Will a bistro set fit your balcony? Drag it and see

A balcony can look big enough for a bistro set and still be too narrow to sit at it, because every chair needs room to slide back.

Enter your balcony's length and depth, pick a table, and drag a bistro set around a top-down plan. The 60 cm and 90 cm rules of thumb tell you, chair by chair, whether you can sit, and whether anyone can walk behind you. Learn why chairs at the ends beat chairs on the sides on a narrow balcony, what to try before you buy anything, and why climbable furniture belongs away from the railing.