Japandi Décor with Colin & Justin - The Good Stuff with Mary Berg

Serene spaces with natural materials and a calming vibe, but you're gonna love Japan D style here to help us get the look It's design duo Colin McAllister and Justin Ryan Thank you so so much for being here. It's good to be back. It's fabulous and you look amazing You look fruity and fabulous and legs for days Honestly, I so nearly wore that today Mary For sure that would have been First up let's chat. What is Japan D style Japan D is an amazing thing So it's that sweet spot between Japanese design and Scandinavian design and they're both two dictums that we really really love But when you merge them and take the best from each of them you get Japanese Scandinavian or Japan D Oh, I like that like the portmanteau Yeah, exactly. So it's about comfort. It's about being inspired by the forest, you know, and you think about hookah the whole Scandinavian So you want it to have the feel-good factor? But at the same time there has to be an element of kind of like Japanese minimalism and there, you know Actually, we went to the Japanese cultural center in Canada this one in Toronto Yeah, and you can you don't have to have Japanese Canadian, you don't have to be Japanese to go there And we went there and dipped in there, you know Has some great food dipped into the culture just to get us into the vibe of this totally, you know And I think it is it's about a look but it's also about an attitude and how you use your home And I think that's what's important about the Japanese Canadian cultural center. Yeah, it's so Incredibly of the the heart. Yeah, everything that you're gonna learn when you walk it's in Toronto and you can go and visit Yeah, such a great place. Yeah, it's all the culture religion or music food Everything that can relates back to Japanese everything so intentional there, too. It's a beautiful space. Yeah, it's really really great Alright, so we're gonna chat through this beautiful vignette. Let's start with the wall. Do you know what Mary? This is actually from Rona now the more you get to know us the more you're gonna realize that we shop for everybody shops We always say it's not how much you spend but how you spend it and where you go and how you put it together This wallpaper to me is a triumph because it looks so three-dimensional Really beautifully tailored wood almost like a Japanese screen. Yeah, that's why we selected that Mary It's got that incredible visual texture, but it's peel up and peel down So the good thing about that is you shove it up in your wall. You get bored of it five years later. It comes down So that we felt Mary was a great starting point for this Japanese inspired. I love and so much easier not gonna get all dusty But then, you know, so you have this element that is actually quite Scandinavian very straight timber Then you introduce some Japan into that, you know these little fans. These are from Ikea Oh, not expensive. You can get them everywhere. Yeah, you know, and I think the thing about any look is not to overdo it You know, it's not about gimmicks. It's about having little touches. It just suggests the look we put them off-center You want to balance up this lamp as well so that when you stand back it creates an overall shape So think about that as well. Never think about things as Individuals always think of them as ingredients like one of Mary's recipes. Oh, I love that put it together Oh my god recipes. See I love these fans and to your audience if you like the fans to thanks to Ikea You're all going home with a gift card Okay, so the bed comes from an amazing retailer called my society and for us This is classic Japan D because it's got the Japanese line, but it's got more of a softer edge So that's a much much different typical line to the sharp precision of Japanese But it takes the sensibility with the black lacquered raffia and the wicker behind and it softens it down in terms of Scandinavian Thinking and I love this really low slung. It's not so low slung that you can't get back up Careful Mary Matching nightstands as well the nightstands have the the wicker in this area down there, which I think is such a lovely detail Yeah, again Japanese Scandinavian marrying perfect. Yeah, and these are by most society You know It's a really sweet sweet store and when you're dressing a bed, you know If you're the type of person that has one do they and you get up throw it to one side and then go to work This is not your look We are talking Botox for beds Steaming on a daily basis single bitch should look like a Kardashian for Wandering through life We don't wrinkles and No, no exactly, but you think about layering your bed, you know The bedding here is from Colin and Justin collection at home sense But just you want your pillows to start like this you want to add little kind of like fancy touches accessories for the bed Yeah, they just introduce shape and color, you know And I think it's really nice just to have a nod to little floral patterns as well These are from home sense, you know where you tap into kind of like slightly sweeter elements of Japanese design But you put them in a minimalist environment. Yeah, they really shine, you know, so the people who like patterns we know who you are Yeah, you know The people who like patterns are all here Well, if you love this and if you're looking to get some of Colin and Justin's collection You're also going home with a gift card to home About some pops of that kind of classic Scandinavian style. We've got the pops of the Japanese style. Okay, so down here This is one of my favorite things So this again from Ikea a little studio desk or a nightstand you can do with it Whatever you want somebody to put your makeup on but we've added a classic 1954 Hans Wegner chair now this for me. It's called the wishbone chair. This is classic classic from that style It's been given a Japanese look with the darker detailing So typically the wishbone chair would be in this kind of color way, but I think it looks great Really sexy dressed in there interestingly as well. There's a second school of Japan be called dark Japan D So typically Japan D would use much more of the beachy and the lighter tones But dark Japan D as we've done here. Yeah is is for me the way to go. It's beautiful Yeah, it gives a little bit more like a little yeah There's a bit more drama Our people are here Let's talk really quickly about this the greenery we've got going on because I think that's key to it as well, right? Yeah, exactly. You know, we're great believers and fake it till you make it And you know fake flowers we don't see fake flowers anymore, okay, we say permanent botanical Because the technology's improved so much, you know with a piece like this you actually can't tell the difference We got a call in and just an ice bucket Oh, and we've loaded it with these lovely flowers there And I think a great thing is, you know, if you actually have orchids and they've died passed away You know what you always have the leaves there And mixing them, you know with kind of like fake flowers as well And it just gives it more of a kind of total realistic look I love that because honestly, I cannot keep an orchid alive. So that's for me All right, let's chat about oh wait, let's talk about this guy over here. Okay, so that is a yucca plant now There's a classic plant. We typically associate it with areas of China or Japan People in Japan love greenery. They love the oxygenation. What's that lovely word? Oxygenation that happens I'm down in Japanese homes. You're gonna see a lot of greenery. Yeah, the yucca plant I find is one of the most beautiful plants. You can't kill them. I mean these things can die Well, these don't because they're fake You can do whatever and they're gonna they're gonna be there at the end of the world them and cockroaches are the only things Let's go from the floor to the ceiling let's talk about these rugs and this lamp, you know Sometimes with a look like this, it's about not copying something, you know So we looked at tatami mats, you know The wonderful mats that you would see in Japanese homes and we figured we could do that with rugs And we could just get smaller rugs and overlap them. So you get a kind of patchwork type vibe on the floor Yeah, but it's just a nice way to go It gives it a kind of softer look and I think if you're gonna have darker elements in a room Think about actually lightening up a space from the ground up So if you go for a lighter rug immediately, you're gonna balance light and it's gonna feel brighter I mean that that's a light that we found in our care, but we tailored it Yeah, when you get it the stuff my kids typically it's flat pack. So you assemble it yourself Yes, you have a chance to maybe change the color or something with pain Oh, so we were gonna spray paint these look these kind of bone arm thing Yeah, one of the guys who also called Justin fantastic back We get time for that today. Let's just use black tape. So we use black tape A tiny little effort I think that's the key message Mary that we always want to say if you can find a way of Enhancing something and making it a bit more individual and giving it a special touch then that's when your home comes alive Yeah, I love that never has a piece of black tape Hey Mary here. What did you think drop your comments below and don't forget to Like and subscribe for more of the good stuff