Professional Space Planning & Furniture Layouts
Oraanj provides professional space planning across London, helping homeowners and commercial clients make better, smarter use of the space they already have.
We plan furniture layouts, ergonomic clearances, functional zones, and natural circulation paths before you invest in expensive furniture, bespoke joinery, or major building works.
Whether you are tackling an awkward Victorian living room, planning an open-plan kitchen and dining area, furnishing a new-build apartment, or restructuring a commercial floorplate.
What Is Space Planning in Interior Design?
Work Out How the Space Should Function Before You Invest
Space planning is the discipline of choreographing furniture, circulation, daylight, and daily activities within a room. We answer the practical questions before you commit capital.
Proportions
Scale & Proportion
Ensuring furniture dimensions harmonise with the architecture, preventing oversized sectionals or undersized dining sets from unbalancing the room.
Clearances
Circulation & Walkways
Protecting generous 900mm+ pathways between doorways, furniture edges, and terrace sliders for effortless, intuitive everyday movement.
Zoning
Defined Functional Zones
Creating discrete zones for dining, lounging, home working, and entertaining without building restrictive physical dividing walls.
Daylight
Natural Light & Sightlines
Arranging primary seating and workspaces to capture natural window light while eliminating screen reflections and framing garden views.
Space Planning for London Properties
Making Irregular, Period and Modern Floorplates Work Harder
London properties present distinctive architectural puzzles. Rather than immediately proposing costly structural alterations, we first challenge the floorplate to work smarter.
Heritage
Period Terraces & Alcoves
Working creatively with Georgian and Victorian chimney breasts, bay windows, and narrow footprints through tailored joinery and seating.
Apartments
Modern City Apartments
Unlocking compact urban footprints with multi-functional furniture, discrete storage walls, and smart visual separations.
Open-Plan
Vast Open-Plan Spaces
Structuring cavernous open extensions into intimate, human-scaled spaces with balanced acoustic flow and architectural focal anchors.
Workspaces
Commercial & Offices
Balancing focus desks, meeting breakout areas, reception greeting, and tea-points within high-efficiency commercial floorplates.
Room-by-Room Spatial Planning
Tailored Layout Strategies for Every Part of Your Home
Every room requires distinct ergonomic guidelines and sightline calculations. We analyse how you live room-by-room to establish a harmonious layout.
1. Open-Plan Living & Dining Layouts
Choreographing kitchen island stools, expandable dining table capacities, and comfortable L-shaped sofa seating that doesn’t obstruct kitchen workflows.
2. Master Bedrooms & Dressing Suites
Optimising bed orientation against windows, bedside table clear widths, bespoke wardrobe door swings, and vanity dressing table natural light.
3. Dedicated Home Offices & Workstations
Positioning desks away from harsh screen glare, ensuring professional video-call backdrops, and planning cable management trunking.
Know What Fits Before You Buy Furniture
Avoid Costly Purchasing Mistakes and Awkward Deliveries
A sofa or dining table can look perfectly sized in a cavernous showroom, yet completely overpower a London home once delivered. We test exact dimensions on your actual floor plan.
Seating
Sofa Scale & TV Angles
Calculating precise viewing distances, ergonomic sofa seat depths, and coffee table accessibility to ensure total lounging comfort.
Dining
Dining Clearances
Maintaining at least 900mm behind pulled-out chairs so guests and family can move freely without scraping against walls or radiators.
Access
Door & Drawer Radii
Verifying that wardrobes, bedside drawers, and internal room doors open fully without striking neighbouring furniture or drapery.
Delivery
Delivery Route Feasibility
Checking narrow Victorian stairwells, tight half-landings, and lift dimensions so large items actually fit into the building.
Plan Before Renovation or Building Work
Inform Electrical, Lighting and Joinery Locations First
Moving a double socket, radiator, or pendant light after plastering is finished is frustrating and expensive. Resolving furniture layouts first gives your builders clear first-fix instructions.
Sockets
Precise Electrical Positioning
Placing floor sockets under free-standing sofas, bedside charging plates at headboard height, and AV points behind televisions.
Lighting
Lighting Alignment
Centering dining pendants directly over table locations rather than room centres, and aiming recessed downlights at art rather than seats.
Joinery
Bespoke Joinery Integration
Setting dimensions for fitted alcove cabinetry, media walls, and built-in wardrobes before underfloor heating and skirting are installed.
Structural
Testing Structural Changes
Verifying whether removing an internal wall or adding an extension genuinely yields superior living layouts before spending on steel beams.
Space Planning vs Interior Architecture & Design
Choosing the Right Level of Service for Your Project
Understanding how spatial planning connects with wider interior design and technical architecture helps you select the exact service package your property needs.
1. Space Planning (How the space functions)
Focuses purely on furniture layouts, dimensions, circulation, zoning, and how you live. Ideal when you want layout certainty without committing to wider styling.
2. Full Interior Design (How the space looks & feels)
Develops the decorative scheme—fabrics, wall finishes, bespoke joinery, decorative lighting, colour palettes, and trade procurement coordination.
3. Interior Architecture (How the space is constructed)
Addresses structural partition alterations, building regulations, MEP coordination, bathroom sanitaryware layouts, and technical tender drawing packs.
From 2D Floor Plans to 3D Photorealism
Experience Volume, Daylight and Materials in Full Depth
While 2D drawings establish precise physical clearances, 3D CGI visuals bring vertical volume, ceiling heights, materials, and lighting atmosphere vividly into view.
1. Dimensioned 2D Scaled CAD Layouts
Clear architectural floor plans detailing exact furniture footprints, walkway clearances, and door opening radii for builders and suppliers.
2. Spatial Volume & Massing Studies
Understanding how tall bespoke joinery, pendant light drops, and ceiling bulkheads interact with your sightlines from seated and standing positions.
3. Photorealistic 3D CGI Rendering
Testing material textures, bespoke cabinetry finishes, and artificial lighting scenes before committing to costly manufacture orders.
Our 5-Step Space Planning Process
A Methodical Route From Initial Plan to Layout Sign-Off
We guide you through a collaborative, structured process to test layout alternatives and arrive at the single most functional layout for your lifestyle.
Briefing
Initial Brief & Plans
Reviewing your existing floor plans, photographs, daily routines, existing furniture pieces, and what currently feels frustrating.
Analysis
Dimensional Verification
Verifying structural walls, window cill heights, ceiling drops, radiator positions, and access routes across the floorplate.
Concepts
Developing Layout Options
Presenting 2 to 3 distinct spatial arrangements exploring alternative furniture groupings, dining orientations, and storage positions.
Delivery
Approved Final Space Plan
Delivering fully dimensioned 2D plans with exact furniture sizing parameters and recommended clearances ready for purchasing or building.
Continue Beyond Space Planning
Turn Approved Layouts Into a Completed, Beautiful Home
Once your layout is perfected, Oraanj offers a seamless path into detailed interior design, bespoke joinery fabrication, and turnkey construction delivery.
1. Interior Design & FF&E Procurement
Selecting curated colour palettes, luxury fabrics, wallcoverings, and ordering designer furniture at exclusive trade discount terms.
2. Bespoke Joinery Manufacture
Designing custom fitted wardrobes, media walls, home offices, and concealed storage crafted to the exact millimetre of the approved layout.
3. Turnkey Design & Build Delivery
Single-source construction management covering structural alterations, electrical rewires, decorating, and white-glove installation.
Send Us Your Floor Plan & Property Details
We Can Work From Estate Agent Particulars, Architect Plans or Hand Sketches
You do not need professional CAD drawings to begin. Share whatever information you currently have and our design team will evaluate what is possible.
1. Existing Plans or Room Dimensions
Architectural plans, developer brochures, estate agent sales floorplans, or simple hand measurements with ceiling heights.
2. Photographs or Video Walkthrough
A quick smartphone video or photos showing window drops, radiators, doors, and how daylight enters the space.
3. Your Lifestyle Wishlist & Priorities
Specific furniture pieces you want to retain, seating capacity you require, and the primary frustrations with your current arrangement.
Planning a Space Planning Project?
Space planning is about shaping how a room or property functions, flows and feels before you invest in furniture, joinery or renovation work. At Oraanj, we bring together spatial planning, ergonomic clearances and interior design thinking to help you make the best use of the space you have.
Whether you’re tackling an awkward layout, planning an open-plan living and dining space, furnishing a new-build apartment, or preparing layouts before building works begin, our team can review your floor plan and develop a layout tailored to how you live.
Book a free consultation today and discuss your space planning project with our design team.
Frequently Asked Questions
Space planning fees depend on property size, the number of rooms, the quality of existing drawings, and the depth of layout alternatives required. Send us your floor plan and requirements for a fast, fixed-fee quotation.
Yes. We frequently plan individual living rooms, open-plan kitchen-diners, master bedroom suites, or loft conversions where clients need layout certainty before furnishing.
Yes. We establish exact maximum and recommended dimensions for sectionals, dining tables, and beds, ensuring adequate clearance around furniture for effortless movement.
Not always. Many space planning schemes are completed using developer or estate agent floor plans, photos, and video walkthroughs. Where dimensions are missing or floorplates are complex, we can arrange an on-site laser survey.
Yes. Resolving furniture layouts before renovation informs first-fix electrical sockets, lighting chandelier positions, underfloor heating zones, and bespoke joinery sizing, preventing expensive retrospective modifications.
