A child’s drawing of a house can reveal which details an architect would never measure.

Children draw what mattered to them, not what is there. The chimney is enormous because of the fire, the window is huge because of what they watched from it, the door is wide because of who came through it. None of that appears on a plan, yet it is a fairly accurate record of how the house was actually lived in. Importance and dimension are different measurements, and only one of them shows up on paper.

If you still have a drawing like that, look at what got exaggerated rather than what got left out. The same trick works on your own memory of a place: notice which rooms come back vivid and which stay blank. That distortion is telling you where the life happened.