Furniture fit checker: a simple room planner that warns you
This furniture fit checker answers the question every move and every purchase raises — will it fit, and can I still walk around it? Type the room’s width and length, add the doors (with their swing) and windows, then drop in furniture from a preset list: single, double, queen, king and Indian king beds, sofas, dining tables, wardrobes, desks, fridges and more, or any custom size. Everything is drawn to scale on a floor plan you can drag around with a mouse or finger.
As you move items the checker flags the real problems: a piece that sticks out of the room, two pieces overlapping, a bed or wardrobe in a door’s swing, and gaps narrower than a comfortable walkway (60 cm / 24 in by default). Tight layouts are shown in amber, impossible ones in red. The plan is saved in your browser, and can be printed or downloaded as an SVG for a carpenter or mover.
How to use the Furniture Fit Checker
- Choose centimetres or inches and enter the room width (left to right) and length (top to bottom), and give the room a name.
- Open “Doors and windows” and add each one: which wall it is on, its distance from the wall’s left or top end, its width and, for doors, whether it swings into the room.
- Pick a furniture preset (or Custom size and type the width and depth) and press “Add to room”. Repeat for every piece.
- Drag items into place on the plan — they snap to 5 cm. Click an item to type an exact position, rotate it 90° or remove it; the arrow keys nudge a selected item, R rotates and Delete removes.
- Read the warnings under the plan, adjust until it says everything fits, then print the plan, download the SVG or copy the list of pieces.
Furniture Fit Checker features
Real bed and sofa sizes
Presets for UK/EU and US bed sizes, the Indian 72 × 78 in king, sofas, dining sets, wardrobes, desks and appliances, plus custom sizes.
Doors with swing arcs
Inward-swinging doors draw their quarter-circle; anything placed in it is flagged as blocking the door.
Clearance warnings
Gaps narrower than your chosen walkway between items or to a wall are highlighted, and overlaps or items outside the room are marked red.
Drag, keyboard and exact input
Move pieces by pointer or touch, with arrow keys, or by typing the distance from the left and top walls.
Print and SVG export
A clean print layout of the plan with its legend, or a standalone SVG file for sharing.
Autosave
The room and layout are kept in your browser’s local storage until you change them.
Clearances that make a room work
The warnings use one walkway figure (60 cm by default), but designers use a few more rules of thumb worth checking by eye:
| Situation | Recommended clearance |
|---|---|
| Main walkway through a room | 90 cm (36 in); 60 cm (24 in) minimum |
| Each side of a double bed (to wall or wardrobe) | 60–75 cm (24–30 in) to make the bed and open drawers |
| In front of a wardrobe or chest of drawers | 90 cm (36 in) with doors or drawers open |
| Between sofa and coffee table | 40–45 cm (16–18 in) |
| Around a dining table for chairs | 75 cm (30 in); 90 cm if people walk behind seated diners |
| In front of a desk for the chair | 75–90 cm (30–36 in) |
| Door swing | Nothing inside the quarter-circle of the door width |
How the checks work
- Fit: every item is a rectangle positioned from the room’s top-left corner. If any edge lies outside the room, it “does not fit”. Rotating swaps width and depth.
- Overlap: two rectangles that share any area are a problem; touching edges are fine (a bedside table against a bed).
- Walkway: when two items face each other, or an item faces a wall, and the gap is between 8 cm and the clearance you set, it is flagged as tight. Gaps under 8 cm count as “pushed against” and are not flagged.
- Door swing: an inward door sweeps a quarter-circle of radius equal to its width; any item whose nearest point is inside that arc blocks the door. Outward doors are drawn without an arc.
- Windows: wardrobes, bookshelves and fridges placed across a window are flagged so you do not block the light.
Tips for planning a room
- Measure the room at floor level in two places; old walls are rarely square. Enter the smaller figure.
- Add built-in cupboards, radiators, columns and the AC indoor unit as custom items so they take up their space on the plan. The AC tonnage calculator helps size that unit.
- Check the route in, not only the final position: a 135 cm bed base or a 3-seater sofa must get through the door and up the stairs — the stair calculator gives the headroom.
- Once the layout is fixed, the room area shown under the plan feeds the flooring calculator and the paint calculator.
Furniture Fit Checker FAQ
Will a king-size bed fit in a 10 × 12 ft room?
A 180 × 200 cm (6 × 6.5 ft) king bed fits a 3.05 × 3.66 m room with about 60 cm on each side if it is centred on the long wall, leaving 1.6 m at the foot for a wardrobe. Put the real door and wardrobe in the furniture fit checker to see whether the swing and walkways still work.
What are standard bed sizes?
Single 90 × 190 cm, double 135 × 190 cm, UK king 150 × 200 cm (a US queen is 152 × 203 cm), US king 193 × 203 cm, and the Indian king 72 × 78 in (183 × 198 cm). Mattress sizes exclude the frame, so add 5–10 cm each way.
How much space do I need to walk around a bed?
At least 60 cm (24 in) on each side you need to get in from, and 75 cm is comfortable; the foot of the bed can be closer to a wall if nobody walks there. The checker warns when a gap is below your walkway setting.
Does the plan save?
Yes, in your browser’s local storage on this device. Clearing site data or using a private window removes it, so download the SVG or print the plan if you want to keep it.
Is the drawing to scale?
Yes. The plan uses the real dimensions, with a 1 m grid and a 5 cm snap when dragging. Print scaling depends on the paper size, so trust the dimensions written on the plan.