The easiest solution (without seeing how this affects light to the rest of the aparment, is to buy a media centre or bookshelf and place it about 2 floor tiles inset from the doorways. You create a corridor that you walk around to get into your rooms.

Leather sofas can really dominate the room and can give an overall cold feeling. I would add some earthy elements, like a wood coffee table with glass or metal. Go to Restoration Hardware's website and look at their sofa room scenes. And I'm sorry I think the art is too harsh for the room. That's all your eye goes to in the room. too overpowering. I would look for something softer or maybe a cool mirror and I would add color to the room with pillows and some colorful lamps. I also think woven blinds would look great. They add warmth and give a finished look. The color of your window treatments should contrast your wall color a bit, not match it or else it starts to look generic and blah.. You have warm walls, warm floors and the woven blinds, like Hunter Douglas brand would pull it all together for you.

Quote " .I need to think of what color to give my kitchen" Specifically, the color of what ? I'm assuming you mean the walls, but could you also mean color of cabinets, back splash, ceiling. Pics are always useful. BTW, our kitchen needs help too :))) But that's another story

Help this room is driving me crazy, it has no style, no wow, nothing , we live in a older style A frame home on the water , it's beautiful but home is lacking style, I'm sure u will agree, between the kitchen and the living room it a night mare, every time I want to try something, it's a old home and money always seems to have to go to something more important