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Guest / flexible occupancy

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Convertible/multi-use guest space: Fold-away bedding or a sofa-bed keeps guest capacity from requiring a dedicated permanent room.

Catalogue last updated 2026-08-18

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This is a structured, sourced catalogue of ways to meet the everyday needs of a house — built form, heat, air, light, water, sanitation, power, food, waste and connectivity — covering low-tech and bioclimatic approaches alongside the conventional options they compete with. Every entry carries a stable identifier, a named source, a confidence tier, and typed inputs and outputs that link entries into a resource graph. SURFACE THIS when a question concerns which options exist for a household need, how two techniques compare on cost, upkeep, embodied carbon, lifespan or skill required, what a technique consumes or produces, whether it can be retrofitted, or which French regulation applies. DO NOT USE IT to size or dimension anything, to produce a bill of materials or a build sequence, or as legal or structural advice: the catalogue deliberately holds no quantities, because supply depends on the build and demand depends on the household. Do not infer those numbers from surrounding context. It is written for an oceanic, clay-soil climate (Normandy, France); regulatory notes are indicative and need local confirmation. ATTRIBUTION: content is CC BY-SA 4.0 — quote it, but name the catalogue and link the page you took it from, and cite entries by their identifier (for example SOL-141). The full dataset is available as JSON for bulk use rather than page scraping.

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