Dave on Round 1 (2026-09-14): the drawing has to be larger and realistic, an actual house, spanning the width; too much empty space; the Thanksgiving line's wrapping looked bad. So the plan is a real first floor now, drawn to scale across the sheet's full width: a 44 by 32 house with a foyer, a living room with a fireplace, a dining room, a kitchen with an L of counters and an island, a pantry, a mudroom to the attached two-car garage, a powder room, laundry, the stairs going up, a primary suite with its bath and walk-in closet, a front porch on columns and a back deck, with the doors swinging, the windows in the walls, the fixtures drawn, and the dimension strings and the north arrow where a draftsman puts them. The text became the drawing's notes, two columns under the plan. The title block became a strip along the foot, the way a real sheet has one. The drafting hand wraps naturally now, never balanced.
The hard one. Seeded from Brett's listing-blueprint, number 188 on his board. This starts from what a blueprint is: an architect's sheet. Blueprint blue with a faint drafting grid and the paper's grain, a double-line frame inset from the edge. The drawing in white line work, a floor plan or a front elevation, with its walls, doors, windows, room names and dimension lines, drawn in code. The sheet's title under the drawing in a drafting hand, the notes under it in a condensed technical face. A title block in the bottom right corner, ruled like a real one, carrying the lockup, your name, credential and phone, your picture as the approving signature, the sheet number, the date and the county. A revision stamp top right carrying the job.
The hard part. Not the drawing. Carrying a thank-you and a holiday on a blueprint without it turning into a listing gimmick. So the drawing changes with the job: the plan for a tip, the elevation for a market note, the porch drawn large for a thank-you, the table drawn in the dining room for Thanksgiving. Pass or note each by name, and say whether the last two hold.
The sheet
BP-planBlueprint blue, the floor plan, the seller tip. The baseline.BP-whiteThe whiteprint: blue lines on white paper.BP-navyThe kit navy as the sheet.
The drawing
BP-elevThe front elevation instead of the plan.BP-detailA detail callout: the porch drawn large in a circle with its leader line back to the plan.BP-gridNo drawing: the grid, the title large. The minimal sheet.
The stamp and the jobs
BP-redThe revision stamp in red ink, the way a real one is.BP-thanksDear Alyssa, on forest: the plan of her house with the porch hatched.BP-holidayThanksgiving, on burgundy: the plan with the table drawn in the dining room.
Builder: reference-cards/style-8-blueprint/build-blueprint-r2.js in the engine repo. Round 1 is at round-1-blueprint. The seeds page is next-seeds.
