
Majlis
How deep the seating around the walls needs to be, and the route guests take in. Where the screen or partition goes. Drawn so guests never cut through the family rooms on the way in.

Living and family rooms
Where the seating goes, measured against what you see as you walk in. Then the recessed strips in the ceiling, the curtain tracks, and the sockets that belong in the floor rather than the wall.

Kitchen
The space built for each appliance. How far the island top sticks out, so you can sit under it with room for your legs. Where the extractor duct runs out through the outside wall. And whether the show kitchen and the working kitchen are two separate rooms.

Master suite
Headboard width, sockets and light switches beside the bed, and a drawing of every wardrobe front. Then which way each door opens between bedroom, dressing room and bathroom, so they do not hit each other.

Bathrooms
Where each stone slab starts and stops, and the slope of the floor towards the drain. What holds the glass screen up, and the layers under the tiles that keep water out of the structure. These get decided before tiling starts, because they cannot be changed after.

Children's and guest rooms
Shelf and rail heights a child can reach, where a desk fits as they grow, and finishes that survive them. Guest rooms get different fittings, because they are empty most of the year.

Entrance and stair
What you see first when the door opens. Which way the floor tiles run, and where any floor pattern is centred. Then what holds the stair railing up, and the lighting that makes the stair visible at night.

Terrace and pool surround
Shade structures, deck levels and the slope that drains them. Where the pool pump and filters sit. And the surface temperature of every material you walk on barefoot in July.

Majlis
How deep the seating around the walls needs to be, and the route guests take in. Where the screen or partition goes. Drawn so guests never cut through the family rooms on the way in.

Living and family rooms
Where the seating goes, measured against what you see as you walk in. Then the recessed strips in the ceiling, the curtain tracks, and the sockets that belong in the floor rather than the wall.

Kitchen
The space built for each appliance. How far the island top sticks out, so you can sit under it with room for your legs. Where the extractor duct runs out through the outside wall. And whether the show kitchen and the working kitchen are two separate rooms.

Master suite
Headboard width, sockets and light switches beside the bed, and a drawing of every wardrobe front. Then which way each door opens between bedroom, dressing room and bathroom, so they do not hit each other.

Bathrooms
Where each stone slab starts and stops, and the slope of the floor towards the drain. What holds the glass screen up, and the layers under the tiles that keep water out of the structure. These get decided before tiling starts, because they cannot be changed after.

Children's and guest rooms
Shelf and rail heights a child can reach, where a desk fits as they grow, and finishes that survive them. Guest rooms get different fittings, because they are empty most of the year.

Entrance and stair
What you see first when the door opens. Which way the floor tiles run, and where any floor pattern is centred. Then what holds the stair railing up, and the lighting that makes the stair visible at night.

Terrace and pool surround
Shade structures, deck levels and the slope that drains them. Where the pool pump and filters sit. And the surface temperature of every material you walk on barefoot in July.