Doh! Just saw your BR study pix! I wouldn't personally want to repeat the same area, but if you love it, you can. I'd want art. Even black & white art or photos. Something that speaks to you personally so your home doesn't look like a showplace - but like your Home! lol My only other thought is that you don't want it to look too safe - like you couldn't make any decsiions so you just did everything in either black or white. You want the design to look purposeful. Search Houzz for black & white living rooms & you'll find lots of inspiration (which you probably have doen already!). Just for fun, I've attached a couple of pix of an arc lamp we have in our apartment. The globe is glass & my DH hit his head on it & broke it once. That's why it's not really properly placed but is too close to the wall! lol Live & learn! That's the only way to make it in life!

Hello Lene1, My first thoughts are you have too many small art pieces, not just only pictures, trying to compete for attention against large items of furniture, hence the rooms at odds with itself because the items are not relative to each other. If you can imagine taking down all your pictures and removing all your small decor items around the tv, small table in the corner and fire place, what you're left with is a nice size room with appropriate sized furniture. Now, you could consider a larger art piece or pieces for your walls and the room will look relative. Another alternative to consider would be to get a wall mural or wall stickers for the wall behind the fire place. Either way, this will make that wall a feature as well as reduce the attention of the tiny fireplace you have that can't be moved, then the eyes are drawn to the bigger picture instead. Regarding wall stickers, tree and branch wall stickers have been used very creatively to compliment the many smaller framed pictures like they have blossomed from the tree branches like this one for example: May I also suggest having a look at my BESPOKE DESIGNS section. I specialise in designing and creating artwork to specifically compliment a rooms decor and furnishings, and here you will find inspirational ideas of other rooms: http://www.houzz.com/projects/1720017/bespoke-designs Alternatively, there are many artwork pieces that are ready and available to buy from our website also: http://thejonescollection.gallery If I can be of further assistance, feel free to contact me via my Houzz profile or through my website. All the best with whatever you decide to choose.

Thanks for the additional info and photos, EL, and what a clever husband to construct the model! If it were me, I would install the heater on the wall in sitting/dining room. I say this location as it is tucked away a little better than the location behind kitchen wall, and seems safer (for people walking past it when in use), to me anyway. The TV could be placed or mounted next to it, but far enough away so heat doesn't affect it in any way (not sure if that's a consideration). My folks had a large wood burning stove installed in their old house long ago, to replace the original fireplace. My mother used to cook large pots of homemade soups on the top of it, letting them simmer all day long - the aromas were amazing. Your house project is exciting. Best wishes.

HU-624382943's comment about speaker placement is important. As far as quality listening goes (whether you like listening to music seriously or want to enjoy fantastic sound when watching movies, you want the speakers on the narrow wall (pointing towards the set of paned windows), not on a long wall. The challenge, of course, will be to get them sufficiently spaced, since you have the bookcase on the right and the cupboard (with or without doors) on the left, as well as the door to the room itself. (That door looks uncomfortably close to the cupboard doors, incidentally.) Unless you choose to suspend your directional speakers from the ceiling – which could be an option – you'll probably be limited to the width of that central section of wall, i.e. immediately to each side of the TV.