This is a book that tells interior design stories, and it is also a story book that uses design to illuminate life.
As an interior designer, the author used a span of ten years to record more than ten real home renovation stories. From a 200-square-meter villa to a 50-square-meter school district room, from a "refuge" for a female lawyer living alone to an aging-friendly renovation for empty-nesters, behind every space lies a family's secret desire.
"When a person faces the outside world, he needs a window; when a person faces himself, he needs a mirror."
For the past ten years, designers have been installing windows and mirrors for others. The window opens to the world, allowing sunshine, scenery, and life to flow in; the mirror shines on oneself, allowing the secret, lonely, and unwilling corners to be seen. And this book is the observation notes written by the man standing between the window and the mirror.
If you are interested in interior design, here you will find professional thinking extracted from front-line practice, the underlying logic of space planning, and creative methods to turn disadvantages into advantages.
If you are interested in "people", here are more than a dozen real family stories, including marriage, parenthood, living alone, and aging, as well as those unspeakable desires, how to be seen and placed in space.
If you are renovating your own home, there are countless "pitfall guides" here. There are more important things than style - how to place yourself in the space, place relationships, and place the future.
If you just want to read a good book, there is warmth and depth here, there is moonlight shining into the empty house at night, and there is the window to see life again.
