Difference from Soft Minimalism: One is Warmth, the Other is Boundary

An interior that is warm-toned rather than soft minimalist. The focus here is on color temperature and material temperature: beige lime plaster, light brown wood, undyed wool, unlacquered brass. However, forms and boundaries remain clear: furniture has distinct outlines, light has direction, shadows have discernible edges, and there is contrast between materials. Soft minimalism, in contrast, blurs all these boundaries. The overall feel is warm but not hazy. Avoid: making shadows completely diffused without boundaries, compressing the lightness of all materials to almost no difference, wrapping every hard object in textiles, eliminating the sense of light direction.

Translated from Chinese by AI.

一個是暖調而非柔和極簡的室內。這裡的重點是色溫與材質的溫度:米黃的石灰塗料、淺褐的木、原色羊毛、未上漆黃銅。但形體與邊界仍然是清楚的:家具有明確的輪廓、光有方向、陰影有可辨認的邊緣、材料之間有對比。柔和極簡則會把這些邊界全部模糊掉。整體是暖的但不是朦朧的。避免:把陰影做成完全沒有邊界的漫射、讓所有材料的明度壓縮到幾乎沒有差別、用織品包住每一個硬的東西、消除光的方向感。