You should start to design physical spaces with physical substances, pencil + paper or clay, rather than CAD or floor-planners. The physicality matters, its too easy to constrain yourself on the computer.

I think it enlightening to have a physical record to look back on, too.

By "constrain yourself" I mean CAD/floorplanner software pushes defaults on us. The toolmakers in a way decide what gets built because they decide what's easy to design or not with their software.

This leads to homogenization of of thought. Personality and detail get lost.

So I dislike starting any kind of design from the computer. If it makes some things hard and other things easy, its going to push you around. Paper and pencil let you explore a richer possibility space, even if its just making cut-outs of furniture to move around a room.

Simi and I made the clay model in the first tweet after we mostly finalized our house floorplan and were trying to decide where the driveway should go (we decided against doing what the model shows, and having it on the right side), and how to think about the landscaping