If you are choosing a sofa, we will draw an accurate floor plan of your room, completely free. You send us the measurements (and photographs if you have them), and our design team draws your room to scale with sofa options placed in it, so you can see exactly what fits, what flows and what feels right, before you spend a penny.

I want to tell you why we do this, because I think it says everything about how we believe furniture should be bought.

Buying a sofa is one of the biggest decisions you will make for your home. It is the piece everything else gathers around. And yet most people are asked to make that decision by squinting at a product photo, pacing the room heel to toe, and hoping. I have watched friends lay newspaper on the floor in the shape of a sofa and stand in the middle of it looking worried. There is a better way, and it is not complicated. Someone who draws rooms all day long should simply draw yours.

So that is what we do. Our design team draws floor plans every single day: long thin sitting rooms, open-plan kitchens with awkward islands, snugs with three doors and a chimney breast, lovely old rooms where not one wall is straight. They take your measurements and turn them into a clear, to-scale plan, then place the sofa you are considering into it. Sometimes two or three options, side by side, so you can compare a three seater against a pair of two seaters, or see whether the corner arrangement you have been dreaming of actually leaves room for the dog bed and the Christmas tree.

And it is free. Properly free. Not free-if-you-buy, not a deposit, not a voucher in disguise. We draw your room, we send you the plan, and the plan is yours to keep whatever you decide. If the honest answer is that our sofa is wrong for your room, the plan will show that too, and we would far rather you knew.

How it works

What to send us

Do not worry about being an architect. Rough sketches on the back of an envelope are warmly welcomed; we will do the proper drawing. This is what helps:

Why this little drawing matters so much

A floor plan answers the questions that keep people awake. Will the three seater overwhelm the room or anchor it? Can you still open the door to the garden? Is there an easy path from the kitchen to the window seat, or will everyone be squeezing past everyone else for the next decade? On paper, these answers cost nothing. Discovered on delivery day, they are expensive and sad, and I have heard too many stories of the beautiful sofa that never quite forgave the room it was forced into.

The plan also tells us things you might not think to mention. If your hallway turns sharply or your doorway is a narrow one, we will spot it and talk to you about access early, because our Coco can be made with a split frame that comes apart and is rebuilt inside the room itself. The right moment to solve a tricky staircase is before the sofa is made, not on the pavement.

And because every one of our sofas is made to order, in our workshops in England and in America, the plan is not a sales trick to hurry you along. It takes approximately eight weeks to make a sofa properly. A decision worth eight weeks of making deserves an afternoon of proper thought at the start, with a clear drawing in front of you. We are simply giving you the drawing.

A room I remember

One of my favourites was a long, narrow sitting room in a Victorian terrace, the sort of room everyone said could only take a small two seater pushed against the wall. The plan showed something lovelier: a generous sofa floated across the width of the room, facing the fire, with a walkway behind it and a little table for drinks. The room stopped being a corridor and became a place to land. The owner wrote to tell us the sofa had changed how the whole house was used. It had not, of course. The drawing had. The sofa just made good on its promise.

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