Decorating and Design - Long Living room

Please Help! My living room is 12 feet wide and 22 feet long. It has vaulted ceilings. A fireplace and an exit door with a window in it at one end. The kitchen is off the living room to the left with sepration by counter and cabinets. There is a doorless entry on the right into the back of the house right next to the doorless entry from the front door at the oposite end from the fireplace. The only lighting comes from tract lighting in three places on the ceiling and the small window in the door at the far end of the room. I need some ideas on paint colors to cozy the room, lighting and positioning of furnishings. The floors are light cream ceramic tile and the walls are currently white. We like an Asian theme and I have black leather sofa and chairs and lots of pictures and things to decorate the walls. I would like one of the focus collors to be red...maybe in the rug and accented elsewhere but not on the walls :confused:

Thanks!!

to cozy it up, forget the track lighting and use lamps. a good wall color to create a warm space without darkening it is a tannish gold, which also goes well with lots of color schemes. and if the ceiling seems to high & cold, you can paint it one shade darker than the walls. look for an oriental rug with reds, blacks & golds that is large enough to fill the furniture grouping. you might consider painting one of the end walls red (maybe the fireplace wall, if that's one of the 12' walls). that will help to visually shorten the long narrow room (or paint the short end walls a shade darker than the long walls). positioning the furniture in a grouping across the room will define a smaller conversational area, and give you 2 spaces, instead of one long one.