Traditional Chinese residential design thought is closely connected with oriental philosophy. The traditional Chinese style interior design absorbs the characteristics of "form" and "spirit" of traditional decoration in terms of interior layout, line shape, color, and the shape of furniture and furnishings. If you want to know about Chinese decoration style for your interior, stay tuned!

Traditional Chinese Interior Design Guide - Best Chinese Style Decoration Characteristics & Concepts

The characteristics of Chinese traditional interior decoration art are that the overall layout is symmetrical and balanced, correct and stable, while the decorative details advocate natural taste, and the essence of flowers, birds, fish, and insects are carefully polished and rich in changes, which fully reflects the spirit of Chinese traditional aesthetics. The traditional Chinese interior design style pays more attention to the dignified temperament and rich connotation of grace. From the display of furniture to the layout of furnishings, it often adopts the balanced approach to achieve a steady and solemn effect and pursue a life realm of self-cultivation. Most traditional Chinese wall tiles use the primary color of building materials, paint the wood and draw color paintings for decoration.

Chinese Style Interior Design Concepts

1. Chinese space

For the Chinese style in home decoration, to reflect its traditional Chinese style, we still need to design through the sense of space in the house. The architectural design is the main embodiment of a decoration style. The traditional Chinese style bedroom mainly includes three main areas: hall, bedroom, and study. The interior space needs to achieve a balanced design. At the same time, the typical Chinese style also pays attention to the treatment of partition. In addition, it also needs to have the main design concepts of yin-yang balance and smooth airfield.

2. Chinese furniture

Chinese furniture is the best embodiment of Chinese style design. We can see the figure of traditional Chinese palace architecture in Chinese furniture. At the same time, Chinese style furniture pays attention to symmetrical shape, and the color is mainly decorative wood, reflecting the aesthetic and natural design concept. Chinese style furniture mainly includes tables, chairs, beds, and other different furniture. The Chinese style bed is a four-column or six-column shelf bed, and you can also surround the shelf with curtains, and the top of the bed has a top cover. This design is the embodiment of the traditional Chinese style. And Chinese furniture is also the best embodiment in the study. Traditional Chinese classical furniture is used in the study, which reflects the aesthetic Chinese style.

3. Chinese decoration

Chinese-style houses mainly reflect the implicit temperament of Chinese people. Deer, fish, magpie and plum are common decorative patterns. Chinese style ornaments also have some auspicious meanings. Chinese people like auspicious meanings, so the selected ornaments need to have some auspicious meanings. Among them, the Chinese-style rooms often use the word "Fu" and "Lu" to mean the auspicious meaning of "Lu". At the same time, landscape painting is often used in the study, which can reflect the rich scholarly flavor and get a traditional Chinese design.

Chinese Style Decor Characteristics 

1. Distinct sense of hierarchy

The traditional Chinese style is very particular about the sense of spatial hierarchy. According to the different number of residential users, it makes separate functional spaces, and uses "dumb mouth" or simplified Bogu frame to distinguish; Where it is necessary to isolate the line of sight, Chinese screens or window frames are used.

2. Layout symmetry

The traditional Chinese style mainly adopts the symmetrical layout, with elegant style, simple and beautiful shape, thick and mature colors. Its internal furnishings include calligraphy and paintings, plaques, hanging screens, bonsai, porcelain, antiques, screens, ancient shelves, etc., in pursuit of a life realm of self-cultivation.

3. Simple lines

In traditional Chinese style residences, simple and strong straight lines are often used for space decoration. Some families will also use panel furniture with western industrial design colors to match with Chinese-style furniture.

Elements of Chinese style

1. Furniture

Chinese traditional style furniture is mainly Ming and Qing style furniture. This kind of furniture is simple in shape, mainly in the form of one line. It adopts a tenon and mortise structure and inlays dental plates between parts with large spans. Tooth bar, loop mouth, roll mouth, etc; Decorative techniques include carving, carving, inlaying, and tracing; Materials are also widely used, including enamel, mother of pearl, bamboo, teeth, jade, stone, etc; According to the overall requirements, small areas of openwork or inlay shall be made at local positions. Bogu shelf, also known as duobaoge, is a kind of decorative furniture most commonly used in Chinese style. It is generally decorated with auspicious patterns with rich themes, which is called Bogu. The themes of auspicious patterns are mostly derived from Chinese myths and historical stories. Their patterns include animals, plants, mountains and rivers, characters, figures, utensils, etc. they can be represented by a single theme or a combination of diverse themes to convey a complete meaning.

2. Ceiling and caisson

1. The ceiling is located above the column of the house and below the beam brace. The method is relatively simple. Wooden strips are used to make a large area of lattice lattice lattice, and wooden plates are paved on the lattice to form the ceiling. Some decorations keep the color of the wood itself, but also use color paintings. Caisson is another form of the ceiling. It is usually built in an important position of the building ceiling. It is built into a square wellhead with strips of wood. It is stacked layer by layer, and the structure is complex. Each floor is decorated. The caisson is painted in green, green, gold, and green by wiping the feet and overlapping the wood.

3. Sparrow and beam bracket

Queti, also known as pin or joist, is a wood carving component located at the intersection of the eave column and beam column outside the house. Both sides can be decorated with wood carving. Because of the staggering height of the beams and braces, the sparrows placed in the eaves gallery and indoor beams and columns are often on both sides of the columns rather than on a horizontal plane. In order to distinguish them from sparrows, they are called corbels. The shape of the corbels is mostly a quarter circle, and the two surfaces are decorated with wood carvings, which are close to the junction of beams and columns and become an integral part of the beams, adding decorative effect.

4. Partition

Partition leaf generally refers to the door inlaid with lattice in the middle. The partition is divided into three parts: the transparent lattice is called the lattice eye or the center; The solid wooden lattice in the lower half is called the skirt; Between the flower center and the skirt board is called the tapering board. The wooden partition fan evolved from the windows in traditional architecture. It uses the combination of wooden frames to act as the function of the wall so that the indoor space is continuous, the screen is not closed, and the use and art are integrated. The focus of the carving is on the lattice eye and ring plate of the partition, and the relief with clear lines and strong three-dimensional sense, and transparent hollow carving are mostly used.

5. Flower teeth, hanging

The flower tooth is located at the junction of the building beams and columns. Its shape is like a sparrow. The hollow lattice flower board is composed of palindromes, animal patterns, and plant patterns. It is a pure decorative component. It is common in pavilions, pavilions, corridors, and other buildings. Hanging is a kind of decoration hanging under the beam and on both sides of the column. It is composed of continuous and continuous wood carvings or wood lattice carvings and is shaped like an indoor flower cover.

6. Decorations

Decorations mainly include Chinese calligraphy and painting, hanging screen, bonsai, porcelain, antiques, cloth art, dried flowers, candlesticks, lighting, plaques, etc.

7. Patterns

Commonly used patterns mainly include the following three categories: animal patterns are mostly dragon, wind, turtle, lion, Kui, Taotie, etc; The plant patterns are mostly lotus, peony and rolling grass; The geometric patterns are mostly auspicious patterns, palindromes, persimmon pedicle patterns, "Gong" character patterns, cloud patterns and "Wan" character patterns.

Basic Elements Of Traditional Chinese Style Design

1. Folk customs: Beijing opera masks, shadow puppets, paper cuts, kites, door gods, couplets, New Year pictures, lion dances, embroidered shoes, tiger head shoes, clay figurines, etc.

2. Humanities: Chinese calligraphy, Chinese knot, martial arts, peach blossom fan, cloisonne, jade carving, Chinese lacquerware, red lantern (palace lantern, gauze lantern), wood watermark, tea, traditional Chinese medicine, four treasures of study, four great inventions, thread-bound book, Guanyin hand, Chinese musical instruments, porcelain, bronze ware, Chinese painting, Dunhuang murals, Terra Cotta Warriors, Yuanbao, Ruyi, longevity lock, silk, and ancient Chinese coins.

3. Textile category: Tang costume, the imperial crown, Chinese embroidery, cheongsam, belly pocket, etc.

4. Architectural and decorative components: the Great Wall, Huabiao, memorial archway, Qin brick and Han tile, Shishi, etc.

5. Decorative patterns: Tai Chi, eight trigrams, dragon and phoenix patterns, Taotie patterns, Ruyi patterns, thunder patterns, palindromes, twelve chapter patterns, auspicious cloud patterns, etc.