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Plans & Spatial Design

Reading a plan, testing it, and the mistakes that are cheap to fix on paper.

A floor plan is a contract about how you will live, drawn at a scale most people cannot read fluently. Rooms that look generous on paper are cramped once furniture arrives, circulation eats more area than anyone expects, and a door swing in the wrong place can make a whole room awkward for decades.

These guides cover reading and testing a plan before it is built — proportion, circulation, storage, and the questions worth asking while the drawing is still the cheapest thing to change.

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