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Your current setup probably makes it uncomfortable to sit. People generally like to sit with their backs protected and visual contact with doors etc. And volumes larger than 4x4 meters end to be experienced as to open en unprotected.

I would use cabinets (high or low, depending on how open you want toe leave it) to structure the volumes in the room. You could move the console table toward the question mark, which leaves an open corridor between the two bedroom doors. Then place the sofa against the wall where the console table is now, and the chairs on either side facing each other.

The upper left hand corner seams ideal for a corner couch with a sofa table. Combined with a bookcase on the question mark instead of the console table, to put the TV less central. Where to watch TV then? Well the area between the railings and the utility door in the left bottom corner also seems ideal for a smaller reading/TV nook. Console tabel against the right railing, sofa against the wall opposite, and box it in with a cabinet or screen protruding from the left wall toward the corner of the railings.

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If your room is 265 cm by 290 cm, and your bed is 180x200 cm, I don't see wall to wall wardrobes (like Pax) fitting any way to leave good room to move around.

I think the most open layout with ample storage would be:
- move the bed with the headboard against the left wall (opposite the built in closet)
- place two high cabinets of 40 cm wide on each side of the bed (for hanging, with shelves or with drawers).
- for more storage, add a row of cabinets along the ceiling above the headboard/on top of the side cabinets. Consider blocking the left window with this,
- remove the old dresser. Use (http://www.ikeahackers.net/2012/07/recycle-bin-dresser.html) on the wall between the door and the built-in cabinet, for easy acces to socks, underwear etc. Or place a narrow chest of drawers in the right upper corner, and use ( http://www.ikeahackers.net/2010/11/bedroom-dress-boys.html) on the wall between the door and the built-in closet to place your day-to day clothes.
- perhaps replace your bed with two Ikea Sultan Alsarp beds (http://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/10098893/) or a similar lifting bed. They are compact, and lift real easy for acces underneath (just installed them myself). Add high legs (20 cm sultant legs) with underbed storage boxes for even more storage for bedlinnen, towels, out of season clothes etc.

This setup:
- doesn't block the room optically too much,
- leaves ample room at the foot end of the bed where you walk in and out the most,
- leaves you the option of using your current bed, and
- could create a comfortable alcove (with lighting) around the head of the bed.

Perhaps build the wall of cabinets around the bed headboard yourself, use something like Ikea elements (Billy, Besta, Faktum etc), or get a carpenter to do it.

Good luck!

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