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

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Calm Haven 住宅 / ADA Design & Build

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Calm Haven 住宅建于 2025 年。这栋房子的主人是一对来自湄公河三角洲“椰子之乡”的年轻夫妇。他们在大学相识、相知，并在共同投身医疗事业的青春岁月中相伴相守。在准备迎接第一个孩子降生之际，这对年轻的医生夫妇决定在他们工作的城市安家。他们憧憬着一个宁静、祥和而又温暖温馨的家——一个能让他们在繁重的工作之余，彻底放松并恢复活力的地方。

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