Design a TARDIS console room

It's actually really hard to think of a good design that hasn't been done already... I loved the late 1980s console room design. Not so much the stage-like quality of it where the fourth wall was very, very noticeably absent, but the console and the walls all had this feeling of genuine seclusion and isolation. I also really liked the idea that each roundel contained a bit of hardware necessary for the ship's functionality and wasn't just an aesthetic choice. I think I'd really like the idea of it scaled up to the size of the McGann console room like what was done during the Richards-edited run of EDAs. Maybe with a few stylistic touches like something from a Frank Bellamy comic.

All of that said, I do like the warm cosiness of this one. It feels very, very much like a refuge as the TARDIS should be:

I love that picture. Makes me think its the next logical step from the Cathedral Tardis of the TVM, leading into what the War Doctor had

I don't mind, so long as the hat stand is back.... Not that the Doctor ever used it.

In the books yes, after the TARDIS finishes regenerating in "Escape Velocity" there's a chapter all but dedicated to describing the new TARDIS console room. 

Yep. The room undergoes several alterations before settling down in Trading Futures into a hexagonal room containing four alcoves. One contained what could essentially be the study, another led to the library, the third housed the workshop and the fourth contained a replica of the Doctor's kitchen in the House on Allen Road. The whole thing was annihilated by a fission bomb and is probably the reason why Lucie quips that most of the TARDIS looks as though it's being held together by duct tape in Blood of the Daleks. There could very well be an entirely new console room (probably not console though) used in the Big Finish N-EDAs that isn't discussed.

It's kind of like the console room that the DWM comics gave to the NAs, the latter day EDA room doesn't tend to get discussed very often because it's exclusive to the EU.

Yep, its interior dimensions were collapsed to prevent his family from hijacking it inside the House. The implication was that when the Doctor reset it, it became the Cathedral from the TVM. Excelis Decays built upon that, stating that the makeup of the room itself was mostly his doing. He ran everything back to ensure it was working and likely built the console himself from scratch. The design is therefore likely inspired by his ancestral home or at least, that was the implication at the time.

I know that the original secondary console room was what gave the Timewyrm her power... Since another pops up in Blood Heat, it's possible that room could be a smaller iteration of what eventually becomes the TVM console room and the source of the one used in Big Finish during Hex's arc (if you're more inclined to put BF just after the Timewyrm stories, during the early NAs).

Is there actually a drawing of the latter EDA console room/Tardis?

Ah fair enough. i can use an idea from both then to get the look

Good question. It really depends on where you stick Big Finish in regard to the EDAs.

Me personally, I've got this informal Reaffirmation trilogy at the beginning of Eight's life that consists of The Dying Days, Shada and (most importantly) Endgame from the comics. In his DWM travels with Izzy, it's mentioned that it's only been a couple months since San Francisco (and those early stories were written by Alan Barnes from 1996 onwards), not enough time to have been caught up in a future War he wasn't supposed to know about. Couple that with Charley's dissatisfaction at how the room "looks like something out of Jules Verne," and I like to think that Storm Warning is just after Oblivion where he's still using the Cathedral console room.

Although -- and my memory might be shoddy on this one -- we never do see a "secondary" (such a loaded statement considering that the "secondary" introduced in Mandragora was supposed to be the original) console room during Eight's time. The rest of the TARDIS has a crumbling Gothic quality to it like the inside of a stormswept castle, but there might very well be another pewter grey console room floating around the place. Just need a reason to find it.

As for OP, I quite like the TV Movie design for it's combination of the machine and a home. What I dislike about the 80s control room is it doesn't feel like anyone's living there, it's all very functional. The original 60s design managed a compromise, what with the random furniture doted around it (well in it's very first appearance at least, the control room was anything but consistent in the 60s). I like how the "neon" control room has evolved under Capaldi to feature bits and pieces of furniture.

So essentially my Tardis pitch would be-it's a machine, but it's still also a home.