Why are there more and more interesting home furnishing stores?

When we are in Tokyo, Berlin, Copenhagen or Shanghai, we can always find some special home furnishing stores in some corner of the city. They are not in the busy "golden business district", nor are they chain brands that are "universal in every household". They may not look very approachable, but they demonstrate the unique life interests and personal tastes of the creators.

Oftentimes, it is spaces like these that make up the shining points in our memory of a city, and even become a reference indicator for us to evaluate whether a city is "fashionable", has a "sense of design", or "understands life".

More than a decade ago, when people in Chengdu needed to build a home, they were more accustomed to going to large home furnishing malls. Today, we see that more and more home furnishing stores with unique personalities and international perspectives are beginning to appear in Chengdu, and "home furnishing malls" or "building materials markets" are no longer the only places for people to go.

For example, YEPOM, sort, NORHOR, etc. are “buyer collection stores” that include international first-line home furnishing brands. They present a richer aesthetic form of life in the role of explorers. There are also home furnishing stores such as ohas and MDLxSalt·Light that are no longer limited to the practicality of furniture. Instead, they use the form of “exhibition halls” to connect the sense of art with space and life. And local home furnishing brands such as Ducang and Chaimu Gongfang have begun to occupy a place in people’s “ideal home” with their original designs and craftsmanship…

We spent a day traveling from south to north and from east to west through the urban area of ​​Chengdu and found 17 "treasure" home furnishing stores. Among them are both internationally renowned home furnishing brands and local original niche designs. These home furnishing stores exist in the city with their own characteristics, constantly bringing differentiated choices, adding novelty and vitality to the "home", and enriching the imagination and definition of the "ideal life" of the people in this city.

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Located on the second floor of an old building, Chaimu Workshop's "intentional avoidance" can be seen from its location. As a solid wood furniture store for the public who can afford it, it has not made artistic furniture since its establishment. Chaimu Workshop always puts "practicality" and "texture" first, and has been looking for a balance between the natural touch of solid wood and frugal form. "Making furniture that conforms to the oriental temperament" is its "design origin".

Fashion trends also affect the furniture industry. In different time periods, people's aesthetic perception of furniture is affected by different environments and backgrounds. Each era has its most popular style. However, furniture is not easy to replace and is an object that needs to be used for a long time. Most home furnishing brands advocate that "furniture should be something that people use for a lifetime", which seems to be contrary to fashion trends.

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In the opinion of the manager of Chaimu Workshop, people should return to their own lives and not worry too much about the choice of style. Functionality is the basis and appearance is the appearance.

When we think back to the home scenes that touched us, they were often not the cold model rooms, but the spaces filled with life, or a chair that showed signs of use.

Chaimu Workshop does not pay special attention to style and trend when updating its solid wood furniture products, but instead "observes" life through materials - whether the functions are practical, whether the structural mechanics are reasonable, and whether the furniture can create a warm and lasting living atmosphere.

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🕙 Opening hours: 09:00-17:30

📍 Address: 2nd Floor, Block C, Wuli, No. 40 Huapaifang Street

☎️ Contact: 18608009068; 13398176777

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In the "vitality" of the street, Ducang seems like an "out-of-place" outsider. No matter how noisy and bustling it is outside, it remains calm and slowly searches for the "favorite thing" in life.

As a home furnishing brand that loves life, Ducang not only develops original furniture, but also represents and sells some excellent design brands at home and abroad. Through this home furnishing store, these products with excellent design and fine craftsmanship spread the aesthetics of life to the public. Li Ranran, the manager of Ducang, said: "We hope that when Ducang is filled with furniture from all over the world, the people who come here will have their unique lives enriched."

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The minimalist aesthetics under simplicity makes Ducang more low-key and restrained, and the household items displayed in the space complement the temperament created by the entire brand. Ducang's style lies in that it never "qualifies" life, and always believes that furniture and objects are a kind of "auxiliary materials" that can add a more mellow taste to life, but how to shape life is always centered on "residents".

In the future, the forms of presenting "aesthetics of life" will become more and more diversified, and Ducang will continue to adhere to the lifestyle it advocates in this process, allowing people to feel the value of simplicity.

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🕙 Business hours: 10:00-18:00 (closed on Tuesdays)

📍 Address: No. 5, Qinglian Shangjie, No. 10

☎️ Contact: 13568685285

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Continuing the "new Chinese style" of Fnji Living Room, this store located in Chengdu Taikoo Li still has the sense of accommodation in the oriental artistic conception. It is easy for people to capture Fnji's unique temperament here. The plainness, quietness and long-lost sense of belonging together constitute Fnji's philosophy of life.

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This two-story stand-alone building with a total area of ​​536m² combines a Sichuan-Western style green tile sloping roof with a large area of ​​floor-to-ceiling glass curtain walls, and has an aesthetic form of "Eastern learning spreading to the West".

The interior design of Fnji's living room adopts elements from the movie "New Dragon Inn", rendering the entire space with a large area of ​​"desert color". The sunlight falls through the open or narrow gaps on the top of the building, making the dual texture of light and dark emerge immediately.

As an independent furniture brand in China, Fnji has been continuously collecting and observing domestic aesthetic spaces and foreign rustic designs since its establishment in 2010.

In the opinion of Gao Guqi, the owner of Fnji, we need to constantly reflect on what kind of furniture atmosphere the Chinese people should be shaped into. Fnji's furniture products are devoted to integrating traditional craftsmanship with more diverse design elements, taking furniture as the starting point and constantly looking for aesthetic interest in life.

🕙 Opening hours: 10:00-22:00

📍 Address: 2230, 2nd Floor, Sino-Ocean Taikoo Li, No. 8, Zhongshamao Street, Jinjiang District, Chengdu

☎️ Contact: 028-65100422

Muji Products, which is currently busy "moving", is a home furnishing store in the form of an exhibition hall. After feeling the depth of the wood texture, it extends the handcraftsmanship into a "poetic conception". The manager of Muji Products said: "We have designed some freehand oriental elements, such as mountains, water and other natural shapes, into some furniture. "Modern poetic dwelling" is exactly the concept we want to convey, and it is also the special feature of the furniture we launched."

While continuously launching original works, Muji products always uphold the "craftsman spirit". Muji products are mainly practical and simple, while also reflecting the understanding of Chinese furniture. Many products in this series retain the "carved elements" of traditional craftsmanship.

The design style learned from Western home furnishing brands has taught wood products to "simplify the complex". It combines creativity and tradition, and "borrows power" from classics to keep the design reasonable and fresh.

We found MUMO, a shop with a wooden horse at the door, in the Vanke neighborhood after passing through Dongjiao Memory. Compared with the noise and bustle of the neighborhood, MUMO's quietness and low-keyness make people who step into this space feel settled. Its owner, Li Sien, has been making furniture since he was in his 20s. He has a natural preference for wooden products because of his love for wood.

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When you push open the door of MUMO, you will feel the texture of the furniture because of the warmth of wood. This textured material retains the original flavor of nature. MUMO is knocking them into objects that combine "inner emotions" and "warmth of life", allowing people to see the rustic temperament shaped by the traces of hand-made.

MUMO's furniture is made of black walnut, red oak, cherry wood and other wood that meet FSC standards, and it always adheres to the "environmentally friendly, natural and healthy" furniture manufacturing concept.

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MUMO advocates "simple life" and is not limited to the creative value of "woodworking skills". It also hopes to convey a life philosophy that "furniture can make family members care for each other". In their view, caring and loving each other among family members is happier than living in a gorgeous house.

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🕙 Opening hours: 10:00-22:00

📍 Address: Shop 011/012, 1F, Vanke Tianhui, Shanbanqiao Road

☎️ Contact: 19113969087

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We always say that the atmosphere of "home" can give people the greatest comfort, but what kind of "scale" is appropriate? This needs to be determined by the details of objects and space, and Shannian Woodwork is such a home furnishing brand that pays attention to details.

It no longer emphasizes the stereotypes of "nature and environmental protection" that come to mind when talking about "woodwork". Instead, it hopes that through a serious attitude in the production process and control of details, it can more or less change the tiny details of life and create a comfortable posture belonging to "home".

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There are many production tools placed in the store, and while browsing household items, one can also visually see the "production dynamics" of the objects.

Shannian Woodwork always puts "listening" first in its customization. It is a home furnishing brand that cares deeply about "individuals" and "living habits". This can be seen in the products it designs and produces, such as: a picture frame that cannot be used as a dressing mirror is not a good grille, a sideboard that cannot be transformed is not a good cup holder, and a cherry wood house that cannot be changed to white is not a good children's bed...

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Although wooden furniture is not something special in the industry, it is not easy to design a living space for people to "take root". In the face of rapid changes in society, only objects that have been polished by hand can connect the sincerity of time.

🕙 Business hours: 10:00-18:00 (Monday to Sunday)

📍 Address: No. 321 Fanmu Creative Arts District, No. 666 Donghong Road

☎️ Contact: 18190685780

If you are a reader who has been watching our subscription account recently, I believe you must know about the research project "Amazing Kitchen" about lifestyle. This is an activity jointly planned by Yizhuyishi and Xique Life. Starting from "home", we observe different kitchens and explore different lifestyles and life trajectories.

As a home experience center under Joy Life, Xi Que Life Hall has built a total of 5,000 square meters of real-life experience halls. In addition to the selection of many first-line home brands such as Arflex and Bonaldo, there are also lectures, exhibitions and activities on "life aesthetics". For example, the "Holding a Solo Exhibition at Home" event held not long ago found "N ways to open the home" from different perspectives.

As a non-traditional soft furnishings hall, this place is more like an "amusement park". Through the close connection between art and life, you will be baptized by art exhibitions and installation art from the moment you enter the door. The space creation of 6 major themes not only has the cuteness of the "crazy zoo", but also the natural mystery of the "botanical garden".

Xi Que Life Home Furnishing Museum has never stopped its understanding and research on the main materials and soft furnishings of household items. In addition to the ability to independently produce customized products, Xi Que has created exciting design solutions through research on people's lives.

It is like a "life sample". In the case of insight into contemporary life, it constantly "intervenes" in our lives appropriately through activities, exhibitions, and design solutions. This intervention is not mandatory, but rather corrects and assists our "ideal life" from an "experimental" perspective.

🕙 Business hours: 10:00-18:00 (Monday to Sunday)

📍 Address: 5th Floor, Fusenmei Store No. 1, next to Chengdu South Station

☎️ Contact: 4001798992

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"Don't panic about life" is the first message that Zhaijiang conveys to people. This niche brand founded in China only makes furniture products with wood wax oil. Unlike ordinary paint products on the market, wood wax oil is mainly composed of vegetable oil, which eliminates toxic and harmful volatiles such as benzene and formaldehyde from the raw materials, and has strong environmental protection performance. Therefore, "paying attention to environmental protection" has become the second message conveyed by Zhaijiang.

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When Zhaijiang was first established, it successively represented furniture from designer brands imported from Denmark, such as Carl Hansen and Fredercia, as well as Spanish natural clay plaster and British bone porcelain lamps OriginalBTC last year. These time-tested furniture always carry a sense of story, and this "depth of life" impressed the owner of Zhaijiang.

"I think it's probably that we can slowly add to our own homes, and add some meaningful corners according to our own preferences. It may be a handicraft brought back from a tourist attraction, or a blanket in the corner of the study... As long as the shadow of life can be traced on the furniture, then this sense of story and inheritance will definitely continue." she said.

A large area of ​​light is introduced into the space of Zhaijiang, and the floor-to-ceiling glass windows carry two life centers inside and outside the space - a calm life attitude inside the space, and a changing world with many challenges outside the space. Zhaijiang conveys a concept through both inside and outside, that is, to always maintain curiosity about life and continue to explore, and at the same time, not panic or rush, so as to be in the best state.

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🕙 Business hours: 10:00-17:00 (Monday to Sunday)

📍 Address: Room 216, 2nd Floor, Building 5, No. 499, Qili Road

☎️ Contact: 15680811115

This brand is regarded as the "youngest but fastest growing" in the Chinese home furnishing industry. It has everything from furniture to lamps and tableware. As a home furnishing brand that designs all categories, Zaozuo has created a fashionable, modern and bright style for Chinese contemporary furniture. This style that meets the needs of contemporary urban families has enabled Zaozuo to successfully create brand independence.

The Zaozuo space located in Chengdu Joy City is based on "classification rules" and "scenario creation". Daily necessities and small items are displayed in order according to their usage, while furniture is designed and placed according to scenes and spaces in life. The rich experience begins from the moment you enter.

From its establishment in 2014 to this year, in just 5 years, Zaozuo has expanded its footprint to major cities in China. This home furnishing brand with "Internet thinking" quickly pushed its "original works" to a wider market.

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🕙 Opening hours: 10:00-22:00

📍 Address: No. 2F-033, Joy City, Chengdu, No. 518 Dayue Road

☎️ Contact: 4001780014

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DOMARTIST Design Aesthetics Museum carries a kind of "literary spirit". In Chengdu, a city with a strong literary and artistic atmosphere, they chose a literary and creative park like Dongjiao Memory to do something that carefully studies the literary and artistic temperament of life. This has always been the focus they advocated.

It seems inaccurate to describe it as a "home museum". In the 4400m² space, DOMARTIST covers almost all home styles. It is more like a "life sample". Through the collection of diverse and rich details, the art of life gradually takes shape, just as its name wants to express - DOM, home, gathering; ARTIST, artist, this is an aesthetic collection museum that contains countless home art.

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Currently, the space of DOMARTIST Design Aesthetics Museum can be regarded as the largest designer furniture buyer store in the southwest region. In addition to design, home furnishings, cultural and creative industries, and handcrafts, there are also art exhibitions, salons, and coffee... It is not only a design aesthetics museum, but also a home inspiration library, and also a life aesthetics laboratory. All extensions of the aesthetic forms of the home are within the scope of DOMARTIST's exploration.

DOMARTIST is like a seesaw, balancing art and life by exploring beauty. This balance allows people and space to respect each other and live in harmony, extending the joy of life from the inside out.

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🕙 Business hours: 10:00-21:00 (Monday to Sunday in spring and summer), 10:00-18:00 (Monday to Sunday in autumn and winter)

📍 Address: No. 4 Jianshe South Branch Road (Eastern Suburbs Memory)

☎️ Contact: 4001799264

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At a time when the "cold" style is highly sought after, HAY has reinterpreted the definition of minimalist art with its vibrant colors and charming lines. Its simple design and bright color matching allow furniture and accessories to catch people's attention in a very short time, and its highly recognizable "small but exquisite" design elements make it stand out from the mainstream of "minimalist art".

Since the emergence of HAY, people have realized that "black, white and gray" does not equal simplicity. HAY is a home furnishing brand originated in Copenhagen, Denmark. It was founded in 2002. Its official website has a description like this: "A brand without ambitions". In HAY's view, furniture is an object that accompanies people through a long period of time. It is not a fast-moving consumer product and is not easily replaced. Before choosing a piece of furniture, you need to have a question in your heart - "Are you willing to live with it for many years?"

This brand, which ranks among the most popular home furnishing brands among young people, has a high reputation abroad. It cooperates with many well-known designers. Even the selection of furniture materials is in cooperation with well-known designers, such as the fabric company kvadrat. In addition to the design aesthetics, durability, environmental protection, and safety make HAY an affordable "good" design.

HAY is located in Chengdu Yintai City in99. From a distance, the combination of black lines and large glass windows makes the brand's simple and modern temperament stand out. At the same time, the colors displayed in the store constantly communicate with people. From furniture, kitchenware, bathroom to office supplies, toys, and small accessories, they all have a refined pursuit of life. If you want to have some "lustful ways" in life, then HAY can easily help you achieve this surprising fun.

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🕙 Opening hours: 10:00-22:00

📍 Address: D104, 1st Floor, In99 Inner Street, Yintai Center, No. 1199, Tianfu Avenue North Section, Chengdu

☎️ Contact: +86 28 6577 3513

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If you still remember the retro style of Salt·Light, a second-hand furniture store, then its new space, which is a deep collaboration with MDL (Multi Design Lab), will definitely give you a refreshing feeling.

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In the Fanmu Creative Art Zone, the furniture lifestyle center jointly created by two independent brands, MDLxSalt·Light, provides a "base" with a great experience for exploring lifestyles under diverse aesthetic forms.

Just like MDL's Multi, it not only provides "one-stop service" brought by the whole house customization system, but also provides space design and furniture exhibition. For example, Salt Light launched furniture design products from the 1930s to the 1970s. In addition, MDL also operates its own coffee brand Bloomy Café downstairs in the home furnishings hall.

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Through the new home living museum created by MDLxSalt·Light, people can see the essence of life by observing objects with different histories and from different stages - to create a comfortable home environment, all the objects in this space must be able to cooperate with and serve the lifestyle and usage habits of the residents. After all, people are the "core" of life.

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In the same space, one can interpret the contemporary furniture design concept represented by MDL and appreciate the medieval furniture style represented by Salt Light. The two brands complement each other and jointly support this unique aesthetic ecological space of "new" and "old".

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🕙 Business hours: 09:30-18:00 (Monday to Sunday)

📍 Address: No. 1-01, 2nd Floor, Area D, Fanmu Creative Park, Longquanyi District

☎️ Contact: MDL_offical (WeChat)

The name of Sort is derived from the phonetic symbol of the English word sort, which literally means "classification, selection", but the concept of the brand owner Yu Zhou extends it to a deeper meaning at this level - by carefully selecting excellent designs, people can pursue a sense of ritual in life. Just like the slogan in the store, "for your daily ceremony".

Sɔ:rt, located in Chengdu Taikoo Li business district, uses only blue and white as the main visual of the space. This simple and playful sense of fashion makes it stand out among a large number of metal design styles. Coincidentally, Sort is a furniture collection store independently established by HAY's Chinese agent. Due to Yuzhou's love for the life philosophy behind Nordic home furnishing brands, most of the 13 home furnishing brands displayed in Sort are from Northern Europe. These simple, fashionable and avant-garde designs bring many interesting details to ordinary life.

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Since its establishment, Sort has always insisted on selecting high-quality home furnishings and daily necessities from all over the world. They hope that this is not just a home furnishing collection store that displays "beautiful things", but also wants people to discover the "little brain holes" that exist in life through here, so that the design aesthetics and home atmosphere can be integrated to add a sense of ritual to their lives.

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🕙 Opening hours: 10:00-22:00

📍 Address: No. B1-M072, Taikoo Li, No. 8 Zhongshamao Street, Jinjiang District, Chengdu (next to Fangsuo Bookstore)

☎️ Contact: 028-85466652

This home furnishing store hidden in the "old factory" is "shining" in the E-two hangar rebuilt by Yuantai Design. As a furniture service provider, Vander·Rohe Furniture (hereinafter referred to as "Vander·Rohe") represents dozens of world-renowned furniture brands, including Germany's "VITRA" and "THONET", Denmark's "HAY", Finland's "AVARTE", China's "STELLAR WORKS"...

In the display area on the first floor, there are chair models from famous designers around the world. Through this wall with a "52-year history", we at Van der Rohe can easily trace back the touch and fusion of "chairs and industrial design" over the past century.

Lao Wu, the manager of Van der Rohe, believes that in the constant contact with international furniture brands, how to enable ordinary people to choose good designs that suit them is a question that home furnishing museums need to think about.

Whether from the perspective of original design, extraordinary quality or independent aesthetics, Van der Rohe always maintains its own "selection standards". The home furnishing brands they launch and cooperate with must be "the one" that has unique value in the field of design or manufacturing and can withstand the test of time and aesthetics.

From the home furnishing brand launched by Van der Rohe, we can feel that this is more like an "exchange platform" for international furniture design. In the present and future when products and brands are overly abundant, we should not simply think that "home furnishing sales" across the ocean are just a kind of product transportation, nor are they just a blind cooperation with the "home decoration" space. What is important is whether people can understand the story behind the home furnishing and whether they can have a pleasant sensory experience.

🕙 Business hours: 09:00-18:00 (Monday to Friday)

📍 Address: E-two Hangar, No. 3 Taipingsi West Road

☎️ Contact: 83227183; 15191048907

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Speaking of YEPOM, those well-known first-tier international design home brands are already on display in our minds. From Montana to String, Normann Copenhagen, MUUTO, Herman Miller, Flos...YEPOM, a design furniture collection store established in 2016, has already "collected" more than 10 first-tier international brands.

The YEPOM, which was transformed from an old factory building, reveals its "cunningness" in creating 100 possibilities for life. The interior of the space cleverly combines home furnishing brands according to different "life scenes", and the mutual support of each product makes it easier for people to discover changes in life.

"As a multi-brand home furnishing store, in addition to design aesthetics as the primary consideration for product and brand selection, we will think more about what these furniture can bring to people and what problems they can solve in daily use. For example, for a chair, we will consider whether the material is environmentally friendly, whether it is durable, whether daily maintenance and cleaning are easy, whether it is ergonomic, and even what the designer's own attitude towards life and design concept are conveying, and whether it can also bring some spiritual influence and motivation to the user." said the manager Kola.

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Space is not static. YEPOM finds the "opportunities" for the ever-changing life through continuous innovation, and promotes people's understanding of life. Kola hopes that "YEPOM is not only a collection store where you can buy classic original design home furnishings, but also a link between designers, home furnishing enthusiasts and furniture brands."

This "bond" not only allows people to have a better understanding of the historical stories and cultural concepts behind home furnishing brands, but also allows people of different ages to find the lifestyle they want in it.

🕙 Opening hours: 09:00-18:00

📍 Address: Pavilion M, Fanmu Creative Arts District, No. 666 Donghong Road, Longquanyi District, Chengdu

☎️ Contact: 17828012752

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We often say that "home" is the most comfortable place, and it is the only place where people can be defenseless. The square space is filled with people's understanding, dependence and unconditional trust in life. This feeling, which runs counter to the indifference and hardship of reality, is felt again and again when the door is opened.

When it comes to space, we usually form our first impression of it or judge its value based on its size, decoration design, layout and orientation. However, when faced with a space with strong privacy, people's placement and arrangement obviously negate this "conventional thinking".

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From a chair, a dining table, a lamp to a model room, a home museum, an aesthetic space, the free extension of life is not only the continuous expansion of breadth, but also the increasing depth of inner richness. People's understanding of "home" has changed from the size and number of objects to the exploration and creation of the living environment.

This change is becoming more and more obvious with the completion of each house. More and more people are beginning to pursue the true value of life and refuse to imitate. When faced with bare space and plain walls, people are more concerned about what "optimal lifestyle" they should use to present their homes.

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The "home furnishing halls" scattered throughout the city are constantly innovating people's inherent impression of "furniture" in a diversified form. The brand stories make people aware of the preciousness of historical years, and the way furniture is displayed makes people feel the style of artistic life... No matter what form the home furnishing halls emerge in, they are still the "capillaries" that construct human life and social culture.

When we want to regain our imagination of life, the "home" space created by objects is enriching our hearts. These physical spaces with warmth and comfort have become places where people's hearts can take root.

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