Studio apartment layout: plan your studio floor plan online

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A studio apartment layout has to fit sleeping, living, cooking and storage into one room. ApaPlan lets you draw the studio floor plan with dimensions, try different furniture arrangements with real products and walk through the result in 3D — free, in the browser, without sign-up.

Zoning a studio: the four areas

Every studio floor plan, whatever its shape, has to answer four questions: where you enter and leave coats and shoes, where you cook, where you sit, and where you sleep. The usual sequence from the front door is entry → kitchen → living → sleeping, so that the bed ends up in the most private corner, furthest from the door and often by the window.

Zones do not need walls. A rug, a change in floor finish, a sofa back, an open shelf or a ceiling light are enough to make a 25 m² room read as several spaces. What matters is that walkways between zones stay 75–90 cm (2 ft 6 in–3 ft) wide and do not cut through the sleeping area.

Space budget for a 25 m² (270 sq ft) studio

These numbers rarely add up neatly, which is why it helps to draw the actual apartment and try the furniture rather than rely on percentages. Real product sizes matter: the ApaPlan catalog includes many IKEA sofas, beds and storage units with their actual dimensions.

Studio apartment layout ideas

Bed in a niche, sofa in the open

If the room has an alcove or an L-shape, put the bed there and separate it with a curtain or open shelving. The rest of the room works as a normal living room.

Sofa bed only

One piece of furniture for sitting and sleeping gives the largest living area, but it has to be unfolded every night. Check that the open bed (often 200–220 cm, 6 ft 7 in–7 ft 3 in long) still leaves a walkway.

Shelving divider

A double-sided bookcase 30–40 cm (12–16 in) deep between bed and sofa gives privacy and storage. Keep it below the ceiling or open-backed so daylight reaches the back of the room.

Raised or loft bed

Raising the bed frees floor for a desk or wardrobe below. It only works with generous ceiling height, so measure it before planning one.

Kitchen along the entry wall

A single-wall kitchen next to the entrance keeps cooking smells and noise away from the sleeping area. A bar counter or peninsula can act as both dining table and divider. See the kitchen planner for work-zone sizes.

Furniture layout tips for a small apartment

• Measure the bed first. It is the largest item and decides most of the layout.
• Use full-height storage by the entrance: one tall wardrobe holds more than several low chests.
• Choose multi-purpose furniture: a storage bed, an extendable table, a bench with drawers.
• Keep sightlines from the door open — a clear view to the window makes a studio feel larger.
• Light each zone separately so the kitchen, living and sleeping areas can be used independently.

For seating dimensions and TV distance, see the living room layout planner.

Mistakes in studio layouts

• A bed visible directly from the front door.
• A walkway that runs through the middle of the living area or past the foot of the bed.
• Furniture that blocks the only window, leaving the back of the room dark.
• No space for a coat, shoes, a vacuum cleaner and a drying rack.
• Heavy partitions that turn a single room into two dark ones.

Measuring a studio apartment

Because every zone in a studio touches the others, small measuring errors add up. Measure each wall at floor level from corner to corner and write the numbers on a sketch. Then record the position of each door and window from the nearest corner, the window sill height, radiators, the kitchen water and drain connections, the electrical panel and any columns or boxed-in pipes.

Measure the ceiling height in several places, especially if you are thinking about a loft bed or full-height wardrobes. Check the entrance door and hallway width too: a sofa or wardrobe has to come in through them.

If you have a developer’s or listing plan, compare its dimensions with your own measurements. Plans are often drawn to the structural walls, before plaster and finishes, so real rooms can be a few centimetres smaller.

How to plan a studio apartment in ApaPlan

Open the example with “Open this plan in the editor”, draw your studio from scratch, or upload an image of your floor plan and let ApaPlan detect the walls — see floor plan from image. Set wall lengths and thickness, add doors, windows and openings; rooms are detected from closed walls, so the bathroom and main room areas appear automatically.

Furnish all zones from more than 2,500 3D models, resize and rotate items and let them snap to walls. Check the result in 3D and in first-person mode, try floor and wall finishes, and download a renovation PDF with plans, room areas and a finish schedule. The floor plan guide explains how to measure an apartment and enter it with dimensions.

How to do it in ApaPlan

1. Get the floor plan in. Open the example, draw the walls yourself or upload an image of your studio floor plan.
2. Check dimensions. Enter exact wall lengths, wall thickness, doors and windows; review the detected room areas.
3. Place the bed and kitchen. Put the bed in the most private corner and the kitchen run near the entrance or plumbing.
4. Add living and storage. Add the sofa, table and wardrobes, keeping 75–90 cm walkways between zones.
5. Walk through in 3D. Check sightlines from the door in first-person view, then save or download the PDF.

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