Subtlety of Decoration: Only the Reception Hall is Fully Decorated

A comparison of two rooms within the same house. The reception hall is fully covered from wainscoting to ceiling with painted wooden panels and gold leaf, and the floor is marble mosaic. The adjacent daily living areas and bedrooms have only white plastered walls, simple wooden beams, and a single niche. The decoration budget is concentrated in the guest reception room. Avoid: making every room in the entire house fully painted, applying gold leaf to bedrooms, making the reception hall simple, and ignoring the hierarchical differences between rooms.

Translated from Chinese by AI.

同一棟房子裡兩種房間的對照。接待廳從腰部到天花鋪滿彩繪木鑲板與金箔,地坪是大理石拼花;旁邊的日常起居與臥室只有白色抹灰牆、簡單的木樑與一條壁龕。裝飾的預算集中在待客的那一間。避免:把整棟房子的每個房間都做成滿版彩繪、讓臥室也貼金、接待廳反而做得樸素、忽略房間之間的等級差異。