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I hope it helps. It's not perfect, but it's the best that's possible. You can go ahead with your normal editing now, and it should be passable.
But the bottom one is much more similar to the three examples you showed me. Have you changed your mind about your taste? (That's perfectly ok, I hate the bottom one.)
Terrific! So, let's try something simple first. Add a darkish red Solid Color layer immediately above the Blurred layer, and clip it thereto. Then play with blend modes (and tweaking the colour of the red). I found that Soft Light mode looked pretty good.
There's no doubt it'll be fiddly, but there's a chance it might be easier than you think. Go ahead and do your clean processing on the raw file, then post the photo for me and we'll discuss.
The arms and chair and books probably should have been cloned out altogether. In fact, to be ultra safe, it might have been better to clone the child out altogether.
The radius of the cloning has to be bigger than that of the blur, you see.
The best you could do would be to lower the Lightness slider of a Hue/Saturation layer to maybe -65 or so, to darken it a lot. The pattern would still be pretty apparent, though.