{"id":705145,"date":"2026-07-22T11:37:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-22T11:37:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/705145\/"},"modified":"2026-07-22T11:37:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T11:37:08","slug":"10-of-japans-most-cleverly-designed-homes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/705145\/","title":{"rendered":"10 of Japan&#8217;s most cleverly designed homes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"Paragraph-styles__ParagraphStyled-sc-ffb5f5ba-0 fqhmpl\">&#8220;This apartment isn&#8217;t a bespoke standalone house, but a standard 1970s 3LDK apartment made radical,&#8221; Giraldeau tells the BBC. The acronym LDK \u2013 living, dining, kitchen \u2013 describes the open-plan format that became standard during Japan&#8217;s postwar urbanisation, with the number denoting bedrooms. Mass-produced for a booming urban workforce, these units are ubiquitous and often generic. Design firm Roovice creates individuality and zoning by using colour, exposed concrete, flexible lighting, custom storage and a cobalt-blue floor strip. &#8220;The canon of Japanese interiors is material-led, not colour-led,&#8221; Giraldeau explains. &#8220;Here, colour is structural rather than decorative \u2013 it organises movement, connects rooms, and turns a standard unit into something personal.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8220;This apartment isn&#8217;t a bespoke standalone house, but a standard 1970s 3LDK apartment made radical,&#8221; Giraldeau tells the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":705146,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[6225,6485,6486,1120,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-705145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/705145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=705145"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/705145\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/705146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=705145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=705145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=705145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}