The room decor and styling is too heavy for an entrance and isn't consistent with a beach theme home. Would the floor boards underneath the carpet match those of the open plan living area beyond the entrance? Consistent floor treatments would draw the eye to what lies beyond and the timber floor boards would meet your beach theme brief as well as reduce maintenance of light carpet in the high traffic area. The colour on your walls is lovely, but a little too heavy for the room. Can you take the wall colour back a few shades and use the current stronger version to repaint the mirror frame and buffet? Agree with previous advice to remove all wall items and to place something light and bright on the wall above the current buffet. How about the existing boxes, re-hung in a more haphazard square style pattern with some shells or other flotsam and jetsam displayed within them along with a couple of small prints? Painting the inside back of the small boxes in different shades of blue and the outside your current wall shade would complement the room nicely. What lighting is there in the room? A pendant could add light to the room, draw the eye up and the contribute to the beach theme.I hope some of the above is useful. Good luck and look forward to seeing how you go!

@mazpt, yes of course. Here are a few more pictures showing how kitchen, living and dining, and outdoor deck and bbq area flow together. Oska kitchen is really neat in detailing; wood grain on the doors for example, are matched across as many doors as long as a 2.4m sheet allow. Floor turned out very nice too. Light natural colour, wide and long boards, laid length way all the way from front door to the back makes the space looks a bit bigger. Although it is still a floating floor, there are minimal floor movement that make squeak sound, most of the floor are feels solid. I hope that floor squeaking noise will settle over time.

Am so pleased for you, Lucy. What a lovely home and it very much suits its gorgeous setting. Love, love, love the use of timber, and all that glorious light. I now also have a serious case of dining chair envy. And the view! No wonder you’re (rightly) pleased. Health, happiness and many, many years enjoying the fruits of all your hard work to you and yours And to all the lovely Houzz community members who helped Lucy, and myself, cheers you wonderful people

I some how missed a whole lot of this discussion, it's all coming together beautifully, @kiwimills thank you so much for your lovely comment, if you only knew what an effort it was to get that art work hung, divorce material, he did a great job but after much loud discussion I still ended up with the large hanging not lining up with the bottom of the other frames. I always find that dark spaces work well with darker colours