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Modernistic Interior Design

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GhostOwl
Profile Blog Joined July 2011
766 Posts
May 09 2012 00:52 GMT
#1
Interior Design is for girls!! Pfft...

Joke aside, making your place look nice is a great treat for yourself, and very good for inviting friends and lovers. I believe a good place will give you peace and mental relaxation.

I've always been a fan of interior design, especially modern themed ones. I don't have a career or job related to it, but it's always been a hobby of mine to decorate the place you call home.

Recent modernistic designs are based on simple clean colors, like white, and presenting a sense of spaciousness. This means that unnecessary items are out, large furnishings are out, and Victorian-looking furniture are out. The crisp white color gives a clean and fresh feeling to your room. Your furniture don't have to be fancy futuristic furniture..they just have to be stylish imo.


I tend to stay away from unpainted wooden furniture, but if I do have to pick them, I go for the lighter colored ones:

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I believe any natural color darker than this for natural wooden furniture will kill the modernistic feel. This is as dark as you should go


But I tend to aim for something more like this:


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The black color brings out the most in the white. Soothing and trendy feel.

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White and Red is also a good color to work with.


Anyway, I've come across my biggest challenge yet. I've come to Japan, the land of compact apartments and no space and overpriced wooden furnitures.

I'm moving into my new apartment starting this weekend, and truthfully, I'm kind of stumped.
The apartment consists of kitchen, bathroom, and a room. The bedroom is the living room. The bedroom is very small. It's about 6 square meters, 340cm long x 250 cm wide. I want to have a bed, a desk, and a small sofa seat in there.

Sadly, good lofts are hard to find here. All the ones I see here are clunky metallic ones that feels cheap. I would prefer lofts like this:
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I've been looking into space-saving furniture, but my options here are limited. IKEA doesn't have a great selection of lofts and neither do many local furniture shops. I have been trying to think outside-the-box to save space and still preserve the modernistic feel.


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Perfect solution to my problems. Space-saving and modernistic.

http://www.misosoupdesign.com/kworkstation.html (for the above)
Unfortunately, the above is only a design, and not an actual item for sale in the market. If only there was a way to get my hands on it...ahem.

I've been thinking about buying a large desk, and then putting this pull-out bed from under it:

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If anyone has any suggestions for my new project, please post them. Feel free to show off what you've done with your place as well.



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Ares[Effort] *
Profile Blog Joined February 2009
DEMACIA6550 Posts
May 09 2012 01:15 GMT
#2
The first two pictures are absolutely amazing, this is one of my life goals when I get my own place etc
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IntoTheWow
Profile Blog Joined May 2004
is awesome32281 Posts
May 09 2012 01:16 GMT
#3
http://www.wallbed.com/
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Newbistic
Profile Blog Joined August 2006
China2912 Posts
May 09 2012 01:39 GMT
#4
The problem with interior design is that it's pretty expensive. You're probably not going to achieve those looks by browsing yard sales and getting second-hand furniture.
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ggggbabybabybaby
Profile Blog Joined December 2010
Canada304 Posts
May 09 2012 03:10 GMT
#5
You could probably build that wall desk without too much difficulty. Think about it like a series of floating shelving with horizontal and vertical sections. You'll have to build the vertical section on a stud, so that could be a position issue depending on the studs in your room. Also if you're renting they might not like it or you'll have a bit of hole filling to do.

You would not get that uniform single piece of wood look with the rounded corners though. I think you could still get a pretty modern look with sharp edges. You could probably get that clean white edge look if you use some decent painter's tape on the top and bottom (if it leaks you're kinda fucked). I would use a small roller over a paintbrush so you get a more even, clean finish. Also use primer.

The hardest part would be the pull out keyboard shelf. I'm not sure how you would attain a set of rollers without buying a premade desk. Is your Japanese fluent? Will probably be difficult to find anything if not. I don't know about the rest of Japan but I know in Tokyo it's not like you could just drive to Home Depot and take a look around.

Also definitely make the keyboard section wide enough to fit a mouse. Don't have your mouse and keyboard at different elevations. That's pretty much the worst ergonomics possible and you'll get RSI or carpal tunnel problems guaranteed.

That loft is larger than the dimensions of your entire room. Don't get an all-in-one set like that, if's going to make your room seem even smaller than it is.

Get neutral, light colour furniture/bed to make it seem larger than it is.

Tall and thin decorative items such as mirrors, vases, or pictures or will enhance the apparent height of your room which will trick people's eyes.

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Just some food for thought.

Good luck.

PS Girls will love it when they go to your place, point something out they like, and find out you've done it yourself.
iSometric
Profile Blog Joined February 2011
2221 Posts
May 09 2012 03:12 GMT
#6
Really like the wallshelf with the computer. Very sleek, chiche, and modernized while being practicle.
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GhostOwl
Profile Blog Joined July 2011
766 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-05-09 05:52:37
May 09 2012 05:51 GMT
#7
On May 09 2012 10:39 Newbistic wrote:
The problem with interior design is that it's pretty expensive. You're probably not going to achieve those looks by browsing yard sales and getting second-hand furniture.


Yeah, I know what you mean. Places like Ikea and Nittori are trendy and also very reasonably priced, but anything other than these major furniture stores tend to be expensive if they have a stylish design.

On May 09 2012 12:10 ggggbabybabybaby wrote:+ Show Spoiler +

You could probably build that wall desk without too much difficulty. Think about it like a series of floating shelving with horizontal and vertical sections. You'll have to build the vertical section on a stud, so that could be a position issue depending on the studs in your room. Also if you're renting they might not like it or you'll have a bit of hole filling to do.

You would not get that uniform single piece of wood look with the rounded corners though. I think you could still get a pretty modern look with sharp edges. You could probably get that clean white edge look if you use some decent painter's tape on the top and bottom (if it leaks you're kinda fucked). I would use a small roller over a paintbrush so you get a more even, clean finish. Also use primer.

The hardest part would be the pull out keyboard shelf. I'm not sure how you would attain a set of rollers without buying a premade desk. Is your Japanese fluent? Will probably be difficult to find anything if not. I don't know about the rest of Japan but I know in Tokyo it's not like you could just drive to Home Depot and take a look around.

Also definitely make the keyboard section wide enough to fit a mouse. Don't have your mouse and keyboard at different elevations. That's pretty much the worst ergonomics possible and you'll get RSI or carpal tunnel problems guaranteed.

That loft is larger than the dimensions of your entire room. Don't get an all-in-one set like that, if's going to make your room seem even smaller than it is.

Get neutral, light colour furniture/bed to make it seem larger than it is.

Tall and thin decorative items such as mirrors, vases, or pictures or will enhance the apparent height of your room which will trick people's eyes.

[image loading]

[image loading]

[image loading]

Just some food for thought.

Good luck.

PS Girls will love it when they go to your place, point something out they like, and find out you've done it yourself.



The vases are a nice advice but I can't have them because my apartment is prone to frequent earthquakes. I am interested in building the desk, but I have zero experience with carpentry, and I wouldn't even know where to start. But it seems worth trying for, it might be really hard to make it myself though...My Japanese is fluent, but if the rollers are too much trouble, I can skip that part. Maybe I can hire a person to make something like that? Are there services like that? The website already has the blueprints
sakshijha
Profile Joined May 2024
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May 07 2024 08:28 GMT
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Navane
Profile Blog Joined February 2007
Netherlands2760 Posts
Last Edited: 2024-05-07 16:52:34
May 07 2024 16:51 GMT
#9
You would bump your head all the time on that shelf while sitting down, getting up, or looking around.
The first couple of images don't load for me, unfortunately. I'm struggling a bit with my own interior design so I'm curious.
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