When creating set designs, do I use actor or audience perspective?

Question

The stage is broken into different parts circulating around- center, right, left, downstage, upstage, etc. House of Left and House of Right refer to the perspectives of the audiences, yet Stage Left and Stage Right refer the the actors perspectives on stage.

I have to draw four set designs on A4 paper for each act of the play The Crucible, thus I have had difficulty deciphering which side is left and which side is right on the set design based on not knowing whether I use House Left/Right or Stage Left/Right.

For example one description of the act includes the placement of the window- "There is a narrow window at the left. Through its leaded panes the morning sunlight streams, a candles burns near the bed, which is at the right." Do I put the window on the left of the audience or the actors? Do I put the bed on the right of the audience or the actors?- All based on the creation of a set design. There is no mention in the script whether I use audience or actor perspective, yet I have been told the set design is always the perspective of the director- which happens to be the same as the audience.

So do I put the chair on the left of the audience or actor, whose perspective do I use in the set design?

Thanks.

Answer 1

Stage Left is the left from the stage, from the actor's view facing the audience. Remember it this way: the director (or audience) is looking at a mirror - left is right, right is left.

Answer 2

I'm not a professional and I haven't had any experience drawing set designs, but couldn't you draw it at an angle where you can see everything clearly on that part of the stage?