How to measure your room’s square metreage

Tools Needed:

• Measuring Tape

Step 1: Measure the length of the room.

• Take your measuring tape and find one of the long sides of your room.
• Start at one corner of that long side and stretch the measuring tape straight to the opposite corner.
• This is the length of your room in metres. Write this number down. For example, maybe it’s 5 metres.

Step 2: Measure the width of the room.

• Now, find one of the short sides of your room. It should be the side next to the long side you just measured.
• Start at one corner of that short side and stretch the measuring tape straight to the opposite corner of the same short side.
• This is the width of your room in metres. Write this number down. For example, it might be 3 metres.

Step 3: Multiply the length by the width.

• Now you have two numbers: the length and the width.
• To find the square metreage, you multiply these two numbers together.
• In our example: 5 metres (length) x 3 metres (width) = 15 square metres.

Step 4: What if your room isn’t a perfect rectangle?

• If your room has extra areas, you can measure those areas separately as if they were their own area. Then, you calculate the square metreage of each area and add them all together to get the total square metreage.

 

For this example, the total square metreage is 15m2, so the ideal choice would be any Skyfixture combination that gets us around the 15m2 mark. For example, a 330mm Skyfixture (Rooms up to 16m2) or 2 x 220mm Skyfixtures (Rooms up to 8m2 each).