Asian Style Houses

The home’s expansive terrace and garden tows the line between privacy and connection. “You'll feel more in tune with nature—embracing sunlight, wind, and the sky—and loosely connected to the urban landscape,” shares Nakamura.

Efe cites a study-abroad year in Denmark for sparking his interest in Japanese culture, as well as his understanding of the design dialogue that flows between Europe and Asia.

Thanks to its size, the living room could accommodate multiple new vignettes like this work area overlooking the Bosphorus Strait.

Efe enclosed an exterior balcony, to convert it to an indoor Zen garden.

Maria Milans del Bosch’s Catskills home is attuned to the changing seasons. Sunlight pours into the double-height living room, where a Stûv fireplace and radiant floors keep the space warm in winter.

Although strikingly different from its traditional farmhouse exterior, the interiors reference the outer appearance with an exposed solid granite wall in the living room and exposed roof trusses with black plated junctions that recall the artisanal joinery and construction techniques found in traditional Japanese homes.

Set on a narrow, 18-foot-wide site, Melt House presents a corrugated exterior.

Clean, lightweight furniture pieces of different styles have been integrated into the living room.

Traditionally home to merchants and craftspeople, a machiya is a type of Japanese wooden townhouse that originated in the Heian period and developed through the Edo and Meiji periods.

The kitchen sits just off the living room area for easy entertaining. The roller shades are from J Geiger.

A little cottage in North Carolina is furnished with a cluster of wood-stump end tables by Urbia, two Eames rockers, and a 16-H wood-burning stove by Stûv. Scaly Mountain, North Carolina Dwell Magazine : September / October 2017

- Leelanau County, Michigan Dwell Magazine : September / October 2017

The Monokuro House blends minimalist, Japanese-inspired architecture with indoor/outdoor California living.