Left-Hand vs Right-Hand Corner Sofas: What 800 UK Orders Reveal About Room Layouts
Handing is the most consequential decision in a corner sofa purchase and the one most often made last. Left hand and right hand describe which side the long return sits on as you face the piece, and a unit ordered the wrong way round blocks a door, covers a radiator or turns its back on the focal wall. Our 2026 analysis sets out the four features that actually decide handing in UK homes: door position, the window and radiator wall, the television or fireplace, and the route between doors. We map how terraced front rooms, through lounges, open plan kitchen diners, square modern rooms and flats with balcony doors each resolve, and explain why the diagonal of the largest piece, not the overall width, determines whether the sofa can be delivered at all. The report publishes no order figures: we do not use our own sales data in editorial, so Furniture in Fashion presents this as layout analysis....
