A Japanese-Inspired Designer Home Among Trees

you want to come with me i was so excited to see this staircase in real life ladies and gentlemen boys and girls welcome to the restless living channel my name is christian tramperduck and today we're yet again on the danish peninsula of jotlin where we have something truly special to show you guys so this house is an extremely detail-oriented contemporary home where it's taken its inspiration from japanese principles of simplicity and minimalism and what does that mean well it means that anything non-essential has simply just been cut off the house was designed by tamiran and he actually bought the property seven years ago back then there was an old house on the plot here from 1877 and it was kind of dilapidated so it was just waiting to be teared down but at least the plot was green and there was great distance to neighboring houses but yeah enough talk let's just head inside and check the rest of the house out welcome look at this entrance you know when i saw images first of this project i was so excited to see the staircase in real life wow truth be told i'm not disappointed absolutely insane if you look closely you can see that the staircase is made of 630 cnc cut plywood pieces the crazy part was that everything had to be assembled right here on the spot oh even if you look up here you can even see you know the skylight that is just directing light down and basically making this yeah a sculpture you know it's basically like the definition of combining simplicity and sculpture we're a little bit unconventional so i think instead of starting downstairs with the tour i think we should just head upstairs i really love how the curvature is basically fading out as the spiral comes to an end so you can see it's not just like a normal spiraling staircase that just ends here it basically flattens out and becomes yeah a straight pathway master bedroom very simple gosh this is the only thing that is up here it's kind of like uh yeah what 50 shades of grey you know mr grace dungeon you just have a complete private area here master bedroom master bathroom wow i told you that we needed to see something truly special today i mean look at this framed glass how huge it is then you can really you know take a bath and enjoy the beautiful green nature the crowns of the trees wow ah gosh it was wet i'm all whipped details as you might have noticed by now there is it's really strong material concept the oak of course led by the oak the natural slate from norway and then of course the concrete from downstairs and i think in this case then it really makes sense you know to have a glass shower because when you're standing in here it would almost be sad if you couldn't see the views in the best mr gray style the master bedroom leads straight out into a rooftop i mean if you saw from downstairs you couldn't really see that there is a rooftop terrace because these walls you know are basically just extruded out and then it just from downstairs at least it looks like it's just part of the wall but here you have like this small oasis it's very simple and there's not so much you know furniture and so on but i think that is really important because it really makes you look out and experience you know this beautiful green area the trees the birds chipping amazing i'm not going home i'm staying right here ah let's go let's go the skylight look at how much light it's actually projecting down on the staircase and how the materiality is really getting to shine here the contrast between this in-situ concrete wall and then you know you have the rawness and the honesty of the concrete bouncing back and forth with the very soft refined delicate plywood staircase and actually this concrete wall was built from casting plates that was used for industrial use for old industrial buildings so for this house these plates just had to be used one last time and here the result is beautiful right let's go i'd say that this is the kitchen but it almost feels like that you're basically walking outside again look at this panoramic window wow one piece here you can really immerse yourself with nature the oak here it just follows it's just one piece that has been cut out for the individual drawers but you can see the veins of the tree is continuing completely seamless because yeah it is one piece you also have this induction stove right but why is there no extractor hood well it would of course disrupt the view so you just remove that integrated here and then you have a completely unobstructed view towards the trees outside of course when you have these massive concrete blocks it can sometimes become a little bit cold but when you're then using all this soft wood soft oak it just brings a lot of warmth a lot of atmosphere to the kitchen and to the spaces i mean here you might even be able to see it way better what i think that was the that was the fridge but here you can really see the veins you know continuing over here love that detail the great thing about this ceiling is each of these slats have been distributed so that it can fit exactly these light spots so you cannot really notice them when they're turned off but then when you then turn them on gives a very tempered light following the same concept you know with materials you even have it with the furniture as well oak table oak dining table and then you have these five lamps and as you see you know they are different heights different sizes basically like the five cubes that this house consists of i think that's really interesting you know to make this interplay and this relationship between the different elements and basically yeah referencing the decoration towards the architecture itself talking about references a painting of a tree house i don't know about you but i feel like that's the kind of feeling that i get from being in here that you are in a tree house because no matter where you look no matter what window that you're looking out at you're seeing trees upstairs you saw the crown of the trees here you see the lower part so again references on point you want to come with me sliding doors that can separate kitchen and living room very contained again you know the decorative elements as tommy says it's not really necessary you rather want this raw space with some calm elements to break and create a cozy atmosphere to basically you know replace one of these living room walls you have this built-in bookcase of course of oak again specifically designed for this house even though you can still see the concrete wall it just really magnifies the relationship between space and function there's a small bansai well of course it's small it's a bonsai another one of these references to japan having these small things small decorative elements that just highlights personality highlights something of affection just like the lamps or in the kitchen you have a shape that is almost the same with the fireplace suspended simple and minimalistic part of the architecture a corner window giving a little bit more perspective right and then with of course what other than oak frames it gives a little bit more dynamic touch you know to the architecture and the feeling of the light that comes in you cannot say that the house is boring that's for sure [Music] [Music] all right let's just get outside just opening completely up so you see this huge concrete foundation it's basically one huge square where each of the five blocks have been put on and then the blocks are basically put out to the sides so one corner of the concrete block is dedicated to the terrace as you can see here there's also the norwegian natural slate that continues here from the kitchen to the outside having this seamless transition love these kinds of furniture being restless about it here you can see how big the windows actually are the bottom one being the kitchen window and then if you remember the bathroom window is the one in the tub on the other side here there's nothing and it also creates these contrasts and make sure that you also get to notice the beautiful bricks of the exterior clad wall i don't know anything about trees to be frank but a lot of danish trees around and then you have japanese maple trees japanese bond size you know it might be denmark but we have a little bit of japan right here in this beautiful oasis but let's go over here the owner tommy he is a carpenter so he knows how to work with wood and as you can see maybe this doesn't look like the most impressive build and looks kind of random but that was the whole idea of this little kid's cave up in the tree because he wanted to make it look like that it was the kids that built it themselves [Laughter] this is first and last time that i'm gonna do this i don't feel like it's so safe it probably is when it's built by carpenter but yeah the garage match the car all the car match the garage whatever comes first you know that's the kind of detail that this house is about there is no thought that has been spared you see all those playful elements that is basically contrasting the very straight defined lines it's just a very interesting house anyhow thank you so much for watching i hope you enjoyed the tour as much as i enjoyed walking around exploring it as always smash that like button subscribe to our channel and then i'll see you soon [Music] bye