idea of adding more circular elements and also a lamp to add height. Do you have any suggestions for either one? I'm also concerned the room is a bit impersonal, do you agree? Please keep the ideas coming.

Haha thanks Gioenne. Yep, I knew the Levanzo table was the one when I saw it. There is another dining chair in Nick Scali that looks good with it, only $300 each, still a bit on the high side when I need 6 of them. We scored the table for half price on sale recently, thank goodness so if I absolutely HAVE to go back there for it I wont cry AS much. No, I dont really like modular lounge chairs, I prefer the kids to sit seperatly. I like my own comfy space. :-)