Buying new furniture can be a perplexing task, and deciding on styles, colors and pattern is only part of the challenge. There are also questions of scale: Will that overstuffed sofa and armchair fit into your living room? Will that table be dwarfed by your dining room?

The standard advice has been to draw up your room on graph paper to one-quarter-inch scale. Trouble is, most of us don’t have the math skills to do it or the ability to visualize a room that way.

Now, there’s help for the spatially challenged: Design Yourself Interiors’ Life Size Furniture Templates. Created by two interior decorators, the product features four options (bedroom, living, dining and family rooms). Each kit ($29.99, $110 for all four) includes multiple templates of standard furniture shapes and dimensions.

The idea is to lay them on the floor to see how furniture might fit in a space and how different layouts might affect traffic flow, says Kathy Wagner, who co-developed the product. “And they are easy to fold down or cut if you need to,” Wagner says of the templates, which are printed on heavy kraft paper.

To order, call 1-866-692-6700 or visit www.designyourselfinteriors.com.

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