I'm with everyone else. If it's within your means, do it now.

Either that, or leave the uneven wood in place and spend the money to hire someone to do some whacka fabric drapey thing that covers them over and turns the room into an art project/gallery. I haven't been there, and you haven't seen the circus that hides and unfortunate beam and pillar in my basement toy room. Beside that, what's great for a toy room might well wear thin in a living room.

You want the wood gone? Banish it now -- the time is right and it will never again be this easy to do.