Nude Ergonomics in Home Design

This is a thought exercise.
When flipping channels, I ran across some program where a nudist couple was shopping for a house in Florida. My first impression: those couples must either really be made of money, or the housing market in Florida really stinks, or both.
Then another thought occurred to me as the camera panned over beautifully furnished interiors with objects strategically placed to hide the so-called naughty bits. We, meaning society at large, design houses the way early car designers built horseless carriages - remove the horse, slap in an engine somewhere, and you're done. No thinking about the design possibilities once the horse is gone.
Houses are constructed with hard surfaces and sharp edges. Occupants are expected to defend themselves with clothes and shoes.
What if you could start with a blank slate and design a house from the ground up with year-round nudity as a primary consideration? What about applying the same design considerations to the furnishings? What might go into the design?
Some ideas that popped into my head:
* Good insulation - Desirable anyway from an energy point of view, but also so temperatures can be affordably kept warm in winter. Especially important for some of us as we get older.
* Rounded door frames.
* Subfloor heating so tiled and hardwood floors are comfortable to bare feet.
* Padding on table and chair legs to minimize injury if you slam your bare foot into one. (Did that the other day. Ouch!)
* Rounded edges on all tables and countertops, so you can lean against it without leaving a deep indentation.
* If possible, choose materials that do NOT feel like they're sucking all your body heat out of you, i.e., no marble countertops.
Thoughts? Additional ideas?
If there isn't instruction in Nude Ergonomics, there ought to be!

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