# The Lines Before the House

## What a wireframe keeps

A wireframe is a drawing of a room that has not been built. It shows where the door will be, where a person will sit, where the light is meant to fall. It does not pretend to be the room. On the third of November, the trees already look a little like that: branches with the leaves gone, the shape of the year still standing. wireframes.md can be that kind of place. A quiet page for the first true lines. Not the finished surface. The decision underneath it.

## Choosing what holds

Before color, we have to choose what carries weight. A title near the top says, this matters first. A wide empty space says, wait. A small note in the corner says, you can ignore this until you need it. Those choices are a kind of care. They keep a reader from getting lost. They keep a maker from hiding a weak idea under polish. Plain structure is not cold. It is how we tell the truth early, while changing our minds is still cheap and kind.

## Rooms we have not entered

I think of a person sketching boxes on paper at a kitchen table, tea going cold, trying to see whether a thought has a front door. The boxes are almost nothing. Still, someone could already walk through them in the mind and feel whether the house would be welcoming. That is enough for a beginning. Leave the walls unfinished a while. Name the rooms. Then, when the color comes, it will have somewhere honest to rest.

*The first lines are a promise: we will not decorate what we have not yet understood.*