Contemporary Chinese Home With Courtyard & Glass Bottom Pool

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Mild and modern, this peaceful contemporary Chinese home design creates a canvas for enriched living. Visualised by Shexia Space Design, this is a space where crisp and sleek aesthetics come face to face with the imperfect beauty of Wabi-sabi elements, and merge with the softness of the natural world. An indoor courtyard brings trees to a games room, a traditional Chinese tea room and a slick conversation pit, all under the dappled light of a glass bottom swimming pool. The design team reflects: “In the irreversible process of urbanization, we abandon the old way of life… The most precious in a space, the sun, the wind, beautiful people, and the bits and pieces of the past.”

The outer courtyard forms an instant sense of serenity around the modern home, providing a place for calm contemplation by a peaceful reflection pool.

By night the pool is lit around its edges to create an inviting atmospheric glow.

Terraces wrap the modern living room on two sides, creating a tranquil double aspect. A black curved sofa edges the outer perimeter of the lounge, gently embracing an ombre round coffee table at its centre.

A Wabi-sabi moment shapes the focal point in the living room, with a perfectly imperfect TV wall.

A red accent chair offers a pop of heat to the cool neutral decor palette. The chair’s crisp modern design both counteracts the rough feature wall and connects through curvaceous form.

The lounge opens directly into a luxurious dining room with a fabulous modern dining chandelier. The impressive fixture dips an entire story from the double height ceiling void, threading giant beads of light along its strings.

Whether it’s a fruit bowl or a fish bowl, a large rectangle dining table needs a centrepiece–or two.

The dining table merges into a rugged stone kitchen island. Light cream modern dining chairs provide clean contrast against the grey rock feature.

A warm, sunny wooden kitchen rises as backdrop to the cool stone kitchen island. Smooth wooden backsplashes extend the effects of the light cabinets to achieve one solid seamless look.

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Sunlight filters down through an indoor courtyard design, where it dapples the wall by a chic white circular conversation pit. See more inspiration for stylish conversation pits here.

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Just past the conversation pit, an elegant Chinese tea room is fashioned with a unique stone and wood table design and a set of unique chairs.

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Lattice screens zone the tea room in the open plan, and add warmth to plain white wall decor.

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Teapots are displayed in a decorative collection over a system of illuminated shelves. One teapot dangles dramatically above the solid stone plinth support of the unusual table design.

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By the opposite edge of the round conversation pit there stands is a games room with a bar.

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Red chairs splash drama around the poker table.

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As we wander further into the courtyard, we find that the dappled sunlight is dancing through the blue waters of an overhead swimming pool. White walls and a white pebbled courtyard floor increase light reflection.

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Small trees in the courtyard give the games room, tea room and conversation pit an indoor-outdoor living experience.

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At the back of the games room, the wet bar shimmers in a luxe golden finish. Contemporary black bar stools anchor down the palette, set out in front of a monolithic island.

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A gold kitchen tap and golden fixtures give the whole arrangement a dignified sense of opulence.

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The bar area ends with an unusually situated bookcase. The tower of knowledge reaches all the way from the games room to the study on the next floor up. A librarian ladder provides access to the highest tomes.

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The bespoke bookcase stretches across the mezzanine modern home office, divided only by a perfectly clear glass balustrade. Two comfortable chairs pull up at a double workspace.

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An unusual golden floor lamp adds a sense of whimsy to the study. The glass bottom swimming pool continues to reshape and redirect sunlight from above.

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Lattice room dividers have been influenced by Japanese Shoji screens, to lightly define different areas in the open plan floor layout.

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A swivel lounge chair and matching footstool create an inviting reading spot.

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The master bedroom has its own private lounge area, furnished with a tasteful chaise and a designer chair.

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A small side table pushes in a flash of black veined pattern, which complements a black TV wall.

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A spiral staircase gives an unexpected twist to the master suite.

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Spirals, curves and circular motifs shape a consistent shape theme throughout the home, seen here in the round rug and side table.

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The brown lounge chair makes a warm companion to a natural live edge floating tv stand.

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Rich brown upholstery wraps the bed, creating dark contrast against creamy wall panels.

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A freeform striplight snakes up onto the ceiling over the modern bedroom, in lieu of a bedside table lamp.

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White decorative vases lighten up the floating bedside table. An end of bed bench is topped with a chocolate slab cushion to tie in with the colour of the bedstead.

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The bathroom is a captivating hub of Wabi-sabi essence, where uneven nooks carve into stone walls. The irregular decoration forms a framework around glass doors into the bathroom and a luxury stone bathtub.