Standard Furniture Dimensions: 244 Pieces, Measured

A two-seater sofa is 1.60 m wide and 0.85 m deep. A double bed is 1.60 × 2.00 m. A kitchen worktop is 0.60 m deep and stands 0.90 m high. Below are the width, depth and height of all 244 pieces of furniture in Arti's catalogue — the numbers the app actually draws with, published in full so you can use them whether or not you ever open it.

Most furniture-dimension pages online list a dozen items and stop. This is the whole catalogue, grouped the way you would look for it.

Living room · Bedroom · Kitchen · Dining room · Bathroom · Office · Entrance · Heating & utilities · Balcony & outdoor · Decor · Structure

How to use these numbers

The key thing to understand: these are typical dimensions, not standards. There is no law governing how wide a sofa is. What exists is a strong convention, because furniture has to fit through doors, up stairs and against walls that are themselves conventional.

So use them for the job they are good at:

• Sizing a room before you own the furniture. If a 2.00 m sofa and a 0.60 m circulation gap will not both fit, that is worth knowing at the planning stage rather than on delivery day.
• Sanity-checking a plan. A bedroom that cannot hold a 1.60 × 2.00 m bed with a way round it is too small, whatever the drawing says.
• Estimating before you measure. Then measure the actual piece before you order or build anything. The key difference is between planning and buying — these numbers are safe for the first and not for the second.

Where the depth of a piece matters more than its width: worktops, wardrobes, desks and baths. A 0.60 m wardrobe and a 0.60 m worktop are that deep because a hanger is about 0.55 m and a person's reach is not much more — which is why those two numbers barely vary across the whole market.

The gaps between things

Dimensions alone will not tell you whether a room works. The space you leave around furniture matters as much as the furniture. Widely used rules of thumb, offered as conventions rather than sourced figures — we know of no authoritative study behind them:

In short: add roughly 0.75 m of clear floor to any piece you have to stand in front of, and 0.90 m to anything you have to walk past.

Living room

43 items.

Bedroom

27 items.

Kitchen

43 items.

Dining room

16 items.

Bathroom

18 items.

Office

11 items.

Entrance

4 items.

Heating & utilities

14 items.

Balcony & outdoor

9 items.

Decor

53 items.

Structure

6 items.

Where these came from

Every figure above is the default size Arti assigns to that piece when you drop it on a plan, read directly from the app's source rather than retyped — so this page and the app cannot drift apart.

They were chosen to be realistic real-world dimensions, not the bounding boxes of the 3D models: the models are scaled per axis to fit the declared size, so the number is the intent rather than an artefact of whoever built the mesh.

One correction worth recording, because it shows the failure mode these numbers have. A bath was originally declared with its width and length the wrong way round, and the renderer dutifully squashed a 3.90 m mesh into 0.80 m of depth — drawing the bath at 21% of its own length. The dimension was wrong before anything looked wrong. If a piece on your plan seems oddly proportioned, suspect the numbers before the drawing.

Frequently asked questions

What is the standard size of a double bed? 1.60 × 2.00 m is the common continental European double. The UK "double" is narrower at 1.35 × 1.90 m, a UK king is 1.50 × 2.00 m, and a US queen is 1.52 × 2.03 m. Bed sizes are the one category where national conventions differ enough to matter — check which market your bed comes from before planning around it.

How deep is a kitchen worktop? 0.60 m, near-universally, with a working height of 0.90 m. Both numbers are tied to appliance dimensions: a dishwasher and an oven are built to slide under a 0.90 m top and sit within a 0.60 m depth, so the whole run follows them.

How much space do I need around a dining table? Allow 0.75 m from the table edge to the nearest wall so a chair can be pulled out and someone can sit down, and 1.00 m if people need to walk behind a seated guest. Per person at the table, allow 0.60 m of table edge.

Are these dimensions accurate enough to build from? No. They are planning figures. For fitted joinery — a kitchen, a wardrobe, a bookcase — measure the actual space and the actual product, three times, and work to ±5 mm. Use this page to decide whether something will fit at all, then measure before you commit.

Why do some items have two entries? Because the catalogue carries genuine style variants rather than duplicates — several dresser and houseplant shapes, for example. They are listed separately because their dimensions differ.

See also

• How to draw a floor plan of your home
• Free floor plan software for Mac

Written by Mickael Romaniello, who makes Arti, a floor plan editor for macOS.