Check out the two pictures below, of chairs on one side of a dining room table.
Which of the two pictures looks best, in terms of how the furniture is spaced?
If you said the first one, that’s an actual photo of where the chairs are always arranged at this table, located in a Vancouver apartment. In other words, your answer would be the norm.
If you said the second picture, you qualify to apply for a job with the furniture…ah, police.
According to the “experts” there should be about 24 inches between chairs at a dining room table, to avoid bumping elbows or bruising knuckles.
That’s how far apart the chairs are in the second picture.
These are apparently important issues if you’re selling a home that you want to look its best.
Who knew such rules of measurement existed?
They do.
For example, did anybody know the distance from the TV to the sofa should be seven feet?
Or that there should be four feet between the table and the entrance to the dining room?
Or that two legs of living-room furniture should rest on an area rug so that the rug doesn’t look “like a bath mat?”
These and other “rules and regs” for furniture come from a website called apartmenttherapy.com.
Check them out.