The zones and their assignments
The daily zone earns the best storage: drawers that slide fully out rather than cabinets that swallow, shelving at the band's heart, one-motion access at the sink, shower, and toilet stations for the items each station uses. Drawer hardware matters here, full extension, easy glide, and pulls that weak or wet hands operate, loops and levers over knobs that demand pinch strength.
Controls and outlets are storage's siblings: switches, fan controls, and thermostatic settings pulled into the band; outlets for daily devices at counter-adjacent heights rather than baseboard stoops; and shower controls reachable from outside the spray and from any seat. Towels join the audit, within a wet arm's reach of tub and shower exits, at heights that work for the household's shortest and most limited reachers.
The edges get designed too: heavy items low but not floor-low, sparing backs and balance; medicines and hazards in controlled storage that children cannot reach but their intended users comfortably can, a two-condition test that default cabinets often fail; and lighting inside deep storage so finding is seeing, not archaeology. The result reads as ordinary good design, which is precisely the point.
