Hi, your home looks pretty good, you have done a lot on the interiors. Coming back to the question, yes, you can add a wallpaper behind the television, go for a textured wallpaper as it will create a compliment to your television. As you have decorated with wooden elements, you can go with a bookshelf on the wall. And, there is one more thing which will be a simple addition but will look perfect and that is an antique wall clock. An antique wall clock will make your wall look great without any fuss.

You can convert any wood burning fireplace into a gas one with a simple gas box. They are sold at places like jetmaster. They are small enough to sit just below the cinder tray and have a regulator that controls your gas flame by a dial switch. The fireplace itself needs to be constructed to house a flue kit, and your gas line. A gas fitter can advise on your requiremnts, whether or not you need to upgrade your gas line etc. The flue kit is the most expensive element. As far as restoring the piece, as its cast iron, that's easy. If you own a drill, you can buy wire brush disks hat you will need to remove any loose rust or paint on the surface, clean it thoroughly, perhaps even using a solvent to get off anything it may have coated on it. Once you have washed it down, and allowed it to dry out, spray with a can or two of potbelly black spray paint. It is specially made for these things, and have a high heat resistance that won't blister. Two coats should be fine. This will look amazing! And because you will be doing the restoring, also very rewarding. Good luck.

Okay, firstly, this is very difficult to do without seeing the room in person. So rather than suggesting a colour, let me tell you some theory and hopefully you can work it out. The painting looks a little yellow on my screen, I think it would look different in person. You want the image to stand out. What you're looking for is contrast between the image and your surroundings. Contrast can give seperation between elements and that's what you're after, the wall to receed behind the painting. white is not cutting it because it's competing with the image. The image has some light bright tones ie it's bright and the white wall will be bright, so a while wall and the painting will both compete for your attention. the other problem you have is all of the other elements in the room are darker and warm timber, we notice warm colours before cooler colours (ie blues) first, so it's likely all of thu sis competing against each other. So to not compete with everything else, you want something cooler but also not saturated (without a lot of colour). You want people to forget about the wall. again it's very difficult without seeing the room, so any colour I give you is not going to work. Get a few swatches from Bunnings and take them home and hold them next to the picture in the room. Narrow it down the 3 paints then get a small canvas, Bunnings is cheap, paint that with your colours and rest them on the wall with the painting. Move the canvas around the wall. Good luck. Colour is difficult but just try and get something that doesn't compete with the painting.

Go with your gut Tracy..... it is a big investment but I have found that if it makes you smile every time you walk into your kitchen you'll never regret it!!!! I've recently moved into a smaller downsized home with my 3rd black kitchen, with drawers, no cupboards, except for the pantry which we use as the crockery and wine glasses stash. Mine is matt but no handles = no hip bangers! I chose to use snow white stone bench tops, the walls are painted natural white while the floors are pale oak hybrid vinyl.