Wednesday, January 11, 2012

Influences on Japanese interior design

The infant mortality rate and lowest life expectancy is greater, Japanese citizens are some of the healthiest in the world. A 127.3 million people live in only 144,689 square miles - just a little "smaller than the state of California. High population density has led to limited living space, resulting in a clean, neat interiors Japanese houses.

The rooms are designed for different purposes, making the most of each square. Shoji Screens, Shoji, and a paper cut in intricate designs of socks, can be folded and the next day as a divider in the night, changing the layout of living spaces, as required.

Furniture, too, is structured for flexibility so as not to take a firm stand. For example, the traditional Japanese beds - essentially a mattress and a blanket (called Kake-buton), which are scheduled in the morning, then sleep for other purposes during the waking hours are used - futon.

Japanese furniture is minimized, and some selections are carefully chosen for the function. Beauty is in the work by hand carefully detailed each room, usually found in natural materials. Popular base for high quality furniture in wood, rice straw, bamboo and silk. Tansu Japanese style refers to the offices are a favorite of collectors around the ancient world. These woods are usually exceptional, including Japanese cypress (hinoki), elm (Keyaki), chestnut (Kuri) and cedar (Sugi) were prepared. Wooden coffee table, kotatsu, are often the center of the Japanese family as an integrated heating element makes them perfect for sharing a meal or to warm a chilly night.

The interiors are subtle neutral colors in soft shades of brown, black, cream and gray. Sometimes bright accents to blue and red colors bring a lot of attention to detail is of particular importance. The light is very popular and made its way into homes with speakers such as paper and screen printing.

Clean lines and elegant, a brand of Japanese furniture, exquisite objects displayed in a few to get the maximum effect. Typically, seasonal decorations and works of art are alone, displayed, so there are no distractions to interrupt the admiration of visitors. Some examples might traditional ikebana, flowers and leaves in well-organized precious vases hanging scrolls of calligraphy or bonsai. Small niches, known as the tokonoma, offer ideal places to display individual items.

The rugs are rare in Japanese homes, the view, instead of the mat. They are made of rice straw and be in standard sizes, making it a 6 or 8 tatami rooms to describe the fields.

Japanese design tradition and enjoy popularity in the United States. The combination of beauty and functionality, not to mention minimalism provide a sense of order in the chaos of everyday life.

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