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6.1: You can use hand-drawn “bubble” lists for initial room arrangements. You might want to assign each room some proportion, based on the size of your list of characteristics.

Your family will be sharing the house with you, so involve them in the process. You’ll be amazed at how attentive to detail kids can be if they are told what to look for! Think back to when you were young. Whose house did you like to visit? Why? What did you like and dislike about your own childhood homes? Think about your future needs.Will children be arriving? Will parents, siblings, or friends be moving in? Will your home be accessible to people with physical challenges? If you have children, you’ll have to think about their future needs, too. Inevitably, conflicts between various needs will arise. Let them come to the fore, and soon enough you’ll be able to start making compromises. Planning for everybody who will share the house is vital if it’s going to work well for all concerned.

Once you know what rooms you want and how they will be used, start arranging them in ways that accommodate your movement patterns. One way to achieve this is to write the names of your rooms on individual pieces of paper, including key features and arrows that indicate the kind of traffic flow you expect that room to handle.

Start arranging these pieces of paper in different ways until they start to make sense to you. When you find an arrangement that seems suitable, make a drawing of it. Then start over again. There are many possible arrangements that might work, so don’t stop at one. At each stage in the Design Game, give yourself lots of time. You can even make your design puzzle the center of an evening with friends and family. Invite everybody to create their own house out of your individual elements — their designs will bring fresh perspectives to your own puzzling.