An oak bedroom set will fit your room if, after placing the bed, you still have sixty centimetres of clear floor to walk past it, seventy five centimetres in front of every drawer front, and around one hundred centimetres in front of any hinged wardrobe door. Those three clearances, added to the external dimensions of the furniture, give you the real space a set occupies. The published width of a wardrobe tells you almost nothing on its own.<\/p>\n
This guide sets out the numbers you need, in the order you need them, so you can check a set against your room in about fifteen minutes.<\/p>\n
UK mattress sizes are standardised, but bed frames are not. The frame adds width and length around the mattress, and oak frames tend to add more than metal ones because the side rails and posts are thicker.<\/p>\n
The standard UK mattress sizes are single at ninety by one hundred and ninety centimetres, small double at one hundred and twenty by one hundred and ninety, double at one hundred and thirty five by one hundred and ninety, king at one hundred and fifty by two hundred, and super king at one hundred and eighty by two hundred.<\/p>\n
For a solid oak frame, add roughly ten to twenty centimetres to the width and fifteen to twenty five centimetres to the length. A double oak bed therefore commonly occupies around one hundred and fifty by two hundred and ten centimetres overall. Always use the external figure from the product listing rather than calculating from the mattress size.<\/p>\n
Our modern double wooden beds UK sale<\/a> listings give external dimensions for each frame, which is the figure to work with.<\/p>\n Furniture dimensions are only half the calculation. The other half is the space you need around each piece to use it.<\/p>\n To walk past furniture, allow sixty centimetres as a minimum and seventy centimetres for comfort. To open and stand at a chest of drawers, allow seventy five centimetres, since a typical drawer extends around fifty centimetres and you need to stand behind it. To open a hinged wardrobe door and access the interior, allow one hundred centimetres. To make a bed comfortably, allow seventy centimetres on both long sides.<\/p>\n A sliding wardrobe needs only the walking clearance, which is why sliding doors free up so much space in rooms under three metres wide.<\/p>\n These figures cover the majority of oak bedroom ranges and are useful for a first pass before you look at specific products.<\/p>\n Bedside cabinets are usually forty to fifty five centimetres wide, thirty five to forty five centimetres deep and fifty to sixty five centimetres high. Check the height against your mattress top, which is typically fifty five to sixty five centimetres from the floor on an oak frame.<\/p>\n A three drawer chest is usually seventy to ninety centimetres wide and forty to forty five centimetres deep. A wide chest with six drawers runs from one hundred and ten to one hundred and forty centimetres. A tallboy is typically fifty to seventy centimetres wide and one hundred to one hundred and thirty centimetres high.<\/p>\n Wardrobes are the piece most likely to cause problems. A two door oak wardrobe is usually ninety to one hundred and ten centimetres wide, fifty five to sixty centimetres deep and one hundred and eighty to two hundred centimetres high. A three door wardrobe runs from one hundred and thirty five to one hundred and sixty centimetres wide.<\/p>\n Dressing tables are typically one hundred to one hundred and twenty centimetres wide and forty to fifty centimetres deep, and need around seventy centimetres of clearance for a stool.<\/p>\n A wardrobe with an external depth of fifty five centimetres will usually have an internal depth of around fifty centimetres once the door and back panel are accounted for. That is the minimum for hanging clothes side to side on a standard rail, since a hanger measures around fifty two centimetres across the shoulders.<\/p>\n If a wardrobe is shallower than that, it will either use a front facing rail, which holds far fewer garments, or the clothes will press against the door. Always look for the internal figure in the specification.<\/p>\nThe Clearances That Decide Everything<\/h3>\n
Typical Oak Furniture Dimensions<\/h3>\n
Check Internal Depth, Not Just External<\/h3>\n