This morning I visited a newly-built house.It is a Western -style building of two-storied one for two-households.
The design of inside is a tasteful one using lot's of woods.
Every room is functional and very nice.
There is a system kitchen, a bathroom, a toilet and a walk-in-closet on each floor.
But tatami-room is only one.
Recently old-Japanese-style houses which have many tatami-rooms are getting fewer.
Most of them have some wood-floored private rooms and a family room and so on.
The design of the houses are changing little by little in Japan.
I saw this flower(ha-na-ki-ri-n) there.
I like being lazy & relax on tatami mat. Especially in the winter, tatami mat is essential to put my legs into Kotatsu & sleep there.
Both seem to like Japanese style.
Young people seem to like Western one, but we the middle-aged? seem to prefer Japanese.
To relax especially in winter, tatami is best, I also think.