First of all, in addition to inheriting Chinese traditional culture, the application of Chinese traditional decorative wood carving also retains excellent traditional culture. The development of modern interior design in China is closely related to the strong influence of traditional Chinese culture. Many mature and valuable traditional cultural elements left by Chinese predecessors to modern people are fully utilized by interior designers. The figures, animals, plants, utensils, mountains, water, clouds, and legendary auspicious animals such as dragons, phoenixes and unicorns in each traditional wood carving work can form a beautiful wood carving decorative pattern. To a large extent, the rich and diverse wood carving patterns have been endowed with strong vitality, which makes them more artistic and ornamental.

The theme and expression of wood carving technology in modern indoor home have been better innovated. At the same time, different specifications, patterns, colors, themes of wood carvings meet the needs of different owners to a large extent. These wood carving techniques, which are full of novelty, individuality, modernity, fashion and auspicious implication, add a sense of corner and space that can be understood and felt for home decoration, and also express a longing for the natural environment.

At present, wood carving art is more and more widely used in interior design, and has been spread in every corner of the space. Ceiling, beams and columns, interior space partition, partial decoration of furniture, interior structural details and door and window decoration give off unique charm. In terms of interior decoration, the trend of the new era is grasped by combining the use needs and aesthetic concepts of modern people, so that the modeling and application of wood carving can keep pace with the times. Wood carving art has been innovated in the inheritance and breakthrough in the innovation. Based on his own design experience and wood carving art in landscape sculpture, the author has made many attempts to integrate modern indoor environment art design with wood carving art.

The decoration of details is necessary to enrich the style of the whole interior design. Some small decorations play a great role in setting off the whole decorative style. Without the decoration of indoor crafts, it is impossible to create a beautiful and elegant indoor environment [8]. In today’s impetuous material society, people are pursuing a higher level of spiritual world with feelings and interests, instead of the gorgeous and valuable ornaments. Wood carving works well inherit the characteristics of Chinese traditional culture, in which most of the carving elements are animal and plant patterns, which have an ancient flavor.

As people’s pursuit of the spiritual world continues to improve with the progress and development of the times, wood carving art is more favored by people. Due to the unique decorative role of wood carving in interior design, it is used in more and more places. The reason why wood carving partition is used in the space design is not to completely separate the two spaces, but to make the two spaces reach an artistic state of separation but still connected, so as to render a unique Chinese flavor. In addition to showing the atmosphere and stability of the interior decoration of the building, it can also show the classical and implicit beauty of Chinese art and create a good space atmosphere [8].

As one of the important carving art in China, wood carving is a kind of artworks with exquisite craftsmanship and strong national characteristics [9]. Wood carving art is widely used in the modern interior furniture. In different decoration styles, it’s necessary to research the application of wood carving elements on the interior space layout and size. Wood-carving furniture could further reflect the continuation of traditional art and the perfect fusion with modern art, so that it is popular in Chinese style and new Chinese style, which is exactly what the two kinds of styles need. The traditional interior furnishings play an important role in the space atmosphere of the Chinese style home, which embodies the temperament and context of the Chinese national cultural in the decoration of interior space [10]. It is also happened in the new Chinese style. Therefore, the wood-carving furniture has the indelible importance for the tonality of these two styles.

Of course, the wood carving elements maybe applied into the other decorative styles more or less, but most of them will add the wood carving elements to the details of the furniture. This kind of local decoration not only could show the beauty of natural materials, but also makes the space atmosphere simple and meaningful. Therefore, whether from the aesthetic form of furniture design or the effect of the space decoration, the wood carving has a high artistic and cultural value in indoor furniture.