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Apartment cases

Ten real-shaped flats. The plan is fixed. Each case names what is Fixed (door, wet rooms, beams), what to Change this weekend (furniture, facing, light), and what to Ignore (fear copy and gadgets).

Uncluttered sunlit corner with a low wood bench and a tall plant — N at the top. Doors marked. Wet rooms hatched. Beams dashed. Nothing to worship.

How to read a case

Fixed

Means: Door, wet rooms, beams — leave them.

Change

Means: Furniture, facing, light, habits.

Ignore

Means: Fear copy and gadgets.

	Means
Fixed	Door, wet rooms, beams — leave them.
Change	Furniture, facing, light, habits.
Ignore	Fear copy and gadgets.

NE bathroom studio

Toilet ≠ curse; shrine elsewhere; bed off beam

South door + north kitchen

Builder facts; light + exhaust

Wrong master / kids

Sleep quality assigns master

Loft + center bath

Clear middle; desk follows light

Good SE kitchen, messy NE

Clear the light corner anyway

NW toilet school fight

Hygiene when schools disagree

Roommate flat

Courtesy + quiet > compass throne

West-only windows

Use the sun you have

Galley studio

Triage in a narrow plan

WFH on the bed

Separate work and sleep

Mini layouts

Recommended moves only. The stack stays where the builder put it.

If your kitchen can’t move

Separate fire and water on the counter. Face task light. Exhaust on.

If your toilet can’t move

Dry, closed, aired. Shrine elsewhere if the toilet took NE. No copper tape.

If your door faces the “wrong” way

Make it work: light, swing, no shoe-heap. Unit door only — not the lobby.

If you only get one sleep wall

Solid headboard, off the beam, south or east if it fits. Sleep wins.

What these cases will not do

Promise money, health, or marriage outcomes.
Recommend helixes, strips, pyramids, or “Vastu kits.”
Tell you to break a lease or move plumbing.
Apply Indian SW-tall compound rules to a Western winter south window.

Ten plans. No cart. The useful objects were already in the room.

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