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Will a sectional fit in my living room?

You can check it in about a minute: upload a photo of the room and the sectional, and look at what is left over. Sectionals fail not on the wall they stand against but on the walkway they eat.

A sectional has two numbers that matter and listings put them next to each other: overall width and the depth of the chaise. The chaise is the part that reaches into the room, and it is the part people underestimate.

Rule of thumb worth checking against the preview: leave about 75–90 cm of clear walkway around the seating. If the preview shows the chaise reaching most of the way to your coffee table or the doorway, the sectional is too big for the room whatever the wall says.

Take the photo standing in the doorway, looking at the wall where the sectional will go, with a good stretch of floor visible. Depth reads badly in a photo taken from close up.

One honest caveat: a sectional is a deep object, and its bounding shape in a photo mixes real height with perspective. Use the preview to judge the footprint on the floor, not the exact height of the back cushions.

Check it in your own room

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