Does Your Sofa Fit? Coffee-Table Clearance & Smart Flow Check — Room Sketch 3D
Lay out a standard 3-seater sofa in a 12×14 living room, then use Smart Flow Check to catch a coffee table placed too close to the sofa and fix it to the right 18–24 inch clearance.
1 minUpdated 2026-06-25
Read the full step-by-step guideWhat this video covers
- 1Sofa size taxonomy
- 2Component dimensions in detail
- 3Clearances and room sizing
- 4Historical evolution of sofa sizes
- 5Manufacturer standards and variation
- 6Reading sofa dimensions for furniture placement
- 7Place the sofa in your room
- 8Watch the coffee-table clearance
- 9Fix it — the warning clears
- 10View it in 3D
- 11In Room Sketch 3D
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