If furniture is all against walls a room will tend to have a flat, square, uninviting appearance. Even when placing a sofa "on the wall" you would want 3" inches space so the sofa won't rub the wall. The important thing is that furniture groupings facilitate conversation. Try moving your sofa out from the wall, if you don't like it, you can always move it back. :D Best wishes!

Hi Rahul Satija To answer your question, regarding which material to use for the outsides of your home Terracotta Brick - unless you have used bricks that are meant to be left exposed, ordinary bricks will take in a lot of water and leave the walls damp, and hence not a great idea. You could ofcourse cover it with a veneer of brick cladding but that is something we would not propose. Between wooden cladding and paint, it frankly depends completely on your budget. Wooden cladding looks extremely good but is quite pricey. Our suggestion would be to paint the majority of the home, with highlights in parts in wooden cladding.

A hob and a separate oven will be better as you can get storage below the hob

My wife has been getting all kinds of conflicting ideas about the living room furniture we're thinking of buying. So we want 2 leather couches in taupe (whatever that is) which will face each other and then 2 recliners side by side. The recliners are the same model. I want mine is Blue leather (muted) and my wife wants hers in a fabric that has taupe and blue. She said she'll have the ottoman in the same pattern as her recliner and pillows that will match her recliner as well. We're being told that the recliners must match and that she also get the leather. We don't have a formal living room. We have a large family room. Do the recliners have to match as some or telling us or can we do this the way my wife wants. I just want her to be happy, I'm not that big on everything matching. Ideas?