The office layout planner is a free online tool for designing your workspace in minutes. Drag and drop desks, chairs, and storage, check the clearances, and share your plan — for home offices and open-plan workspaces alike. Completely free, no download required.
No steep learning curve. No subscription. Just a fast, accurate office layout planner that lets you get on with designing your workspace.
Place desks, chairs, filing cabinets, and bookcases with a single click. Snap to walls and other furniture automatically.
Set your exact room size in feet or metres and every desk and cabinet is drawn to scale. See instantly what fits before you buy anything.
Open the office layout planner and start designing immediately. Nothing to install, no account to create, no credit card required.
Download your office layout as an image to share with colleagues, your manager, or a furniture supplier. No reformatting needed.
Desks, L-shaped desks, office chairs, filing cabinets, bookcases, and more — all sized to standard office dimensions.
Every item can be rotated, resized, and labelled. Test multiple desk layout ideas in minutes without measuring the real room twice.
Enter your office dimensions in feet or millimetres to create an accurate to-scale floor plan.
Drag a desk, chair, filing cabinet, and bookcase from the library into your room.
Move, rotate, and resize items until your layout works. Snap to walls and check the walkways.
Download your plan or share a link directly with colleagues or your facilities team.
Whether you are carving a home office out of a spare room or reconfiguring an open-plan floor, Free Room Planner gives you the tools to plan it properly.
Fit a desk, chair, and storage into a spare room or a corner without the space feeling cramped. Check the desk clears the door swing and that you can still reach the window before you buy a thing.
Test desk clusters, benching rows, and walkways before facilities moves a single workstation. See how many desks fit while keeping the circulation routes clear.
Check that a 60-inch desk, standing desk, or L-shaped desk actually fits your space before you order. The planner shows you exactly how much room you have to work with.
Arrive with a dimensioned plan already drawn up. Save time, communicate clearly, and get a more accurate quote from the outset instead of describing what you want in words.
All items are sized to standard office dimensions. Resize freely to match your exact products.
Every item below exists in the planner’s library at these standard dimensions — so what you place on screen is what arrives on the delivery.
Most office planning problems start with a guessed desk size. A desk that looks reasonable in the showroom can swallow a spare bedroom, and a chair that fits under the desk still needs room behind it to roll back. The good news is that office furniture is more standardised than the catalogues suggest: desks, chairs, cabinets, and bookcases cluster around a handful of common footprints. Sketch your room with the standard sizes first, confirm the layout actually works, and only then match items to specific products — resizing a piece in the planner takes seconds.
48"–60" wide is the everyday standard. Depth of 24"–30" leaves room for a monitor at a comfortable viewing distance.
| Compact desk | 40–48" × 24" |
| Standard desk | 48–60" × 24–30" |
| Executive desk | 60–72" × 30–36" |
| L-shaped desk | 60" × 60" |
| Corner desk | 48" × 48" |
The chair footprint is small; the space it needs is not. Allow 36"–42" behind the desk so you can push back and stand.
| Office chair (with arms) | 24–27" wide |
| Chair footprint | ~26" × 26" |
| Clearance to stand | 36–42" |
| Guest chair | 22–24" wide |
Vertical filing cabinets are narrow (15"–18"); bookcases are shallow (12" deep). Both hug a wall neatly.
| Vertical filing cabinet | 15–18" wide |
| Lateral filing cabinet | 30–42" wide |
| Bookcase | 30–36" × 12" |
| Credenza | 60" × 20" |
Desk height barely varies between brands; standing desks travel through the whole sit-stand range.
| Seated desk height | 29–30" |
| Standing desk range | 24–50" |
| Monitor viewing distance | 20–30" |
| Keyboard tray depth | ~24" |
The supporting cast — easy to forget on the plan, annoying to squeeze in later.
| Printer stand | 24" × 20" |
| Under-desk drawers | 15" wide |
| Meeting table (4-person) | 48" round |
Drag any of these items from the library and it lands in your room at exactly the size shown here. Found the specific product you want to buy? Select the item and type in the manufacturer’s dimensions to match it precisely.
Open the furniture library in the planner →A home office and an open-plan office are solving different problems. The home office is about fitting a complete workstation into a room that was never meant to be one — every inch of wall and every door swing matters. The open-plan office is about repeating a good desk unit cleanly across a floor while keeping the walkways clear and the fire routes legal. The planner handles both the same way: draw the room to scale, drop in real-size furniture, and read the gaps. Below are the patterns worth starting from.
In a small spare room, the desk decides everything. Push a 48"–60" desk against the wall with the best natural light, but turn it slightly if direct sun hits the screen. Keep a 36" walkway to the door and confirm the door still opens without clipping the chair. A slim 12"-deep bookcase or a 15"–18" vertical filing cabinet along the remaining wall gives you storage without eating the floor. The single most common mistake here is a desk that is too deep for the room, so the chair ends up blocking the doorway.
Open this layout in the planner →When the office shares a bedroom or living room, an L-shaped or corner desk turns dead corner space into a proper work zone and keeps the setup visually contained. A compact 40"–48" desk works if the corner is tight. Face the desk into the corner so your screen is away from the rest of the room, and use a bookcase or credenza as a soft divider between the work zone and the living zone. Keep at least 36" behind the chair so you are not reversing into a bed or a sofa every time you stand.
Open this layout in the planner →Clusters of four or six desks pushed together back-to-back are the workhorse of the open-plan office. They share cable trays and screens, and they pack a lot of people into a footprint. The trap is circulation: each seated person still needs 36"–42" behind them, and if two rows of chairs back onto the same aisle you need roughly 48" so someone can pass a pushed-out chair. Draw one cluster to scale, confirm the aisles, then copy it across the floor — the planner keeps every copy at the same true size.
Open this layout in the planner →Long benching runs give the highest desk density, which is exactly why the walkways matter most here. Keep primary circulation at 36" minimum, and give the main spine route more if it doubles as an escape path. Anchor storage — lateral filing cabinets and bookcases — against the perimeter walls so the floor stays open, and leave a clear zone for a meeting table or breakout area rather than squeezing one in later. Test the whole floor on screen before anyone orders furniture; a plan you can measure beats a plan you can only imagine.
Open this layout in the planner →An office that fits on paper can still fail in person. Furniture needs activity space — room to push a chair back, walk behind a colleague, and open a drawer — and it is the gaps between pieces, not the pieces themselves, that decide whether a layout works. The numbers below are the ones worth checking on your plan before you commit to anything. Because the planner draws everything to scale, you can measure these gaps directly on screen.
Keep at least 36 inches for primary circulation routes so people pass without turning sideways. Any route that doubles as a fire escape usually wants more — check local requirements for shared workplaces.
The space from the back edge of the desk to the wall behind you. Allow 36 inches to push the chair back and stand; 42 inches is comfortable and lets someone pass behind you while you sit.
Where a walkway runs behind someone who is seated, allow about 48 inches so a person can pass a pushed-out chair without asking them to tuck in. This is the number open-plan floors most often get wrong.
A route between a desk and a wall where nobody sits can drop to around 30 inches. Fine for occasional access to a window or a cabinet; too tight for a path people use all day.
Roughly an arm’s length from your eyes to the screen. It is why desk depth matters: a 24-inch desk is tight for a large monitor, while 30 inches lets you sit back comfortably.
Because the planner draws everything to scale, you can measure these gaps directly on your plan. If there is 40 inches behind the desk on screen, there is 40 inches in real life.
Check your clearances in the planner →Planning a different room? Use the planner built for it — same canvas, same free export.
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