You can't use a straight hash of hashes because he seems to want the original order of office 1, bedroom 2, etc. preserved, and a hash won't do that. You also have to provide for there being empty lines. 
use strict;
use warnings;

my (@arr, $ref);

while (<DATA>) {
    chomp;
    if (/^[a-zA-Z]/) { $arr[$#arr+1][0] = $_; }
    elsif (/^\d/) { $arr[$#arr][1]{$_}++; }
}
foreach (@arr) {
    print @$_[0] . "\n\n";
    print "width height quantity\n\n";
    $ref = @$_[1];
    for (sort {$ref->{$b} <=> $ref->{$a} or $a cmp $b} keys %$ref) {
        print "$_ " . $ref->{$_} . "\n\n";
    }
}

__DATA__
office 1

120 120

120 120

140 135

155 135

120 120

bedroom 2

100 75

100 75

120 180

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