Later, when I was in my twenties, I revisited Xiamen again and again. The most recent time was to film the 26th issue of 100 Chinese girls’ homes with Kaka.
This home is very special, it is the home of more than 100,000 people. (every time I write about home, some readers order the home of two children in the background, this time I will satisfy you.)
It is next to the most lively seafood market in Xiamen, and it is a short walk to Gulangyu Ferry Terminal .
The owner, Bing Jie, is the director of Xiamen Red Dot Design Museum. She has a job she loves and a warm family.
This house is where her husband and mother-in-law lived for 20 years. has 180 square meters and two and a half floors.
▼The original decoration of the home
Together with the designer, she and the designer transformed the "old and broken" into a retro Nanyang style with 12 kinds of tiles .
Every corner has the movie feel of " The Taste of Green Papaya ".
▼ "The Taste of Green Papaya" stills
More importantly, she has two lovely babies, and lives with a family of five. We are all curious, can a family retain their individuality and aesthetics when they live together? In fact, it is possible, the homeowner did it!
The needs of the three generations are met at the same time. The mother-in-law has a Chinese-style kitchen and bedroom, the clean cloakroom, coffee corner, and study room, and the daughter also has her own secret base.
▼以航海图为天花板的书房
一起来看看这个被温情包围的复古之家吧~
01
180㎡老破大
被改造成三代同堂的家
一路吹着有些热气的海风，我们来到Downstairs in the community.
The neighborhood looks a bit old, but as soon as you get on the elevator, go straight to the 8th floor, and open the door, a fresh coolness rushes over your face, as if a world created by magic.
An electric fan on the head, and stepped tiles on the feet.
The former electric fan has been changed to an air conditioner, and she has reproduced the retro Nanyang style at home.
Nanyang is the Chinese name for Southeast Asia during the Ming and Qing Dynasties. The Nanyang style has a strong tropical style and incorporates many British and French elements. Her home reproduced many iconic elements: gray-toned green, black and white mosaic tiles, shutters, begonia flower glass...
Bingjie came out wearing a smart black dress, with a sweet smile on her face, and she led us through the arch of the entrance.
1, the blank space between the restaurant and platform
first came to the island platform and dining table area.
Just in time for lunch, Granny Bingjie brought out some hot dishes from the kitchen, and the whole family was sitting around eating.
The island is small in size and comes with a drinking water source. After all, Hokkien always make tea.
Her home is full of life, and there is a small schoolbag of her daughter Tongtong hanging on the side of the island, and she does not put away the commonly used small objects for the sake of visual order.
Walking along, I suddenly found that the walls and floors of the dining room and living room are completely in two colors, forming a natural central axis of . Half of
is a gray-green color with a strong Nanyang style, while the other half has reduced saturation and turned into a white-brown color with a light French style.
"The living room feels more relaxed. I want to say that it is a very bold attempt to leave some white space in this piece, because the transition between tiles and wooden floors is actually not easy to do."
The floor is also made of tiles , the wooden floor in the living room is the blank space between the dining room and the platform.
2. Raise the floor of the balcony to make it a children’s play area.
pointed to the small potted plant outside the window and said that it would grow up to be a small tomato.
The balcony was originally sealed, but now it has been raised to become a platform. Bingjie thought that the family would drink tea on the platform, but after got a second treasure, the platform served as a "children's play area" Function.
3, separation of Chinese and Western kitchens
You have to pass through an arch to enter the kitchen.
originally wanted to build an open kitchen, but because my mother-in-law likes Chinese kitchens very much, and people in southern Hokkien often cook fried, fried, and deep-fried food , so I kept the closed design.
In the corner under the stairs, she carved out an open western kitchen for herself: Coffee corner and oven.
She usually bakes here with her daughter, and also handles work here, "Because the work is quite busy, and sometimes I have to work overtime on weekends, I just make a cup of coffee here, which is quite comfortable." For food and drink, the western kitchen arranges coffee and baking hobbies, leaving a relaxing corner for yourself. The Chinese and Western kitchens are separated to comprehensively meet the needs of a family.
4, respect mother-in-law's needs
walked in along the arch next to the coffee machine, and the mother-in-law's room was on the right.
Because the mother-in-law likes fresh and bright colors and insists on not using tiles, There are no fancy colors in this room, only the gray-green curtains echo the outside wall.
The floor feels very comfortable to step on, warm and smooth. It turns out that the old wooden floor at home is preserved. Old wood like this is no longer available.
5. Three bathrooms with different styles.
The bathrooms in her house are also wonderful, with three completely different colors.
一楼的红棕色复古风
二楼的抹茶绿拼黑白花砖
还有主卧卫生间的灰调花色
在整个家的装修里，她希望把喜欢的元素都放进来，连卫生间也Don't let it go.
6, four people have their own independent space
lingered on the first floor for a while, so comfortable that I wanted to sit down and have a cup of tea.
Bingjie called us to go to the second floor to see her secret space. When going upstairs, I couldn't help but want to boast that the stairs of her house are so textured.
“楼梯没拆，保留了原本的样子，当时我婆婆那个年代还有大条的枕木，我们实在舍不得换，就给它修旧如旧了。”
▼ 旧楼梯的样子
怕楼梯的采光Not enough, she built a glass brick wall in her son's room, leading the light to the aisle, and the hazy ambient light illuminated the stairs very softly.
▼The inside and outside perspective of the glass brick wall
① The sloping roof loft of the daughter’s room
It’s like a stage on the second floor.
All kinds of colors seem to overturn the palette, and my daughter's room is a tropical pineapple yellow. When
first demolished the house, he found a small sloping roof on the top of the room, so he designed a secret space for his daughter to climb up and down and hide and seek.
Sometimes she wants to stay by herself for a while, then she can climb to this "small attic with a sloping roof" and imagine scenes from fairy tales. (The attic is going to install handrails, but the decorator is not free yet, so it will be installed later, so it will be safer.)
② The master bedroom and cloakroom where Mr. and Mr. don’t bother each other
Finally, I walked to the master’s bedroom.
When Bingjie was about to lift the curtain, we all stopped, and Kaka couldn't help jokingly said: "Please enjoy it, she has a sense of ceremony when she walks into the bedroom."
True! Curtains of red velvet hung over the arches, and the hostess seemed to enter her stage. Even she herself said: "Haha, maybe I have a drama in my heart!"
Because the work and rest time of her husband is out of sync, the cloakroom and the master bedroom are completely separated, using the space of the corridor, a long and narrow one is made on the left side. Cloakroom, dressing table, toilet.
Push in the gray-green double doors on the right, and the bedroom looks like a scene from the movie " Lover ".
▼ "Lover" stills
Shutters, bamboo shadows, green half walls, darkened tones, make people want to sleep.
“You can make the inside of an old house beautiful, but the facade of the windows is not easy to change, so I used wooden shutters to block the ugly windows outside, and the light and shadow were cut into graceful shapes.”
z The study in the picture below
When we thought we had finished walking on the second floor, Bingjie suddenly opened an invisible door, huh? There is also a private study hidden inside!
She pasted the nautical map on the ceiling, and sat on the sofa, looking up at the world.
“书房，是抬头看天的地方，因为厦门靠海，有了航海地图就很有仪式感。”
桌上摆了一个银色的物件，我们都以为是装饰品，实际上是红点Award The winning work - dumbbell.
"In the evening, I like to watch movies here, have skewers, and drink beer. It's quite refreshing." Bingjie's study is almost the epitome of Xiamen's leisurely life, and it is also a secret space she left for herself.
opened the curtain of the study, and outside the window is a terrace with plants. The high space makes the house very bright. In the hot summer, the floor outside is so hot that you can fry eggs. "When I first moved in, there was no house opposite. It’s really a line of sea view, now it’s blocked.”
If the weather is cool, having a BBQ on the terrace is very comfortable.
02
和婆婆同住
一起快乐“买买买”
提起婚后和长辈同住，很多年轻人的第一反应都是投反对票（包括我自己），怕失去了空间和自由。
But in in southern Fujian, there is a tradition that a family lives in the same house, and there are especially many families with three generations living under the same roof.
Bing Jie jokingly said that she only found out that her husband had a dream after getting married: to buy a big house where all relatives in the family could live together. (Scared.jpg)
When I first walked into this home, her mother-in-law gave me a very kind feeling, just like my grandma in Chaoshan, she is very cute and enthusiastic, speaks not-so-standard Mandarin, but is curious about the world of young people, and plays well with us.
She took Tongtong downstairs to play, and brought several bags of mung bean cakes, freshly baked taro cake , and told Bingjie that we must eat them after shooting the video!
▼The taro cake was quickly wiped out, and the mother-in-law bought so many
Bingjie also responded seriously: "Okay, I will do what you told me later."
"I think it's good to live together, especially After having a child, there is a family to help take care of the child. And my mother-in-law and I both love shopping, I like buying bags, she likes buying food haha, the atmosphere is great.”
talked about why he continues to live here In the house, the reason for renovating it is because my mother-in-law has lived here for more than 20 years and has feelings. I also consider that the school district in the old city is better, and I have to buy a house with the same area and location at the same price. The house is almost impossible.
(bow down to Xiamen’s housing prices)
Bingjie and the designer led the renovation, collected the needs of the family members, and did not show them during the renovation. At the end of the stay, I gave everyone a surprise directly!
The retro Nanyang style and the convenience of life in the old city are taken into account, and three generations live comfortably.
live together, how to deal with the relationship with the family?其实道理也很简单：
“我的心比较大，加上我和家人都是不爱计较的人，互相迁就、互相包容，这种状态才能平衡。”
03
她是妈妈
也是博物馆馆Long
As a mother, Bing Jie is always looking for a balance between work and life.
She is from Sanming, Fujian. She used to work in Shenzhen, but because her parents were in Fujian, she returned to work in Xiamen and started a family.
Many people have a stereotype of Fujian girls, thinking that they are traditional, virtuous, and family-oriented.
"Actually in Fujian, fishing used to make a living. Men fished and women took care of their husbands and children, but now it is not so traditional. My current job is a career I love, and I am very happy to do it. I have a sense of accomplishment, and my whole body will be radiant, so my family will especially support me."
When she was pregnant with her second child, she just got the opportunity to work in a museum, and she hesitated. work, the other side is that one's own flesh and blood need to be accompanied.
When opportunities come, they will not be arranged in order, sometimes they come in droves, normal people may have a choice, but she has a kind of "I have to try" self-confidence.
Fortunately, she was lucky enough to meet a good boss who understood her responsibility as a mother. Her mother-in-law also takes good care of her. When she was pregnant, she suddenly wanted to eat some snacks, and her mother-in-law bought them within 10 minutes of going downstairs.
"I went to work after confinement, and I was a little physically exhausted at the beginning, but because I like this job, I quickly adjusted my status. Now I try my best to finish things in the company and accompany me when I go home Child."
probably because of this restless temper, Bingjie likes to accept challenges, the more impossible things are, the more she wants to try, just like when making decoration decisions, she decided on 12 kinds of tiles Both, but also very confident, I believe that I can match well.
has lived in Xiamen for so many years, but she is still moved by the details of fireworks, except for the five-spice, taro cake, scallion cake that can be bought downstairs, and the romance of living by the sea.
"When I didn't have my second treasure, I would go to the ferry wharf with my mother-in-law and my daughter, where many grandpas and aunts danced in the dark. It was so interesting, the sea breeze was blowing salty, Opposite the sea is Gulangyu Island, this kind of life is actually very beautiful.”
The Xiamen in Bingjie’s eyes has always moved me. But children who grow up by the sea will be nostalgic for the romance of the sky and the sea, and the fireworks in the world that are within reach.