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

Domino

Before & After: A Giant Fridge Sticker, Faux Beams, and 25 Days to Pull Off a Kitchen Reno

October 13

We may earn revenue from the products available on this page and participate in affiliate programs. When Jess and Jonathan Nahon of Sugarhouse toured the 1850s Greek Revival that would become the…

Kitchens & bathrooms Renovation & reuse Renovation Before & After Design by Room Dining Rooms

Read at Domino ↗

One letter a week, starting soon.

Latest

Before & After: A Giant Fridge Sticker, Faux Beams, and 25 Days to Pull Off a Kitchen Reno

Related

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

What a Dream Bathroom Vanity Looks Like in 2026 Domino

A 17th-century Oxfordshire farmhouse, gracefully restored by Max Rollitt House & Garden

Singapore3 New Rules of Renovations in Singapore: Tactility, layering, and lasting design Home & Decor

Curves, 'High Heels' and Inherited Treasures Help This Beautifully Layered Galley Kitchen Feel Ready for Fall Homes & Gardens

INGOT Leibal