I think you need to stay neutral to ensure that your couch and room colour are cohesive. The odd colour out ... that pops out at me when I first look at your photo's is the silver around the wooden TV cabinet doors. I would suggest long term (if you are keeping that furniture) that you try to incorporate more of that colour into the room to add balance...... but back to the couch. I would go fawn / beige colour and then you can add colour back into the room with cream / dark brown tones in cushions and maybe a casual throw. Alternatively if you repaint the feature wall from brown to a darker shade of grey I would go with a medium grey couch which would also match in with the silver on the TV cabinet and then you could put a lovely textured silver / grey floor run between the couches and move your coffee table to the centre of the room / rug.

Yes - there are these amazing options to have an 'electric pool cover' with a slat arrangement that allows you to virtually walk on it. Do a google search...'pool covers electric'... I've no idea on how much they cost... Here's some pics. Not sure if irregular shapes make this too challenging... Our pool experience... We are needing to change a few things with our pool already - wish we had paid more attention to the pipes and filtration... (Having to potentially move them as they are too shallow and in 'awkward spot'... Extra $ and I'm so worried it may cause issues for us... Even the location of the concrete slab for the pump... Wish we had thought about overall picture... If I was buying a car for $70k, I would have done more research, but somehow we got carried away with idea that we could have a pool for summer, and yet reality is that it's ready for the 'next summer'... Budget plan (original) was around $30-40k, but I guess it's like building a house... Plus it's all a big learning experience...

I agree with MB Design and Drafting. I rejected two homes based on the building reports alone. It wasn't that there is a lot of work to do or that it would be expensive. It was the fact I was going to have to spend $$$ and time fixing stuff that would never be seen because the prior owners failed to maintain the house properly. I would be spending my first year in those homes organising trades, waiting for people to show up or not, dealing with the headache of unforseen extra problems and cost blowouts. Not to mention I wondered how much unseen damage there was caused by lack of maintenance. Ultimately I purchased a more modest home with less impressive facade and floorplan because it was well maintained and any money I spent would be spent on fun things like decorating or improving fixtures. Plus it already had a major feature I wanted and that feature had been done professionally so it was well worth paying for. It doesn't matter to a buyer how pretty a house is if their heart is broken by a building report that tells them their dream home has a laundry list of boring jobs and unnoticed problems that need attention asap. 9 times out of 10 they will walk on the property than bother renegotiating the price and getting professionals in to assess the $ involved.

Hi thank you so much for your ideas i really love them. I had a question if I were to change the buffet what color would go good with my dinning table? I have found it really hard to match because I have no idea what color my table is, i have a lot of miss match throughout my home so I’m not afraid to miss match but I just feel that this one just doesn’t complement each other or do you think I should keep it? Thank you.