The aisle you feel every night is a measurement

Interior guides love 90 cm walkways. Plenty of European living rooms offer 70 on a good day. The question is not the textbook. The question is whether your household turns sideways every night.

Drop the sofa and the table in the studio and read the leftover strip. If a dinner plate would not fit in that strip, people will not. If a person can pass but a tray cannot, you will learn that on a Thursday.

Reclining seats and chaise ends steal aisle that a drawing of the closed sofa does not show. Check the open state if the seller publishes it, or leave a pessimistic margin.

A slightly smaller table that lets two people pass is a better evening than a generous table that turns the room into a queue.