{"id":573,"date":"2026-05-18T17:56:38","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T17:56:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/good-design-is-like-that.studiopoints.com\/?p=573"},"modified":"2026-05-18T17:56:38","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T17:56:38","slug":"573","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/good-design-is-like-that.studiopoints.com\/?p=573","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>To Be<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"655\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/good-design-is-like-that.studiopoints.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/03-655x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-574\" srcset=\"https:\/\/good-design-is-like-that.studiopoints.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/03-655x1024.jpg 655w, https:\/\/good-design-is-like-that.studiopoints.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/03-192x300.jpg 192w, https:\/\/good-design-is-like-that.studiopoints.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/03-768x1201.jpg 768w, https:\/\/good-design-is-like-that.studiopoints.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/03-982x1536.jpg 982w, https:\/\/good-design-is-like-that.studiopoints.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/03.jpg 1059w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 655px) 100vw, 655px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>My career has primarily been houses, accessory dwelling units currently. But here is the thing I have been staring at, even with small dwellings, it seems that the thing we are tasked with is housing the stuff. The word change from house to dwelling has not been materialized. I mean to decipher this, beginning with the smallest unit. This week I introduce the Snug. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>House:<\/strong> a verb meaning to provide with shelter, to serve as a container.                                                         <strong>Dwell: <\/strong>a verb meaning to live as a resident, to keep the attention directed. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">I don\u2019t need a place where I do nothing\u2026 do I?\u00a0<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/good-design-is-like-that.studiopoints.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/1.3T.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-575\" srcset=\"https:\/\/good-design-is-like-that.studiopoints.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/1.3T.jpg 640w, https:\/\/good-design-is-like-that.studiopoints.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/1.3T-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I don\u2019t need a place where I do nothing\u2026 do I?\u00a0 Snug: In the space between wake and sleep, we dream. At first you may find that nothing happens in your snug. But once you build it and use it, something will happen. The Lost Art of Doing Nothing\u00a0 .\u00a0\u00a0 The Brain at Rest\u00a0 .\u00a0\u00a0 Do Nothing\u00a0 .\u00a0 Niksen\u00a0 .\u00a0 you really don\u2019t need to hear that doing nothing is where creativity rises, but perhaps what you might need to hear is that if you create a space for yourself and then develop a pattern of settling into that space, you might just find that remarkable things begin to happen. Lots of folks and lots of science dive into this. But sometimes it\u2019s the poets that speak most clearly: <em>What we dream becomes where we stand<\/em> (TT Williams, from The Glorians). I have pulled away from learned places and distilled architecture to the essential molecules of place: light and earth. I call it Snug.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"871\" src=\"https:\/\/good-design-is-like-that.studiopoints.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/1.3TH-1024x871.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-576\" srcset=\"https:\/\/good-design-is-like-that.studiopoints.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/1.3TH-1024x871.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/good-design-is-like-that.studiopoints.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/1.3TH-300x255.jpg 300w, https:\/\/good-design-is-like-that.studiopoints.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/1.3TH-768x653.jpg 768w, https:\/\/good-design-is-like-that.studiopoints.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/1.3TH.jpg 1151w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To Be My career has primarily been houses, accessory dwelling units currently. But here is the thing I have been staring at, even with small dwellings, it seems that the thing we are tasked with is housing the stuff. The word change from house to dwelling has not been materialized. I mean to decipher this, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/good-design-is-like-that.studiopoints.com\/?p=573\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[31,153,23,26,65,55,136,53,98],"class_list":["post-573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-architecture-2","tag-dream","tag-gooddesign","tag-herenow","tag-mlrobles","tag-poche-truss","tag-poetry","tag-smallhouse","tag-snug"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/good-design-is-like-that.studiopoints.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/good-design-is-like-that.studiopoints.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/good-design-is-like-that.studiopoints.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/good-design-is-like-that.studiopoints.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/good-design-is-like-that.studiopoints.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=573"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/good-design-is-like-that.studiopoints.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":578,"href":"https:\/\/good-design-is-like-that.studiopoints.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573\/revisions\/578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/good-design-is-like-that.studiopoints.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/good-design-is-like-that.studiopoints.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/good-design-is-like-that.studiopoints.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}