Layout options and tests
The layouts you tried, the one you chose and why, the walk tests before and after, the safety checklist for each room, and the list of moves, anchoring and deliveries still to do.
For a first pass, the walk tests and the safety checklist are essential: a before row for each main route in your first room (Paths and clearances), an after row once the layout changes, and the checklist done for that room (Safety in the layout). The options sheet is essential once you arrange (Arrange and test): two options, one chosen, with reasons. The moves sheet is for anchoring, deliveries and help; use it when you have tasks with dates.
Layout options
One row per layout you drew. Check the clearance table and the safety checklist for each before you choose. Tick Chosen on one option per room and write why.
Walk tests
One row per route walked. Carry something (a laundry basket, a tray) and open every door and drawer on the way. Narrowest point is in inches, or centimeters if your setup uses metric. Mark each row before or after a change, so you can compare them at the end of the week.
Safety checklist
One list per household; use the room and note columns to say where each item applies. The source for each item is on the clearance and safety pages and in Safety in the layout.
Moves, anchoring and deliveries
One row per task: a piece to move, a piece to anchor, a delivery, a request to the landlord. Tick Help needed for anything heavy or awkward.
How to use these sheets
- Options: at least two that differ. The bed on another wall, the sofa floated rather than against a wall. Mark each against the clearance figures and the safety checklist before you choose, and write the reasons in your own words.
- Walks: carry something and open everything. A laundry basket or a tray, every door and drawer on the route. Narrowest point is the smallest gap you measured; What blocked is what you bumped or stepped around. Mark each row before or after, so Your layout plan can compare them.
- Safety: one list per household, a room and a note per item. The source of each item is in brackets. Tick an item when it is true in every room you have planned so far, and write the room where it is not yet true. The three items under "If young children live or visit" apply when they do.
- Moves: one task per row. A piece to move, a piece to anchor, a written request to the landlord, a delivery. Tick Help needed for anything heavy or awkward.
The example rows are Lena's living room. Option A is the room as it is; Option B moves the sofa to the window wall and the path to the entry wall, but puts the sofa about 6 in from the radiator, so the heat item needs a check before she chooses. Her before walk test from the entry door to the balcony door found a 22 in gap at the coffee table's corner. Her moves row is the written request to the landlord about anchor holes for the bookcase. Lena is invented for this manual.
A passing clearance check and a ticked checklist are your observations, not a certification. Anchoring reduces the risk of a tip-over; it does not remove it. The safety items come from agency guidance cited in Safety in the layout, which this sheet does not replace, and a heater's manual may ask for more room than 3 ft.