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Here is a photo report from a typical Japanese apartment.
More precisely, from an ordinary bathroom in an average Japanese apartment.
The author of photos and text is Natalya Sobolevskaya, who lives in Japan.
I live in a house that was built in 2008. But such a device is typical for many houses under 20 years old (and I have changed five apartments during my stay in Japan and periodically visit). Separately, it should be noted that my apartment is made entirely in European style - I do not have any tatami or sliding walls / cabinets.
This is probably due to the fact that my apartment is small. In multi-room apartments, at least one Japanese-style bedroom is made. And I love them very much. The smell of new tatami is incomparable!
So what do I have at home.
The size of the bathroom was visible in the first photo. The bathtub is small, but normal by Japanese standards. I'm quite compact, but I can't stretch my legs in it either. I really don't like taking baths. So she still stands idle. Suitable only for breeding mold :) In the other two apartments, I had almost full-sized European baths. So there are options. A latch can be seen on the door, with which you can block the door from the inside so that no one can invade the room during the washing process. Shelves are built into the wall, but what kind of woman will need such two small shelves? :) Therefore, everything that does not fit there, I put on the sides of the bathtub and on the floor.
A mirror is attached to the wall. I wash standing up, so most often I look at my knees in it. In general, its height is adjusted taking into account the fact that the Japanese most often wash themselves while sitting on special bath chairs. It can also be seen that there is a special mount for the shower below, for those who wash while sitting.
Standard mixer. The regulator on the right allows you to switch the water supply to the faucet or hose. On the left is the temperature controller. On this regulator, all water with a temperature of up to 40 degrees is indicated in blue, hotter - in red. Some faucets may have degrees stamped on them. Next to the lever there is a button that you need to press if you want to increase the temperature and get more than 40 degrees of boiling water at the outlet. This is apparently done in order to avoid accidental burns. Such mixers are spoiled to the point of impossibility. I get very annoyed if I find myself somewhere where there are separate taps for cold and hot water, and you have to try to get the desired temperature by adjusting the pressure. Either I forgot how to do it, or is it really more difficult if the water is heated with gas, but someone's mother definitely hiccups when I do it :)
Water in the house can be controlled using two computers. The first is installed most often in the kitchen. The display shows the temperature. You can set it yourself, and this will be the maximum temperature at which the water in the apartment will be heated. You can also set 2 separate temperatures. For example, 43 degrees for a bath, and 40 for a shower and kitchen. The computer will regulate the heating itself, depending on where the water is supplied. Since I don't take a bath, I only have one temperature for everything. In winter, it’s good to wash at 41 degrees, in summer it can be hot at 38 degrees :) Here you can also set a timer for taking a bath. When the bath is full, a cute female voice will definitely inform you about it. I wouldn't be surprised if this device can do something else. But I don't seem to need it :)
This computer is installed in the bathroom. Both, by the way, have a button that lights up bright pink. The light is on to indicate that the system is working. By pressing this button, you can turn off the heating. This is used by those who, for example, save money and wash dishes with cold water. Usually the water from the bathroom can be used for washing, but I confess that I have never used this function. Some bathrooms have water heating. You can sip for an hour, and the water will not cool down. This is very convenient when several family members wash one after another. In order to avoid questions, I’ll say right away that no one climbs into the bath dirty. Everyone first washes in the shower on a chair, and then sits down to warm the bones. Therefore, the cases that after someone the dirt floats in the water are excluded. There are also "lids" for the bath, with which you can cover the bath with hot water so that it does not cool down.
There is an extractor switch in the dressing room, which can operate in two modes. In winter, the truth is that no one can cope: if in summer you can not wash the bath for a very long time, then in winter dampness does its dirty work in a week or two, and mold appears in places. The first year in Japan, I still could not understand what kind of pink crap it was. But since we were constantly washing the tub anyway, it didn't bother us.
Toilet. A heated lid is now in almost all relatively new homes. As are air conditioners. In old houses you have to buy your own. It is very convenient that the toilet has a small washbasin. There you can wash your hands with the water, which then in any case will fall into the tank. From the category of economy, there is also a regulator for the amount of flushed water. There is no need to pour out the whole tank every time.
What is on the handle with buttons? Red on/off button. "Wash your hands in front and behind" - this is just about Japanese toilets. You can choose what to wash - front or back. There is a pressure regulator. You can also adjust the temperature of the water and the seat. In winter, the toilet is the warmest part of the Japanese home. You can come, sit and meditate. In summer, it is logical to reduce the temperature to a minimum, in winter to set it to a maximum. In the photo, by the way, you can see the sensor. If you do not close it and do not press down on the lid, the sink will not work. I tried :) The computer is not a fool and understands that no one is sitting. And if you close the sensor, for example, with a foot that presses down on the same lid, then you can still make a fountain :) By the way, this is not the only model of this miracle of technology, so there are options in terms of functionality.
The inscriptions are larger for those who read Japanese and who are very interested :)
By the way, here's what the tubes look like, which are put forward if you order a partial wash. Water will flow at different distances and at different angles, so, apparently, it really makes sense to make 2 separate zones.
In the same place, in the toilet, there is a shield with machine guns. The whole apartment is divided into zones. There are also separate switches for the washing machine and air conditioning.
Connector for washing machine. In Russia, connecting the machine seemed to me something laborious. Those machines do wash with hot water. Maybe that's why. Everything is simple in Japan.
Intercom. I use only two buttons: "Talk" and "Open door". This is quite enough to let guests and various delivery services into the house. The intercom combines the functions security system. While trying to study it, we accidentally pressed a button that sends a message to the control panel of the house manager that an unauthorized entry is being made into the apartment. It was Saturday morning. Until Monday morning, the house manager was not there, and there was no one to turn off the call. For 2 days, during any attempt to open the front door, a siren was heard on the entire floor, and all residents in the house were informed that someone was trying to get into one of the apartments. The PIN code for disconnection was found, but not immediately. On Monday, uncles from the security came and said that there was no need to press anything except the "Talk" and "Open the door" buttons. After that, my research instinct disappeared completely :)
Ventilation in the room. It must be opened if the hood in the bathroom is turned on. Get a draft. If you do not open, then when the hood is on, there will be a whistle. Mold in the bathroom still starts because in the summer you can safely create drafts at least all day, and the apartment dries quickly. In winter, you will think 3 more times before opening all the holes for at least half an hour. There is also a mount for the remote control for the air conditioner. We really lacked this in Russia for the TV remote control. How many we managed to transfer them at home in a few years ...
In the lower right corner you can see a small translucent thing. They are pasted all over the apartment, where any doors and doors could potentially scratch the wallpaper on the walls. Very comfortably!
UPD: they suggest that this is a temperature sensor. 65 is actually the allowable temperature.
After my long-standing blog post about visiting a Japanese family's apartment, I've been asked several times about topics related to apartments - how much do they cost in Japan, what kind of houses are there, etc. Today I will answer some of these questions :-)
1. So, let's start in order .... 
2. A residential mansion in the center of Osaka was chosen as the home for this photo essay. It has not yet been built, but like all Japanese showrooms of residential buildings, it is already partly "embodied" inside this small building. Actually, any new residential building in Japan is sold in such offices: 
3. First, I was shown a movie in a small cozy room, more like a private cinema in the house of an American rich man. The movie told about what a wonderful new building it is, in what environment it is located, etc., etc. I did not take pictures in the cinema hall, so this picture is from the next room. It shows the model of the house itself in great detail: 
4. The model indicates the location of the cardinal points, so that people can roughly imagine where north and south are. The entrance to the house itself is connected to the city metro line passing below: 
5. A small garden will be located in the open area near the house. Adjoining territory for such large houses in Japan, they rarely fence: 
6. The light board shows schematically the location of the house: 
7. Since there are difficulties with earthquakes in Japan, underground parking lots are dug out infrequently. Does it happen or only in very expensive houses, or in shopping malls. In such a plan of new buildings, automatic parking lots are located in the house itself and, as can be seen on the back of the house, rise to the level of the 24th floor: 
8. After the introductory general information the manager gets to the point and takes me to the second floor of the office. Two apartments of different sizes have been created there, completely copying those that will be in the new house. At the entrance to the second floor, you need to take off your shoes, in this case slippers are prepared :-) For children - small: 
9. Everything is done exactly as it will be in a new building. Carpets, panels on the walls - all this will be in the house. Entrance to two-room apartment with total area 64 sq. meters: 
10. Unfortunately, I don’t have a wide lens, so I’ll try to explain what and how with fragmentary photos :-) The picture shows a large room. Of course, all appliances and furniture are not included with the apartment, but are simply placed here for furnishing: 
11. Behind me is a small kitchen. Well, how small - about 5 meters square. It is understood that here they will only cook, not eat: 
12. Video intercom, floor heating control and alarm on the wall at the entrance to a large room: 
13. Another angle to a large room. I don’t know why, but in this sample apartment, the designer made a glass wall between the bedroom and the large room: 
14. The view outside the windows, by the way, is reproduced exactly the same as it will be after the construction of the house: 
15. Balcony. Wide and spacious. A small partition separates the truth from the neighbor's: 
16. Bedroom: 
17. From the bedroom through a small dressing room you can go to the bathroom: 
18. Bathroom. On the left is a place for a washing machine. All storage boxes are already included in the price of the apartment: 
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20. And this is how the actual shower looks like: 
21. Place for reflection :-)))) The toilet control panel on the wall on the left: 
22. Mini Wash Basin: 
23. Hallway. Little things like lighting under the cabinet are also included in the price: 
24. And now let's look at the interiors three-room apartment larger footage, 97 square meters: 
25. I did not photograph the entire apartment, but only some of its parts, but you can get a rough idea :-) The picture shows a small room adjacent to the bedroom: 
26. Bedroom: 
27.
28. And this is a large living room-kitchen with a total area of 40 square meters: 
29.
30. Open kitchen: 
31. Immediately behind the kitchen is a small mini-cabinet - pantry: 
32. Large panoramic windows: 
33. Two washbasins: 
34. TV in the bathroom, if desired, you can install: 
35. The toilet control panel is a little different. Unfortunately, even in a large apartment, the bathroom is still the same: 
36. One of the most important questions is how are these buildings protected from earthquakes? Option two. The first is that the shock-absorbing system is built in the center of the house in the form of a rod to which shock absorbers are attached. The second - shock absorbers are made on a concrete base in the foundation of the house. In this new building, the second option is implemented (on the right). This model clearly shows on the water how everything will shake during a 6-7 magnitude earthquake: 
37. Schematic representation of the damping system against earthquakes: 
38. Also in the photo you can see public areas. The house on the ground floors will house a cafe for apartment owners, a lounge, guest rooms, a gym: 
39. The guest room is another distinctive feature of these Japanese new buildings. For a small fee of $30-60 (depending on the type of room), your guests can stay overnight. It is cheaper than hotels in the area, and the rooms are much more spacious: 
40. Each floor has a special storage room with water, supplies and all sorts of necessary items in case of any unforeseen situations: 
41. Protection of the entire perimeter of the house and inside it is carried out 24 hours a day: 
42. Helipad upstairs in case of unforeseen situations again. The doors to the apartments are made in such a way that they will not warp and they will not become an obstacle during the evacuation: 
43. You can choose the interior colors of your apartment in a special hall. The color of parquet, doors, finishing panels and surfaces can be chosen according to your taste. Finishing included in the price of the apartment: 
44. A small stand showing the multilayer structure of the floor of the apartment. Sound transmission is very low: 
45. On the virtual stand you can see how they will look in reality different variants finishes for different rooms. Compare this picture and the next one: 
46.
47. Or, for example, a large kitchen-living room with decoration .... 
48. And without: 
In short, these are all the photos from this trip :-) What is left behind the scenes ....
On the virtual stand you can see all the details about the house, starting from the view from the window of each (!) apartment on each (!) floor, ending with the shadow that neighboring buildings cast on the house at different times of the day.
At prices for apartments - in this house there are apartments from 40 meters to 150 meters. The most mediocre odnushka in 50 squares will cost about 350 thousand ye, while penthouses cost about 1.5-1.8 million dollars.
Lest you think that these are exorbitant prices, I can say 350 thousand dollars in Osaka is average price odnushki-dvushki 50-60 meters in a new house. Moreover, it is clear that a large footage apartment in this case will be located far from the city center.
Banks give loans for these apartments on different dates but mostly 30 years. Rates - about 1.5-2% per annum! This is even lower than in many American banks.
The average rent in the house - 150-200 dollars a month. Electricity, water and internet are paid separately. The cost of parking depends on what kind of transport you will park. Bicycle for example 3 dollars a month. Motorcycle $20 per month. A car is about $200-300 per month depending on the size of the car.
Watching the way of life and encountering the everyday life of the Japanese, the average European, in addition to a smile on his face, constantly has surprise and joy. Everything is unusual, everything is not like ours, everywhere there is a deviation from the norm! You can endlessly discover something new, sophisticated, exotic.
How and in what apartments do ordinary Japanese live? Why does Japan have the best toilets in the world? What are the features Everyday life? Read about all this below.
The Land of the Rising Sun falls in love with itself from the first day. A colleague of mine quit his job at Lufthansa a few years ago to extend his three-week holiday in Japan. As a result, he traveled around the country for several months until the money ran out. Of the countries where I managed to visit, Japan is now in the first place in terms of interest. Let's talk about everything in order.
There is a misconception that it is the world's first city in terms of population density. Actually it is not. The population density, for example, is 3 times higher than Tokyo.
This is explained by the fact that Tokyo is located in a seismic zone, where an average of 73 earthquakes occur per month, and therefore built up on a large area. If we continue the comparison with Paris, then the capital of Japan is 6-7 times larger in terms of population, and 20 times larger in terms of city area.
Housing in Tokyo is absolute luxury.
On average, a Tokyo dweller's apartment occupies an area of 30 square meters.
This is how the room looked like in the apartment of the German-Japanese family, where I lived for several days.
Japanese intercom.
It can be said, the front door with a mini-library.
This is a capsule in a capsule hotel. Inside you can sit, there is a TV, radio, light bulb and ventilation.
If you are in Tokyo, be sure to try this type of accommodation, an absolute exotic for a European.
Accommodation is cheap. These capsules are located in such a hall.
By the way, in Tokyo, people even live in Internet cafes. You can just rent a room for 20 euros a day and live in space 2 square meters. In addition to a computer and the Internet, such places have showers, vending machines, washing machines - for some it is very convenient. In total, there are about 5,500 such residents of Internet cafes in Tokyo.
Comfort capsules are also offered at the airport. Approximately 30 euros for 9 hours.
It looked like another Tokyo apartment where I stayed.
Let's move on to the bathroom.
Combined bathroom.
The Japanese also have multifunctional bathroom cabins - marvels of technology with dedicated climate control. In this cabin, the water is turned on to the floor.
The same cabin serves as a drying cabin for linen. Temperature setting.
Cute koalas on the curtains.
Talking about Japan, it is simply impossible not to mention their toilets. They are simply the best in the world: the most intelligent, comfortable and convenient.
Electronic Japanese toilet with remote control. Above the tank is a small sink, where the water automatically turns on, you can wash your hands.
Here you have heating, and music, and a washing system, and airflow. When you press the corresponding button, a tube comes out, from which a trickle of water begins to beat under pressure. Sometimes the pressure and temperature can be adjusted. Just fantastic! At what such toilets are found in public places.
There are toilets with automatic cleaning after each client, and there are with paper substrates.
They can be placed in different ways. Everyone decides what is right.
In the shop.
Japanese "tee".
Garages.
Public transport certainly belongs to the daily life and weekdays of Tokyo people.
As well as catering establishments with plastic food at the entrance. About food has also already been published.
And endless shopping opportunities.
The epicenter of Tokyo's electronics stores is Akihabara. One of the largest shopping areas in the world. The Japanese are crazy about playing slot machines.
If I'm not confusing anything, then this is a lottery kiosk.
At the post office.
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Beautiful signs.
Water canisters for stability.
Japanese traffic light.
Separate urns.
Crosswalk. You need to stand and move at the crossing on the right, despite the left-hand traffic of cars.
Police and fire department vehicles.
Bench with armrests.
Barbershop or barbershop with matching traditional flask (see also
Finding an apartment
For a long time, a trip to Japan for a Russian was a small adventure. It was required to apply to a special agency for the collection of documents for a visa, to book Japanese hotels of at least three stars, to cancel and transfer their reservations were not allowed. Recently, relations between countries have improved, a visa has become free and much easier to get. For visa documents, I began to provide apartment reservations on Airbnb, which was categorically not allowed before. A visa is issued without problems, although the service itself is prohibited in Japan.
I will show you a few apartments in which I stayed in different years.
Let's start with the entrance to the entrance. Usually the doors to the hall are glass, sliding, with a sensor. To open them, you need to insert a regular key into the control panel in the pedestal. The remote also serves as a video intercom.
To the right of the pedestal are mailboxes.
Drawers are through. The postman drops the mail through the slot, and the tenant picks it up through the door on the other side, passing through the glass doors into the hall. It must be admitted that there is no less spam in mailboxes in Tokyo than in any other country.
For large shipments and parcels from online stores, there is such a left-luggage office. The courier leaves the box, the tenant then picks it up.
The Japanese love elevators, you can’t drive them on foot even to the second floor. Generally, pets are not allowed in homes. But if there is a dog in the house, then at the request of the residents, there will be a separate “food with the dog” next to the usual call button. Then, above the window indicating the movement on each floor, the corresponding diagram will light up. So those who are afraid of dogs will not sit in a booth with a dog walker, they will wait and call the elevator for themselves.
The information board by the elevator is covered with meaningless messages like "keep quiet" that the Japanese hang everywhere just like that.
This is how the floor of apartments in an apartment building looks like.
A typical entrance is open (the opening is not closed with glass or a vestibule with a door, as is customary in Russia). There are no frosts in Tokyo, so there is nothing to be afraid of. Recently there was a typhoon, and there was a puddle in the entrance on the floor. Well, nothing, they say, will dry.
The handle on the front door. It usually has two locks: at the top and bottom of the handle. Nearby is a doorbell with a microphone, which is output to the video intercom in the apartment (nothing special: a familiar-looking phone with a monitor - open the door to the entrance and chat with the visitor without opening the lock).
And this is what the same structure looks like inside the apartment. No matter how many apartments I rent, there are always two castles. For what - it is not clear: so that the thief spends twice as much time hacking?
Dimensions and price of the apartment
Welcome! The whole apartment is 20 sq.m. with a corridor, a bathroom, a toilet, a balcony, a couple of closets and a room for a washing machine. Sorry for some mess in the picture: I specifically decided to show what a tiny apartment turns into in conditions when you are not used to minimalism in everyday life in the Japanese sense of it.
The first couple of days in such an apartment, a European and a Russian are tormented by acute bouts of claustrophobia. But after a month you get used to it: you know where to stuff things and how to get together to work on the bed. The only negative that is hard to deal with is the small volume of air. If you hang a shirt to dry, after a couple of hours the atmosphere in the apartment resembles a bathhouse (only cooled down).
The windows in the apartment are reinforced. In the event of an earthquake, they will not scatter. The windows in the photo are not dirty, they are just very foggy from high humidity (and this despite the fact that there is a ventilator hole in the wall - through ventilation; there is no sense at all, it only helps to open the window).
About prices. It is really possible to rent such housing for 2-3 thousand rubles a day (at one time I rented exactly the same for 180 thousand yen per month - this is about 90 thousand rubles). And having lived like this for a month or two, I would not advise renting small apartments like mine (unless you want to get an ethnographic experience) - you are exhausted from habit. It's better to take a hostel.
Here japanese apartment premium class in Osaka - lighter, more spacious and, of course, more expensive. Relatively high ceilings, windows to the floor, built-in air conditioning. Such an apartment already costs 3-4 thousand rubles per night. If you can spend that kind of money - rent boldly, it will be better and more soulful than a small hotel room.
Here is a bedroom in such an apartment. A minimum of furnishings, for the entire interior of decorations - only sofa cushions.
If we talk about storage space, there are almost none - the closet resembles the one we are used to seeing in the locker room of a sports club: there is enough space for a couple of hangers, no shelves or drawers are provided. In a couple of weeks, you get used to the "suitcase" system (linen and folded things are stored in plastic boxes with lids, which are stacked at the bottom of the closet). And at the same time you get used to folding and neatly folding any object.
Let's go to the kitchen. The Japanese adapt well to earthquakes - for example, they hang kitchen cabinets so that they do not fly off the fixtures during shaking. Note that there is no gap between the box and the ceiling, this is done just so that it does not “jump”.
The safest place during an earthquake is inside a building. Japanese houses withstand eight-point shocks without destruction, only characteristically swaying. But on the street a pole or an advertising structure may fall.
The Japanese are so accustomed to pushing that they calmly roll over in their sleep or raise their glasses in a bar to keep them from spilling. A year ago, I got into a five-magnitude earthquake in Tokyo - the house swayed with a noticeable amplitude, scattering things around the apartment. Incredible, chthonic horror.
In Japan, there are no traditional ovens for baking, like we do. Instead of them - a small tile (here it is under the hob), into which a sandwich will hardly enter.
Japanese bathroom. With my height of 190 cm, it is difficult to stand in it. As soon as you turn around, soap and brushes fly from the shelf.
Any Japanese bathroom is airtight: it is customary to wash it with a shower - everything drains into a drain hole in the floor. A bath (font) is essentially a narrow shower cabin with high sides. The Japanese traditionally bathe in it, sitting on a high chair.
This is the simplest bathroom I have ever seen. No inlet - a simple, familiar to us toilet, which flushes with a terrible roar. The shower is connected to the sink faucet.
But the bathroom in an expensive apartment. It is important to note that the bath in Japan is used specifically for taking a bath (lying down). It is impossible to wash in it while standing, as we are used to - the shower does not reach. If you need to rinse, put a chair in the tub and sit on it. Or take a shower while standing on the floor.
The bathroom in a traditional Japanese house is closer to the bath, the onsen. The tub gets bigger and deeper, but again, it's a place to enjoy hot water, where you're supposed to get in when you've washed.
And finally - a photograph from a very traditional Japanese house, which are many in rural areas. Of the furniture there is only a small screen. Floor mats tatami, the blue thing in the corner is an extremely thin and hard mattress futon. Sleeping in such a house is painful for a Westerner. This morning a poem came to mind:
“I crawled under the covers.
Hard, cold and small.
In any case, Japanese housing is a unique cultural and ergonomic experience that I advise everyone to have.
It turns out that there is an abundance of obsolete apartments not only in Russia, but also in advanced Japan. The Bakoko duo cleverly modernized the Japanese version of Khrushcheba.
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Bakoko designer Kayoko Otsuki, a Japanese woman, described the essence of national design as "keeping things clean". The Japanese are extremely discreet people who do not like flashiness, do not like to flaunt their lives. For them, good design is characterized by extreme, if not exaggerated, simplicity, and the high quality of filling and finishing is always put forward in the first place. This approach has become the starting point in the creation of the interior.
Information about the object:
Location: Matsudo, Japan
Year: 2009
Footage: 37 sq. m
Architects: BAKOKO
Alistair Townsend and Kayoko Ohtsuki
Photo: BAKOKO
In the photo: BAKOKO, architects
The young Anglo-Japanese duo Bakoko came up with a wonderfully simple and concise way to transform a man-shi-yon apartment: a tiny residential apartment in an apartment building. panel houses that appeared in abundance in post-war years. It is widely believed in Japan that this housing is noticeably outdated, however, they are in no hurry to update it: they prefer to demolish the old one and build a new, more earthquake-resistant structure, bringing to life interesting designs of small apartments. A successful option for rebuilding a “man-shi-yon” apartment for Japan is the same revelation as our option for conveniently rebuilding an apartment in “Khrushchev”: everyone dreams, but for most it seems almost unrealizable - is it possible to do something with housing that outdated in all respects? As Bakoko's practice shows, don't give up: in the hands of young designers, an old apartment has turned into a compact, but 100% modern studio.
Type of apartment "before". The peculiarity of apartments of this type is the combination of the traditions of the Japanese interior (the almost complete absence of furniture and internal walls, which are replaced here by sliding fusuma partitions) with a completely European atmosphere in the kitchen.
The main thing that the architects did was that they abandoned the partitions that separated the apartment. Now it is small, and snow-white partitions are located along the walls, like wardrobe doors, and close everything superfluous from the point of view of a laconic Japanese interior: from a full-fledged dressing room and a large mirror in the entire height of the room to a mini-office.
The European-style kitchen is separated from the rest of the studio by a bar, above which the designers have beautifully placed white callas. In addition, the division into zones is also emphasized by a highlighted protruding beam (technologically necessary here).
The kitchen is European-style functional and Japanese-style restrained. The cabinets reach the very ceiling, not a single centimeter of valuable space in this part of the apartment is wasted.
Almost the only bright, and therefore very attractive, finishing detail: a red niche in which the desktop is located. Chairs move up to him from the bar.
Next to the niche is a huge mirror the entire height of the room. Here you can see how it reflects the part of the studio covered with tatami.
The apartment has preserved traditional interior solutions. The new tatami has provided a multifunctional space for relaxation, contemplation and even traditional eating during the day (a low table is provided for this).
In addition, this part of the studio also plays the role of a bedroom: a traditional futon mattress is spread here, which is rolled up for the day and put away in a spacious built-in closet behind the tatami.
The doors to the bathroom and bathroom do not stand out against the white plane of the wall.
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Nature lovers lay down their lives to grow ficus with tradescantia on the windowsill, or they could green the house in a day and forget about watering with feeding for many years.
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It is known that liveliness and brightness of the interior gives color. Designer Alexander Voshev agrees with this. Only he paints his projects in bright colors not with the help of paints, but with the help of light.
The young couple decided to settle in the historic center of the city, but they only had enough money for a miniature apartment without a bathroom: a real professional challenge for an architect and designer.
In this home of a professional jazz musician, there was a place not only for all the zones and things necessary in everyday life, but also for “excesses”: a real fireplace, a piano and even a spectator “tribune”.
The initial layout is sometimes so unsuccessful that the architect needs to show remarkable ingenuity so that no one will remember the unsuccessful proportions and modest scale.
Who would have thought that almost without changing the layout, this three-room Khrushchev will look so spacious that any inhabitant of the “large-sized” will envy.
