we had guests last year that moved a double bed into a position where it must have been difficut to get into it, and we think that room was not actually slept in, we decided the area was probably used for prayer and that they needed a space to do that .Moving stuff just a bit away from walls makes me think of fengshui /lay lines that kind of idea, who knows really, as they say here in Yorkshire "theres nowt as queer as folk"