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[quote=Anonymous]Thanks for posting the additional pictures.  My earlier advice stills stands--bring the two sofa together in an L shape.  The yellow sofa should not begin until after the TV stand, if that makes sens.  I'd get as tight arrangement as i could with the L--I'd try to ge the sofas with the pillows horizontal with the island as much as I could.  Do not be afraid to push furniture away from the walls.  If you can bring the sofa in closer to the TV, there might be room for a console table behind it with a lamp.

There appears to be a chair now next to the sofa with pillows.  Could you bring the chair into the open part of the L, perhaps flanking the island at angle turned into the TV stand?

The desk is very awkward next to the sofa.  One suggestion (contradicting other advice) is to put it right up against the short side of the island that faces into the living area.  You'd still want an L shape with the sofas, but the sofa with pillows would likely have to back against the wall.

Another suggestion is that there appears to be a nook at the far end of the kitchen cabinets, to the left of the kitchen range.  Would the desk fit in there?  The idea you pinned with the map of the world on the wall where the desk is placed would be entirely possible if the desk fits into that space.

Another suggestion is to just forget the open concept intended with the kitchen and move the smaller sofa to the other side of the room partically against the island, and put the larger sofe against the wall with the window.  You'd need to experiment a little to see what looks best:  the TV stand against the short wall where it now or against the opposite wall.  The desk would be on the wall where the TV stand isn't.

I kind of like the idea of the desk in the middle where the TV is now if you did something like the world map on the wall as it would create a focal point that isn't a TV.  You would not get that if the desk were on the opposite wall because that does not appear to be the wall you first see when you enter the living area.

It is a little hard to tell from pictures what your true space limitations are.  Neither the sofas nor the desk are heavy.  Start moving them around trying some of the suggestions above.  You really can't tell what looks good until you actually try it.  And as you try various combinations, you'll think of others.

By the way, there looks like there is blue in the cute pillows you've added.  I'd try that in addition to the yellow and the brown.  [/quote]

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