 Another room, designed by Michael Inchbald, where "QE2"s advanced interior design was demonstrated was the first class lounge, the Queen's Room on Quarter Deck.This space, in colours of white and tan, featured a lowered ceiling with large indirectly lit slots, which, despite reducing the ceiling height, created an impression of airy openness above to deal with the otherwise oppressive dimensions of the single storey room (c. 30m x 30m x 2.4m).In addition the structural columns were flared at the top to blend into the ceiling and to lose the visual indication of low ceiling height that straight columns would have given.