[Chris Saper]

Linda,

Big improvement. It's unclear whether you plan to actually make any changes in the painting or whether you are looking for solutions that might apply to future work.

If you plan to actually change the painting, you'll need to be religiously careful about the stripes. They must be straight, exactly sized, and their perspective has to be accurate.

There's much more visual support for the figure, but without getting rid of the bannisters and lamp, you are probably at the limit of where you can go compositionally.