What we love about our Modern Japanese home
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- Japandi
- HDB (BTO)
- ~700 sqft
- 2 br
- Couple Living
よ！ We're taking a side-step from our usual house tours to compile a list of our favourite features and decor about the home. Hitotema.home is a Modern Japanese (not japandi) cozy 3 room BTO, designed to bring traditional elements of Japanese houses into the modern era. Starting off, we love the tokonoma and our little tenugui collection. Tenugui (hand towels) are inexpensive, but lovely forms of art and decor. You could store them in a folded pile and it doesn't take up much space, and when you want to change out the look, it's so simple and it brings the space together nicely. I probably could have steam-ironed this tenugui before hanging it up, but hey, it's never too late anyway. The next piece isn't decor, but it does form the space of our home. It's the kamidama (shinto altar). We hand-carried this back from Japan, and honestly it makes the house feel safe, protected and full of calm energy. The little deer at the sides hold fortunes, really happy to get good blessings this year from Kasuga-Taisha Shrine in Nara. We love the genkan. Opening the doors and stepping into the home, seeing the shojis and the wood almost makes you wanna shout "tadaima!" If we could show you guys videos on this platform, we would but we can't. Not making this up, post renovation, when the general cleaners arrived they were a bunch of 4 teenagers. We had a short video clip saved by our camera of one of the guys stepping in and going "Japanese sia! Tadaima!" 
This sliding window that connects the bedroom to the living room corridor is a huge W for us. It allows nice natural light into the corridor, diffusing it softly in the daytime, and at night when we're all home, the missus opens the window to talk to me while she's in bed and i'm fixing a late night snack after coming back from work.
- 18 May
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