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Room problem · Comfort

“Nobody stays in it. They stand up and leave.”

What it usually is: Comfort, and rarely the furniture. Sound, temperature, glare and having your back to a door all read as 'I would rather be elsewhere'.

Basement doing two jobs that cannot hear each other: A basement split by a charcoal storage wall and a brass-clad column: a black leather reading chair and lamp on the left, open shelves of games and folded blankets in the middle, and a large television on the right.
From the worked room below: Unmeasured. The television and the homework are in the same room. A library photograph, not your room — the test that follows is for yours.

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Test · reversible
Change one comfort condition for a week and leave the furniture where it is: turn the main seat so its back is to a wall rather than a door, or switch off the glaring overhead, or shut the door on the noise. One of them, not all three.
It is working if
Someone sits down without being asked and is still there twenty minutes later.
What would change our mind
If people still get up and leave, that condition was not the reason. Try the next one on its own before touching the sofa — and if none of them holds anyone, the room may be doing a job nobody wants done there.
Open Lab Bench

What is the first reversible move? It works on the room you have open; with none open, it offers a worked room to start from.

A worked room with this problem

Basement doing two jobs that cannot hear each other

Unmeasured. The television and the homework are in the same room.

Comfort looks like the governing problem. One reversible split.

See how this room was worked out

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