I want to renovate my room into a japanese-inspired room? what are the central things to see within a japanese room? i know there is this flooring call TATAMI... can i buy...
i know there is this flooring call TATAMI... can i buy it here (philippines?) and how much is it, are there any alternatives?
roughly my room is small, only have 1 door, 1 window. the door and the porthole are facing each other..
THIS IS A TOP VIEW OF MY ROOM, it's really small...
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this is the FIXED BIG CLOSET
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this is the furniture where on earth i put my old books
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Go for low, sleek furniture. Rice paper lantern/lightshades. Muted colors. Minimal artwork. Bamboo.
Hmm,tatami, and those colourless material sliding door things (Fusama or Shoji) XD
Traditional futon bed...if your that into it.
and if you're a fangirl, Japanese idol posters everywhere XD
I've never been within a japanese bedroom before though, I simply know limited stuff from manga etc... so that's essentially all i know.
Try a google poke about on "japanese room renovation" and see what comes up.
Answers: Tatami is a woven grass mat. You put some together to cover the floor of a room and you hold a tatami room. Usually in Japan tatami rooms are more formal than other (usually wood-floored) rooms. And they usually hold very little (if any) furniture (heavy furniture can vacate marks on the tatami - and they are supposed to be pretty open anyway.) Also, tatami is usually not something usually added as a patterned twist - but to some extent as a fundamental choice when designing a house and deciding which rooms are tatami rooms and serve persuaded purposes that tatami rooms fill - and which are more cool.
More info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tatami And cost: usually $150 US for a single 90 cm by 180 cm mat - at least here contained by Japan. Maybe your room would allow 3 mats if you are lucky? Not sure. Though, again, it usually isnt the charitable of thing that is to say thrown down like a rug.
One of the things that seem to make a room much more Japanese than western: utilizing floor space : don't agree to the floor space go unused. Western mentality usually is: the floor is for walking between getting from furniture to furniture. Japanese mentality usually say: the floor can be a comfortable place to sit, sleep, watch tv, sometimes munch through, work at a computer and more.
And yes, tatami rooms usually are great models of this: everything can be done sitting on a nice, clean, no-shoes-allowed -- no slippers even allowed -- tatami-matted room.
But surrounded by a wood-floored living room with a (often electrically-heated rug) this can be true too.
So I'd speak: You have a small room - maximize every square inch of it:
1) Institute the Japanese no-shoe rule for yourself and friends. This keep your room and your floor clean. You can own a mini "genkan" ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genkan - or transitional entry way where on earth people steal off shoes beforehand entering your home) just inside your door and to the moved out of the door. This is usually a tile or stone floor that steps up to a usually wood floor - so a visitor see, feels the difference. You can own a demarcation with, probably, a rug that you add to your floor - as your "shoe-less domain." You can hold a few pairs of comfy slippers for you and guests to wear and a place to place your and guests' "outside" shoes.
2) Add a nice, short-pile rug that fits your room -- along with a rug mat underneath to trade name it more comfortable. You can even layer rugs if you want.
3) Can files that are stored in the "book furniture" be stored surrounded by the large closet? Perhaps some cheap-but-nice closet shelving/storage can be added inside your closets to brand this happen other. If so, perhaps you can remove that bookcase making more space available. If not probably wall-mounted shelves are a good alternative?
If so I would consider this:
a) Turn your bed 90 degree and move it to the wall where the door is (if it fits) - moving your computer desk to the fixed study desk. You next have a single work space that is to say twice as big and isnt cut up into 2 dif. spots.
b) Is it a laptop you own? If so, consider the idea that a majority desk may not be needed and that furniture may be removable as well. Many Japanese will sit lower to floor near a laptop on a low, small, multi-function table. If this doesn't fit your work style ignore.
c) If you can lower your bed at adjectives I would consider it - to, again, make the floor more inviting and smaller amount of well, a floor.
d) You can simply put a life-size pillow or two on the rugged floor - somewhere comfortable - like the corner where on earth the window and closet stumble upon - for more seating space for you and guests.
e) You can breed your bed more of a couch than a bed for when guests are over or when you are lounging. Make sure you are using a more thin, rigid top spread (not a big, downy comforter), throw some pillows against the wall that the bed touches for a back rest and you hold a couch / bed -- rather than a moment ago a bed.
f) Consider a small, low coffee table in front of your unsullied couch/bed to help trade name the bed more couch-like and offer more laptop computing, tea drinking, food drinking possibilities.
Hopefully these are some ideas that will relieve improve your space and bring a bit of 'the-floor-is-not-something-to-ignore-ja... to your room.