Transform Your Interior : Create a Calming Interior with Japandi Roomdividers
- Thijs van Eijk
- Jul 23, 2024
- 3 min read
Updated: Dec 18, 2024
"Home, a sanctuary, a place where we feel secure, cherished, and calm. Every living being deserves a home, a sanctuary."
Racing Thoughts
We live in a fast-paced society driven by a strong collective urge to efficiency, where answers are wanted now. This leads to “always-on minds” anticipating the next thing to come.
Photo by: Tanya J. Peterson. 2024
The continuous flow of racing thoughts with often repetitive thought patterns result in stress, anxiety and even insomnia.
So many of us are stretched to un-imagineable lengths to make it through the day. We need a reset.
To combat this, we can create a sanctuary at home to unwind and disconnect. A sanctuary to disrupt the input of the chaotic outside world.
Let's take a breath and remember to care for yourself, be gentle with yourself, to love yourself and your family. To love this beautiful planet and the gift of life.
The healing effect of nature & patterns
Research indicates that being in natural surroundings can decrease stress, reduce blood pressure, enhance moods, and boost overall health.
Geometric repetitive patterns such as tessellations, fractals, and line patterns are abundant in nature. These patterns recur in nature as a result of chemical interactions, natural laws (e.g. natural selection), and physical laws (e.g. the interaction of energy and matter). By studying nature, we can gain valuable insights and incorporate these patterns into serene interior designs to promote relaxation.
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Design Fundamentals
Neuroscientists have extensively researched the impact of visual patterns on our emotions, cognition, and actions. Design principles such as symmetry, complexity, lines, and balance play a crucial role in shaping human thoughts and behavior.
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Lines, Complexity, Symmetry and Balance
For example, upward diagonal lines are related to a person’s mind with higher activity levels, whereas descending diagonal lines are associated with relaxation of the mind.
Visual complexity is another important driver of human experience and has an impact on cognitive performance. A moderate complexity in patterns around us is optimal for our mental and physical well-being. If the amount of information about our surroundings, including our interior, is of high complexity, our energy level increases.
By adding symmetry to designs complexity reduces and is found more appealing to humans.
Like in nature everything is about balance, rhythm and harmony ever evolving to infinity as one and the same substance.
Repetitive patterns to reduce stress
It is quite ironic that using repetitive visual patterns inspired by nature can help decrease repetitive thoughts and aid in reducing stress. Naturally, the most effective way to reduce stress is to spend time outdoors surrounded by nature.
But due to urbanization and other social behavioral changes we spend 70-90% of our time indoors.
So, if we spend most of our time between walls, why not surround ourselves with interiors that breathe nature and contribute to calming the mind and relaxation?
Create your own sanctuary with the Japandi Roomdividers from Ginza Lines
Ginza Lines designed a collection of solid oakwood roomdividers handcrafted using Japanese woodwork techniques. Each japandi roomdivider is designed with a unique story with its roots in Edo, known today as Tokyo.
Each roomdivider has a minimalist design pattern which brings order and piece to your space and mind. Whether it's your bedroom, living room, home office, a retail store or restaurant, adding a roomdivider to your space will transform your room and your state of mind in a subtle way.
