Clear paths, doors and gates.

If three generations share the house, this is the same plan with the grandparents written in.

In a house with a grandparent, a toddler and a dog, the risk isn't temperament. It's a hallway with no rule attached to it, and a dog who is genuinely friendly moving at speed.

This is the household design part: whose route comes first, which doors hold, where the gates go, and what happens when someone can't get out of the way.

  • their path first — rooms and routes
  • off-limits spaces as real rules
  • control first, think second
  • the hidden workload
  • how far the response climbs
  • what children must never do
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