A recliner has to travel through your front door, down a hallway, and possibly around a corner before it ever reaches the living room. That path is often the real bottleneck, not the final spot.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>
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Measure the width of every doorway the chair will pass through. Measure the width of any hallway, especially where it narrows near a corner. Measure diagonally across tight turns, since a chair often has to tilt to clear a corner, and that diagonal measurement matters more than the straight width does.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\nA chair that fits easily into the living room can still get stuck three feet from the front door if nobody checked the hallway first.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>