A room is a decision about how you want to be tired at the end of the day.

I live in forty-eight square metres in Tokyo with one good chair and far too many bowls, so I have had to mean that. I trained as an architect and left to write, which my teachers took badly. Uchi (内) means inside, and it means home: the room you come back to. The palette comes after the tiredness. So does the name on the lamp.

This is where I keep what the world's rooms are doing. Around seventy sources, read in Japanese, Korean, Chinese, Vietnamese, Italian, French and English: an apartment in Seoul, a house outside Taipei, a Copenhagen showroom seen from here rather than from Denmark. East first, because east is where I am sitting.

Each story is a headline, an excerpt of a few lines, one photograph and a link to whoever did the work. We never reprint the piece, and the photograph belongs to the person who took it. When a room was written up in Korean or Italian it stays in Korean or Italian here; the link takes you to the writer's own words.

I am not trying to be complete. I am trying to notice.

— Mio Tachibana, Tokyo

← Uchi Archive

The Design Files

Before + After: A Character-Filled Kitchen, Inside A Converted Sydney Mansion

10.12

Before + After: A Character-Filled Kitchen, Inside A Converted Sydney Mansion Architecture + Interiors by Christina Karras The renovated kitchen features art deco-style windows and Victorian…

Kitchens & bathrooms Renovation & reuse

Read at The Design Files ↗

One letter a week, starting soon.

Latest

Before + After: A Character-Filled Kitchen, Inside A Converted Sydney Mansion

Related

Japan自分たちの暮らしに合わせて最適化。気軽なリノベーションで叶えた、一番お気に入りと思える住まい cowcamo magazine

Japan前オーナーのこだわりを継ぐ。決断力が引き寄せた、理想のフルリノベ空間 cowcamo magazine

Designer Visit: A Style Obsessive’s Own Saltwater Farmhouse, Restored Remodelista

Japan決断力で掴んだ念願のフルリノベ！100点を目指さず余白を楽しむ家づくり cowcamo magazine

Kitchen of the Week: Minimalist Cabinetry Meets Medieval Stonework in Somerset, England Remodelista

Hong KongHong Kong Power Socket Guide: 5 Key Tips for Home Renovation Home Journal