The 2 Seater Sofa Style Map of Britain

Britain has no measurable regional sofa style map, so Furniture in Fashion has mapped the housing instead. The report argues that what looks like regional taste is the building stock at work: bay fronted terraces, tenement and converted flats, 1930s semis and new build open plan rooms each impose a different set of constraints, and the two seater is the format that responds to all of them. Using the dwelling types recorded by the English Housing Survey, the Scottish House Condition Survey, the Welsh Housing Conditions Survey and the Northern Ireland House Condition Survey, the analysis sets out why access rather than floor area is the usual failure point, with the common 762mm internal door leaf setting a hard limit on sofa depth. A table matches room type to sofa format and to the clearances that must be protected, including the 75cm to 90cm walking route that decides whether a living room feels comfortable....