I'd cover that sliding door panel with a painted canvas floor to ceiling so the art became the door!

I have a similar space. You can't tell from the photo, but I floated all the furniture, creating room behind a conversation area for a dining set and in front of it for a lounge chair or two:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/25671211@N02/5711316813/in/photostream (I need to take more photos)

Key to this, I think, is to move the TV out of the room. Its acting like an anchor to the walls. It may be a big sacrifice, but move the TV to the den, creating a screening room. Listen to music and watch Netflix on your iPad in your new floating-furniture living room.

What is it that you want wall space for and what are you trying to arrange? Are you trying to figure out placement for the tv? Seating? You might keep a look out for high backed furniture - media stands with a back attached, high-backed chairs or sofas, etc., to demarcate the space. A little more info about your goals are and a floor plan (what are the other two 'walls' of the room?) would help.

I agree, you have great light. And Protorio is right, float the furniture. Don't feel like you need to put things against walls. I'm wondering if it's possible to put the tv in front of the sliding door. Allow just enough room for it to slide behind it. Then buy a pair of prints. Hang one on the door and one behind. When closed, a pair, when open, a single piece of art.

Floorplan? Hard to tell with pics

Is it a possibility to move the sliding door to the den side of the wall? Then you could mount your flat screen up on the wall and float your couch with its back to the island facing the wall. I'd go with a low back modern clean lines couch, I tried to put a high back puffy couch floating in front of my kitchen island and it looked like way too much stuff going on.

Then a little round table with one center leg & two chairs by the windows.

Or you could get a smaller flatscreen and mount it on the little piece of wall in the corner (right of the window). Put it on a rotating arm, can be flush on the wall when not in use, pulled out when you are going to watch.

There are also flatscreen mounts that attach to the ceiling, maybe that might work for you.

Protorio - I hope you don't mind, I took a look at your photostream. Your house is beautiful and you take wonderful photographs. "Leap" is precious.

By the way, when you get tired of the black leather lounger (Eames?), I'd be happy to take it off your hands :-)

Kinda hard to offer advice without a floorplan or pix of the other walls...
...but please take take down those Christmas lights!

I also enjoyed your photostream, Protorio. You have a great eye for photographing kids.

Also, hi from a fellow SFer!

(apologies for the threadjack)

big open space + No walls = 4X big speakers you need to pimp that tv out man!

Thank you for your comments! I find a lot of your suggestions interesting

@FengShuiByFishgirl: Love your idea of the pated canvas on the door panel, it will either be that, or no sliding door!

@Protorio: Floating the furniture is great idea, and I wasn't thinking of putting my furniture close to the walls, but it's not that big of space, it's actually smaller in real than on the pictures…and your space is huge, my space is a lot smaller (10'X10')But I also really like what you did with your living room;) The TV might also end up in the den with my big sectional (which was not mentioned in the post)

@Home Body: I did put a floor plan but AT didn't put it up… I'm trying to figure out how to arrange a seating area for dining as well as a living room in a 10 by 10 feet (excluding the kitchen).

@ mauishopgirl: I like your idea, didn't think of that!

Keep the suggestions coming, thank you!

And btw, these are the pictures from the previous tenants ;) These are NOT my Christmas lights! They are gone, no worries!

It's kind of hard to tell without a floorplan, but I think you're going to have to get rid of the island and switch to a smaller dining table. From the photos you posted, it looks like an average sized couch is going to make it difficult to get to the den door or eat at the bar.

If you own the place and the den wall isn't load bearing, you could tear down that wall to make the space flow better around furniture. Again, it's hard to really tell anything without a floorplan and dimensions of your furniture.

I loved a picture I saw recently where someone put a flat screen on a lovely battered old (but sturdy) easel.

Eagerly waiting for the replies. I am also furnishing a 12x22 space. One wall has a fireplace, another a spiral staircase, and another french doors and windows. There is a single wall, but pushing furniture up against it makes it look like a middle school boy at a mixer avoiding the girls.

get smaller counter stools, set up a sofa facing away from the kitchen toward the end wall with a sofa table delineating a walkway between the sofa and the counters tools. set the TV against the far wall, add a coffee table and some chairs on either side, anchor with a large rug.

I'm of the mind that a television does not belong on an easel, and if possible, out of the living room. I know that's not always feasible, but it changes the nature of a living room if its not all built around the screen. But then again, I don't watch much TV.

So, if you can use the den as a media/screening room, with a nice sofa, then the living room can have smaller furniture to create a floating conversation area with room for a dining table, too. I do have more room to work with, but even in 10x10 provides a nice space for a conversation area.

(PS - thanks for thoughts on my photos - its easy to take photos of one's own children!)

Easel is a great idea for the tv! Try Hammary's structural television easel cart. You can buy it online with free shipping and tax.

Piping in late, but whatever you do, move the TV away from the windows. You don't want the sun coming in opposite you because it'll make it hard to watch TV.

How about a little strange idea ...
Mount the TV on the wall of the kitchen island (facing the living room).
Get rid of these bar stools and take nice light chairs and glass dinner table and put them next to the window (where the TV stands now in the photo).Thus you'll have enough sunlight in the room.

http://www.homebase.co.uk/wcsstore/homebase/images/162-6027805A70UC490104M.jpg
http://tableandchairsonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/glass-table-and-chairs.jpg
http://www.furniturefashion.com/image/rectangular%20modern%20glass%20dining%20tables%20gallotti%20and%20radice.jpg

You may put a sofa chaiselongue in the corner of the room (the back of the sofa facing the sliding door) and leaving enough space for the door to open.
As proposed by lampeam , buy a pair of prints. Hang one on the door and one behind. When closed, a pair, when open, a single piece of art. And you'll finish the look of the wall above the sofa.

http://mobiliariomartinezsapena.com/catalog/images/Sofa%20piel.JPG

If the furniture is placed like above, you can see the TV both from the dining table and from the sofa.