Sofas, measured

Does it leave a walkway once it is against the wall? Enter your measurements and the answer comes back with its working attached.

the calculator

Does it fit your room?

Enter the piece and your room. Every number in the answer is shown, along with the standard it was measured against. Nothing is sent anywhere — the whole check runs in your browser.

Constraint pages

directory · in measurement

against a wall
Does it leave a walkway once it is against the wall?
sofa and coffee table
Do both pieces fit with a gap between them and a walkway behind?
getting it in
Will it come through the doorway?

Each page will show the piece's dimensions, the clearances worked out, where the numbers came from, and how confident we are in them. Until they publish, the tables below answer the same questions for the 2 pieces measured so far.

Fit across common room sizes

Computed at build time for the fixture pieces below — the same engine, the same rule set, the same working as the calculator above.

Sofas: verdict per room size, with the margin against the minimum. Fixture pieces: generic shapes with typical dimensions, none yet verified against a spec sheet.
Piece	11 × 13ft	12 × 14ft	13 × 16ft	14 × 18ft
Three-seat sofa, 84in · 84″ wideunverified	Fits 91″	Fits 103″	Fits 127″	Fits 151″
Apartment sofa, 72in · 72″ wideunverified	Fits 94″	Fits 106″	Fits 130″	Fits 154″

Getting it through the door

Delivery is the least-served question in this category and the easiest to get quietly wrong, so the assumptions travel with the answer: assembled, legs on, and a hung door leaf deducted from the opening unless the door comes off.

Sofas: whether the piece passes common interior openings. Fixture pieces: generic shapes with typical dimensions, none yet verified against a spec sheet.
Piece	30in opening, door on	30in opening, door off	32in opening, door on	32in opening, door off	36in opening, door on	36in opening, door off
Three-seat sofa, 84in · 84″ wideunverified	Does not fit −5″	Does not fit −3″	Does not fit −3″	Does not fit −1″	Fits 1″	Fits 3″
Apartment sofa, 72in · 72″ wideunverified	Does not fit −4″	Does not fit −2″	Does not fit −2″	Does not fit 0″	Fits 2″	Fits 4″

Where these pieces come from

2 fixture pieces on this page, 2 still awaiting verification against a published spec sheet. Dimensional values carry their origin and a confidence score, and a value the engine only half-trusts cannot produce a clean verdict. This category has not published yet: it carries no product listings and no affiliate links.

This page renders 20 computed facts. A page below its minimum fails the build rather than shipping thin.

while you wait

Test small-space furniture for depth, usable storage, approach, daily changeover, and wall space before buying. Compare the closed footprint with the room it needs in use.

Read the article →