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10 Tip Creating Home Interior Japanese Style (Part 2)


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6) Japanese Style Furniture

Japanese home uses furniture for specific uses such as lounge / TV room, which we can still emulate. Japanese furniture, mostly at the level of the floor.


7) The principle of Japanese Design: Minimalist

Japanese design principle is clean and minimalist. How do I get a design that is aesthetically pleasing but still have a lot of furniture? The trick is to create a simple and neat design. Furniture should have modern, neat, and made of natural wood. Angular and modern lighting. Or you can mimic the style of Japanese lanterns. All must have a purpose and a place. Try to learn Feng Shui for interior design is minimalist.


8) Outer Space and Natural Lighting is key

Natural lighting meets Japanese houses, bringing the quiet scenery and natural colors. How can light up the house? Wide windows and vents such as skylights, is a good way to enter the light in your home. Heavy curtain is not recommended. Try to create a window without any hindrance. However, you can create a lattice of bamboo. Natural lighting, is the right way to illuminate your home.

9) Color-Color Natural

Japanese house adopt simple natural colors. Colors dominate the color of the wood and plants. Wooden floors or gray, and the wall was replaced by a screen wrapped in transparent paper. As a result, a very neutral color palette. Do not forget to place the plants. Simplicity is the key to choosing a color palette. View outside the house, the natural color what you can insert into your house.


10) Create a Meditation Room

Let's create a quiet space to meditate, drink tea, or doing yoga. Find a quiet place in your home and do not forget to add a natural element, in order to conceal the noise disturbing. Paint your house with green or brown, add plants, play soothing music, and yes, you have to have a Zen room.

To mimic the Japanese style in your home, imitate cleanliness, simplicity and a minimalist design the space in your home. Add elements of nature, plants, natural lighting, modern furniture, the water element, bathtub yagn in, cushion floors, doors or sliding screen, a room for meditation, and the colors of nature. All these elements will make your home reflect the nuance of Japanese culture and love for nature.

10 Tip Creating Home Japanese Interior Style (Part 1)






One word sums it all up: Zen. Simple peaceful atmosphere of Japanese culture. Japanese architecture and interior looks very distinctive with a clean character, hold the principle of balance, order, custom, and natural beauty. The question is, can we use it to create peace and harmony in our homes? Let's look at 10 ways to adopt the Japanese style to your home.

1) Add Natural Elements

The best way to create a strong relationship with nature is: bring nature into the home atmosphere! Try adding a Japanese traditional plants like bonsai and bamboo into your home. Add other crops as well. You can try palms or orchids. Not unusual for a Japanese house to lay flowers, colorful, so, whatever plants you choose, choose a simple, natural, and green. Japanese house also has a large window that can incorporate natural scenery from all sides. Like the bedroom below, have sliding glass doors that create a natural view.


2) Bath to Bath: Important!
Natural sound of frothing water can make your ears meditate and create a soothing effect. Like the plants, the water element is very important in Japanese homes. Ofuro, which means bathing in Japanese, is a tradition that you can apply at home. Japanese bath in a small but deep and usually have a chair to sit down. This method is a fusion of East and West and to create a spa in your home.


3) The door or Screen Slide

The original Japanese called Shoji screens. Shoji is an important design element in Japanese homes. Because home prices are expensive, Japanese houses tend to be small and many people who rent an apartment, so, to preserve every inch persedi in space is important. Unlike doors, Shoji shifted so as to save space. This screen is usually made of transparent paper on a wooden frame. However, the modern version of this screen can be found online and are usually made of glass panels in a wooden grid. Unlike a regular door, this screen does not block the natural light and the views. Try changing your door with a sliding glass door panel.


4) Element Wood and Bamboo
One way to create harmony with nature is to add the element of wood in the house. Japanese culture is very popular with the use of wood in the house. Walls, doors, screen grids and frames made from natural wood. Wood is commonly used in the West is maple, cypress, hemlock, and red pine. Bamboo can also be used as decorative elements. Wood texture can also be seen in various parts of the Japanese home. Try to take the Japanese wood elements into your home by adding a bamboo floor or wooden screen.

5) Entrance

The entrance is in Japan called genkan. This is an area to welcome guests and put on shoes and replace them with slippers. The entrance has a shelf or cabinet, called getabako for storing shoes. Look, the entrance is designed with a simple, wooden elements, and natural lighting. The stone floor is also very popular, especially at the entrance. Try to imitate the cleanliness of the entrance of Japanese house.

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