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

Home & DecorSingapore

4 Ways to Remove Rust Naturally at Home

11.03

Rust happens to the best of metal tools, cookware, and household fixtures. Before reaching for harsh, fume-heavy commercial chemicals, look in your pantry.

How To

Read at Home & Decor ↗

One letter a week, starting soon.

Latest

4 Ways to Remove Rust Naturally at Home

More from Home & Decor on Uchi

SingaporeA Japanese-Asian inspired Jumbo home for this family of five and two cats Home & Decor

SingaporeTengah Plantation Dew BTO Review: Rare 5-room and 3Gen units (November 2026) Home & Decor

SingaporeHDB BTO November 2026 Review: Bayshore, Mattar, Tengah, Sembawang, Toa Payoh, Yishun Home & Decor

SingaporeHomeowners model their BTO after The Fleming Hotel in Hong Kong with nautical nodes Home & Decor

SingaporeCapri by Fraser China Square Hotel Closed: Transforming into Hotel Stripes Singapore Chinatown, Autograph Collection Home & Decor

SingaporeSembawang Anchor BTO Review: Short 2 years 10 months waiting time (November 2026 BTO) Home & Decor