Genkan (玄関) Entryway : Multi-functional Space

✨ Hello welcome to our foyer area 😀

I first chanced upon the Genkan concept when I doing a research for one of my Uni Archi projects that had to do with pandemic and keeping our living areas clean. 🧹

👉🏼 A quick google search will tell you that the ‘𝙜𝙚𝙣𝙠𝙖𝙣 𝙞𝙨 𝙡𝙤𝙘𝙖𝙩𝙚𝙙 𝙤𝙣 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙥𝙨𝙮𝙘𝙝𝙤𝙡𝙤𝙜𝙞𝙘𝙖𝙡 𝙗𝙤𝙪𝙣𝙙𝙖𝙧𝙮 𝙗𝙚𝙩𝙬𝙚𝙚𝙣 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙞𝙣𝙨𝙞𝙙𝙚 𝙤𝙛 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙝𝙤𝙢𝙚 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙤𝙪𝙩𝙨𝙞𝙙𝙚 𝙬𝙤𝙧𝙡𝙙.’ Sounds fluffy I know hahaha. 😂😂😂 But essentially, it’s a space for you to remove your shoes; a space that is classified as a ‘dirty area’. In Japanese homes, the genkan is usually one step down but since we can’t have that, we did a change in material instead.

Well, we have a habit of wearing our shoes into the house before removing them. That’s why we chose to incorporate this concept into our house as a form of demarcation.

𝗦𝗶𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗵𝗼𝘂𝘀𝗲 𝗶𝘀 𝘀𝗺𝗮𝗹𝗹, 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲’𝘀 𝗮 𝗻𝗲𝗲𝗱 𝗺𝗮𝗸𝗲 𝘀𝗽𝗮𝗰𝗲𝘀 𝗺𝘂𝗹𝘁𝗶-𝗳𝘂𝗻𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹. 𝗜.𝗲:

👉🏼 Our dining bench doubles up as a seating surface for us to put on our shoes while facing the full length mirror.

👉🏼Beyond the mirror lies our storeroom, hidden away from plain sight.

👉🏼 We also lifted up one part of the cabinets and added sockets below to charge the robot vacuum.

𝗬𝗼𝘂 𝗺𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁 𝗯𝗲 𝘄𝗼𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘄𝗵𝘆 𝗱𝗶𝗱 𝘄𝗲 𝗰𝗵𝗼𝘀𝗲 𝗽𝗲𝗯𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝘄𝗮𝘀𝗵 -

Initially, my design had loose white pebbles (very aesthetic indeed) but later on we felt that it was not practical as it’s hard to maintain + our baby will prolly munch on / throw the pebbles (unsafe) 😂

We love this space very much and it has since become a place for us to take family photos before we leave the house too ☺️

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