Things don’t have to be that way, though. As home to over half the world’s population, Asia offers a diverse range of design styles. In fact, where we are, in Southeast Asia, has a particularly rich playbook in the realm of aesthetics and craft.
Places are perhaps the most common sources of inspiration when conceptualising a home’s design. But one common trap that comes with having a site-specific frame of reference is falling back into tired, boring tropes.
Take Asian-inspired homes, for instance. Your mind probably went straight to blue-and-white porcelain, Shoji doors, red lanterns and bamboo motifs.
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