If you have ever thought of a Japanese home as simplistic in not just aesthetics but also its efforts of curation, then I have to burst your deeply misinformed bubble. Each design decision, no matter how effortlessly executed has been painstakingly chosen to evoke an illusion of calming simplicity. But the good news is that there are some digestible design lessons that can quietly shift the way your home feels.
"The changes that make a home feel calmer are rarely the expensive ones," says interior designer Yoko Kloeden. "Most of what I have learned from Japanese design is small, undramatic, and works on how a room feels rather than how it looks."
