Why China's Super Wealthy Turning to Tradition-Looking Homes?

[AndrewJin]

Would it be possible to share some of the photos of your house?

I hope he can have some viet elements, not purely white.

 

[terranMarine]

I hope he can have some viet elements, not purely white.

Well just curious how he decorates his rooms, the simplistic style which he describes could be an inspiration too.

 

[Shotgunner51]

I am afraid that are not in the same building, but all are Chinese style furniture and decoration.
this is common in China now if you decide to decorate your house in Chinese style.

Thanks, those are some very nice traditional designs you got there! OK you got living rooms and dinning rooms, here I got one for study, and the other for bedroom.

 

[Erhabi]

I just love Chinese architecture. It looks so magnificent.I will build my own house like this..InshaAllah. I have visited a few Chinese houses and I just love the way they decorate their courtyards..

 

[gambit]

Would it be possible to share some of the photos of your house?

Possible ? Yes. Probable ? No.

Sorry, but my home is hardly inspirational for anyone. Am a guy with sometimes able to act like a gentleman. Am cheap. My furniture is IKEA quality. No more and there is no need to be any more. I have probably Sony's last rear projection TV in existence. It is 720p resolution. It is dying because it is taking longer and longer to boot up. It is the only TV in the house and only when it finally give up the ghost is when I will get another TV. I have one LG blu ray player.

I have an old but still good Linn LP12 turntable, an NAD 310 amplifier, a Nakamichi Dragon cassette deck, and a pair of Magnepan speakers. I have plenty of vinyls. I collect bookends and replica scientific and navigational instruments. I have plenty of books and they are all over my home.

I believe in supporting local artists so I have a few pieces from local art events. I also have a few pieces that I brought back from Viet Nam. But nothing spectacular. I have some aviation related stuff that I put among my books. My home is definitely 'lived in', as in it is not neat. Am not compulsive regarding everything must have a place. It is not messy, but it is not magazine worthy either.

 

[terranMarine]

Possible ? Yes. Probable ? No.

Sorry, but my home is hardly inspirational for anyone. Am a guy with sometimes able to act like a gentleman. Am cheap. My furniture is IKEA quality. No more and there is no need to be any more. I have probably Sony's last rear projection TV in existence. It is 720p resolution. It is dying because it is taking longer and longer to boot up. It is the only TV in the house and only when it finally give up the ghost is when I will get another TV. I have one LG blu ray player.

I have an old but still good Linn LP12 turntable, an NAD 310 amplifier, a Nakamichi Dragon cassette deck, and a pair of Magnepan speakers. I have plenty of vinyls. I collect bookends and replica scientific and navigational instruments. I have plenty of books and they are all over my home.

I believe in supporting local artists so I have a few pieces from local art events. I also have a few pieces that I brought back from Viet Nam. But nothing spectacular. I have some aviation related stuff that I put among my books. My home is definitely 'lived in', as in it is not neat. Am not compulsive regarding everything must have a place. It is not messy, but it is not magazine worthy either.

I respect that, still you provided us with a nice description of your home as a humble proud owner making the place as cozy as possible fitting to your own needs. Not everyone can afford or want to purchase expensive furniture. One of my interests is the different styles of interior home designs that's why i asked.

 

[yusheng]

a traditional bed in my hometown, ningbo museum, more privacy kept.

tell you a scenery spot (郑氏十七房) in ningbo, where you can see a lots of traditional houses and furnitures preserved well:

 

[ahojunk]

@yusheng

My first impression of this - a house within a house.

It is very beautiful though.

 

[Nilgiri]

@yusheng

My first impression of this - a house within a house.

It is very beautiful though.

I have seen such articles in museums about Chinese culture in Singapore, HK and Malaysia....plus in Canada too.

Very beautiful. There are also some very nicely designed cabinets etc.

 

[yusheng]

@ahojunk
yes, it is beautiful, but also very functional though it is not easy to introduce here, there are several traditional beds in mordern Chinese hotel, though a slightly reversed to suit today's life.
you can try when you have chance in China

 

[gambit]

I respect that, still you provided us with a nice description of your home as a humble proud owner making the place as cozy as possible fitting to your own needs. Not everyone can afford or want to purchase expensive furniture. One of my interests is the different styles of interior home designs that's why i asked.

How the wealthy lives today is indeed palatial for yesterday. The average American suburbia home today would make the owner high upper class for yesterday. Blenheim Palace ? That is a castle. I have been in multi-million dollars homes before. Am not talking as a tourist going thru a celebrity's house. Am talking about going as a guest for a 'backyard' BBQ, and I put 'backyard' in quotes to mean something else.

In one large house on what we in the Western US calls 'horse property', the guy like the large space, land and house, simply because he wanted room to move around. The furniture he bought from RC Willey and JC Penney. Typical commercial box stores, not designer anything. The appliances he bought from Sears. He drives Jeeps and GMC trucks. His decor contains taxidermy trophies of his hunts, a couple I think were illegal, as in out of license and season. He has a man-cave and he set up like a mini movie theater. It was a guy's -- not a man's -- house.

In another house, this family must have gone thru as many magazines as they could to create something worthy of being in a magazine. Everything was either polished or coated. I was afraid to even breathe on anything, lest Jeeves the Butler sneered at me whilst he wipes away my peasant discharge. There was a display of what the host claimed to be a slab, not just a piece, of the Berlin Wall, and the thing was under a soft white museum quality spotlight in the corner of the 'greeting room'. Now, the 'greeting room' is where guests who are strangers are confined until they leave. Friends are moved deeper into the 'living room' where the furniture are more comfortable. Then family and close friends can stay in the 'family room' where you can fart and everyone would laugh.

Sorry, but I would rather stay in the first house.

To me, the most comfortable house is the one that is decorated, to use the word liberally, the way YOU like it and it has to be from deep within. The moment you start perusing magazines is the moment you begin to depart from yourself and in danger of being pretentious. Right now, am building a computer desk that is going to outlive me. Look up 'pipe furniture'. It fits both my style and needs. All the materials I can buy from the local home improvement store. I have no idea on what the hell am doing but if all it takes is assembling pipes and fittings, am in it until the project is done. If there is a 'theme', using the word liberally, the kind thing to say about me is 'eclectic'. The most dominant thing in my 'theme' is the book.

 

[terranMarine]

@gambit
Do share some photos of your computer desk once it is finished. Pipe furniture is a new concept to me as i have never seen it before and from the looks of it from google it's an interesting idea for DIY.

 

[AndrewJin]

@gambit
Do share some photos of your computer desk once it is finished. Pipe furniture is a new concept to me as i have never seen it before and from the looks of it from google it's an interesting idea for DIY.

I am really really curious about how overseas viet decorate their rooms, how different from in vietnam? Looking forward for his photos.

 

[gambit]

I am really really curious about how overseas viet decorate their rooms, how different from in vietnam? Looking forward for his photos.

With a lot of anti-China posters making fun of Mao.

 

[AndrewJin]

With a lot of anti-China posters making fun of Mao.

Then their life is so pathetic, so obsessed with their Chinese masters.