those japanese Tatami flooring mats

roid · Post by **roid** » Thu Oct 21, 2004 7:52 am

i think they are cool, what do you think. does anyone have them?

Dedman · Post by **Dedman** » Thu Oct 21, 2004 9:30 am

I hear the Japanese have a @ss ton of them.

Mobius · Post by **Mobius** » Thu Oct 21, 2004 12:53 pm

Lived in a room so furnished in Hyogo Prefecture in 1993. It's fine if you are a real minimalist, or raised in Japan, but for regular Euros, the "Cool" and "Different" factor wear off in about 7 days.

Do yourself a favour - avoid decorating your own home this way.

Gavotte · Post by **Gavotte** » Thu Oct 21, 2004 1:37 pm

Mobius wrote:Lived in a room so furnished in Hyogo Prefecture in 1993. It's fine if you are a real minimalist, or raised in Japan, but for regular Euros, the "Cool" and "Different" factor wear off in about 7 days.

Do yourself a favour - avoid decorating your own home this way.

Congratulations doll, you are following in my footsteps, (Kitten heel, Size 9). Thanks so much for dropping another turd on a perfectly bad thread regarding the most banal of subjects!

I am glad to know, that you are a human, although I really had no doubt. It's just confirmed now.

Bless you,

-Gavotte

fliptw · Post by **fliptw** » Thu Oct 21, 2004 1:55 pm

I'd take radiant heating over rice any day. If your house is big enough for a roll of carpet, take the carpet.

Jagger · Post by **Jagger** » Thu Oct 21, 2004 5:04 pm

I dunno, they're cool enough. I can walk/sleep/sit on anything, but the fact that you sit with crossed legs on tatami is not fun. After 20 minutes your leg is asleep and suddenly tatami sucks. It also sucks if you have blisters on your feet.

roid · Post by **roid** » Thu Oct 21, 2004 8:06 pm

our house used to be carpeted but we ripped that up to polish the floors. it looks a million bucks and it's a lot better in the asthma dept, but it's noisy with no carpet, our house is now a huge sounding board.

this is why i'd rather have these mat things than a rug, because they sound healthier, and there's the cool factor.

i have noticed i hardly ever sit on my floor anymore with polished floorboards, it's too uncomfortable.
i'm also considering ditching the bed and grabbing a futon thing that i can store in my cupboard.

i began thinking about grabbing these tatami mat things when trying to do yoga on the wood floors *ow*, this is when i realised how uncomfortable it is, and also it reminded me that i USED to sit on teh floor a lot (and ahh, this is why i don't anymore).

i like sitting crosslegged, it's relaxing (meditative?).

Jagger · Post by **Jagger** » Fri Oct 22, 2004 1:34 am

roid wrote:... this is when i realised how uncomfortable it is...

i like sitting crosslegged, it's relaxing (meditative?).

The two don't seem very conducive.

roid · Post by **roid** » Fri Oct 22, 2004 1:37 am

i like sitting cross legged : on comfortable surfaces.