Spend Money on One Wall: Keep the Rest Simple

A living space where the budget is concentrated on a single facade. Only one wall in the entire room is fully designed—full-height large stone slabs, book-matched, with brass fine lines trimming the edges, and indirect light strips hidden below. Materials and labor are all focused here. The other three walls are the simplest gray latex paint, with no special shapes, no trim, no fabric upholstery. The ceiling is flat, with only a single light trough. The floor is ordinary wood-grain tile. Because the eye is immediately drawn to that wall upon entering, the simplicity of the rest is not perceived as cheap but as negative space. Avoid: designing all four walls, placing the main wall out of the line of sight from the entrance, adding secondary decorations to the other walls, using too many types of materials.

Translated from Chinese by AI.

一個把預算集中在單一立面的起居空間。整個房間中只有一面牆做了完整的設計——通高的石紋大板、對花處理、四周有黃銅細線收邊、下方藏著間接燈帶,材料與工資都集中在這裡。其餘三面牆是最單純的灰色乳膠漆,沒有造型、沒有線板、沒有繃布;天花是平的,只有一圈燈槽;地板是一般的木紋地磚。因為視線一進門就被那面牆接住,其餘的簡單不會被讀成寒酸而是被讀成留白。避免:把四面牆都做造型、讓主牆的位置不在進門的視線上、在其餘牆面加入次要的裝飾、使用過多的材料種類。