# REGISTER: lived-in and warm. Ten standalone seed cards (LV01-LV10). All original writing.
# Block format: '## ID | Name' then 'key: value' lines. See build.py for the schema.

## LV01 | Hanoi Front-Room Hours
fit: portable
register: lived-in
capsule: An imagined Hanoi of tall, deep houses whose front rooms belong to the street and the family at once: humid warmth, a table that does every job, and a glamour that arrives like weather and finds the household entirely unflustered.
prompt: Imagine a Hanoi of tall, narrow houses that run deep from a busy street, where the front room is a workplace by day and a family room by evening and nobody pretends the two lives are separate. Let the air be humid and warm, the light arriving thin from the doorway and thickening toward a court at the back. Give the work the intimacy of people who know each other's footsteps on the stairs: surfaces polished by hands, a rhythm of calls, engines, cooking and rain that never quite settles. Warmth here is not decoration but evidence of long, shared use. Let adult life show in how people dress for one another, how a late visitor is read in the first glimpse at the threshold, and how privacy is made from timing and courtesy rather than walls. Discover how a house this narrow can feel generous, and let it stay entirely itself when someone astonishing steps in from the street.
arrival: A woman in a column of emerald silk, come in out of the rain to ask one question and staying for the answer, would turn the front room into a stage without displacing anyone. The house has always received strangers, and it keeps its authority by offering her a low seat as though it were a throne.
contrast: the way a household makes room at its table for whoever turns up
tags: narrow deep houses; street-facing family rooms; humid warmth; shared stairs; privacy by courtesy; domestic stagecraft
setting: indoor
climate: humid, temperate
scale: room, building
fantastical: no
assumes: -
region: southeast-asia
warmth: warm
tempo: measured
brightness: mixed
suits: home, shop, cafe, restaurant, guesthouse, workshop
avoid: camp, hut, mountain-lodge, observatory

## LV02 | Tbilisi Balcony Supper
fit: portable
register: lived-in
capsule: An imagined Tbilisi of carved wooden balconies hung over a shared courtyard, where a long supper turns neighbours into an audience and a late guest into an honour: vine shade, polished stairs, answered toasts, and warmth with room for drama.
prompt: Imagine a Tbilisi hillside of houses leaning into one another, their carved wooden balconies looking down into a courtyard that belongs to everyone and no one. Let a vine do the work of a roof, let the stairs be steep and polished by decades of feet, and let the whole arrangement remember how many suppers it has held. Warmth is a social craft here: long tables, a rhythm of toast and reply, singing that begins without anyone deciding. Give the work the pleasure of being watched from above and welcomed from below, of overheard laughter, drying cloth and lamplight, a stranger's heels carried across old stone. Let the weathering be affectionate rather than neglectful: paint remembered in layers, timber softened, a repair chosen for love over match. Beneath the generosity, allow a quiet adult intensity, so that one late arrival can change the temperature of the whole yard.
arrival: A tall woman in black silk with bare shoulders, arriving after dark and pausing at the head of the courtyard stair, is seen by every balcony at once. Hospitality here treats an unexpected guest as an honour, so her entrance is a surprise the yard has always had room for.
contrast: a courtyard that sings itself awake, with strangers fed first and questioned later
tags: carved balconies; shared courtyard; vine shade; answered toasts; watched from above; affectionate weathering
setting: either
climate: temperate, hot
scale: room, building, estate
fantastical: no
assumes: -
region: caucasus
warmth: warm
tempo: measured
brightness: mixed
suits: courtyard, terrace, guesthouse, restaurant, apartment, shared-house, bathhouse
avoid: cable-car-station, airport, laboratory

## LV03 | Prairie Kitchen Light
register: lived-in
capsule: An imagined Midwestern farm kitchen at the end of a long road in winter: frosted glass, a table that has seen every verdict, banked heat against enormous dark, and a porch light that makes whoever stands in it look like news.
prompt: Imagine a farmhouse kitchen on a flat white horizon, the only lit room for miles at the end of a long road. Let winter press against the windows while the room answers with steam, stove heat and the smell of a day's cooking. Give the work the sturdy gravity of a table that has hosted weddings, auctions, quarrels and recoveries, and the particular softness of surfaces worn by decades of forearms. The light should be local and low, collecting at the table and thinning toward corners, with the huge sky always present in the dark glass. Let thrift and generosity live together here, and let adult emotion be spoken in small practical acts: a chair pulled out, a cup refilled, a coat taken without comment. Discover how a plain, hard-working room can hold anticipation, and how everything in it turns to look when headlights cross the snow.
arrival: A woman in a long coat with a fur collar, stepping out of a car that is plainly wrong for the road and into the porch light, makes the kitchen into a theatre without altering a thing. The weather explains her; the room's authority makes her look as though she was always expected.
contrast: the steady warmth of one lit room against an enormous cold dark
tags: winter farm kitchen; steam and stove heat; worn table; low local light; huge dark sky; practical tenderness
setting: indoor
climate: cold, temperate
scale: room, building
fantastical: no
assumes: -
region: north-america-midwest
warmth: warm
tempo: slow
brightness: dim
suits: farmhouse, cottage, cabin, restaurant, cafe, diner, guesthouse
avoid: pool-terrace, beach-platform, lido, airport

## LV04 | Gulf Porch Evening
register: lived-in
capsule: An imagined Gulf-coast porch at the hour a thunderstorm decides: ceiling fans turning the heavy air, screens ticking with insects, ice melting in glasses, and a long public-private stage between the road and the house.
prompt: Imagine a deep screened porch on a Gulf-coast evening, the day's heat still in the boards and a thunderstorm gathering over the water. Let the air be thick and sweet, the fans turning slowly, the light going green and gold as the sky lowers. The porch is neither inside nor out: it belongs to the family and also to the road, and everyone passing is part of the performance. Give the work the ease of long habit, with seats arranged by decades of conversation, paint weathered to a chalky softness, and a sound-world of cicadas, screen doors, distant thunder and a radio in another room. Warmth here is courtesy raised to an art, and courtesy can carry heat. Let cloth cling a little in the humidity, let a gesture linger, and let the whole structure lean toward whoever comes up the steps.
arrival: A woman in white linen, stepping from a car at the first fat drops of rain and crossing the steps at exactly the pace of the weather, finds the porch already turned toward her. The storm gives her a reason to arrive and the screens give everyone a reason to look.
contrast: a long threshold between road and house where everyone is both audience and cast
tags: screened porch; ceiling fans; storm light; courteous heat; weathered boards; road as audience
setting: outdoor
climate: humid, hot
scale: room, building
fantastical: no
assumes: -
region: north-america-south
warmth: warm
tempo: slow
brightness: dim
suits: porch, farmhouse, cottage, guesthouse, bungalow, restaurant, villa
avoid: mountain-lodge, observatory, cable-car-station, sauna-house

## LV05 | Swahili Roof-Terrace Dusk
register: lived-in
capsule: An imagined coral-stone house on an East African coast, its carved door opening onto a lane and its roof terrace opening onto the sea wind: lime-washed warmth, evening visits across rooftops, and household life kept at the pitch of a salon.
prompt: Imagine a coral-stone house in a coastal lane where a deeply carved door opens into cool rooms and a stair climbs to a roof terrace over the sea. Let the walls be lime-washed and a little uneven, the floors worn smooth, the windows small and deep, and the air full of the sound of boats, shutters and evening greetings carried from roof to roof. Give the work a rhythm of retreat and emergence: the house is quiet and shaded until dusk, and then everyone climbs toward the breeze. Let warmth be hospitality practised daily and well: cushions, lamps, low voices, the sense that the afternoon's rest has earned the evening's company. Allow the sea wind to move cloth and carry scent, and let adult curiosity move between rooftops as easily as talk. The house should feel old without being a museum and full without being crowded.
arrival: A woman in a gown the colour of the last light, climbing the stair to the roof as the lamps come on, is seen from three neighbouring terraces at once. In a lane that has always received travellers by sea, a spectacular guest is simply the latest tide, which is why she can command the roof.
contrast: the evening migration from cool shuttered rooms to a breezy roof of lamps and voices
tags: coral-stone house; carved door; roof terrace; sea wind; lime-washed rooms; rooftop visiting
setting: either
climate: hot, humid
scale: building
fantastical: no
assumes: height
region: east-africa
warmth: warm
tempo: slow
brightness: mixed
suits: villa, guesthouse, rooftop-deck, terrace, courtyard, apartment, retreat-lodge
avoid: cable-car-station, mountain-lodge, hut, camp

## LV06 | Budapest Courtyard Flat
register: lived-in
capsule: An imagined Budapest flat on the gallery of a tall courtyard building: a tiled stove, high doors that stick, piano heard through a floor, and grandeur kept on a careful budget by someone who refuses to apologise for it.
prompt: Imagine a flat on the second gallery of a tall Budapest courtyard building, reached by a stair worn into shallow dishes and a gallery that lets every neighbour see who is coming. Let the rooms be high and slightly too large for the heating, with a great tiled stove, doors that stick, plaster moulding thinned by repeated repainting, and windows that look both into the courtyard and out at the city. Give the work the pleasure of faded grandeur maintained with wit: a good lamp in a poor corner, music through the floor, a table that serves as desk, dinner and confessional. Let the building be a small society of overheard lives. Keep the mood warm, dry-humoured and a little defiant, with adult feeling carried by the way people dress for no reason, cook for two when one is expected, and leave a light on in a window for the courtyard to see.
arrival: A woman in a floor-length gown ascending the gallery stair, her heels announcing her floor by floor, makes every door along the courtyard open an inch. The building has seen opera nights and ruined fortunes in equal measure, so she seems both impossible and entirely in character.
contrast: grandeur maintained with wit on a careful budget, lit from the courtyard side
tags: courtyard gallery; tiled stove; faded grandeur; music through floors; dry humour; overheard lives
setting: indoor
climate: cold, temperate
scale: room, building
fantastical: no
assumes: -
region: central-europe
warmth: warm
tempo: slow
brightness: dim
suits: apartment, townhouse, studio-apartment, shared-house, loft, cafe, bar
avoid: beach-platform, pool-terrace, lido, fairground
fit: portable

## LV07 | Helsinki Lakeside Long Evening
register: lived-in
capsule: An imagined summer house on a Finnish-feeling lake at the hour that will not end: pale timber, a wood-heated bathhouse by the water, light lingering past midnight, and the gentle drama of people who show feeling in how they set a table.
prompt: Imagine a timber summer house on a northern lake in the long season when the evening lingers until it becomes morning. Let the light be pale gold and blue, the water unnaturally still, the wood warm in the low sun and silvered where weather reaches it. Give the work an outdoor-indoor life: a bathhouse by the shore breathing steam, a jetty that is also a stage, doors left open so that rooms and birch trees converse. Warmth here is understated and exact, expressed in a well-laid table, a quilt thrown over a chair, a fire lit without comment. Let adults move between cold water and soft cloth, between silence and sudden laughter, and let the unending daylight make every glance feel slightly more exposed than usual. The place should be modest in scale, immaculate in feeling, and ready for an evening in which nothing is said and everything is understood.
arrival: A woman in a pale long dress, stepping from a small boat onto the jetty at midnight in full daylight, looks like something the lake produced for the occasion. Midsummer gatherings draw guests by every route, so her arrival is surprising in manner and perfectly plausible in cause.
contrast: light that will not end and a jetty that is also a stage
tags: lakeside timber house; endless dusk; shore bathhouse; open doors; understated warmth; exposed glances
setting: either
climate: cold, temperate
scale: room, building, estate
fantastical: no
assumes: water
region: northern-europe
warmth: warm
tempo: slow
brightness: bright
suits: cottage, cabin, boathouse, sauna-house, bathhouse, retreat-lodge, farmhouse, villa
avoid: casino, bowling-alley, roller-rink, cable-car-station
fit: portable

## LV08 | Highland Adobe Hearth
fit: portable
register: lived-in
capsule: An imagined Andean house of thick earth walls and small deep windows, thin bright air outside and a hearth within: woven colour as warmth, long meals after longer roads, and a household that treats arrival as an event.
prompt: Imagine a highland house of thick earthen walls, the air outside thin and brilliantly clear, the sky enormous and the nights bitterly cold. Inside, let a hearth do the work of a sun. The windows are small and deep, the floors cool and polished by feet, the walls holding handprints and the soft undulation of repair. Give the work the logic of altitude: rooms shaped by warmth, thresholds that hold a coat, a table close to the fire, colour that arrives in woven cloth and painted doors like a second climate. Let adult life gather round the hearth in long meals and long silences, in the exchange of news from the valley, in the quiet satisfaction of a house that has been warm for a very long time. Imagine, rather than copy, a place where weather is serious and welcome is more so.
arrival: A woman in a coat of unexpected, brilliant colour, arriving at altitude after hours on the road with her breath still smoking in the doorway, makes the whole house straighten. Valley weddings and feasts send travellers to every door, so her entrance is a surprise the household has always been ready to receive.
contrast: a small bright fire against a very large cold, with colour worn like a second climate
tags: thick earth walls; hearth warmth; thin bright air; woven colour; long meals; weather taken seriously
setting: indoor
climate: cold, arid
scale: room, building
fantastical: no
assumes: -
region: andes
warmth: warm
tempo: slow
brightness: mixed
suits: cottage, cabin, farmhouse, guesthouse, retreat-lodge, mountain-lodge, restaurant
avoid: pool-terrace, beach-platform, lido, rooftop-deck

## LV09 | Cedar Cabin in Rain
fit: portable
register: lived-in
capsule: An imagined cedar house above a ferry cove in the Pacific Northwest: rain on every surface, wet wool steaming by the stove, a window full of fog, and the intimacy of a small warm room that the weather has made entirely private.
prompt: Imagine a cedar house on a wooded slope above a ferry cove, with rain falling steadily on the roof, the porch and the tall dark trees. Let the interior glow with lamplight and stove heat, the timber smelling faintly sweet, a wet coat steaming gently on a hook, the window a pane of moving fog. Give the work the self-sufficiency of a place that is used to being cut off by weather: shelves of provisions, a table pushed to the window, a bed or chair that faces the view. Let the rain provide a score, with horns from the water and the drip of gutters. The mood is intimate and unhurried, and the room's modest size is its luxury. Adult feeling gathers in what is left unsaid across a stove, in towels offered, in the way a fogged window turns the world outside into a private screen.
arrival: A woman in a red coat, off the last ferry with rain jewelling her hair and no sensible reason to be on this slope, turns a small wet porch into an entrance. Cancelled sailings and missed connections explain almost anything here, so her glamour has the perfect alibi.
contrast: a small stove-lit room privately sealed by weather
tags: cedar house; rain score; stove and lamplight; fogged window; ferry horns; weather-made privacy
setting: either
climate: cold, temperate
scale: room, building
fantastical: no
assumes: -
region: north-america-northwest
warmth: warm
tempo: slow
brightness: dim
suits: cabin, cottage, retreat-lodge, guesthouse, boathouse, sauna-house, cafe, bookshop
avoid: pool-terrace, beach-platform, lido, casino

## LV10 | Manila Sunday Table
register: lived-in
capsule: An imagined Manila family compound on a Sunday afternoon: a table that grows as people arrive, pearl-lit windows, electric fans, rain pending, and a household whose warmth is organised and whose gossip is a form of love.
prompt: Imagine a family compound in Manila on a Sunday, a tall old house with a newer addition and a yard where the day's cooking spills outside. Let the long table be the centre of the world, growing chairs as guests arrive, while fans stir the humid air and light glows through shell-paned windows like the inside of a pearl. Give the work a rhythm of arrivals, greetings, platters, teasing, naps, and an afternoon shower that sends everyone indoors. Let generations overlap: elders holding court, adults in the middle of their lives, a house organised around making room. Warmth here has logistics, and the logistics are a kind of romance. Allow the heat to cling to cloth, voices to rise and fall like weather, and one quiet adult exchange across a crowded table to feel more charged than all the noise around it. The house should look well-loved and slightly overfull.
arrival: A woman home from abroad in a superbly cut dress, stepping into the yard with a gift and a flawless smile, turns the Sunday table to face her. Homecomings are the house's favourite genre, and its authority lies in making a stranger-glamorous guest sit down, eat and become family.
contrast: a table that lengthens by itself as people arrive and a house made of room-making
tags: growing table; shell-pane glow; humid fans; afternoon rain; generations overlapping; warmth with logistics
setting: either
climate: hot, humid
scale: building, estate
fantastical: no
assumes: -
region: southeast-asia
warmth: warm
tempo: brisk
brightness: mixed
suits: shared-house, villa, courtyard, restaurant, farmhouse, guesthouse, terrace
avoid: mountain-lodge, hut, camp, observatory
