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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Liù Lín 住宅 / Choo Gim Wah Architect

September 30

六林居（Liù Lín Residence）的名字主要源于环绕住宅的六块郁郁葱葱的林地，“六林”在中文里即代表“六片森林”。该住宅坐落于马来西亚詹达拜（Janda Baik）郁郁葱葱的山麓丘陵中，得天独厚的地理位置使其自然而然地与周围生态建立起深厚的联系。同时，这里毗邻吉隆坡，交通便利，是亲朋好友齐聚度假的理想居所。

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