The furniture layout planner is a free online tool for checking furniture fits before you buy it or move it. Draw your room to its real size, add sofas, beds, tables and storage at their true dimensions, and test the layout in 2D and 3D — free to plan, with no download.
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Enter your wall lengths in feet or metres, or start from a ready-made room and change it to your measurements.
Drag sofas, beds, tables and storage from the library, then type the exact width and depth from the product listing.
Set the distance from each item to the walls, keep walkways clear and check that doors and drawers can open.
Walk round the layout in 3D, then download the plan to share with your household or take shopping.
A tape measure tells you the room. The planner tells you what the room looks like with the furniture in it.
Type the exact width and depth of any item, so the sofa on your plan is the sofa you are about to buy, not a guess.
Select an item and enter its distance from each wall. Keep walkways, door swings and chair space exactly where you want them.
Living, bedroom, dining and office furniture, plus doors and windows. Search for a sofa, bed or desk and drag it in.
Switch to the 3D view to see how the room feels, and open the doors to check they clear the furniture.
Labels can show each item’s name and size on the drawing, so anyone you share it with can read the layout at a glance.
Open the planner and start straight away. Nothing to install, no account to create and no card needed.
Use these to sketch a first layout, then swap in the exact sizes of the pieces you are considering. The planner switches between feet and metres at any time.
Furniture sizes vary more than room sizes, so treat these as typical rather than fixed. Two sofas sold as “three-seat” can differ by a foot in width and several inches in depth, and a bed frame is always larger than the mattress it holds. The number that matters is the one on the product page.
The pieces that set the layout of most living rooms and dining spaces.
| Three-seat sofa | ~84″ × 36″ (213 × 91 cm) |
| Loveseat, width | 58–64″ (147–163 cm) |
| Armchair, width | 30–40″ (76–102 cm) |
| Coffee table | ~48″ × 24″ (122 × 61 cm) |
| Dining table for four | ~48″ × 36″ (122 × 91 cm) |
| Dining table for six | ~72″ × 36″ (183 × 91 cm) |
US mattress sizes. The bed frame and headboard add a few inches, so plan with the frame’s size.
| Twin mattress | 38″ × 75″ (97 × 191 cm) |
| Full mattress | 54″ × 75″ (137 × 191 cm) |
| Queen mattress | 60″ × 80″ (152 × 203 cm) |
| King mattress | 76″ × 80″ (193 × 203 cm) |
| Dresser, depth | 18–20″ (46–51 cm) |
| Wardrobe, depth | ~24″ (60 cm) |
Furniture that fits against the walls can still make a room hard to use. These are the spaces to protect.
Keep the routes people use every day about 36 inches (91 cm) clear. Around 30 inches works for a path that is used less often.
Close enough to reach a drink from the sofa, far enough to get your legs past: 14 to 18 inches (36–46 cm).
Leave about 36 inches (91 cm) from the table edge to the wall so a chair can pull out, and more if people need to walk behind.
Allow at least 24 inches (61 cm) along the sides of a bed you get in and out of, more where a wardrobe or drawers open.
Most furniture that has to go back was the right size for the space it was bought for and the wrong size for everything around it: the walkway, the door, the radiator, the route in. Check those on the plan before you order, and the delivery is the end of it.
Take the width, depth and height from the listing, not the description. Check whether the depth includes the cushions and the arms, and for a reclining sofa use its fully reclined depth plus the gap it needs from the wall. Type those numbers into the planner and the item on your plan is the one you are buying.
A sofa that fits the room still has to get there. Measure the narrowest doorway, hallway and stair turn on the route, and compare them with the piece’s depth and height, since large items usually go through on their side. The planner shows the room, so do this part with a tape measure before you order.
Mark the routes people walk every day before you place anything, then fit the furniture around them. Check the swing of every door into the room, and leave space for drawers, wardrobe doors and dining chairs to open. Use the clearance controls to hold a walkway at an exact width while you move things.
Moving furniture on a plan takes seconds; moving it in the room takes an afternoon. Try the sofa against the wall and floated in the room, swap the bed to another wall, and test a smaller table. Keep the layout that leaves the clearest walkways, not the one that fits the most in.
Planning one room in particular? Use the planner built for it — same canvas, same free export.
Arrange the sofa, TV and seating with the walkways to scale.
Find the best wall for the bed and fit storage around it.
Draw any room to scale and arrange furniture before you move a thing.
Draw whole-floor plans with multiple rooms, walls, doors and windows.