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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在紧凑的城市基地上，Vaastavya 住宅将高密度街区的种种限制转化为探索垂直居住、适度隐私以及围绕家庭创意生活塑造空间的契机。该住宅专为三代同堂的家庭设计，旨在取代一栋陈旧的老宅，同时满足业主对温馨、简约且兼具个性化环境的向往。男女主人 Vageesh Hegde 和 Sindhu 均从事软件行业，他们设想了一个以“团聚”为核心、而非被死板划分的私人居住空间。

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