{"id":13708,"date":"2026-01-08T14:34:38","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T19:34:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/moonblossom.net\/blog\/?p=13708"},"modified":"2026-01-08T14:34:38","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T19:34:38","slug":"mini-washitsu-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moonblossom.net\/blog\/2026\/01\/mini-washitsu-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Mini Washitsu 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I am no stranger to making Japanese-inspired dioramas (see here<\/a> and here<\/a>), but until this time they’ve not been particularly accurate. The first one was assembled from literal junk including a cardboard box, and the second was a kitbash into an “inspired” home. But I was itching to do something a bit more detailed, proportional, and accurate than my previous attempts, so I hauled some of my miniature supplies from Montreal to California and got to work.<\/p>\n

I started out with a basic MDF room-box kit with two walls and a floor. From there, I constructed the inner walls to create the tokonoma, butsudan alcove, and decorative shelving using square balsa dowels I hand-staned, and pine craft rectangles. I wallpapered the whole thing in decorative rice paper. The tatami ended up stumping me for a while, and then I remembered I had this beige textured shelf liner left over from organising the pantry. A bit of beige paper underneath it and some washi tape to form the borders, and voila. Itty bitty tatami committee! I divided it into typically balanced proportions, ending up with a room that’s four and a half tatami, plus the toko and shelving spaces.<\/p>\n\n\t\t