A pair of white, bi-fold closet doors stand closed amid the light blue hue of an adjoining wall in this home deco photo. - Israel Sebastian/Getty Images Did you know you can transform your ...

One of the most famous features of traditional Japanese architecture, shoji 障子 are wooden latticed frames covered in translucent washi paper or cloth, and used to partition space. They typically slide ...

We in the West typically see only the top slices of Japanese aesthetics: the high-concept, glass-and-aluminum Modernism of no-expense- spared commercial projects or the steep-pitched roofs and ...

A shoji is an essential component of traditional Japanese architecture. In lay terms, it is a sliding door or room divider consisting of a wooden frame and translucent washi paper. Of all the design ...

The late morning sun streams through the floor-to-ceiling windows, catching the natural wood floors and bookshelves, the couches and the shoji sliding doors. It is quiet, warm and peaceful. An ideal ...