The Storage Basket Size Calculator for UK Rooms
Furniture in Fashion has published a sizing report on storage baskets in British homes, and its conclusion is that almost every basket that ends up unused was bought to a volume rather than measured to an aperture. Litres describe what a basket holds. They say nothing about whether it will slide into a cube shelf, clear an under bed rail or pass a wardrobe door frame, and those three dimensions are what decide the outcome. The report works through the measurements that govern each common storage position in a UK home, from the internal opening of cube shelving to the plaster taper in a chimney breast alcove, and sets out how handles, liners and lids quietly consume the space a shopper thought they had. It also examines how natural fibre, rope, felt and wire baskets behave differently in humid rooms and under load, and how much weight a household should be willing to lift above shoulder height....
