How much space to leave around furniture, room by room
The clearances that decide whether a room works: in front of a dresser, beside a bed, behind a dining chair and along a hallway.
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Furniture for every room
Karl Home Official Store
Pick the room first and the piece second. Every chair, dresser and vanity here carries its width, depth and height, so you can hold a tape measure to the wall before you fall for a color.
- 287pieces in 10 rooms
- 568colorways
- $17.99and up
In the photograph: Karl Home Mid-Century Modern Reading Chair
Shop by room
Karl Home furniture, room by room
Start where the piece will stand. Each room collects what goes in it, from the chair by the window to the cabinet behind the door.
Signature collections
The Karl Home pieces people come back to
Four designs sold in the widest run of colors and sizes, the ones that anchor a room and repeat from one home to the next.
Most rated
Where Karl Home ratings pile up
Listed by how many people have rated the design, which says more about a chair you will sit in daily than a photo does.
The vanity corner
A Karl Home makeup vanity, lit for the mirror
Light where your face is, drawers where your hands go, a mirror that slides or flips out of the way. Measure the gap between the bed and the wall first: most of these fit in less than a yard of it.
10 vanities from $79.99, with 7 finishes between them.
See the makeup vanitiesBefore you order
Six measurements that decide the piece
The photo sells the color. The tape measure decides whether it goes through the door and fits the wall. Take these six first.
The wall, not the room
Measure the stretch of wall the piece will stand against, then take off a hand width at each end for a baseboard and a light switch.
The doorways on the way
Your stairs, hallway and bedroom door decide more deliveries than the room does. The narrowest opening has to beat the depth of the box.
The path in front
Leave about 30 inches in front of a dresser so a drawer opens with you standing at it, and about 36 where people walk past.
The seat you sit in
A seat height near 18 inches suits a dining table and most desks. Lower and deeper reads as lounge. You will feel it after an hour.
The height under things
Check the window sill, the wall shelf and the ceiling slope over the spot. A tall cabinet under a slope is a return waiting to happen.
The finish next to it
Hold a photo of the piece against the floor and the frame you already own. Walnut, natural oak and white read very differently at dusk.
About Karl Home
Karl Home makes furniture for the rooms people actually have
Our furniture is sized for rented bedrooms, first apartments, a hallway that has to hold six pairs of shoes and a bathroom with no closet. That is why one dresser design comes in more than one drawer count, and why most of our chairs come in five or six colors.
The people at Karl Home have been furnishing homes since 2019, and you can hold every piece against your own room before it arrives: the measurements and a photograph of each color sit on its page.
- 287pieces on the site today
- 568colorways, each with its own photographs
- 12,290ratings across 149 product families
- 4.2average rating, weighted by pool
- 7years furnishing homes, since 2019
By piece
Find the Karl Home piece you came for
The designs people search for by name, each on a page of its own with every size and color side by side.
Karl Home accent chairs
The widest run of colors in the collection: mid-century lounge frames with wooden arms, swivel barrel chairs and reading chairs with a lumbar pillow, in corduroy, chenille and linen, most of them in five colors or more.
25 pieces, from $59.99 · See every accent chair
Karl Home sectional sofas and loveseats
U-shaped and L-shaped sectionals with a chaise or ottoman that moves to either side, loveseats for a shorter wall and sleeper chairs that open into a bed for a guest.
11 pieces, from $59.99 · See sectionals and loveseats
Karl Home dressers
Chests of drawers from a small three-drawer chest to wide eight-drawer dressers: tall ones for a corner by the closet, wide ones that hold a television, in white, black, pink, natural oak and walnut, some with fluted fronts.
25 pieces, from $63.99 · See every dresser
Karl Home nightstands
Nightstands with drawers, with open shelves and with a built-in charging station, sold alone or as matched pairs, from farmhouse white to black with LED light.
19 pieces, from $36.99 · See every nightstand
Karl Home bathroom storage cabinets
Storage cut for the gaps a bathroom has: slim towers beside the sink, frames over the toilet, cabinets under the basin with a cut-out for the pipes.
12 pieces, from $39.99 · See the bathroom cabinets
Karl Home shoe cabinets
Tilt-out shoe cabinets shallow enough for a narrow hall, rattan-door cabinets with adjustable shelves and cushioned benches to sit on while you pull boots on.
7 pieces, from $49.99 · See the shoe cabinets
SWV
Karl Home swivel chairs
7 pieces
BEDKarl Home bed frames
8 pieces
VANKarl Home makeup vanities
10 pieces
MEDKarl Home medicine cabinets
10 pieces
CONKarl Home console tables
13 pieces
DNSKarl Home dining sets and tables
16 pieces
CHRKarl Home dining and folding chairs
14 pieces
SHLKarl Home storage shelves
21 pieces
DSKKarl Home desks
8 pieces
BNKKarl Home bunk beds and kids beds
8 pieces
XTRKarl Home artificial Christmas trees
10 pieces
The bedroom
A calmer Karl Home bedroom starts with the dresser
Put the storage against one wall and the bed on the other, and the room reads larger than it measures. Nightstands with charging, and dressers up to 55 inches wide.
Shop the bedroomIdeas & advice
Measuring, anchoring and setting up a room
The questions a specification table does not answer: how much space a piece needs around it, how to fix a dresser to the wall, how a vanity is lit.
How to anchor a dresser to the wall, and why it goes first
Why a chest of drawers is anchored before it is filled, what the federal rule for clothing storage covers, and the four tools the job takes.
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Choosing an accent chair: seat height, depth and the fabric
What the seat height and depth of an accent chair tell you before you sit in it, and how corduroy, chenille and linen weaves look in a room.
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Setting up a makeup vanity: the light, the mirror and the chair
Where a vanity fits in a bedroom, why the light belongs around the mirror, and how high the chair should be.
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Questions
What people ask about Karl Home
The questions that come up before an order. The Karl Home collection is listed with the measurements that answer most of them.
Where can you buy Karl Home furniture?
Every piece on this site has a buy button that takes you to our retail partner, where you check out, pay and arrange delivery. The price on our page comes from our last catalog update. The checkout price is the one that counts.
How do you know a Karl Home piece will fit your room?
Measure the wall it will stand against and the narrowest doorway on the way in, then compare them with the overall size on the product page. The room size guide sets the widths, depths and heights of every kind of piece side by side.
Do Karl Home dressers come with a way to fix them to the wall?
Anchor every chest of drawers to a wall stud before you fill it. How to anchor a dresser walks through the tools and the order of the job.
Can you see every Karl Home color before you order?
Yes. Each color of a design has its own photographs on the product page: switch the color and the pictures, the price and the buy button change with it.
Does Karl Home furniture arrive assembled?
Most pieces arrive flat-packed with the hardware and instructions in the box. The product page says what the brand states about assembly where it states it.
How often do Karl Home prices on this site change?
We update the catalog on a schedule, and the date of the last update is on how we update the catalog. A color that goes out of stock comes off the site at the next update and returns when it is back.
Start with a room
Measure the wall, then choose the piece
Every piece here is listed with the space it takes and the colors it comes in. The Karl Home way starts with the room, not the photograph.
Shop the bedroom
Figures on this site come from our last catalog update. If a price differs at checkout, the checkout price is the one that counts.