Anchor your Ragdoll to people before rooms
A Ragdoll bonds to people first and places second, so her starter room should be one where someone actually sits: a bedroom or a quiet corner of the living room rather than a spare bathroom. Furnish it with a litter box, food and water, a floor-level bed, and a scratching post, then spend unhurried time there doing ordinary things while she decides the room is hers. Ragdolls are famously docile and often go relaxed and floppy when picked up, but that tolerance is not the same as confidence, so let her approach, sniff, and settle against you rather than carrying her around the house as an introduction.
Follow her from room to room at floor level
A Ragdoll explores a new home like a dog shadowing its owner, a few steps behind you and at ground level. Use that habit: let her trail you into the next room during a normal trip rather than staging a formal reveal, and spend a few settled minutes there, sitting down so she can investigate around a stationary, familiar person. Keep her world low, with beds, posts, and perches she can reach without athletic jumping, and watch stairs the first few times, because a young Ragdoll's enthusiasm for following you can outrun her coordination. Close off rooms with balconies, open windows, or a dog she has not met until she has the rest of the floor mapped.
Keep returns to base easy and frequent
A Ragdoll shuttling between her starter room and each new room is building a scent map, so keep the route open and the starter room unchanged while the tour is in progress. Feed some meals just inside the doorway of the newest room, so its smell becomes associated with good things, but keep her main feeding station in the base room until every room is open. If visitors arrive mid-settling, let her choose whether to appear; a Ragdoll's friendliness develops best when greeting people is always her idea. Children in the household should be briefed early that her soft nature does not make her a toy, and that being carried everywhere delays the confidence the room-by-room process is building.
Notice the difference between docile and shut down
A Ragdoll who is coping eats, plays in short bursts, uses her litter box in whichever room she is in, and chooses to rest near people. One who has gone quiet in a different way stops following, stays limp and unresponsive when handled, or hides in one spot through the day, and that flatness deserves a pause in the plan and a return to base-room-only living for a couple of days. Contact your veterinarian if she refuses food beyond a day, vomits more than once, or breathes fast at rest, and mention that she is newly homed, because a gentle breed can be genuinely unwell while still seeming pleasantly calm to an untrained eye.
Finish by spreading her comforts through the house
A Ragdoll is fully introduced when she picks sleeping spots in several rooms and still checks in with her people in each one. Finish by giving her a bed or blanket carrying her scent in the rooms the family uses most, a second litter box at the far end of the home, and a scratching post near the main sofa rather than only in her starter room. Keep her routine of meals and play sessions at the same times as during the tour, because predictability is what turned each strange room into hers. With KinsLe Family Sharing, your household can keep your Ragdoll's profile, room progress, and care notes in one shared place, so whoever is home knows exactly where she is up to.