If you have gone looking on our own site for a straight answer to “what fits in a 100 sq ft unit,” you may have come away more confused than when you started. You are not imagining it. We have read our own pages back and they do not agree with each other, and that is not a good enough answer when you are trying to decide whether your bedroom furniture, your sofa and twenty boxes are actually going to fit before you book. So here is the answer we should have given you the first time: an itemised list, built from real furniture and box measurements, that you can check against your own things.
Why our own site gives you two different answers
Our size guide describes a 100 sq ft unit as holding a full bedroom set plus large items like a sofa or a dining set. Our rental guide describes the same 100 sq ft as roughly the size of a single garage. Those are two different pictures of the same figure, and we would rather tell you that plainly than let you stumble onto both pages and wonder which one to trust. This page settles it independently, working from real dimensions rather than picking whichever description sounds better.
What each of our pages currently says
Our storage unit size guide describes 100 sq ft as enough for a full bedroom set, including a king-size bed, dressers, nightstands and several boxes, and says it can also handle large items like a sectional sofa, a dining set or even a piano. At 150 sq ft and above, it describes space for a large home’s worth of furniture, appliances and equipment, or a whole-house inventory across multiple rooms.
Our rental guide, by contrast, describes 100 sq ft as roughly a single garage, and 150 sq ft as one and a half garages. That is a much vaguer comparison, and it gives you nothing to check your own belongings against. A separate page on a one-bedroom flat’s storage needs describes 100 sq ft as enough for a large one-bedroom flat or a small two-bedroom home, which sits much closer to the size guide than to the garage comparison. That is how all three pages read as of July 2026; if you are reading this some time later and something has shifted, the itemised lists below still stand on their own, since they are built from furniture and box measurements rather than from any of our other pages.
None of those three pages show their working. None state how they arrived at “single garage” or “full bedroom set,” and none mention that a storage unit’s real capacity depends on stacking height as much as floor space. We want to give you one clear answer, not three slightly different ones, and we want you to see how we got there, so below is how we worked it out and what actually lands in each size.
How we worked out which one is right
A 100 sq ft unit is roughly the footprint of a single garage, about ten feet by ten feet. A 150 sq ft unit is the same footprint with a further five feet added along one side. But storage units let you stack, so real capacity is footprint multiplied by usable height, not floor area alone. We do not publish an exact ceiling height for our units, so the lists below assume sensible stacking to head height, typical of a single-storey UK unit, and we have flagged that as an estimate rather than a spec. We then worked out what fits using standard UK furniture and removal box dimensions, the same figures a removal firm would use, rather than a vague size-class label. That is the method behind both tables below.
What actually fits in 100 sq ft
At 100 sq ft, you are looking at roughly one full room’s worth of furniture plus a living or dining set and a solid run of boxes, close to what a well-furnished one-bedroom flat would need to store in full.
| Item | Quantity / note |
|---|---|
| Double bed (frame and mattress) | 1, stood on its side to save floor space |
| Double wardrobe | 1 |
| Chest of drawers | 1 |
| Bedside tables | 2 |
| Three-seater sofa | 1 (or a two-seater plus one or two armchairs) |
| Dining table and chairs | 1 table, legs down or folded flat, plus 4 chairs stacked seat to seat |
| Large appliance | 1: a washing machine or a fridge-freezer, not both |
| Medium “tea chest” boxes | 15 to 20, stacked three high |
| Miscellaneous | A bike, an ironing board, a few smaller items |
Suits: a well-furnished one-bedroom flat, or a single room being cleared out in full.
What actually fits in 150 sq ft
At 150 sq ft, you get everything in the 100 sq ft list above, plus a second bedroom’s worth of furniture on top, landing at roughly a small two-bedroom house’s full contents.
| Item | Quantity / note |
|---|---|
| Everything listed above, plus: | |
| Additional bed (single or double) and mattress | 1 |
| Additional wardrobe | 1 |
| Additional chest of drawers | 1 |
| Both large appliances | Washing machine and fridge-freezer, not just one |
| Further boxes | A further 10 to 15 (25 to 30 total) |
| Seasonal or garden items | A second bike, garden furniture or tools, Christmas decorations |
Suits: a small two-bedroom house or flat’s full contents.
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The one-room difference, in practice
The gap between 100 and 150 sq ft is not abstract, it is one extra room’s worth of large items. A couple moving from a one-bedroom flat into somewhere smaller, storing their old bedroom and living room furniture plus around 18 boxes, will comfortably fit into 100 sq ft. A family moving from a two-bedroom house into a one-bedroom flat, storing that same bedroom and living room furniture but also a second bedroom’s worth on top, plus both major appliances, needs the step up to 150 sq ft. It is the same shape of move, one size band apart, because of that second bedroom’s worth from the list above.
The same logic applies if you are not moving house at all. Someone having a room re-plastered or a kitchen fitted, needing that one room’s furniture out of the way for a few weeks, is almost always a 100 sq ft job, since it is one room’s worth of large items plus boxes, not a whole house. Clearing a relative’s home ahead of a probate decision tends to run the other way: it is rarely just one room, so 150 sq ft is the more realistic starting point once you count the furniture from more than one bedroom plus a full kitchen and living room’s worth of smaller items.
What this estimate assumes (and when to call ahead)
You should be able to check the lists above against your own things and trust what you see. They are built from real dimensions, not guesswork, so treat them as a close, checkable estimate rather than a laboratory-precise guarantee for every home. The one variable we cannot give you an exact figure for is ceiling height and how much you can realistically stack, since that varies from item to item and we do not publish an exact ceiling height for these units.
Sensible stacking, not a lab measurement
The list assumes standard, sensible stacking to head height, the kind of stacking you would do moving into a single-storey UK unit, not a precise engineering calculation. Boxes stack cleanly because they are uniform shapes. Furniture does not: a wardrobe laid flat takes up floor space a wardrobe stood upright does not, and an oddly shaped item, a treadmill or a large mirror, for example, will eat into the total differently than a stack of boxes does. Think of the tables above as the shape of what fits, not a guarantee that your exact belongings will slot in to the millimetre.
If anything’s oversized or unusual
If you have an item that does not fit the standard dimensions above, an oversized wardrobe, an unusually large appliance, or anything you are not sure about, call us on 0800 2545585 before you book. It takes a couple of minutes and saves a re-book later.
What these units don’t take
One thing worth knowing before you plan around either list: we do not offer vehicle or caravan storage, so neither list above includes a car, a motorbike or a boat. If you are clearing a garage as well as a home, everything else from that garage, tools, garden furniture, a bike, is already accounted for in the lists above; just plan for the vehicle itself to go elsewhere. A bicycle is fine in either size.
Need a different size instead?
This page has one job: an itemised answer for exactly 100 and 150 sq ft. If your move does not fit that shape, two other guides do the rest of the work. If you are storing a whole house and want to think in terms of bedrooms rather than items, our room-by-room moving guide covers that, room by room, for houses of any size. If you are outside the 100 to 150 sq ft range entirely, smaller, larger, or you would rather start from what you own than from a size label, our item-by-item size guide covers the full range from a single box to a full house clearance. Both are built to answer questions this page deliberately does not try to.
Getting the right size booked
Instead of two conflicting answers, you now have one checkable list for each size, built from real furniture and box measurements rather than a vague comparison. If your things match the 100 sq ft list, or the fuller 150 sq ft list, you can book with a plan rather than a guess. Get a price for the size that matches your list, or find your nearest Wigwam location to talk it through in person. If anything on your list is oversized or unusual, call 0800 2545585 first and we will help you get it right before you book.
Frequently Asked Questions
Our size guide describes 100 sq ft in item-based terms, a full bedroom set plus large items, while our rental guide uses a garage comparison instead. Both are trying to describe the same space, but only one gives you something checkable. This page exists to give you the itemised version, built independently from real furniture and box dimensions, so you have one clear answer rather than two different pictures of the same figure.
The lists above are built from standard UK bed, sofa, wardrobe and dining table dimensions. If your furniture runs noticeably larger, an oversized sofa or a super-king bed, for example, it will eat into the totals faster than the list assumes. Call ahead on 0800 2545585 with your specific measurements and we can talk through whether you need the size above.
A small two-bedroom house or flat’s full contents, two bedrooms’ worth of furniture, a living and dining set, both major appliances and a full run of boxes, is roughly what 150 sq ft is built to hold per the list above. A larger two-bedroom house with more furniture, a garden’s worth of extra items, or several large appliances may need to step up further. If you are unsure, call ahead and we will help you size it properly.
Some disassembly helps considerably. Standing a bed frame on its side, taking the legs off a dining table, and folding down what folds all save real floor space, and the lists above already assume you have done this. You do not need to fully dismantle wardrobes or sofas.
Step up from 100 to 150 sq ft and you gain one extra bedroom’s worth of large furniture, a second major appliance, and roughly ten to fifteen more boxes. If your move is a one-bedroom’s worth of belongings, 100 sq ft is usually enough. If it is two bedrooms’ worth, 150 sq ft is the size to look at.
