Shoji Panels, Eastern Division
Traditional houses have always been divided into rooms, rooms of different sizes that, in cases where possible, have been widened and enlarged a few at the expense of others with the demolition of partition walls.
Two single rooms become one in a room in an enlarged bedroom, breaking down the wall that separates them, as long as stability is not compromised as a load bearing wall. However, these extensions involve costs and solutions that are not recommended, if what is expected of them is that they are available to make them reversible.
For those who want space and removable expandable, those wishing rooms of varying size with the flexibility to reach your imagination, there are practical closures of paper or light wood.
In this vein, the taste for lofts and apartments by hiperreducido size has led to a compromise and not final for the subdivision of interior spaces. We talked about the shoji panels, these doors of lightweight material, paper or plastic or some more elaborate finishes, cedar wood, but pine, beech or Sapelli, all slippery and originating in Japan.
Shoji panels, although popularly recognized as Japanese in origin are not and were not, his birthplace is China, and were, yes, the Japanese who appropriated and spread its use also as a system for the subdivision traditional to their homes today. The Japanese would import fashion shoji panels to the two hundred years before Christ. Archaeology authentic decoration still in use.
Shoji panels have the charm of which are not only ideal elements to separate or isolate rooms, but to hide a part of the room or house that is not in use. For example, are well in apartments where there is only one room and, with the simple act of running the shoji panels, it manages to appear or disappear fitted kitchen furniture placed in a part of the stay.
Depending on the shoji panels finished, and we are thinking of the wood-is achieved sneak behind him simply adopt the same type of configuration of furniture finishing.
Sometimes, the closure looks like a wall, without guessing what’s behind it, in others it resembles a closet, a trompe l’oeil tricks the eye because the ceiling guidelines that serve to lift the whole structure forward.
But shoji panels can return to the original design source with oriental wallpaper, translucent which provided not only a unique exoticism to stay, but will spend much more light. A very typical of traditional Japanese houses, closed, with few windows, but light that reaches all rooms separated by shoji panels from all sides.
To create such divisions only need to have clear ideas of the design is so simple that the task of creating shoji panels to partition rooms is available to anyone. The first thing is to choose the materials, wood or paper.
If wood finish or find suitable primer to the surface, if it is paper, make a double frame, clinging close to the ceiling with a guide, one behind the other. The decoration of Japanese tissue paper or fabric, if you prefer, you can be up to you, runs from the author’s imagination.
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