How a Leading Furniture Retailer Uses One Door to Simplify Store Planning
For large-format furniture retailers, floor plans are anything but simple. A single showroom can feature hundreds of collections — sofas, dining sets, bedroom suites — each with multiple finishes, configurations, and seasonal updates.
One national furniture retailer tackled this challenge by adopting One Door’s platform — not just as a store planning tool but as a way to reimagine how they organize and update their showrooms.
The Challenge: Scale, Complexity, and Clarity in Furniture Retail
Unlike smaller-format stores, furniture showrooms must balance hundreds of oversized products, multi-piece collections, and constantly evolving layouts. Every update has to be clear and easy for store teams to execute, especially when the work involves moving such large products.
It’s a challenge of both scale and precision — and one that demands a smarter strategy than spreadsheets or static floor plans:
- Large, Multi-Piece Fixtures. Unlike standardized tables or wall bays, furniture displays often include entire groupings of oversized products. Planning must account for the size, weight, and arrangement of sofas, beds, dining sets, and more.
- Complex Collections with Multiple Versions. A single living room collection might include dozens of SKUs across finishes and configurations. Without clear indexing, retailers risk duplicating or misplacing products on the floor.
- Expansive, Multi-Zone Showrooms. Furniture stores are physically larger, requiring floor plans that must remain navigable and approachable, helping customers instantly envision the collection in their own home.
- Store Execution that’s Logistically Heavy. Moving and updating large-scale furniture displays isn’t as simple as swapping signage. Campaign updates involve shifting bulky products, designating clearance drops, and ensuring grouped fixtures remain consistent across locations.
The ultimate challenge is keeping layouts consistent and scalable across dozens — even hundreds — of showrooms. For this leading furniture retailer, the question became: How do you control one of retail’s most complex floor planning environments without overwhelming HQ or store teams?
The Innovation: Smarter Fixtures and Cleaner Floor Plans
Instead of forcing complex furniture layouts into traditional workflows, this national furniture retailer used innovative, creative approaches within the platform:
Make Large Groupings Easier to Manage
By creating fixtures that represent multiple grouped pieces of furniture, the retailer made it easier to plan and update large showroom displays without bogging down floor plans in excessive detail.
Keep Every Collection Organized and Accessible
Visual merchandisers work off a “mock store,” which serves as a visual catalog of every product and its variations. This speeds up fixturing, minimizes errors, and allows visual merchandisers to see all versions of a collection in one place. It also gives HQ the flexibility to adapt layouts for individual store needs without starting from scratch.
Save Time with Reusable Backgrounds
Instead of reinventing the wheel, they leveraged generic fixture backgrounds that can be applied to any grouping — a huge time-saver for retailers managing oversized products. These flexible templates allow planners to tailor layouts to each showroom’s footprint while maintaining brand consistency.
Clean Up Floor Plans
The retailer refined category organization so the last tier aligns with collection names, resulting in cleaner, more intuitive floor plans that keep store teams focused on execution, not interpretation.
Help Store Teams Navigate Large Showrooms
With department-level color coding and simplified category structures, even the largest multi-zone showroom layouts remain clear and navigable for both store teams and shoppers.
Simplify Campaign Updates
When campaigns change, HQ can update existing layouts instead of redrawing entire floor plans. Products can be digitally moved, swapped, or redesignated with just a few clicks — reducing the heavy lifting required for resets and minimizing disruption in stores.
Communicate Resets and Refreshes with Clarity
Whether it’s a large showroom reset or a quick accessory refresh, HQ can use the Floorplan Editor and planograms to communicate expectations clearly — ensuring consistency in how furniture and accessories are paired, and giving stores clear direction on how to bring vignettes to life.
Going Further: Turning Data Into Clarity and Confidence
In addition to day-to-day planning, this retailer is also leaning into automation and advanced reporting. By combining One Door’s fixture reports with AI, they built a “collections report” that consolidates all product versions into a single view.
For example, instead of separately tracking multiple variations of a specific collection, HQ can instantly see at a glance how many stores have the collection showing, which version, and who is missing it from the floor. This kind of real-time visibility supports smarter reporting and creates confidence that every product story is being told consistently.
Why It Matters: Smarter Store Planning Without Complexity
By rethinking how they plan and structure their showrooms, this national furniture retailer has:
- Reduced the clutter and confusion of mapping massive assortments of oversized fixtures
- Created scalable planning processes for multi-piece groupings and complex collections
- Built a living index of products and variations, ensuring store planners and visual merchandisers work from a single source of truth
- Established a clear framework that makes even the largest showroom floor plans easy to navigate and adapt
- Enabled consistent furniture and accessory pairings across showrooms, reinforcing the brand story and helping customers envision products together in their homes
Rather than treating One Door as just another floor planning “tool,” this furniture retailer has transformed it into the foundation of their planning strategy — automating the mundane and giving teams the freedom to focus on what really matters: Designing immersive, brand-defining experiences for customers.
Simplify and Scale Your Store Planning
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