Interior design help

I’ve posted on here before about decorating my mantle and people said they didn’t like the stone/mantle. I’ve been whitewashing it and I’m wondering if it looks better? Anything else I could do to make it better? Excuse the mess of things sitting on top. I only keep the large white wall hangings normally on it. My husband suggested we could remove the right side stone and mantle but he won’t take it all off.