Single Beds Demand Heatmap: UK Postcode-Level Data

Furniture in Fashion reports that no public UK dataset maps single bed demand at postcode level, so this report presents no heatmap and answers the question that can be answered honestly: single bed demand tracks the box room, and the box room is a feature of housing type rather than geography. Third bedrooms in terraced and semi-detached stock are frequently narrowed by a boxed-in stair bulkhead that takes width at exactly the height a wardrobe or headboard needs, which is why a room that meets its floor area on paper can behave like a smaller one. We set out UK single mattress sizes of 90cm by 190cm and small single at 75cm by 190cm, frames adding 5cm to 15cm per side, and access clearance of 60cm to 75cm. The Nationally Described Space Standard sets 7.5 square metres and 2.15m minimum width for a single bedroom in new homes in England, and our guidance works from measured width rather than mattress size....