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Shelf Math: How Many 120 cm Figures Fit in a Normal Room
The limiting factor is never floor area. It's the sightlines you need and the number of walls that are actually free.
People work this out with square metres and then are surprised when the room feels crowded with three figures in it. Floor area isn’t the constraint. A 120 cm figure occupies maybe a third of a square metre of floor. The constraint is visual: how many tall objects can sit in one room before they start competing.
The wall rule
Count the walls in the room that are genuinely free, meaning no door that swings, no radiator, no window you’re unwilling to block, no television. That number is roughly how many figures the room can hold comfortably. In a typical living room it’s two, occasionally three.
Add one more if there’s a corner, because a corner gives you two backing surfaces and lets a piece sit slightly deeper into the room without blocking anything.
Spacing
Between two figures, leave at least 70 cm of gap. Closer than that and they start reading as a group rather than as two separate pieces, which sounds fine and usually isn’t, because the eye compares them and one wins. Characters from different themes compete badly at close range.
That’s why we group by theme on the site. Pieces from Fantasy & Guardian have a shared visual language and sit together without fighting. Put one next to something from Food & Kitchen and the pair looks accidental.
Height variety
Everything we make is 120 cm, so you don’t get variety from height. You get it from distance and depth. Set one piece further back into the room than the other and the sightline changes enough that they stop competing. This is the cheapest trick available and it works every time.
When to stop
When you walk into the room and your eye goes to a specific figure, that’s a good room. When your eye goes to all of them at once and then away, you’ve gone one too far. It’s a feeling rather than a formula, but it’s reliable, and it’s better than any measurement we can give you.
Gradient colourways read differently depending on what’s next to them, which makes them good anchors for a group. Dream Gradient Panda is one of those.