Modern Zen Living: A low table and a paper screen

A modern Zen-style living space. The floor is a raised light-colored wooden platform, twenty centimeters high, with a portion covered in rush matting. In the center is a solid wood low table, forty centimeters high, with three coarse hemp cushions. One entire side is a full-height contemporary shoji screen—large grid divisions, fine mullions, translucent, with soft light filtering through from behind. Another side is a smooth earthen plaster wall with a rectangular niche containing only a ceramic vase with a single flower and a narrow beam of light. The third side is a horizontally long window framing a clump of bamboo outside. The ceiling is low, made of light-colored wood panels. The entire room features only wood tones, gray, and the color of that single flower. Avoid: adding sofas and high-backed chairs, using colorful soft furnishings, hanging paintings or adding decorations on the walls, adding visible light fixtures.

Translated from Chinese by AI.

一間現代禪風的起居空間。地面是架高二十公分的淺色木平台,一部分鋪著藺草蓆。中央是一張高度四十公分的實木矮桌與三個粗麻坐墊。一整面是通高的當代障子——大格分割、細櫺條、半透明,後方透出柔和的光。另一面是平整的土質塗料牆,上有一個矩形的壁龕,裡面只有一只陶瓶插著一枝花並有一道窄光。第三面是橫長的窗,框住外面一叢竹。天花較低,是淺色木板。全室只有木色、灰與那一枝花的顏色。避免:加入沙發與高背座椅、使用彩色的軟裝、在牆上掛畫與加裝飾、加入可見的燈具。