Rules for good design

Fun

Most new houses are rooms that look like the inside of shoeboxes, all square, with flat ceiling….room after room, with the obligatory cheaply made bathroom attached to each bedroom

Design for fun

  • Pocket doors, 5 or 6 feet wide, double pocket
  • Secret hinged doors, for alternative flow paths.
  • Secret rooms, safe room, tornado room et..
  • Double open elevator, within safe room with buttons covered by art.
  • Laundry shoots
  • Trash shoots, right to the cans…/safety bars for kids
  • Decks with roof area to sit in the rain…but open area to see the sky.
  • A center atrium, open to the sky, and rain, with a pond in the middle,
  • temporary experiments… wall paper, feature wall colors, bad art, reuse old furniture like TV consuls for blanket boees