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Living room decor is one of those areas where the design principles are simple but the execution is hard — most rooms fail because they try to do too much rather than because they lack ideas. The furniture should be arranged around conversation or viewing rather than pushed against walls, the lighting should be layered rather than coming from one ceiling source, and there should be at least one thing in the room that isn’t functional. Colour works best when it’s concentrated rather than distributed evenly. What I’d add is that scale matters more than style — a small rug in a large room or a tiny lamp on a big table will look wrong regardless of how good the individual pieces are. There’s a discussion on https://rolldorado.co.at about creating spaces that feel considered rather than decorated — the point about restraint being the hardest skill was well-made. What’s the room like currently?