Furniture spacing and clearance best practices
How much space should you leave around everything? Here are the rules of thumb — and how Smart Flow Check checks them for you.
Smart Flow Check enforces clearances automatically — but knowing the standards makes your layouts work the first time, not the fifth.
Step by step
- 1
Walkways
Main walkway: 36 inches. Secondary: 30. Doorway approach: 36 both sides.
- 2
Seating
Sofa to coffee table: 14–18 inches. Sofa to opposite seating: 84 inches max for conversation. Between two adjacent chairs: 12 inches minimum.
- 3
Dining
Table to wall (chairs in): 36 minimum. Walkway past seated chair: add 24 inches.
- 4
Bedroom
Walkway around bed: 30 each side. Foot of bed to dresser: 36.
- 5
Kitchen
Around island: 42–48. Galley aisle: 42 single cook; 48 two cooks.
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