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Guide How big should a table lamp be? Resize it and see A lamp can be lovely and still look wrong on your table. Usually the problem is proportion: a shade too wide for its base, too wide for the… 5 min 3 picks Plants & Balcony
Explainer How many plants make a corner feel cosy? Group them and see One plant in a corner looks like a plant in a corner. Three at different heights, set close together, start to look like a little scene… 4 min Dining & Kitchen
Tool Round or rectangular table? Seat the guests and see A table that "seats six" can still leave your elbows colliding. What decides it is how much table edge each person gets, and the shape of… 5 min Living Room
Explainer Should your sofa float? Pull it from the wall and see Should your sofa sit against the wall or float into the room? A floating sofa can turn one big space into a seating zone and a walkway, but… 3 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 Living Room
Explainer Where should the sofa sit from the TV? Slide it and see The best sofa-to-TV distance comes from one idea: how much of your view the screen fills. Aim for roughly 30° to 40°, which for a 16:9… 4 min Small Spaces
Tool How do you zone a one-room home? Drag the furniture and see In a studio or one-room rental, the bed, sofa and desk all share one floor, so nothing feels like it has its own place. The fix is zoning… 3 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 Textiles
Explainer How do you mix patterns without it getting busy? Resize them and see Patterns get along when they differ in scale: one big repeat, one medium, one small. A shared colour ties the family together. Play with a… 3 min Bedroom
Tool Where should the bed go? Drag it around your room and see Where the bed goes decides how a bedroom feels more than the bed itself. Enter your room size, pick a bed, and drag it around a to-scale… 4 min 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
Guide How big should a table lamp be? Resize it and see A lamp can be lovely and still look wrong on your table. Usually the problem is proportion: a shade too wide for its base, too wide for the… 5 min 3 picks Plants & Balcony
Explainer How many plants make a corner feel cosy? Group them and see One plant in a corner looks like a plant in a corner. Three at different heights, set close together, start to look like a little scene… 4 min Dining & Kitchen
Tool Round or rectangular table? Seat the guests and see A table that "seats six" can still leave your elbows colliding. What decides it is how much table edge each person gets, and the shape of… 5 min Living Room
Explainer Should your sofa float? Pull it from the wall and see Should your sofa sit against the wall or float into the room? A floating sofa can turn one big space into a seating zone and a walkway, but… 3 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 Living Room
Explainer Where should the sofa sit from the TV? Slide it and see The best sofa-to-TV distance comes from one idea: how much of your view the screen fills. Aim for roughly 30° to 40°, which for a 16:9… 4 min Small Spaces
Tool How do you zone a one-room home? Drag the furniture and see In a studio or one-room rental, the bed, sofa and desk all share one floor, so nothing feels like it has its own place. The fix is zoning… 3 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 Textiles
Explainer How do you mix patterns without it getting busy? Resize them and see Patterns get along when they differ in scale: one big repeat, one medium, one small. A shared colour ties the family together. Play with a… 3 min Bedroom
Tool Where should the bed go? Drag it around your room and see Where the bed goes decides how a bedroom feels more than the bed itself. Enter your room size, pick a bed, and drag it around a to-scale… 4 min 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