Furniture inventory
Every piece with its size, the space it needs in use, whether it stays, and whether it needs anchoring. Plus the delivery route, door by door, for anything that has to travel.
For a first pass, the pieces sheet is essential: every piece in your first room with its width, depth and height, the space it needs in use, and a decision (The furniture you have). The floor plan reads it. The delivery route is essential only when a piece is arriving or leaving; skip it when you are rearranging what is already in the room.
Pieces
One row per piece, measured at its widest point. Width is across the front; depth is front to back. All sizes are in inches, or centimeters if your setup uses metric. In-use depth added is the extra space in front when the piece is used (a drawer pulled out, a chair pushed back); the floor plan draws it dashed.
Delivery route
One row per door, stair, landing, corner or hall between the street and the room, in order. Measure each at its narrowest point with doors fully open. Inches, or centimeters if your setup uses metric. Run the fit calculator for each tight point and record the result.
How to use these sheets
- Measure at the widest point. Arms, feet, handles and a sofa's back cushions count. Width is across the front, depth is front to back, height is to the highest point.
- Write the space in use in words, then as a number. "Drawers open 18 in" goes under Space in use; 18 goes under In-use depth added, and the floor plan draws it dashed in front of the piece. Where no source gives a figure, open the drawer, pull out the chair or recline the recliner and measure.
- Decide, then mark anchoring. Keep, move, let go or maybe. Any piece with drawers, doors or shelves, and anything holding a TV, gets a Needs anchoring answer (Safety in the layout). In a rental, "Ask the landlord" holds the place until you have a written answer.
- Route: one row per tight point, in order from the street. Measure each door fully open at its narrowest point, each stair between the rail and the wall, and each hall on both sides of a corner. Run the fit calculator and record its result as Fits, Tight or Does not fit.
The pieces rows are three of Lena's: the sofa, the bookcase she has not anchored (marked "Ask the landlord") and the armchair the entry door hits. The route rows are Marcus and Jo's move into a third-floor walk-up: a 38 in stair with a landing turn, a 36 in hall turning into a 40 in hall, and a 30 in bedroom door. The long sectional piece does not turn the hall corner carried level; the desk goes through the bedroom door on its 24 in depth. All of them are invented for this manual.
The sizes here are yours and the in-use figures are your own measurement or one source's figure, not a standard. A fit result is geometry on a rigid box: tipping, removable legs, padding and packaging change it, and the seller or the movers settle the real piece. Taking a door off its hinges in a rental is the landlord's decision.