Old House, New Use · Living Room: Mixing Antique and New Furniture

A living room in a renovated old house, with old and new elements coexisting. Preserved are the traces of the space itself: a terrazzo floor, an old brick wall painted white but still showing its texture, and a reinstalled iron window grille screen. Contemporary furniture is introduced: a light gray fabric sofa with clean lines, a round iron coffee table with slender legs, and a modern floor lamp. Two old items are interspersed: a dark teak old cabinet and a rattan chair. The proportion of old and new is roughly half and half, with colors unified in gray, white, and wood tones, so that neither dominates the other. The light is natural light. Avoid: making the space look like a brand new renovation, filling it with nostalgic old items to turn it into an antique shop, letting new and old styles clash, eliminating traces of old materials.

Translated from Chinese by AI.

一間老屋改造的客廳,新舊並置。保留下來的是空間本身的痕跡:磨石子地板、一面刷白但仍看得見紋理的老磚牆、以及一片拆下重新裝設的鐵窗花隔屏。放進去的是當代家具:一張線條乾淨的淺灰布沙發、一張細腳的圓形鐵件茶几、一盞現代的落地燈。之間再點綴兩件老物:一張深色的柚木老櫃與一張藤椅。新舊的比例大約各半,色調統一在灰、白與木色之中,不讓任何一方壓過另一方。光是自然光。避免:把空間做成全新裝潢、堆滿懷舊老件變成古董店、讓新舊風格互相打架、消除老材料的痕跡。