Eleven guest rooms, a small reception and a breakfast area, for an owner who had a carpenter and a builder already engaged.
We designed one room completely instead of eleven rooms roughly. Every dimension in it was resolved: the bed position against the window, the wardrobe depth at six hundred millimetres rather than the five hundred and fifty the carpenter proposed, because a hanger is five hundred and ten wide and a fifty millimetre saving makes the wardrobe useless. The luggage shelf at a height a suitcase actually fits under. A socket beside the bed on each side, which sounds trivial and is the most common complaint in guesthouse reviews.
Then we drew the joinery to the carpenter's sheet sizes, which meant the parts nested onto eight foot by four foot board with little waste. That was worth about nine sheets across the project and it took an afternoon.
The reception and breakfast area were the harder problem, because the space was too small for both and the owner wanted both. What worked was a counter that is a breakfast serving point in the morning and a reception desk the rest of the day, drawn at both heights until one worked for both.
Six weeks. The owner used the same room drawing for a second property two years later.