Room problem · Movement

“You have to turn sideways to get through it.”

What it usually is: Almost never a shortage of space. It is one piece parked in the only route, and moving it costs nothing.

Before anything is bought

Try this first

Test · reversible: Take the one piece nearest the tightest point out of the room for three ordinary days. Put painter's tape where it stood, so it can go straight back.
It is working if: You walk the route carrying something, shoulders square, without thinking about it — and nothing new has landed in the gap by the third day.
What would change our mind: If it is still a sideways shuffle with that piece gone, one piece was not the cause. Tape-measure the narrowest point: the trouble is the layout or a door swing, not the clutter.

Where does the body actually walk? It works on the room you have open; with none open, it offers a worked room to start from.

A worked room with this problem

Fourteen by sixteen. The sofa is the wall.

Movement looks like the governing problem. Clear the primary walk — no money yet.