Tool Category Room Layout

Pictures are hung by the centre and measured by the eye, and the two rules that matter are that the centre should sit close to eye level and that whatever is below the frame gets a deliberate gap rather than…

Almost every rug that looks wrong is the wrong size, and it is nearly always too small. The reason is that people size a rug against the room, when it should be sized against the furniture sitting on it —…

A pendant over a table is sized off the table and hung off the ceiling, and the two are independent. The size rule is that the shade should be somewhere between a half and two-thirds of the short side of…

A dining table is sized by its edge, not by its area, because people sit around the perimeter and each of them needs a share of it — about sixty centimetres to eat comfortably, and a bit more if the…

Room capacity is not the floor area divided by a density figure, because a room full of people also has to contain the space they move through. A standing reception at one person per square metre over the whole floor…

A piece of furniture has to fit three times over, and the three are independent. It has to fit along the wall it is going against. It has to fit past the narrowest opening on the route to that wall,…