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Does it fit? Check furniture against your room in seconds
Found a sofa, bed or table you like and not sure it will fit?
Measure your room wall to wall, take the width and depth from the product listing, and enter the four numbers below. You get a plain verdict, fits, tight or no, plus the walking space left over, and we try the product turned 90 degrees in case that works better. It is a rule of thumb, not a floor plan. Measure before you buy, every time.
Enter your room and product sizes
We'll tell you if it fits and how much space you'll have to walk around it.
- Fits · Tight · Doesn't fit
- 60 cm minimum walking path
- 90 cm comfortable
- Rotating 90 degrees if that helps
- Measure before you buy
How we judge clearance
- 01
We place the product in a corner of the room, in whichever orientation leaves more space, rotating it 90 degrees if that helps.
- 02
We take the larger of the two leftover strips of floor and call it the walking path.
- 03
We report whichever orientation leaves more space, and say plainly if it only works one way round.
60cm
Minimum walking path
90cm
Comfortable
We are not checking doorways, hallways, stairs, lifts, radiators, windows or where the sockets are. We only compare the product's footprint to the room's floor.
The 60 cm and 90 cm figures are a rule of thumb used by most furniture retailers and interior designers. Your room may need more, for example a wheelchair, a pram, or a dining chair that gets pulled out.
Questions
- How much clearance do you need around a sofa?
- As a rule of thumb, allow at least 60 cm on any side people walk past, 90 cm if you want it comfortable. The side against the wall needs no clearance at all. If there is a coffee table in front, leave roughly 40 to 45 cm between the sofa front and the table so you can reach it and still walk past.
- What is the minimum walkway width in a room?
- 60 cm is the least most people can pass through without turning sideways, so the checker uses it as the pass mark. 90 cm is comfortable, letting two people pass or a door open fully, and it is what we use as the comfortable mark. Hallways and the main route through a room should aim for 90 cm where you can manage it.
- Does the checker tell me if the sofa will fit through the door?
- No. We compare the product to the room floor only, not doorways, hallways, stairs or lifts. Measure the doorway width and height, hallway turns and any stair or lift headroom, then compare them with the product's smallest side and its diagonal. Many retailers list a will-it-fit-through-my-door guide; use it. Delivery failures are the buyer's cost.
- Can I use inches instead of centimetres?
- Yes, switch the unit toggle and enter the listing figures as they are. We convert at 2.54 cm to the inch, so you do not need to do it by hand. Do not mix units in one check, room and product should be in the same unit. If a listing gives only one unit, use that unit for the whole check.
- Why does the result say "tight"?
- Tight means the product fits in the room, but after we place it in the corner the larger leftover strip is under 60 cm. You can still get past, but not two people at once, not with a door swinging into the space, and not with a pram. A shallower sofa, a smaller table, or turning the piece 90 degrees often helps. Measure again before deciding.
This checker gives a rule-of-thumb verdict based on the numbers you enter. It does not see your room, your doorways or your furniture. Measure both the room and the product yourself before you buy.
Once it fits, plan the rest of the room within a budget. Or see more Decorfor tools.