1. Find a new place for the big worn out rug. Opt for something smaller.
2. Lose one of the sofas. It appears that you tried to make sure that no section of wall is free from furniture. I would free up the wall under the window in that first photo and put the remaining sofa parallel to the TV wall. The frame around the window is beautiful and should be allowed to be noticed.
3. Why are there two tables in your dining area? Find a new place for one of the tables.

First you got too many things going on. you need to de-clutter and throw so stuff epecially the orange sofa, get a replacement armchair instead. get rid of the big dining table and use the round table with the red chair. get a small office desk and try getting shelves on the wall fo clutters and office stuff. Also get a large standing floor lamp. otherwise you got a beautiful room. cheers mate

there are so many table height surfaces here. (desk in lr, 2 tables in kitchen? ) can we lose 1-2?

Move the orange love seat to bedroom.

Move couch in front of TV. accent chairs next wto window.

Use vertical space, such as wall shelf unit for storage, maybe the flat screen can go there. It would clean up the clutter.

The major feeling I get when looking is: too much stuff.

A few bookcases with nearly empty shelves could be consolidated. The second table in the dining room. The orange couch. Half of the L-shaped desk. The TV could go on the top shelf of a bookshelf, and then there's one less thing you need to have.

I know that sounds purgative - but it looks like you took all your stuff from your old place (or all the stuff people gave you) and moved it in, without regard to your need for it. Been there, done that. Just because you have something doesn't mean you have to keep it.

If you need the large computer desk, then I agree with you - put it in the dining room, especially if you can't see it from you relaxing couch. I recently switched to a laptop/iPad, and one great benefit was to be freed from the need for a designated computer desk. A rolling cart (for charging and holding the printer, etc.) are pretty good, and if I really need to sit correctly, I can plunk down at the dining table.

I agree completely with Duane Hill's post.

I would post the orange couch and two small chairs on craigslist, and use the money to buy a more substantial chair, which I'd put in the corner the bookshelf is currently in. This chair and the white sofa would make a good conversation place, and you could anchor that part of the room with a coffee table and smaller rug.

Also, think about investing in one larger bookcase, instead of the three dinky ones. You could even turn an IKEA expedit shelf on its side and put a cushion on top for extra seating (with storage!) under the window.

A few solid-color fabric bins under your desk would make it look less cluttered.

Also, the addition of some tall plants and framed art would make it seem more like a home and less like a dorm.

PS: I love your painted IKEA dining chairs!

Sell off some of your extra seating (those wicker chairs??) and extra table and buy some new art or wall shelving to fill up some of the empty wall space.

The office furniture is jarringly different from the rest of the stuff in the living room, so maybe you could move the office into the smaller room and put the dining table(s) in the living room?

I actually like the old rug, but I'd use it to cover up the wall-to-wall carpet in the dining area rather than covering up the lovely wood floor...

I think the biggest solution would be to first unclutter as much as possible. Duane is right that it seems like you have too much furniture. Many of the shelves look only half full so try to fill up one or two and get rid of the rest. Condense as much as possible and consider hanging some wall shelves to free up floor space. I'd do away with the wicker chair; it looks a bit out of place in the room.

What I noticed first was that you have a lot of little pieces of furniture. Then that many things in your home don't have their own "homes." Last, both your rooms seem to serve a variety of functions.

I'd start with function first. Figure out what you want to do in each room. For example: Living room: watch TV, play guitar, entertain friends, eat, snack, nap. Dining room: eat, do crafts, home office, play chess. Then move your furniture around to suit the functions you have decided. I think your idea of combing the dining room and home office is a good one. Then you can relax in your living room without having to look at your work area all the time.

You have a lot of itsy-bitsy little chairs and shelves. Do you need all that seating? If not, consider removing a few of the chairs and living with just the couch and loveseat for a while. Get one larger shelving unit or bookcase to replace all the little ones. Does that little coffee table work for you? Would you like a larger one that could hold your laptop or chess set or that you could prop your feet on?

Then, when you have placed the major pieces of furniture, find good homes for the rest of your things. A place for the laptop when you aren't using it. For the guitar. For your backpack and cameras and watering can and all the other stuff on the various surfaces of your home. A nice large bookcase could hold bins or baskets to store all this, if you don't have enough built-in storage in the apartment.

I think the big thing is that you have so much furniture and quite a bit of your stuff is out on the surfaces, so that your eyes don't have any place to rest. There's a jumble of stuff everywhere you look.

PS--I love the orange loveseat and the red chairs in your dining room. I think you have the start of a fun, slightly quirky apartment here. You just need to edit out the parts that aren't working for you and add in a few pieces with more function.

Have fun!

I agree with all of the other posters-- unclutter. It looks like you have seating for 8 in the living room alone, not to mention two desks with chairs and a dining table with four (I am assuming.) How many people are living there?? ;) Less furniture is better. I hate clutter, so in my apartment, my rule of thumb is that I want to see where the floor meets the wall. It helps me float furniture and stop myself from choking on baskets/bookshelves/end tables, etc.

Also, you didn't really ask about this, but in a room with as little natural light as your dining room, you need to lose the tapestry. Dark prints aren't helping the natural light in that room.

You have too much stuff. Take some time to sort through what you have and get rid of what you don't need.

Dining room: Get rid of one of your tables. I get that the square/rectangular one is probably better for crafts. But the round one will let you add as many chairs as you want to a dinner party. Make a decision and get rid one of one. I think if you get rid of the square table and move your L-shaped desk into your dining area that could work. I think the square table and your desk will look crammed in there because they're both big pieces. Take down the dark tapestry/rug. That will make that cavernous space seem so much brighter immediately. Replace the rug on the floor with something bright/light in color. Add a mirror to that room, it'll help bounce the light around.

Living room: All of your rugs are oversized and look worn (sorry) and it's not helping you designate spaces. If you keep your office area in your living room try a smaller rug underneath it and another rug infront of your white couch. Really either way try a smaller rug. If your budget doesn't let you get 2 new rugs, just get one for the couch area that is appropriately sized (probably 5x8). If you move your L-shaped desk into the dining room, try facing the couches towards each other. Can you float the orange one in the room? (I love the character of the orange couch - try to keep it if you can!) If it's not in front of a window it'll let even more light into the room.

I agree with the posts above. I think the dining room would look great with the living room rug, white round table and red chairs -- no tapestry, and move in a small desk against a wall if you need it.

I don't think you need to lose the sofas, but maybe the functions of the rooms needs to be finagled a bit and some of the excess shelving/tables need to go, like one of the two tables. I definitely think you should move the desk. The white couch could go on the wall where the tv stand is and move the tv stand to the door side of the room where part of the desk is. Put the wicker chair where the white couch is now, between them, but not overlapping (not like the arms of the white sofa/orange loveseat are overlapping now). That orange loveseat has so much character, I'd hate to see it go. If you have more pics, etc to share and want more ideas of a layout, feel free to email me: modachromehome@gmail.com. I love that kind of stuff.

First the good. You have a great living room rug, sofa, orange chair(in need of a little tlc), rectangular dining table and spunky red chairs. Get rid of everything else. If they are hand me downs from your relatives, don't feel bad about getting rid of them, your relatives will bring you more,
For this makeover, you will need to purchase or scavenge 2 wall unit combinations, the second preferably with doors on the bottom, one parsons table or sofa table, one mirror, one coat rack one small shelf, one pendant lamp or chandelier, one small sideboard and one large rug in a pattern and color that relates to your living room rug.
Living room: you should have only the rug, sofa and orange chair in there. Rotate the sofa 90 degrees to face wall where your tv is. This wall will be your focus wall. Btw, did you know you can turn your tv into a fireplace with an apple tv and YouTube? Anyway, back to the room. Place the orange chair where the sofa used to be. Place the parsons desk or sofa table behind the sofa. Flank with lamps. Put an office chair here when you need it, slide it out if the way when you don't. Where the corner office is now, put your shelf, coatrack and mirror. This is your landing strip. Done.
Dining room: you should have an empty room except for the rectangular table and the chairs. Move the table into the middle of the room. Place the wall unit with doors on bottom on the wall where the round table was. Put your craft equipment in it. Use boxes with lids for stashing away glue guns, paints, scissors, etc and put your sewing machine behind the doors. Fill up the wall with wall units if you can afford them . If there is space, add a small sideboard to the back wall where the rug is now. I like the idea of the rug there but not THAT rug. It sucks the life out of the room. Get a brighter more colorful rug and hang that. Or a blanket or interesting fabric stretched over canvas frames. Hang a pendant over the table. Done.
Good luck,

You have WAY to much stuff...Get rid of the orange couch, move the white couch to that wall in front of the TV. Get rid of the corner desk, it's cheap and hideous. Get rid of the rectangular table in the dining room. That round one w/ the red chairs is a gem. Get rid of the light colored book shelf next to the desk, it folds up right? It's crap. The little table with the lamp-gone. Maybe mount the TV on the wall. Your problem is you have too much stuff. Anything that is low quality should be tossed.

You do not need to go go out and buy more stuff. I don't know why anyone would suggest that.

I only buy things for my one bedroom apartment that is of good quality that I would maybe like to keep forever. I have been there over three years and it is still a bit sparse but it's better than having it filled with crap that I would never even be able to re-sell.

Lots of good suggestions here, but could be overwhelming. Start with one area first. I suggest the home office. The desk is nicely functional, but the openness of it leaves so much clutter. Could you replace it with something with drawers and doors, so you could close it up when entertaining or wanting some "just at home" time? Getting items off of surfaces and behind doors does so much to de-clutter a space. New office armoires are expensive, so consider re-purposing a media cabinet or other piece simply by installing a pull-out computer keyboard tray. Doors closed: office closed!

lots of good comments, no need to add more, but there is a reason why wicker is flammable

There are two kinds of clutter. One kind is having too much stuff (solution is to get rid of stuff.). The other kind is not having any place to put the stuff you have (solution to that is closed storage).

I think your clutter is a bit of each. People above have lots of good ideas about furniture placement and getting rid of some furniture - luckily you have lots of nice stuff to choose from. What I notice is that you have no closed storage for stuff you don't want to display. You really need to get some good sized storage pieces with drawers or doors, for closed storage. Put all that stuff under your desk, and all the craft stuff and all the boxes and baskets and bins and watering cans etc. in closed storage. It doesn't need to be expensive - there's lots of stuff out there that can be painted etc. Then, get rid of some of the open storage - the bookcases and etagere etc.

If you don't want to get rid of your stuff, then you could try unifying them -- right now there are too many shapes and colors.
- Paint the bamboo shelf, the little bookshelf next to the desk, and the shelf next to the TV in the same neutral shade. Can that thing holding the TV be painted?

- I like the white couch and orange seat together, but the orange one needs a throw or non-orange cushions, it's maybe too bright.

- Take off the wall hanging, it's too dark! If you always park your bike there you can paint a frame or small section of wall to make a backdrop for your bike.

- I like the two small tables because they have different functions, right? One for sewing and one for eating? But they need to reflect their function, so clean up, move the plant to the floor corner, and set the eating table with a fruit bowl/placemats/breakfast set up etc and set the crafts table with a little craft paraphernalia. Display your sewing machine!

- The only things I'd recommend getting rid of are the rattan chair (you have enough seating) and that strange white chair in the small room. Plus what is that behind the orange seat? Get it out and make some space to walk around!

Good luck!!

Sorry - one more thing! You could move the white floor lamp next to the white sofa, and get rid of the old-fashioned lamp and little stand...

Make the dining room into your office. Put your desks in there, as well as which ever bookshelves you must keep.

Make the living room into a main living/dining room. Keep both couches and have them facing each other perpendicular to the wall where the white couch is now. Have them float a bit so they are not touching any walls. Keep the rug (LOVE IT). Put the round white table floating near where your desk is now with the red chairs. Get rid of everything else in this room except for the TV - I have not yet figured out what to do with the TV in the scheme in my mind.

There are too many things out on display, which make it hard to focus on anything. Lose some of the chairs, try to get a larger bookcase to replace the other small ones (consolidate).
Get nice storage boxes so the little stuff you use is put away out of sight when not in use. The white lamp might look good in the corner where the desks are. Move the little white pedestal table to the corner between the couches. Do you really need the full length of the L shaped desk? If one side can be removed it would save lots of room and you could put it where the pedestal table had been. Basically, first of all declutter/organize. Also put some art work up on the walls so they guide the eye up.

I think you have too many stuff in every room. Sometimes less is more. Refresh the chair with some painting and a new cover for the cushion. The orange love seat can be painted with fabric paint. There are a lot of tutorials about it. I think the bamboo shelf need to be painted too and be placed in another room. Two tables in a small space is too much too. The whole space doesn't look eclectic but messy.

I think the biggest problem is not actually the furniture (though there is WAY too much crowded into every nook) but the lack of a home for just about every object in the rooms displayed. I would highly suggest some shelving (pine boards and pretty iron scrollwork brackets are cheap) and creative no-see-um storage like underbed drawers if possible. Your workstation would look much better if things were not stored on the floor in dissimilar containers and strewn on your overly-large desk, but instead arranged with purpose on shelves above it. Building upwards would could cut the wall real estate your office area takes up in half.

Think about how much of the seating is actually used at once and get rid of some of the couches and chairs if they're not necessary. Do you really have so many occupants or guests? Would some throw pillows make for comfy improvised floor seating when not on the couch? I'd lose the oversized rug as well and let the wooden floorboards provide a sense of space. When you have time/the funds, you can invest in a smaller rug.

You also have no decoration on the walls in your living room, leaving the room feel even more top heavy. The one picture you have mounted on the TV wall is too high. You generally want to hang art/photos roughly at eye level.

If you want to invest a little DIY energy into the task at hand, I'd suggest putting some airy drapes above the window for a pop of color and a balance to the object-heavy base. I'd suggest letting the window not be obscured by furniture as well. Mounting the curtain rod higher than the window can add a bigger sense of space to the room.

If the apartment is yours, look up a tutorial on wall-mounting your TV. It's not as hard as you think! It adds a lot of space to the room, keeps the TV at a better viewing level (the middle of it should be about where your eyes are as you look across from wherever you'll be seated) and looks more deliberate.

*Feeling

And if you consider the wall mounted storage option, consider uniform closed storage options for things you do not want to deliberately display. :D

Either the orange sofa or the carpet has to go. I say ditch the carpet and keep the funky orange sofa. It has character. Clean off the white sofa of all extraneous stuff and get it out of the room while you are working on it. Then put that orange pillow on the sofa. Move the white sofa to the long wall where the TV is now and have it next to the white floor lamp, which will complement it.

Get that little bookcase on the left of the desk out of the room until the bigger things are placed, or maybe permanently. Put the TV on a table/stand in the far right corner on the right of the window, angled from the corner. Get rid of the little low black chair. Put the wicker bookcase to the left of the desk (after you remove that small bookcase), or maybe flat against a wall beyond the white sofa. Throw out whatever that fake green foliage is on the nice wicker.

Take the other little bookcase, currently on the left wall, out of the room while doing the rest. There appears to be a table behind the orange sofa under that window. Take that away and if it fits, put it on the wall to the left of the window (where the wicker bookcase and small lamp sit in the photo).

Push the orange sofa back. Neither sofa should touch their respective walls. They should always be a few inches away. Or if there is space, you could try floating the orange sofa inside the doorway on an L with the white sofa.

The wicker chair may have to go, or try it to the left of the window we are looking at in the first picture in front of the table you moved to that wall. Find another cushion for it, with a bold, modern print that picks up/complements the orange. Use the little table in front of the sofa as a side table to the white sofa, on the far side of it, after you’ve moved it to the long left wall. Put the little lamp on it, so you now have lamps on either side of the white sofa.

There appears to be a plant in the corner, where I’m suggesting you put the TV. Put the plant on the long table going on the left of the window. I don’t know what that picture is on the left wall, but if it doesn’t add anything replace it. Otherwise it is hung much too high and needs to come down to eye level. Get that plastic carton out of your living room. You might be able to slide it under your desk with a little re-arranging.

Dining Room Stuff:
Is the black and white wall hanging in the dining area a carpet? If it is, it might actually go with the white and orange living room. The current red carpet might fit in the dining room and complement the red chairs. Looking at the dining room, there appears to be a white wicker chair in the background. Put that in the living room and perhaps just get rid of the brownish wicker one. I’m now thinking the desk should go into the dining room on the far wall in one of the corners where the bike is located. Yes, the white pedestal table in the dining room and the two brown chairs could be moved to where the desk is now in that corner. Then in the dining room, turn the long table around so it sits more in the middle of the room like a real dining room, with the red chairs around it and on top of the red carpet. Use the little black pole lamp near the new desk location, or see if it can be used next to the orange sofa. The brown wicker chair might find a place next to the desk.

Hope some of these ideas help, although tough to do without all the dimensions.

I see lots of cute stuff in there! I'm all for mix and match, but there is too much clutter. I think it you pick out what you like best and get rid of the rest, your rooms will look much better.

Once you get everything put away and organized, you'll find that life is much easier and the space will be much more relaxing.

Lots of good suggestions already but here's what I would do:

Move the large rug to the dining room and get a smaller one for the living room to cover up the carpet and show off the lovely wooden floor.

Get rid of those little chairs or use them somewhere else, maybe a bedroom? Then you can bring them out if you really need them.

Consolidate the book shelves as theres a lot of unused shelf space. Perhaps use the tall one in the dining room for display. You could put the TV on top of one of the other book cases and use the TV table as a coffee table instead of the folding one.

Take down the wall hanging in the dining room - it's too dark for the space. Get rid of the corner desk completely, use the square table as a desk and the round table as a dining table.

Swap the sofas around and shift the white sofa over a little using the space left from removing the desk. Have some space left around things and try not to fill every little space.

Finally, put that plastic box away. There seems to be a lot of storage space but all visible, like open shelves. A nice low sideboard could work in the dining room for storing little things and clutter. It could go against that back wall with a big bright print above it.

All that said your living room looks lovely and cosy!

You really need a friend who's design sense you trust and admire to come in and help you clear each room and be disciplined and harsh about what does and doesn't get to go back into each room. So much stuff needs to either be corraled or completely gone. Then it will be much more livable, productive and enjoyable.

What I would do before posting such question here is to make sure the apartment look presentable before I take any picture. Just like keeping everything in order before the guest arrive.

Mostly echoing what everyone else said but also: when I saw your rooms I immediately thought, This is a job for the ubiquitous Expedit! (You have enough other Ikea pieces that I'm assuming you have some Ikea access.)

Move the desk out of the living room, and on that wall put the biggest Expedit you can find/afford/fit--it looks like you might even be able to fit the 5-by-5-cube or 4-by-4 with a 2-by-4. This will give you some height on that wall, and more important, all of your craft supplies, office supplies, and whatever else lives in all the boxes, crates, and baskets will go in the bottom two rows of the Expedit, COVERED. (If you can't afford a bunch of their little drawer/door units, which are getting pretty pricey at $20 or $30 a pop, use a nice plain neutral fabric.) All your books, pretty tchotchkes, and what looks like a camera collection go on the top two rows. Remove/sell all the half-height bookcases. If you love the wicker etagere, find another place for it, maybe in your bedroom, or against the wall we can't see in the dining room, which you're going to gain access to when you get rid of one of the tables and move the other into the center of the room.

Since it looks like you'll still have room to walk if you put the larger couch facing the TV, switch the two couches. I love the shape of the little orange one and think it will be nice framed by the window. If it's structurally sound, that is something that can go with you forever--eventually you can get it reupholstered in something lovely, like a silvery velvet, but it's fine for now. Try to float it into the room at least a few inches.

As others have said, put the red rug in the dining room and get a new smaller rug for the living room, preferably something with a bit of orange to go with the little couch. Urban Outfitters has cheap, bright 5-by-7-ish rugs in the $50 to $90 range.

Put the white floor lamp in the corner between the two couches so you have a reading light. The little table lamp can go on the desk when you move that to the dining room. The stand it's on can be a plant stand. The cat bed can live behind the white couch. I can't tell if that's a sofa table or another half bookcase behind the orange couch; in any case, if it's not too wide you can keep it and put ONE basket on it for TV remotes, etc.

New cushion for the wicker chair, picking up the orange. (As someone said above, the chair would also be pretty brightened with paint.) The orange pillows on the white couch; the white pillows on the orange one. It would be nice to add another accent color or two in the textiles (rug and cushions).

In the dining room, choose one of the tables and sell the other. Keep the cute red chairs; if you choose the rectangular table, keep the white wicker (?) chair--if not, either move it into the living room to replace the current wicker chair or get rid of it.

Do you really need/use all the desk area of the corner desk? If so, it goes into the corner of the dining room; if not, pick half of it and put it against the wall opposite the window. It might help unify it with the other furniture if you paint the top (red? white?). Eventually, you can swap it out for a simple parson table or even one of those schoolboy desks with the drawers on either side that you can paint. The idea being that if you do have people over, you can remove the desk chair and have the piece double as a sideboard. (Do you work at the desk enough to need the ergo chair? If not, just use one of the red chairs instead.)

Finally, as everyone else has said, remove or change the dining room tapestry to something lighter/brighter. I'm assuming that's where the bike lives all the time, so maybe you can even find a way to hang a new tapestry a few inches into the room so you can slip the bike behind it. Or rasterbate a giant poster to cover up most of the wall (if you have artwork it would make a great gallery wall, but it doesn't look like you do).

To prioritize, budgetwise: 1) Expedit (covered storage); 2) textiles (living room rug, tapestry, cushions); 3) replacement of some sort for the computer desk.

I can definitely see a fun, cozy boho/hippie vibe in your stuff, and I think you just need some paring/rearrangement to get there completely. Would love to see "after" pictures of the room.

1) Don't get rid of anything you love just for design reasons! I've gotten rid of furniture on the advice of people who dont' have the same taste as I do, and will no longer do that.
2) If the view out the window is nice, I'd put the desk in front of it even though I love corner desks. If it isn't a great view, keep the sofa where it is to provide back lighting for reading etc while not making you look at an ugly view.
3) If you love that rug, keep it! (sorry to repeat myself) and see if you can make it the basis of some color changes to help unify the color story of that room
4) Justify the number of tables to yourself, not others (repeating myself again) and if you have a personal purpose for each of them, then make that clear to the eye so that you dont' feel like you're living in a furniture store (speaking as one who has 3 desks...one for art, one for the computer, my grandfather's for nostalgia)
5) don't ditch...paint it or throw a cover over it
6) don't be married to living room/dining area/office. Give the biggest room to your main activity(ies) no matter what they are. My "living room" is my art studio and my 2nd bedroom is my library. The designer of this place put a built in desk in the dining area, so I was forced to break out of the ordinary and make that my office. My kitchen, office and studio are what you see when you walk in, but now I have a room with no tech allowed and there's no mess of cooking or bills. Just comfy seating, books, table...and one of the desks
7) Make the place fit your life, not the other way around
8) ENJOY

Toss the wicker chairs, the brown dining chairs, and the rectangle dining table. Move round dining table and red chairs to the middle of the room.

Rotate and move white couch away from the window, float into middle of room facing TV. Put the orange love seat next to the TV, facing the white couch. Now you have a conversation nook. The table currently behind the orange seat can go behind the white couch.

Put wicker bookshelf on left side of window, put plants & watering can on it.

Use vertical space as much as possible, definitely get rid of the short bookshelf. Paint a frame on the wall above the orange loveseat and hang your bike from bike hooks there. Quirky art & storage in one!

First of all, get rid of the orange sofa. I'd be happy to take it off your hands. :)

Ok, no it's not. I think you should ditch the desk. It really doesn't work with the rest of your furniture and it's huge. De clutter a bit, move the white sofa opposite the TV, make a seating area where it was.

I agree with the others, first thing that hits you is all the clutter. But you have some really nice furniture (some pieces need some love, but great shapes!)

I'd keep- couch, orange loveseat/chair (couldn't quite tell). and the table the tv is on for the living room. The bamboo bookshelf as well for display of a few higher impact items.

That said, all the little tubs/shelves etc should be replaced with some better storage. Think wall unit for the TV, Ikea would be a good starting point for that. Something that will tuck away anything you don't want laying around that adds to the messy look. So it all can be tucked away behind closed doors.

Keep the TV on the same wall (put wall unit there). Move long sofa to face TV, but don't mash it against the wall. I think I see a sofa table behind orange piece. Move this behind white sofa, and flank with table lamps. Move orange loveseat/chair sort of where white sofa is now, only again don't mash it up against the wall. Use the table TV is currently on as coffee table. You could put the bamboo shelf in the corner between the sofa/chair. You can keep one desk where it is along the wall away from the door so it can open properly (is that two desks?) again, investing in some smart storage would make the room look way cleaner, and more streamlined. Like a fun Cabinet to put in the corner under the desk to hold supplies and paper. I'd hang a nice large pin/board above the desk, and get a little fun with it. pops of colour perhaps.

Dining room again, too much furniture mashed against the walls. I'd omit one of the tables if possible. and move the other more to the center of the room.

I really love that orange loveseat/chair!

Not knowing how many people live here, if someone works from home and the true proportions of each room..... this is what I would do if it was my space and my things.

Dining Room:
I don't know about you, but watching TV in a bright room is a turn off for me. I'm always adjusting the blinds/shades. I'd consider moving the Rug + TV + Big Couch into the 'cavernous' dining room.
Rug - looks like it could fit wall to wall in here
Big Couch - along the window.
TV - on a narrower unit or on the wall, opposite big couch.
Bike - try hanging it on the wall where it is currently.

Lounge Room:
Shelving - too many units, pare it down to one unit. I'd go with expedit by ikea, on the side with cushions for seating. where the TV is currently.
Two tables - invest in one extendable table, example the bjursta by ikea. where the big couch and love seat meet, away from the walls. extend for bigger numbers.
Office desk - lose the L-shape desk and place new desk behind the door.
Walls - hang some artworks and your favourite photos.
Love Seat - i can't place this in my thoughts. maybe remove entirely?

Hmm. I'm on board with the 'less is more' suggestions.

What if your dining room became a hobby/ office space leaving the LR open for public space? LR: White table and two chairs by the eastern window, couches facing each other north/ south (hang a mirror across from S. window) TV table between, TV hung on wall.

Dining room: Floor to ceiling (closed white?) storage (with pull out sewing nook) on the light absorbing 'horsey' hanging wall, slim desk on window, mirror across from window. Voila! Private work space.

Serious decluttering is in order.
I think the orange loveseat is cute (lovely vibrant colour!) and I would keep it.
The rug? Yes, it does look a bit worn but I find it hard to judge it from the picture. Do test it in the dining room, it may work well there with the red chairs.
I think the worst problem is that the individual pieces absolutely clash - the fabric shade lamp with the frilly trim next to the rattan bookcase ..... ugh.

I'm not one for matchy-matchy furniture etc but what about slip covering and painting some of the things that you have so that they coordinate a little more? A new floorplan, sure, but tying things in a little more in addition to the declutting and closed storage will go a long way to making things seem more relaxed. A few things on the walls. You can do this very inexpensively.