You could also bring in some texture with bamboo sticks or decorative branches and help balance a bit the height of your room with small scale furniture. Spray paint them if you find the perfect size and shape but they aren't the color that you need. Ikea carries white decorative stalks for a very good price. the ones in the 1st picture hold well with small kids around and you don't need a vase for them. there are washi paper or crinkly paper floor lamps with a soft beautifully diffused glow For a budget friendly version check ikea or target http://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/80028552/

I think a comfortable distance between the island and the counter is around 42". It seems that you have only 30" between your cook top and the counter. I might be a little too tight. The wall between the entrance and the kitchen could be 4' long instead of 6', you would then be able to move the island a foot which would give you more room between the cook top and the island. Could you switch the location of the toilet and vanity in your dad's bathroom so your enter facing a vanity instead of a toilet which is a lot nicer.

Hi! I'm so glad I came across your floor plan, got pretty excited and ideas started flooding. Firstly, I'm uploading a draft of a floor plan I made as a rough copy (with a pencil and a paper), so kindly excuse the imperfections. (please refer to the picture I've posted along with this.) Secondly, as you mentioned, you would want to include the balcony in your seating area, I recommend you to break the wall and instead use French windows to allow the light within and it'll also feel very open. Then, about the kitchen, as you said you wouldn't want a large dining area, you could take that space for an open kitchen, where the counter also serves as the dining space from the outside. And since, the kitchen would be made towards the direction of the arrow pointed (refer to the pic) we get ample space to make a Pooja room. And to give an enclosed feel to the living room I chose and L shaped couch for it. I would suggest you to go for a mounted TV on a rotatable stand on the wall so that its accessible from anywhere across the room. Having done that, we are still left with some space (marked with a circle in the pic ) which could be used to put some more seats for the living room OR... (THIS IS MY FAV PART IN A HOUSE!) you could also use that space to mount a swing from the top. There were few more probabilities to do this house, but I genuinely found this one to be the best, coz I'm a huge fan of open spaces, and it's a good layout a lot of things could be done with it. All the best.

tumi ki rokom wardrobe nicho seta amake bolo ta hole sei hisabe bolbo. ami west wall ei rakhte bolbo parallel bhabe. tate ghor boro lagbe. tate puro west dewal ta cover na holeo cholbe. extra je space ta thakbe se tate tumi ekta jute boro gol bag rakte paro to use as a laundry basket ba extra storage. kinba ekta coat hanger stand. options endless ache. tumi tomake tar age amake bolte hobe tumi ki almari nabe. taholei baki gulo se rokom adjust kora jabe. tomar standard godrej ba oirakam lohar almarir depth 22" theke 23" hoi. amader ta toh 22". tate aramse hanger tangano jai. Ami tomake abaro sliding door ward robe nite bolbo karon oigulo te onek jaiga thke + khub chim cham lage. tumi bajare ready made peye jabe banate na chile. otate tomar suitcase are onno lage storage er o jaiga peye jabe bodhoi. eta te jeta hobe seta hoche je tumi je kono jinish jeta sobsomoi lagche na sei gulo bhore rakhte parbe apart from jama kapor. ta hole baire kichu pora thakbe na. tahole dekhbe ghor ta kichi bichi kom lagche ar beshi boro mone hoche. tomar ghor tar ki obostha amake ektu chobi tule pathao ta holo thik kore bolte parbo. se jonnei tomake email ta dilam je tumi jodi ei page pic na dite chao ta hole amake email e pathiye dao. Ami tomar room tar 3-D sketch kore rekhechi with colour scheme. seta tomar email pele pathiye ditam. tomar colour sheme ekta jinish tomake jigesh korar chilo. seta tomake 3-D sketch ta na pathale bojhate parbo na. tumi ghor ta rong korar age sketch ta ekbar dekhe nao.