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Good job!  I think many of the available GUIs for Reaper are gorgeous.

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You have already hit "R", toggle repeat, I guess you mean "Ctrl+R", record
 
And I am not sure what you want from the interface, compare to your avatar from which it is easy to get headache, any interface is good
 
Finally, I am a noob and so I normally look at the instrument during recording. I can not see the monitor in any case from the position near most instruments I have...

The various user themes are great, but be careful I've encountered one or two that were a bit buggy. One of them did not like my KORG M1 vst at all and would crash the program when removing tracks or closing.
 
 

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I can't recommend the LCS mod of WT Imperial high enough.  Search the stash for LCS - all of his theme mods are top shelf

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McQ is a GUI-agog now.