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Draw a house you'd like to live in
How to draw a house simple: a square with a triangle on top, right? Then the questions start — pitched or flat roof, chimney or not, door in the middle or at the side, how many windows. The house you drew as a kid is the one your hand still draws, and the differences hint at where each of you grew up.
What the engine watches
A house is built from several strokes, so the shape dimension looks at the overall silhouette overlap along with stroke count, proportions and symmetry. Roof-first versus walls-first people also diverge in the stroke dimension. A drawing built from several strokes. Compares stroke count, aspect ratio and symmetry; a single short line doesn't count. Whether you build a house from a triangle plus a square or draw it in one go decides everything.
How people usually draw it
The most common is the storybook house: a square, a triangle roof, a door in the middle and a window on each side. Next comes the trapezoid roof with a chimney and a curl of smoke. Some push the door to one side with a single big window, and some draw the whole outline as a one-stroke pentagon. Chimneys split roughly fifty-fifty.
How to sync better
Draw the house you drew at eight and stop there: square, triangle, door, two windows. Skip the chimney, garden and anything you'd hesitate over. Deciding "walls first" or "roof first" out loud lines up the stroke order too.
A little trivia
The House-Tree-Person test, published by psychologist John Buck in 1948, asks people to draw a house and reads their state of mind from how they do it; it's still used in clinical settings today.
FAQ
Should I draw a chimney?
It's about fifty-fifty, so either way is a bet. If unsure, skip it — fewer strokes, and a smaller loss if you mismatch.
Do windows and doors need to match exactly?
If the overall silhouette and stroke count are close, slightly different window positions still score well. Roof shape and whether there's a door matter more.