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Measure the Floor
Two numbers for the room and two numbers for the furniture. The room numbers set the largest rug that can go down; the furniture numbers set the smallest rug worth buying.
Four numbers, taken properly
Measure
No rule on this site means anything until you have gone and got a number. These are the four, and each page is mostly about the one step people skip.
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Measure the Window
One vertical number taken from the rod, and one horizontal number taken from beyond the window on both sides. Neither of them is a measurement of the window itself.
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Measure the Wall
The rectangle of wall that is actually available once the furniture, the trim and the switches are taken out of it — which is always smaller than the wall.
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Measure the Seating
Two heights taken with somebody actually sitting down: the seat, and the eye. Everything about lamp height follows from the second one.