A modern fusion of Oriental beauty – condensed Oriental charm

The more noisy and flashy the outside world, the more the inner desire for peace. In the fast-paced contemporary life, we can’t slow down the whole world, but we can choose a place where we can place our hearts, try to remove the shackles, put down the worries, and slow down and calm ourselves down.

The owner of this case is a couple who love traditional culture, they hope to inject Oriental charm into their home, not the stereotype of Chinese elements, but simple and elegant at the same time, without losing the fresh and brilliant humanistic atmosphere. In addition, they also hope to create a good cultural atmosphere for the children, as well as a relaxed and pleasant parent-child atmosphere and can grow up with two babies. Since both parents occasionally come to live with them, they also want the family to be happy and keep each other company but also have a private and independent space. According to the owner’s conditions, living environment, and planning for the future life, the designer Lin Shanghuai rearranged the structure of the original residence, and finally worked out the most suitable plan for the owner’s family through repeated communication and exchanges, presenting a traditional Chinese style into a modern residential space. The overall space is modern + Chinese style as the main axis, with different materials, lighting, soft decoration, elements, etc., so that it produces scattered changes, with pure lines to outline a rich level, which contains strong humanistic feelings, but also retains the temperature of the home in the modern context.

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Zen dwelling, Zen, is a realm of indifferent fame and wealth and is also a healthy and wise way of life. In the confusion, looking for a Zen residence, more able to save us from the choice of gains and losses, tension and anxiety. The case is to integrate Zen into the details and drops so that residents can feel the exquisite calm and comfort all the time, so that the Oriental charm and people, and the space between is no longer an unattainable sense of distance, but into the existence of daily life.

The living room, as a spiritual miniature of a family, explores a delicate balance between movement and stillness. The distant mountains on the background wall are dim and rocky. It embodies the ink complex engraved in the bones of Chinese people for thousands of years, and also symbolizes the boundless future and soaring. Holly flower art can be seen everywhere, simple utensils, and ornaments, reflecting the indoor Zen elegant rhyme, wash together, back to nature.

The suspended wall between the first and second floors is like an antique token, highlighting a sense of identity and a combination of matter and spirit. Following the concept of “round sky and place” containing Oriental wisdom, it integrates the symmetrical beauty of traditional Chinese style, showing the Chinese people’s respect for nature incisively and vividly, and at the same time, it has no sense of harmony with modern space design. Elegant high-grade gray, gentle wood color, hardwood, and soft cloth form a sharp contrast at the same time, but also in each other. It is also the organic combination of tradition and modernity, East and West, showing a unique emphasis and heritage.

The beauty of simplicity is similar to the simplicity and indifference of “Zen”, and minimalism is to abandon all useless complexity and retain the most primitive and purest life. The designer simplifies the color, lighting, and raw materials to a minimum, breaking the dull and heavy traditional Chinese style, advocating the outline of far-reaching artistic conception with simple lines, integrating contemporary art into the Eastern artistic vision, and condensing a unique and fresh aesthetic of life.

The TV, which can rotate 360 degrees, can act as a partition without affecting the visual extension and the introduction of natural light. One side is a leisure area for family interaction, communication, and entertainment; On one side is the elegant, quiet open tea room. A tea table, a tea set, a few wooden chairs, a world, simple, but can resolve fatigue, wash the soul. As the saying goes: “One tea, one world, one life.” With no cumbersome embellishments and no deliberate carving, it can make the original noisy and disturbed heart settle down between brewing, return to calm, and return to nature.

The aerial design provides a more affluent functional area for the first-floor space and a good lighting effect. The flexible lines move between different materials, making the interaction between people vivid. The ink painting on the wall of the sofa background, in the light and shadow dancing, contrasted with the rotating TV, every move is a quiet scenery. Simple more than complex, less than more, traditional and modern, minimalist and Zen gradually transition, interweave, and finally connect as one.

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Without losing temperature, the design should do “subtraction”, the life should be orderly, but the space should also lose temperature. Considering that the original entrance was too narrow and cramped, the designer re-arranged and transformed it reasonably. Take out the whole foyer and stretch it out. The bedroom adopts the invisible door design, which uses the same material, texture, and color system as the wall to divide the independent space while maintaining visual unity and creating an integrated effect.

Sofas, tables and chairs, coffee tables… Black, white, grey, and wood colors are widely used, giving people a sense of calm and peace of mind. When the white gauze curtain is blown by the wind, the sun pours in from the window, and the eyes are full of elegant and warm gestures.

The semi-open effect of the living room and tea room is “still holding the pipa half covering the face” so that a space can realize more life demands. Here, each family member can find their favorite things and casual interaction, but also let the family’s emotions be more harmonious.

A vegetable, a rice, a dish, and a soup are all life. No matter how many lights are up on the table ordinary but romantic fireworks gas.

As Mr. Qian Zhongshu said in “Writing on the Edge of Life”: “Take a bath, see a flower, eat a meal. If you are happy, it is not because your bath is clean, or the flowers bloom well, or the food is to your taste, but chiefly because your mind is free.”

If you treat each present moment without clutter, you can find purer fun and appreciate more pure beauty. And such a quiet, peaceful, and full of humanistic atmosphere of the residence, is the city of Zen dwelling, but also the pursuit of the spiritual world of a pure land.