Homes Are Not Hotels: Three Things Not to Copy Directly

A space that failed because hotel practices were copied into a home, with three problems highlighted. First, storage capacity is configured to hotel standards—hotel guests only stay for three days, but a home has ten years' worth of items to store, resulting in nowhere for things to go and clutter piling up, making it messier than a typical home. Second, all materials are dark and high-spec—hotels have dedicated staff for daily cleaning, homes do not, and water stains and fingerprints on dark stone appear within days. Third, no space is left for daily life—there's no place for a book being read, a phone being charged, or a child's homework; all surfaces are “no-storage” zones. The image shows the actual state of these three problems. Avoid: depicting the space as a neat and perfect show home, hiding these three problems, depicting the space as dirty and dilapidated, changing the grade of materials.

Translated from Chinese by AI.

一個把飯店做法照抄進住家而失敗的空間,標示出三個問題。第一,收納量按飯店規格配置——飯店客人只住三天,住家有十年的東西要放,結果東西無處可去堆在外面,反而比一般住家更亂。第二,材料全部深色且高規格——飯店有專人每天清潔,住家沒有,深色石材上的水漬與指紋幾天就顯現。第三,沒有留給生活的位置——沒有地方放正在讀的書、充電中的手機、孩子的作業,所有平面都是「不能放東西」的。畫面呈現這三個問題的實際狀態。避免:把空間畫成整潔完美的樣品屋、隱藏這三個問題、把空間畫成髒亂破敗、改變材質的等級。