Pre-planning

When buying new pieces for your home, especially larger sofas and sectionals, it can be helpful to get a piece of graph paper and draw your room to scale. Then get a second sheet and make scale models of the pieces you want to use in the room. Cut them out and lay them on top of your room drawing. You'll find you can very quickly see how spatial proportion will work, and if anything may be too large or impede a walkway.

Check your egress doors. Some pieces simply will not fit through narrow doorways and the time to determine that is before you order, not when the delivery team arrives. In general, most standard sofas will fit through a 32" wide doorway. More narrow than that and you should discuss with your retailer various options and fitments.

Question:

How much room do you need to have for 48" table? would 68 by 68 be saficient?

Thanks

George

Generally speaking, you want to allow for 24" beyond the table edge. So on a 48" table that would translate to 72" of clearance desired.

Here is a free, user friendly tool that lets you draw and save your floorplan and potential furniture arrangement: http://thomasville.icovia.com/icovia.aspx

You do have to give them your Email address and a password, but it's great fun and helps to visualize everything to scale!

That's the Icovia Room Planner, and its available on many web sites, most of which don't require an email and password.