Extended lounge- I can't picture it. Hoping you can help

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I've been meaning to ask this for ages but not sure exactly what my question is. The lounge here is being extended by approx 3metres, which is perhaps two-thirds its current length again.

Ignoring small bits like coffee tables and footstools, we basically have one 2-seater sofa and two single armchairs. The sofa doesn't owe us anything but the armchairs are a little newer but they too might go in the end. Just can't picture any possible layouts once the room is going to be longer.
I think the main problem is the fireplace will be at one end of the room and I can't imagine a ( presumably longer) sofa not being directly opposite the fireplace.

Maybe I should upload a diagram. Will see if I can do that.

Do add a diagram, but is there any issue with a new sofa not still facing the fireplace? If it’s a long room in its extended form, there can be different zones.

I'm adding a pic. The thing is, the scale is probably not correct. The extension might end up longer than how I've drawn it.

I've written TV next to where my husband's thinking that will go and so I suppose a sofa would be opposite that. Does anyone know what i mean about it not being opposite the fireplace? It's really that only a fairly small portion would be opposite the fire. Perhaps its a kind of fengh shui thing. Hope this makes some kind of sense.

Wow. That's an awkward shaped space. What do you do in your living room? Watch TV, read, go on a laptop, craft? Is the window to the far left door to a garden or just a window? How long is rhw sofa? Will it fit in the bay or across the width of the extended bit and still allow people to get past? How is the room set up now?

@Geneticsbunny thanks, I think you're starting to feel my pain. When the kids ( adult plus partners) aren't here it's mainly just TV and relaxing. Kids are often on devices, very occasionally my daughter does a jigsaw but that's really just Christmas.

There will be double doors to the garden at the end of the room. There's also a small window going on the left of the left alcove, which is re-using the window currently on the back wall. ( Cast iron oldy-worldy type windows)

The 2 seater at the moment is just a 3.5 or 4 ft wide thing. Very comfy although really has seen better days.

The bay window, which we call a bay window but it's not a pretty Victorian type affair is a crazy thing. It was a bit of a bodge job that someone changed back in the '80s I believe and not wide enough for anything much so just contains an old chest supporting a record player with vinyls underneath and a speaker and magazine rack. Totally useless piece of space.

I’d position the soft seating around the fireplace as the central feature. Then have the new end with a couple of reading chairs, small table for hobbies or something like that. Define it as two spaces

re sofa. Have you thought about a corner one?
a corner sofa infront of TV and round to hall door, then small two seater facing into the room/front window. Use your arm chairs at the new end.

Thanks Torte.

I like your plan, with the 2 chairs by the new doors. Plus, that's an interesting idea, having a corner sofa with the L extension on the hall doorway side. that kind of sofa did briefly occur but I only considered it with the extension near the new doors to the garden.Which gives me this issue of nothing much in front of the fireplace.

Thankyou so much, that's really helpful :)

I agree with @Tortephant you need to define it as 2 spaces. You might well use a table more than you realise,ans it could be a lovely place to sit with a coffee and look out into the garden.

What does your architect suggest?

@Geneticsbunny I don't think our architect would have a view on it, unfortunately.. Although he's a lovely guy. maybe I should ask him round just to be sure.

It's kind of what you are paying him for...