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Sara Hesikova

Interior experts share the golden rule for how much space you should be leaving between your sofa and the coffee table

A living room with a cream sofa with contrasting cushions and a round ombre-effect coffee table with a matching rug.

It feels like a lot of guesswork goes into the task of laying out a living room (or any other room in the house for that matter) - figuring out the proportions of the individual pieces, as well as the distance between them. For example, how much space you should leave between a sofa and coffee table.

But it turns out that interior designers and stylists don’t leave things like these to chance. Instead, they follow a golden rule that dictates the perfect distance between your best sofa and the coffee table, taking the guesswork out of it. Of course, they do – they’re the pros after all.

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