Furniture Budget Calculator: How Much to Budget for Furnishing a Room
Build budgets get planned to the penny, then the furniture is left as whatever is left over, which is how a beautifully renovated flat ends up with a sofa that lets it down. This calculator takes your total furnishing budget and splits it sensibly across your rooms and the key pieces in each one, so you can see what is realistic to spend on the sofa, the bed and everything else before you start shopping. It is the loose furnishings only (FF&E): furniture, lighting, rugs, curtains and accessories, not the building work.
Your furnishing project
Rooms to furnish (set how many of each)
The split is weighted by how furniture-heavy each room is, so a living room and a main bedroom take the lion's share and a hallway takes very little. Within each room, the result shows the pieces worth budgeting for and how your money divides between them. The specification you choose is used to sense-check whether your total is realistic for that quality of fit-out. Treat the figures as a starting allocation, not a fixed quote.
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