Tropical Colonial Style is Another Name for the Same Thing

A more climate-adapted colonial interior. Tropical colonial style refers to how this style landed in India, Ceylon, Malaya, East Africa, and the Caribbean: the furniture outlines are still British, but chair seats and bed bases are replaced with woven cane to allow air circulation, wooden legs are elevated off the damp ground, fabrics change from thick wool to white linen, and windows change from glass to adjustable louvers. The difference lies in the degree of adaptation, not the type of style. Avoid: treating the two as different styles, retaining heavy British textiles and carpets, using solid wood chair seats, making windows double-glazed with thick curtains.

Translated from Chinese by AI.

一個氣候版本更強的殖民室內。所謂熱帶殖民風指的就是這個風格在印度、錫蘭、馬來亞、東非與加勒比落地後的樣子:家具的輪廓還是英國的,但椅面與床屜換成藤編讓空氣可以穿過、木腳墊高離開潮濕的地面、布料從厚呢換成白色亞麻、窗戶從玻璃換成可調角度的百葉。差別在適應的程度不在風格的種類。避免:把兩者當成兩種不同的風格處理、保留厚重的英國織品與地毯、使用密實的實木椅面、讓窗戶做成雙層玻璃與厚窗簾。