TIANLICHUJU — PERSONAL VERIFICATION WORKSHEET
A Small Home with Enough Space to Be Alone Together
https://tianlichuju.com/journal/a-small-home-with-enough-space-to-be-alone-together/

PROPOSED CHECKS — NO MEASURED RESULTS SUPPLIED
Date: __________________  Units: __________________
Room / product reference: __________________

1. The actual interruption
Where: The occupied reading, screen or work position at the time the problem occurs.
Record: Whether the issue is a sightline, speech, another source of sound or an expectation to interact.
Your observation: ______________________________________________
Interpretation: Those problems are different and do not share a single partition solution.
Alternative: Change the orientation or routine before commissioning a divider.

2. Boundary at occupied height
Where: From both seats and the standing route beside a stable visual mockup.
Record: What is concealed, what remains visible and how the window and controls can still be reached.
Your observation: ______________________________________________
Interpretation: A floor outline cannot establish the experience of a vertical screen.
Alternative: Reduce or move the boundary if it captures light or blocks access.

3. Parallel activity
Where: Both proposed zones used at once, with normal local lamps and required equipment.
Record: Repeated crossings, lamp intrusion and whether either activity must be packed away for the other.
Your observation: ______________________________________________
Interpretation: A visual trial cannot certify confidential speech privacy.
Alternative: Use another location, schedule or properly assessed acoustic separation where needed.

PRACTICAL TRIAL
1. Give both activities appropriate seating instead of assigning one to an uncomfortable leftover spot.
2. Test window treatments with the boundary in place during daylight and evening use.
3. Agree which interruptions need a spatial change and which need a household routine.

COMPARE THE SAME SCOPE
- Same simultaneous activities
- Actual boundary height and fixing
- Window and service access
- Reversible versus permanent separation
Cost drivers: Stability and installation requirements; Material and light transmission; Any genuine acoustic design scope
Choose another route when: This visual-zoning approach is insufficient where uninterrupted concentration or confidential calls require sound separation that a screen cannot provide.

EVIDENCE BOUNDARY
No acoustic test or confidential-call assessment was performed. A photograph of a divider is not evidence that it isolates speech or creates another room.

PHOTO REFERENCE
A white table and mixed seating positions occupy a bright room, with another seating area further back.
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Stylish_meeting_room_(Unsplash).jpg

DECISION CONDITIONS
choose: Choose separate activity positions when both can be occupied at the same time with workable routes, light and controls, and the available privacy matches what each activity actually requires.
alternative: Use different times or an existing closable room when simultaneous activities need quiet or confidentiality that furniture zoning cannot provide within the shared space.
stop: Stop describing a low divider or soft furnishing as sound isolation when private calls or transmitted noise remain unresolved; change the operating agreement or investigate an appropriate building intervention.

PUBLISHED REFERENCES
YourHome: Noise Control
https://www.yourhome.gov.au/live-adapt/noise-control
YourHome explains that sound can pass through walls and floors and through flanking paths in building assemblies. Absorbing sound within a room is a different task from preventing transmission. A visual divider may mark separate positions, but it should not be presented as evidence that a confidential call cannot be heard nearby.
Scope: This guidance distinguishes acoustic mechanisms; it does not rate a proposed divider, certify speech privacy or supply a measured result for an occupied home.
Photographer: Breather breather
Licence: CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/deed.en

Notes: ________________________________________________________