# Working on the Samford Valley home

Read README.md, docs/PROJECT-CONTEXT.md, docs/REQUEST-HISTORY.md and the latest decision record before editing.

- Current model: blender/samford-solarpunk-buddha-garden-tour.blend, version 006.
- The table-tennis deck was explicitly removed. Do not restore it from older scenes.
- Future child/dwelling pavilions remain ghost outlines. The one built small pavilion is a meditation room.
- Preserve the detailed kitchen, reading library, bedroom sleep setup, sauna, shower, solar, tanks, Starlink, homelab, Tesla garage, training and food-growing features.
- Keep new layout geometry, plan coordinates, fast display copies, tour cameras and captions consistent.
- Blender collections: DETAIL is full editable render geometry; FAST TOUR is the simplified viewport. A hidden DETAIL collection can have stale matrix_world values during scripting; explicitly construct transforms or evaluate the collection before applying them.
- Incremental source scripts depend on particular prior models. Do not run the whole script history against the current scene; it would duplicate or misplace geometry. Read each script and choose its expected starting model first.
- Validate saved .blend content and inspect actual renders before claiming a scene edit is finished.
- Store a dated decision and a Git commit for intentional revisions. Preserve earlier model versions unless a cleanup is explicitly requested.
- Marcus authorised making the repository, working files and design context public. The separate website gallery contains selected images and concept notes.
- This is an illustrative, unsurveyed concept. Do not label materials, engineering, equipment loads, costs or property compliance as verified when they are not.
- No need to create Linear issues unless Marcus explicitly asks.

- Current water storage is a container-style enclosure with two sealed internal tanks. Do not restore the old exposed cylinders from earlier scene files.

- Preserve the garden Buddha north of the meditation room and its chapter 31 tour stop. Latest scene is version 006.

- Bedroom bed is to be built into the wall, rigid and quiet, not a free-standing frame. Recorded in decisions/2026-09-11-bed-wall-integrated.md and still to be modelled.