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Moving things away from the walls will help with the corridor effect. Rotate your sofa 90 degrees but float it in the room so that there is some space behind the sofa and the wall. Use that space behind the sofa to add a library with bookshelves (ikea Billy??). Your doorway to the bedroom looks rather large so don't worry about having it stick out in front of the door way a little.

Put your chair where your TV is now and put your TV in the corner by the kitchen or in the center of that wall. A small coffee table in front of the sofa (small square/ ottoman or long thin bench like) table will work but won't be too much in the way of your traffic flow.

move the tv to the left so it's centered on that wall...angle a smaller chair where the tv is (size & budget friendly options: borrow a chair from your dining table...upholstered dining chair from yard sale or craigslist...ikea's poang chair) that'll extend the conversation area a bit...and if you're able to spend a little, a large area rug to anchor all 3 seats would make it seem more like a room than hallway

nothing wrong with having half the room a hallway. it's psychically pleasing to have some open flow-through space, i think.

Nothing is really wrong. Try it all and see what suits you!

I'd try bookcase, TV, bookcase along the corridor-ish wall. The sofa opposite with the chair at 90 degrees in front of the divider. Room for a coffee table. I'd be tempted to use three IKEA Benjamin stools or stack a few more on them to use as table and/or seating.

That would just be my first inclination. It could go anywhere! That's what I love about all this: so many ways to be right.

Looking at it, I'd try the futon on the wall where the bookshelf is (to the right - or bottom of the page), move that bookshelf to the short wall on the right and put the armchair where the futon is now. I'd think about adding a stool or pouf near the far bookshelf (to move toward the futon for more seating if you have people over, to sit on while perusing your books, and just to make that side of the room feel more used. I'd leave the TV as is.

get a smaller armchair? seems like that takes up more of a footprint than it deserves, given the space.

Have you tried the sofa along the corridor wall? One way to try it without having to move all the furniture is to make a paper cutot the size of the sofa and putting it on the floor to see how it fills the space, and how walking around it etc might work

Its batty, but it might work...I could see that and then 2 armchairs facing each other in the middle of the room and bookcase tv bookcase on the wall facing the sofa. Strangely enough my living room didnt work until i turned the sofa at a 45 degree angle to the wall (I use the area behind for storage) Dont be afraid to try odd combos...

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would this work?

Right-on Lizzykewl, I was going to suggest more or less the same thing. Plopping that sofa in the middle of the "hallway" will certainly remove the hallway/corridor feel

Also since the sofa is right in the center of the room, it draws attention to itself and can make for a very "come sit and relax on me" feel.

I'd put the sofa against one of the outside walls. If your furniture is modern, you can put a slim shelf/table behind it so the sofa appears to float away from the wall. (If your walls are white, a cheap white melamine u-shaped table on wheels from the office section of a Scandinavian store for less than $100 looks surprisingly sleek -- put a lamp and pile CDs or books on it.)

The table should be about 9 " deep and about or slightly less than the height and width of your couch.