Urban Apartments: Replacing the Skeleton While Retaining Texture

A comparison of correct and incorrect ways to create a rustic feel in a modern urban apartment. The left side is incorrect: applying fake decorative wooden beams to a flat concrete ceiling, sticking imitation stone wallpaper on the walls, and installing a non-functional fake fireplace—because the building's structure is modern, these applied elements only appear false. The right side is correct: accepting that this is an apartment and not faking the structure; the rustic feel is entirely placed on genuinely achievable layers—old wooden furniture painted and distressed, scrubbed wooden tabletops, everyday miscellaneous ceramics on open shelves, washed cotton and linen textiles, real plants growing in terracotta pots, and a wall with an uneven texture created using lime-based plaster. Avoid: making the two look identical, adding fake beams and a fake fireplace to the correct version, making the correct version minimalist, changing the layout and size of both.

Translated from Chinese by AI.

一間現代都市公寓做出鄉村感的正確與錯誤對照。左側是錯的:在平整的水泥天花上貼假的裝飾木樑、在牆上貼仿石壁紙、裝一個不能燒的假壁爐——因為建築的骨架是現代的,這些貼上去的元素只顯得虛假。右側是對的:接受這是一間公寓,不假造構造;鄉村感全部放在可以真實成立的層面——漆過磨舊的舊木家具、刷洗過的木桌面、開放層架上每天在用的雜瓷、水洗棉麻的織品、赤陶盆裡真的在養的植物、以及一面用石灰質塗料做出不平整質地的牆。避免:讓兩者看起來相同、在正確版本加入假樑與假壁爐、把正確版本做成極簡風、改變兩者的格局與坪數。