I made some considerations and decided to remove balconies from the back end of the ship. The main engine intakes are placed on the top of the machine room and it likely would be an unpleasant place to stand within relatively close distance to those. Also, the view was dominated by the machine room anyway, so it was not as nice a view as the forward facing balconies. In its place I put a decorative element to the frame, enclosed the section, and turned that section into what may be a lounge type area:

It is in an odd curved space of the vessel, so I’m not exactly sure how to arrange the furniture in there. Have to figure in the height of the ceiling and all that. For now, it’s arranged a bit like a bar and grill, I guess.

I made up a little sort of x-ray view of the vessel as it exists now. In it, you can see that I added shelves to the storage rooms and tall tanks to store liquids in the last section of the storage rooms. You can also see the location of the new lounges and the current shape of the decorative frame elements right next to them. They… have a Earth 1950s vibe to them.