Want to redesign your home? Try Japanese design. Well, the common aspect of Japanese design is simplicity: cleanliness, pure shapes and uncluttered spaces.
The fact is, we all resort to concrete or steel as our material of choice but Japanese home-building would prefer wood. Wood is never painted though because the Japanese believes, wood itself is a decoration.
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Bamboo a group of woody perennial evergreen plants is also used because of their strength and durability. It is also lightweight and is very suitable to be used for a ceiling, flooring and fences.
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Soshi screen is also a must. This is a wood lattice frame covered up with soshi paper. A soshi paper on the other hand is like a glass since it can diffuse light. Soshi screen can instantly reconfigure a room when slid open or shut. Thus, this can make Japanese houses flexible.
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A flexible environment requires flexible furnishings. Tatami mats are an example. They are portable mats that can be moved around the house. It can be a floor decoration or even a bed mat for your guess.
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Finally landscape in the lawn need to be redesign as well. Try Little Japanese rock garden often called a zen. It is an enclosed shallow sandpit containing sand, gravel, rocks and occasionally grass. One advantage of Zen garden is that it can relieve stress. So whenever you feel tires, just sit and relax in your Zen garden.
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