Co-living homes
Shared workroom Furniture Planning for Co-living homes
Specify the occupied size, operating clearance and route into the building before choosing furniture by catalogue dimensions.
Explore the ideas
Compare the options
- Set the brief
- Use templates at the size of the actual furniture. Include seated users, open drawers and reclined positions where relevant.
- Compare
- Decide which items need to move independently and which benefit from built-in anchoring.
- Before buying
- Confirm that the largest pieces can turn at the entrance, lift lobby and corridor, or specify assembly in place.
Worked example
Imagine choosing a desk, task chair and storage cabinet for a room reached through a tight apartment corridor. Catalogue dimensions appear to fit the room itself.
Tape each item's occupied footprint, including chair pullback and cabinet doors, then measure the entry turns. Prefer knock-down assembly or smaller independent pieces if a full cabinet cannot turn into the room.
How to test it
Overlay the furniture in its stored and in-use positions, then check both against the measured plan.
Apply it to this space
- Layout
- Separate call booths or enclosed call corners from shared tables and the entry path.
- Detail
- Provide task lighting, accessible power and acoustic soft finishes at conversation zones.
- Trade-off
- Enclosed call spaces improve privacy but take floor area from open desks.
- Listen during overlapping calls
- Check outlet reach and screen glare
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