3 Japanese Garden Homes - What's So Fascinating About Japanese Design?

1. Childcare Home

The owner of this project has three children and is very busy taking care of them. To cope with this demand, the designer efficiently designed the moving lines in the two-story home to shorten the moving distances in order to reduce the burden of the homeowner in his/her living and living.

The L-shaped garden gives the family a lot of free space. The front door, pathway, foyer, and living room with tatami mats can all be used as entertaining spaces.

The living room is open and vibrant, with decorative beams in the interior, and the ceilings in the dining room and kitchen area are covered with reed poles, giving it a natural, calm feel.

The tatami room is used as a warm and cozy place to entertain important visitors.

The residence is a relaxing and harmonious place for the family while enjoying heavenly pleasures.

The design of this home encapsulates the couple's vision of a home where families can enjoy themselves, where visiting friends and family are honored, and where people are grateful for each other.

This home fulfills all of the couple's dreams.

△Completed in January 2017Photographs by Shigeo Ogawa

2. Home of the Tate-ryu Tea Room

This home with a Tate-ryu (a tea ceremony performed while sitting on a chair) tea room is located in a quiet residential area in the Matsuyama neighborhood.

Historically, the lords of Matsuyama used to live here in seclusion. Our client grew up under the influence of the tea ceremony.

To ensure that our client could use the tea room even in his later years, the designers created a space with an organized route of passage where guests could sit on chairs and drink tea. The design theme of this home is how to make the living room and the tea room blend together **** enjoying the space.

The tea room can be changed according to the needs. The baffle (paper-covered wooden latticework) divides the tea room, resulting in a room the size of 4.5 tatami-mat mattresses.

When the barrier is removed, the space becomes a large room with chairs. By raising and lowering the blinds, you can create a hallway or additional space for guests to sit.

The kitchen and the pantry have been placed close to each other for ease of use.

The living room and dining room become wide due to the exposed citron under the wide eaves. The high ceiling connects this space to the second floor. The windows on the second floor are higher for ventilation.

Even during months when air conditioning is not needed or on days when there is less wind, gravity ventilation creates airflow that can circulate through the space.

While thinking about how to combine traditional and modern living, the designers were also figuring out how to make the space last while staying true to the contract.

3. A house with a piano classroom

The house's hostess is a piano teacher, and often provides a place for seniors to live with their dogs, so they can spend time with their families and dogs after their busy schedules come to an end.

In addition, the theme of how to make the piano class run by the hostess and the living part of the house ****exist and maintain their independence became important.

The designer created the living room in the most beautiful part of the site where there was plenty of space.

The house is able to utilize the outside space efficiently through large openings, keeping the air flowing and the mood happy.

The north side of the living room has high side lights that can be remotely controlled, so it can blow a relaxing breeze.

The designers kept the entry of the house to the kitchen, the piano classroom, the living room and the Japanese room for guests in turn, compact and smooth.

The kitchen is designed to be easy to organize and use, based on the line of movement that the lady of the house often walks.

After retirement, there is more time to live with family and dogs in the future.

▽Night view of the room

The tatami room is used as a warm and cozy place to entertain important visitors.

The residence is a relaxing and harmonious place for the family while enjoying the joy of heaven.

The design of this home encapsulates the couple's vision of a home where families can enjoy themselves, where visiting friends and family are honored, and where people are grateful for each other.

This home fulfills all of the couple's dreams.

△Completed in January 2017Photographs by Shigeo Ogawa

2. Home of the Tate-ryu Tea Room

This home with a Tate-ryu (a tea ceremony performed while sitting on a chair) tea room is located in a quiet residential area in the Matsuyama neighborhood.

Historically, the lords of Matsuyama used to live here in seclusion. Our client grew up under the influence of the tea ceremony.

To ensure that our client could use the tea room even in his later years, the designers created a space with an organized route of passage where guests could sit on chairs and drink tea. The design theme of this home is how to make the living room and the tea room blend together **** enjoying the space.

The tea room can be changed according to the needs. The baffle (paper-covered wooden latticework) divides the tea room, resulting in a room the size of 4.5 tatami-mat mattresses.

When the barrier is removed, the space becomes a large room with chairs. By raising and lowering the blinds, you can create a hallway or additional space for guests to sit.

The kitchen and the pantry have been placed close to each other for ease of use.

The living room and dining room become wide due to the exposed citron under the wide eaves. The high ceiling connects this space to the second floor. The windows on the second floor are higher for ventilation.

Even during months when air conditioning is not needed or on days when there is less wind, gravity ventilation creates airflow that can circulate through the space.

While thinking about how to combine traditional and modern living, the designers were also figuring out how to make the space last while staying true to the contract.

3. A house with a piano classroom

The house's hostess is a piano teacher, and often provides a place for seniors to live with their dogs, so they can spend time with their families and dogs after their busy schedules come to an end.

In addition, the theme of how to make the piano class run by the hostess and the living part of the house ****exist and maintain their independence became important.

The designer created the living room in the most beautiful part of the site where there was plenty of space.

The house is able to utilize the outside space efficiently through large openings, keeping the air flowing and the mood happy.

The north side of the living room has high side lights that can be remotely controlled, so it can blow a relaxing breeze.

The designers kept the entry of the house to the kitchen, the piano classroom, the living room and the Japanese room for guests in turn, compact and smooth.

The kitchen is designed to be easy to organize and use, based on the line of movement that the lady of the house often walks.

After retirement, there is more time to live with family and dogs in the future.

▽Night view of the room