Free barber chair CAD block in DWG

What the barber chair block is

This is a barber chair drawn as a deep padded seat with substantial arms and a headrest, carried on a round hydraulic pedestal with a footrest at the front. The plan shows the broad footprint and the base disc that drives clearance; the elevation shows the seat, the reclined back and headrest, and the pump base. Together they let you set a barbering station and confirm both the floor area and the chair height.

It inserts as a single block reference, so you copy and array it down a wall and mirror it across the shop. Edit the definition once and every station updates, keeping a multi-chair barbershop consistent.

Views and what's included

The download pairs a plan view — the one you array to lay out barbering stations — with an elevation that shows the chair height, the recline and the headrest. Use the plan for the layout and the clearance checks; drop the elevation into an interior elevation of the mirror wall to show the chair against the station unit.

The geometry is layered so the seat, arms, base and footrest separate cleanly, letting you tone the heavy base back while you dimension the working clearance around each chair.

Typical barber chair dimensions

Treat these as working ranges. A barber chair footprint in plan is commonly 650–800 mm wide including the broad arms, on a base disc around 600–700 mm in diameter. Seat height adjusts over roughly 450–600 mm on the hydraulic base. When fully reclined for a shave, the overall length extends toward 1300–1500 mm as the back drops and the legrest rises.

For station spacing, allow at least 1800–2000 mm centre to centre between barber chairs — a touch more than a hairdressing chair because of the bulk and the recline — and keep a clear aisle of around 1000–1200 mm behind. These clearances are what make a barbershop workable rather than cramped.

How to insert and scale it

The block is drawn full size in millimetres. Insert at scale 1 in a millimetre drawing, 0.001 in a metre drawing, or set INSUNITS to millimetres on an imperial template so AutoCAD rescales on insertion. Pick the insertion point at the base centre so you can snap each chair to a station centreline in front of the mirror.

To set out the shop, place one chair, ARRAY it along the mirror wall at your station spacing, and remember to allow for the recline envelope when you check clearances. Keep the chairs on a furniture layer so you can freeze them for the construction plan and thaw them for the furnished FF&E drawing.

Where barber chair blocks are used

Barber chair blocks drive barbershop layouts, men's grooming lounges, hotel and club grooming suites, and the barbering area of combined salons. They pair with the mirror-station, wash-basin and reception blocks, and with waiting benches and seating from the furniture category.

Because they are free and licence-clear, they suit student barbershop schemes, fit-out concept plans and franchise rollout drawings where a repeatable, correctly-spaced station with room for the recline is exactly what the brief needs.

Allowing for the recline envelope

The detail people miss with a barber chair is that its footprint grows when the chair reclines for a shave: the back drops and the legrest rises, pushing the overall length out toward 1300–1500 mm. If you space the chairs only for the upright position, two reclined clients in adjacent chairs can end up head to head. Drawing the chair to scale lets you sketch the reclined envelope and confirm the stations still clear when both chairs are laid back at once.

Keep the chairs on a furniture layer so you can freeze them for the construction plan, and consider drawing the reclined extent on a lightly-toned layer of its own so the clearance is documented for the fit-out team. When a station works in both positions, WBLOCK the chair-plus-mirror-unit as a module and array it down the wall so every barbering position has the same proven spacing.

Related seating and stations

For a lighter hairdressing seat, the salon chair block draws a slimmer styling chair on a similar pedestal. For the waiting area, browse the furniture category's benches and seating. A low wheeled stool — represented by the drafting stool or a backless stool block — stands in for the barber's own seat at a beard-trim station.