Lovely looking space Gary. Love your right hand side table with the different levels. Ercol?
It actually came from La Redoute courtesy of my wife - they still sell them (£63!)
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Well we have the house keys now and just spending a couple of weeks doing necessary work. Currently water off due to leaking taps and toilets and boiler not working, so no heat or hot water. What a delight. Really hoping that when the plumber turns up tomorrow it’s an easy fix, but not confident that I’ll very soon be shelling out for a new boiler etc to bring up to standard.
However, I now have the room undergoing decorative update and new carpets being fitted next week before the furniture arrives. Then it’s just setting up and seeing what sounds best.
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Hope you get all the plumbing sorted.
For me, we have a similar sized room and have it set up as Plan B, firing across the room. We are very happy with this layout, plus your room looks more balanced this way. Always a compromise somewhere.
Glad to see that you have Kudos speakers and use their KS-1 speaker, just need to get some longer lengths. If you’re decorating, you could add some trunking above the skirting board to hide the speaker cables.
My neighbour down the road with the same house, but mirror image, has it set up as Plan A, firing down the room. However, he is never happy with it and always tweaking it to make it sound better.
DG…
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That describes some people and their systems regardless of room!
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I wouldn’t call it “light”. 
, basically the whole room is covered in treatment.
That shows the differences / issues with all our systems. What suits one doesn’t necessarily suit all systems.
Can only answer the OP honestly with my experiences, others will have different experiences.
Such is the fun of our hobby.
DG…
I have a similar room and started with firing across short distance but bass was much better across long distance. Yes you do lose a bit of imaging but not as much as you might think.
Avoid light acoustic treatement - you are just damping high frequencies. I have a lots of thick (150mm minimum) bass traps behind speakers. As you stop nulls from reflected bass frequencies, you get more bass not less ith bass absorbers.
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We are making some progress and the music room has gone from this
To this (work in progress)
Carpet being fitted on Tuesday and furniture coming on Wednesday.
Unfortunately the boiler and cylinders have been condemned, so we will be a few weeks until we have heating and hot water. I think it’s called character building 
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