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Home improvement is not just changing colors, buying new furniture and appliances. It is much more. To improve home means to bring inner harmony to it.

When designing your home, pay extreme attention to your bathroom, since it is the only place where you can restore your body and mind. For westerners, taking a bath is just washing the body, but a bath has a deeper meaning for the people of the East.

Lets look at Asian bathrooms and see what differences do they have with ours.

Asian bath design requires simplicity, clear lines and natural element — all this contributes to the relaxing  effect that it has on people.

Perhaps the Japanese bath (which has become a part of the Japanese culture) is the most interesting one among all Asian baths.

If you want to bring a Japanese motif into your bathroom, you should follow some rules that not only define the styling of the room, but also help to create the right atmosphere:

• Nakedness is the closest connection between human beings and nature, so you should remember that, according to the Japanese bath traditions, you must take bath without wearing anything that may be stand between you and nature.
• On the other hand, being naked in artificial surroundings is against the Japanese traditions. This means your bathroom must include some natural element: a natural stone, wood, plants or landscape viewable from the window. If you look at nature while taking a bath, it will calm your nerves, release stress and cleanse your soul.

• The other must for Japanese style are the deep bathroom tubs. The tub must be deep enough to hold your body. Water must touch your whole body uniformly. The traditional Japanese tubs are wooden: Usually the wood hinoki (which is unique to Japan) was used, but now Alaskan yellow and Port Orford white cedar are also quite popular.You can also use bathroom tubs made of acrylic or stainless steel, but I think that wooden tubs are much better: the aroma that wooden material brings to your bath can’t be replaced with any man-made material.

To reveal the other important tips for bringing a Japanese motif into your bathroom, read my next post and find out what is a real bath and how Asian people reach the harmony that both your soul and body need.

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