You've got style integration (and to some degree functional integration) problems: In the DR area, three different period-ish pieces (sideboard, corner cupboard and handsome table). Of the three pieces, it is the corner cupboard which seems to odd man of the three. I like the side board and table together better, than any other combo. Neither of the two other tables you showed would solve this, better. I think each would actually make things worse, unles you were abandonning the other pieces completely. To my eye, it's the sketchy pediment, diagonal window trim (Georgian-ish) of the corner cupboard which falls away from the more Edwardian-era interpretations of the table and side board. How does the room work without the corner cupboard, fat candleholders and the chandy? If you don't use the table primarily for eating, how about this: center the room on the glorious window. Right now the room seems to ignore the central window and instead be broken in two disparate halves. How about putting the sofa to look directly out on the view? Put the table, sans chairs, behind it. Is it narrow enough to work in the room as a behind-the-sofa table? Lovely with a good reading lamp on it, and maybe a cachepot, with some book in low stacks perhaps. Or maybe the sideboard would serve as a sofa table? Remove or redeploy the "corner china cupboard". How about a low bench along the window, with some seating capacity? You could arrange a reading and conversational nook along one wall. What other furniture might be relocated from other parts of the house to break up the all matched set-ishness of the two areas which don't blend enough with each other? It seems as if you don't need, or use the formal dining room function. If so, it's wasted resources to kowtow to the fantasy of it. (You can rearrange furniture to recreate the DR function if you need to do so when you're ready to resell.) I'd try enlisting someone to help you move pieces around the house, as a first step, while you noodle on whether you'd be OK with 86'ing the whole DR vignette, if you aren't using it in the that way. I hope you're not offended with my comments on your DR furniture. I had a similar assemblage, especially the china cupboard, that I struggled with for years. I finally had to admit that the china cupboard was the problem. Once I got over my mental picture of what I "needed" in my DR (which we used for daily meals, so had to keep), and moved it out, the room immediately looked better with just the table and sideboard. But eventualy I repurposed the side board, too, and replaced it with simple chest of drawers. The sideboard has been (since banishment from the DR) a front hall cupboard (worked very well at that), a TV stand, and later as a supply cupboard in a sewing room. Now it is in storage. My china cupboard lived in a seating area (not totally happily) for bit, then got moved to a guest room (much better use, but without china, just some leather-bound books and the odd bit of silver jug). It's not a very valuable piece and I am not contemplating painting it and using it a guest bath. It is mahogany, which is my only hesitation with painting it. Still working on that decision. When we first start out, we buy stuff that attracts us, makes us feel grown up, seems to be work, etc. I know in my case (looking back at it over 3+ decades) I was trying to recreate rooms I particularly admired. But I was doing it without really knowing how to get there. Time teaches that. But only if you are willing to be flexible and change up things that don't work out. Looking back I can also recognize (now) that some of the things I found so charming (in my mental exemplars) were themselves transitional solutions to problems of space, resources, etc. Bake your hubby's favorite pie or cake and bribe him for an afternoon of lugging stuff around the house. My stuff often turns out to work better assorted into different rooms. And aside from the pastry, there's no cost at all. HTH, L.

Thank You for your input. I just measured the kitchen table and it is 36"x54" without table leaf. The leaf in in the original box in the closet. This table top is about 2" thick. The ends are shaped sort of like Octagon, if that makes sense. I am guessing the leaf is probably 24 in. wide if my memory serves me correctly. I want a nice comfortable chair that would have an ottoman with it yet an ottaman would take up walking space in the room. We just gave away a 6 yrs. old Lazyboy recliner to Salvation Army this week because DH bought one of those that has a remote that helps him raise up easier..(he could get up on his own legs faster than using the remote in my opinion) He has a lot of physical and medical issues. We get the morning sun until late afternoon and it does get hot in there, even in winters. We have had a ceiling fan/with light installed since living here. It helps with the cooling as well as circulation and lighting since there were no ceiling lights installed by builder in 1977. We have a floor lamp that we sometimes use in the evening if we feel we need more light. The TV is on a dark cherry tv stand in the sunroom. We live in a gated, Sr. Citizens community and most people use their sunroom instead of the living room. Most use wicker furniture in there or a small upholstery love seat and chairs. That's more or less what I'm thinking. White wicker loveseat and a chair/with ottman for me in wicker. I should take the measurements of the sunroom. This sunroom is right off the formal dining room. When we moved here, there was glass sliding doors between the two rooms but we removed them to open up the space. A lot of people have done that since they saw ours. The Original owner remodeled the kitchen about 10 yrs. ago and took down the half wall with spindles that opened the kitchen up and make it look larger but when you are having guest for dinner, they have to look right into your kitchen which is not very appealing to me if I was a guest. The way the kitchen cabinets were designed, there isn't room to even put up a wall without tearing out the cabinets. We just installed wall tile and Quart countertops with new stainless sink. DH insisted on granite but quartz was less expensive but by the time we got around to picking out tile, we had spent more than we wanted to but he wasn't giving in on his choice of countertop so I just picked out white subway tile and it is so blah looking. I hate it! We have all Traditional dark cherry furniture in this house that we bought with us from a larger home. I am sick of dark furniture but we both grew up with non-matching hodgepodge furniture and we wanted things to match but the dark furniture in the smaller house, all on one level is a bit overbearing. I never thought of a table with drop sides. Great idea! We could set it up on the wall where the sunroom door is located. There is a big window there, so wouldn't need light to read by and you wouldn't see the table as you are looking from the LR/DR area. The glaring sun is a big problem not only in your eyes when my husband is in his recliner but also on the tv..you see the reflection of all the houses and trees outside on the tv screen, that is another reason for keeping the blinds closed. I thought about blinds or shades that roll from bottom to top of window. That way we could let light in but I don't think it would show the reflection on tv. We are not allowed to put awnings on outside of the house. A table 24 in. in width with drop sides would allow DH to lift up one side if he wants to spread the newspaper out on the table to read and when the meal is finished; the leaf can be put back down, does that make sense? If we purchased white wicker furniture, one can always change cushions/pillow covers when the need or desire for a change comes on. A white table like you suggested would blend in with that white wicker, wouldn't it? The existing chairs have rollers on them, and the cushion is beige leather on them so that would blend okay with almost anything. We don't have but 4 dining room chairs, so when we have company, we pull the leather chairs from the kitchen set and use for the people setting at the ends of the table(also for overweight guest). Another option for the windows would be to install shutters on the bottom half of the window and a valance on top part of window. I have valances over top of the miniblinds now. The shutters could be opened after the sun goes down to allow more light in. A less expensive way would be to put up cafe style curtains with valances at top which are outdated window treatments. We could always use tension type rods for those. No drilling holes, or installation of other hardware required. The solar shades we saw in Arizona were operated by a remote or switch on the wall and the shades were sort of neutral shade of beige/silver and kind of looked like a mesh. My BIL said the Home Depot out there sold them in their stores and they are easy to install. I checked with our HD and they don't sell them here. Guess they are widely used because of the hot sun/hot tmeperatures in Arizona and they let in light but blocks the hot sun. Guess they are considered an energy saver too. Out there if you hang clothes outside on the line, they are dried in 15-30 minutes, even in the month of May. We had porcelain tile installed as you walk in our front door, with a small inexpensive Walmart scatter rug that can be lifted when the cleaning lady mops that floor every other Monday. The tile was inexpensive and our son-in-law installed it for us. Even though he is now our ex-sil, I'd feel comfortable asking him to come and do the floor and pay him. Only trouble with the tile by front door is he used wrong type of grout and some of it has started to crumble. There is baseboard heat in every room in this house. My DH is afraid if we have tile in the sunroom, it will be cold in the winter. Well, you solve that by buying a nice area rug that will add warmth but anchor the room I tell him. Would a padding be necessary under an area rug over that tile floor? DH has the tv playing from when he wakes up till when he goes to bed. Sometimes when he is sleeping during the day in his recliner, I turn all the noise off or mute the sound for my own sanity. When he is watching his favorite TV shows in the evenings, I come into the home office and get on my computer or go into my bedroom and read a magazine or book or go to bed or call friends or family or go visit one of the a widows/neighbor/friends a few houses away in our court. To install a tile floor, I would assume a subfloor of plywood would need to be laid down? Since I wasn't here when the carpeting was installed, have no idea what is under there but thin padding probably. A seller doesn't go to the expense to put in the best when you are selling the house! In our other houses we owned, we always had a different color for each room and this is the same color throughout the house and I love that look so much better. We have said when the carpet wears out we will consider having hardwood floors installed. I do not like laminate flooring(Pergo)Had it in our kitchen that we just left in 2005 and hated it. Found it harder to keep clean than sheet flooring. Thanks for all your ideas. I've written myself some notes in a composition book. Maybe I'll hit either the library and see if I can find some sunroom books or B&N book store. Feel free to post if you come up with anymore suggestions.

Is there something wrong with the flooring, or are you just looking to make a change? I was pleasantly surprised when I saw your picture because your lead-in made it sound ugly :). Actually it is quite nice! I would surely not change your wood floors.They are beautiful and will work with anything. Did you try to ". Google" entry tables?

Thanks for your input flo, I was not needing input on my wood wall but nice of you to share your opinion. The reason I did not do the window wall is because it would have required a great deal of extra time to make it work around the Windows. As you can see its cased in drywall, I could not just go over the drywall with the wood, I would have had to rip the drywall back etc. I am a stay at home mom who enjoy small Reno projects and not an interior designer or contractor. There was a large crack in the drywall on the wall I did in wood,, so for me it made sense to pick this wall to cover. I love my room and how it turned out, simply looking for some others to share some ideas of wall decor not diss what I have done. As I mentioned above in my original post the doors are still yet to be changed and will no longer be wood.