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

The Design Files

This Beloved 1970s Modernist House Hides A Colourful + Caring Restoration

October 4

This Beloved 1970s Modernist House Hides A Colourful + Caring Restoration Architecture by Christina Karras Inside the refreshed atrium of the captivating Crossman House in Glen Iris.

Vintage & mid-century Renovation & reuse

Read at The Design Files ↗

One letter a week, in your inbox.

Latest

This Beloved 1970s Modernist House Hides A Colourful + Caring Restoration

Related

Renovation Diaries: How A Designer Created This Retro-Inspired Kitchen For $21k The Design Files

IndiaAdaptive Reuse Gives This 1970s Patna Bungalow A New Life Rooted In Wellness And Dining Design Pataki

How This Brisbane Architect Transformed Her Mid-Century Home On A Modest Budget The Design Files

Inside A Playfully Renovated 1904 Worker’s Cottage The Design Files

SingaporeEnd of an Era: Beloved Treasure Trove Hock Siong & Co. Prepares to Relocate After 35 Years Home & Decor

China清水冥想静修中心 / RESP Studio ArchDaily China