Guide

How to plan a gym locker room.

The dimensions, aisles and bench clearances we use on every LIMEN project.

Published November 2026 · Matevž Klopčič

Start with your busiest hour

The number of lockers is not set by your membership count but by how many people change at the same time in your busiest hour. Your access system has this figure. Every one of those visitors needs a free locker, plus a margin for people arriving for the next session.

Locker width and height

Aisles: where locker rooms usually jam

We recommend an aisle of at least 1500 mm in front of lockers. Below 1200 mm, an open locker door blocks the way for others, which means crowding at peak time. Also keep the swing area of the entrance doors free.

Benches

Leave at least 1000 mm between the front of the lockers and the bench, so there is room for a person and an open door. A bench is about 420 mm deep, so a bench along the lockers takes about 1.4 m of room depth.

Islands

In the middle of a larger room, place an island: two runs of lockers back to back. An island needs an aisle on both sides, so plan it only when the room is deep enough for the wall lockers, two aisles and the island itself.

A plinth that is easy to clean

LIMEN lockers stand on legs, closed at the front by a one-piece plinth along the whole run, set back by 48 mm. The side panels do not reach the floor, so there are no edges underneath where water and dirt collect.

The configurator checks all of these dimensions once you enter your room.

Open the configurator

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