Choosing The Right Size Furniture
Choosing the right-sized handmade furniture for your home can be both crucial and challenging. The dimensions of each piece significantly impact its functionality and how it integrates with the flow of your living space.
Whether you're furnishing a cozy apartment or a spacious house, finding furniture that fits perfectly ensures comfort, usability, and aesthetic harmony. However, navigating the dimensions to strike that perfect balance between functionality and space can often pose a tricky dilemma for homeowners. Making informed decisions about size is essential not only for practicality but also for enhancing the overall ambiance and functionality of your home.
Here is our guide to choosing the right sized furnishings for your home:
Coffee Tables
Width and Length: Choose a coffee table size that fits your living room. We recommend you size your coffee table to allow at least 24” of space between the table and any other furniture (couch, end table, wall, etc.) to keep walkways navigable.
Height: We recommend a coffee table height that is about 1” lower than the height of your couch cushions.
Dining Tables
Width and Length: Make sure the size of your table allows for 3ft of space on all sides where people will be seated, so that chairs can be pushed out and people may walk behind seated diners. Follow the below guidelines to determine how many adults you can typically seat at a table of a given dimension:
30x60: 4-6 people
36x72: 6-8 people
42 x96: 8-10 people
Height: Our dining tables come standard at 30” high. If you have a unique set of chairs and would like to have a table made at a different height, please reach out.
Bench
When matching a bench to a dining table, make sure it is 12” shorter in length than the dining table so that it can comfortably be slid underneath the table as needed. All of our benches come standard with a 16” width.
Night Stand/End Table Dimension Options:
When choosing a height for our night stands, we recommend 1” lower or flush with the adjacent furniture, whether that is the top of the mattress, chair arm, or couch arm. Higher than these surfaces may risk a painful elbow bump. Sizing the width is more personal preference and making sure it will fit the space.