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Living Room
Tool What size coffee table suits your sofa? Drag it and see Two numbers decide whether a coffee table feels right: how its height compares with the sofa seat, and how much gap sits between the two… 3 min Dining & Kitchen
Tool What size dining table fits your room? Drag it around and see A dining table that fits the room on paper can still feel cramped, because you need space around it for chairs and for walking past. Most… 4 min Dining & Kitchen
Tool How big should a dining rug be? Pull the chairs out and see Is your dining rug big enough? A good rug lets the chairs slide in and out without catching its edge, and the usual rule is that it reaches… 4 min Colour & Walls
Tool How far apart should shelves be? Plan the gaps and see Shelves look wrong when the gaps are wrong. Enter your wall height, choose what each shelf holds, and see whether it all fits, to scale… 4 min Small Spaces
Tool How wide should a walkway be? Drag the furniture and see A room can have plenty of floor and still feel cramped when one gap, between the sofa and the wall, say, is too narrow to walk through… 4 min Textiles
Tool How full should curtains be? Slide the fullness and see Curtains look cosy or flat depending on one number: fullness, the width of the fabric divided by the width of the pole it hangs from. Slide… 5 min 3 picks Plants & Balcony
Tool How much string light does a balcony need? Drape it and see A string of lights always needs more length than the gap it spans, because it sags. Plan it before you buy: set your balcony width, the… 4 min Colour & Walls
Tool How high should you hang a picture? A height-and-gap planner Most pictures get hung too high. Galleries centre a picture about 145 cm above the floor, roughly eye level, and over a sofa they leave a… 4 min Colour & Walls
Tool How much paint do I need? A room-by-room planner Most people guess how much paint to buy and end up with too little or a cupboard full of leftovers. This planner turns your room's… 4 min Lighting
Explainer How many lumens do you need to read by? Move a lamp and see Lamp boxes list lumens, but what matters when you read is lux: how much light reaches the page. The same bulb can feel bright or dim… 4 min 3 picks Textiles
Tool How many cushions does your sofa need? A mix-and-measure planner How many cushions does your sofa need? It depends on one number you can measure with a tape: the width of your seat between the arms. Keep… 4 min Bedroom
Tool How to size blackout curtains so no light sneaks in: a planner Blackout curtains only work if they reach past the window. A thick curtain that stops at the frame still lets a glowing outline of light in… 5 min 3 picks
Tool What size coffee table suits your sofa? Drag it and see Two numbers decide whether a coffee table feels right: how its height compares with the sofa seat, and how much gap sits between the two… 3 min Dining & Kitchen
Tool What size dining table fits your room? Drag it around and see A dining table that fits the room on paper can still feel cramped, because you need space around it for chairs and for walking past. Most… 4 min Dining & Kitchen
Tool How big should a dining rug be? Pull the chairs out and see Is your dining rug big enough? A good rug lets the chairs slide in and out without catching its edge, and the usual rule is that it reaches… 4 min Colour & Walls
Tool How far apart should shelves be? Plan the gaps and see Shelves look wrong when the gaps are wrong. Enter your wall height, choose what each shelf holds, and see whether it all fits, to scale… 4 min Small Spaces
Tool How wide should a walkway be? Drag the furniture and see A room can have plenty of floor and still feel cramped when one gap, between the sofa and the wall, say, is too narrow to walk through… 4 min Textiles
Tool How full should curtains be? Slide the fullness and see Curtains look cosy or flat depending on one number: fullness, the width of the fabric divided by the width of the pole it hangs from. Slide… 5 min 3 picks Plants & Balcony
Tool How much string light does a balcony need? Drape it and see A string of lights always needs more length than the gap it spans, because it sags. Plan it before you buy: set your balcony width, the… 4 min Colour & Walls
Tool How high should you hang a picture? A height-and-gap planner Most pictures get hung too high. Galleries centre a picture about 145 cm above the floor, roughly eye level, and over a sofa they leave a… 4 min Colour & Walls
Tool How much paint do I need? A room-by-room planner Most people guess how much paint to buy and end up with too little or a cupboard full of leftovers. This planner turns your room's… 4 min Lighting
Explainer How many lumens do you need to read by? Move a lamp and see Lamp boxes list lumens, but what matters when you read is lux: how much light reaches the page. The same bulb can feel bright or dim… 4 min 3 picks Textiles
Tool How many cushions does your sofa need? A mix-and-measure planner How many cushions does your sofa need? It depends on one number you can measure with a tape: the width of your seat between the arms. Keep… 4 min Bedroom
Tool How to size blackout curtains so no light sneaks in: a planner Blackout curtains only work if they reach past the window. A thick curtain that stops at the frame still lets a glowing outline of light in… 5 min 3 picks