The Shoin-zukuri style was established for residences for persons in high classes, and during the Edo period and later, houses also came to be built in the Sukiya-zukuri style where factors of tea rooms were introduced (Sukiya-type Shoin-zukuri style).
上層の住まいとして書院造が定着し、江戸時代以降、茶室の要素を採り入れたいわゆる数寄屋造り（数寄屋風書院）の住宅も造られるようになった。