Difference from dark modern: one is paint, the other is material

A dark space that is clearly woody rather than painted. The dark modern style typically involves painting walls, ceilings, and woodwork all in the same deep, tinted color, unified by paint. Here, it's the opposite: the surface has no paint at all; the dark color comes from the wood's natural hue and smoking treatment, so each piece varies in shade, and the wood grain runs continuously across the entire wall. Both are dark rooms, but one is a homogeneous color block, and the other is a textured material. Avoid: using dark latex paint to create a homogeneous surface, dyeing wood to a uniform color, making walls, ceilings, and woodwork indistinguishable in material, using eggshell finish paint to replace the texture of wood.

Translated from Chinese by AI.

一個明顯是木質而非漆面的暗空間。暗黑系現代的做法是把牆、天花與木作全部刷成同一個帶色相的深色,靠塗料統一;這裡相反:表面完全沒有漆,深色來自木材的天然色與燻烤處理,因此每一片的深淺都不同,木紋的走向在整面牆上連續。同樣是暗的房間,一個是均質的色塊,一個是有紋理的材質。避免:使用深色乳膠漆做出均質的表面、把木材染成統一的顏色、讓牆天花與木作看不出材質差異、使用蛋殼光的漆面取代木的質感。