Green Walls Transitional Living Room Design

We are redoing our family room. We just redid the hardwoods and painted. We plan on refacing the fireplace and add cabinets on each side. The furniture will need to be replaced. It is our only living area so it's also our TV room. Our hope is for a room that when people come in, they immediately feel comfortable — but also feel a bit of a 'wow'. We have a dog and cat. Right now my husband and I live here with our 18 year old who is stuck attending college from home due to Covid and my 23 year old daughter and her boyfriend who are waiting to get their first apartment next fall. We're about to be empty nesters. Although we don't have small children, we don't want to be 'delicate' in this room; it's just not us. We want to sit back, watch TV, put our feet up, and snuggle with the pets. We live in Syracuse, NY so the fireplace is used many months of the year. We struggle with storage of books and have no place for alcohol/wine glasses. We don't drink much casually but want to have easy ways to offer drinks when company comes over, either in the kitchen or the living room.

We are hoping to slide a little more towards modern, clean lines but not all the way so transitional might be a good description. I will tip a bit towards more modern and predict my husband will be closer to transitional. We are not far off from each other though so it shouldn't be hard to please us both.

After this, we will look to do a medium update of our kitchen/dining room followed by our bedroom.

Transitional

We don't have any in particular. We usually use Dunk & Bright in Syracuse