Short answer: no. Longer answer: Also, no, but let me explain why I still get asked this every single week. I'll admit something that might sound strange coming from someone who's spent over a decade building a career on "good design." There is no universal rulebook. Not really. What exists instead is a pile of guidelines — some genuinely useful, some outdated, and some that just got repeated so often they started sounding like law. I had a vision for this space: a dining roo