I would suggest other wichurana ramblers such as Leontine Gervaise, Alberic Barbier or even Albertine. I grow a good few ramblers and climbers in very tight spaces - although they will cover a fair amount of wall (and go round the corner - they have cane flexibility) they can be kept quite tight to the wall - almost 2 dimensional. The hardiness may be a factor but on a south facing wall, I have found the wichuranas to be fairly tough roses, Failing that, I will also second Nahema as a rather lovely, well behaved rose but there probably is a hardiness factor to consider there. If you were not desperately bothered about rebloom, take a look at the ayreshire ramblers (yes, I know they can get huge) but you will not find any rose as flexible and well behaved as Ayreshire Splendens. Finally, there is a lovely helenae hybrid called Lykkefund which is both thornless and easily trained and may well be jardy for your area - it is a huge favourite in Scandinavia.

I think you are actually going to draw more attention to the squareness of the room by putting in a huge round rug. It will act like a bulls-eye, and all the corners will be emphasized where the rug doesn't reach. Plus, all of your furniture in the space will be half on, half off, the rug, which will break up the round effect anyway. I would think about adding a couple of smaller oval rugs, perhaps on either side of the bed. Then use your fabrics, accessories and art to bring in softness and rounded corners. Fabrics with softer prints, curvy patterns, curvy lamps, round accent pillows, pretty plates on the wall, a round mirror, etc.

Thanks. I'll take the coffee table comments under consideration. I'll also take a better pic from the back hall, something that shows the feet on the table (which is actually my grandmother's trunk that has been re-purposed with some short little legs to make it the right height) and see if that looks better to you. I'm always open to improvement. I pulled this together on virtually no budget (that is, the decorating part - the actual repairs to the room were done at that point). The loveseat is a repurposed crib that was in the attic, the coffee table was gma's trunk, the buffet is a piece I picked up at a garage sale that had broken glass door inserts and was painted with a nasty white drippy house paint. The only real expense here was the floral fabric. I will take some other pix.

Molly, from one lamp to the other, the whole width of the wall is 179 inches. My sectional is 119 inches. So, do you think a 9 x 12 would look good? I I calculated that there will still be 35 inches left of the floor which means almost 18 on both sides. Also, I was wondering that 8 x 10 would fit the sectional just exactly leaving no room for an end table or even a space between the chair and sectional for comfortable seating. Since 8 x 10 means that the longer side is 120 inches and my sectional is 119 inches, there will not be any rug space beside the sectional. I hope what I’m saying makes sense. My husband feels like an 8 x 10 would work and he hates returning stuff constantly lol..but I’m not sure. However, I’ll wait till my sectional arrives on Saturday to fully check the arrangement before I decide to return.