70's Living Room Today

I will be continuing my house tour today. First, I have to apologize for these poor quality pictures. It's before I went digital, and my scanner decided to go out on me. So, it's a picture of a picture, I know-terrible.  I just want you to have an idea of what we were working with before.  When you walk in our front door, this is the wall to the right.  There were slate rocks concreted on to the wall.  It was a bear to remove.  I'm so glad my husband was encouraged and excited to do home projects back then.

Here is the wall with the slate removed.

This is what you saw to the left of the living room when you walked in the front  door. That half wall there attached to the ceiling is dividing the living room from the kitchen.  That is also a giant concrete slate slab going from floor to ceiling.

One of the {many} negatives of our house, was that you could see into the bathroom and bedrooms from the front door. My father (architect), hated that.  He came up with a drawing for a way to remedy that.  We would lose a linen closet because of it and some square footage from our living room, but we LOVED the idea.  We did a niche wall.  You can see the layout below.

Here we are 6-7 years later.  We have not done much to it since our initial remodel. I find my style has evolved a bit and there are things that I want to change, but it will stay as is for now. I don't want to spend money right now.  My first Christmas gift was Barcelona Chairs from my husband. I love them.  (In retrospect, I would probably want less of them, but they are gorgeous chairs).  This view is the one to the right of our front door where the slate used to be.  

Our layout is very open.  Here is the living and dining room.  The entrance to the left is into the family room and the one to the right is to the kitchen.

This is the wall to the left of our front door.  This is the niche wall that my dad came up with. 

Here is an angle of the room from the entrance of our family room.  It seems larger than it is, but our door is kind of in the way. My dad wants us to convert our front porch into a glass enclosed foyer.  Maybe, one day. 

This is one of the things I plan to change in the near future. We bought this coffee table from Ikea because it was super cheap.  We thought we would keep it for a couple of years until we found what we really wanted...um, yeah, it's been 6 years.  I want either a mid century medium toned coffee table or something ultra rustic to break up so much modern in the room.  I'm on the hunt.  

What do you think?