House Tour

Hi everyone! I just figured out how to get on this blog and I wanted to give you a tour of our house. It's not very big but I think you should still see it.

Let's start upstairs in Mama and Bop's room.

This is probably the nicest room in the house, it's one of the only heated rooms and there's a lot of light coming in. But the fan does blow some heat to other rooms of the house.

Now we can go to my room! (It's kind of just a floor)

I get a double futon thing that's surprisingly comfy despite its flat look. My closet you as you can see is beside the bed behind the sliding door. That's where I keep all my things.

Let's move on to the living room!

This is both sides of the living area, I couldn't take just one without falling down the stairs. We have a couch and a fancy little chair that I sit on a lot. It's actually quite pleasant to be up here, there's a lot of light and soon (when it gets hotter outside) we will be able to open the windows and let in some fresh air.

Now, as we move downstairs our first stop is the bathroom.

We have a very nice bidet toilet that has this cool sink on top that turns on when you flush, both to wash your hands and we think it also helps filter the toilet after you use it. Lately its been leaking and nobody knows why. But it has a heated seat!

Our next room downstairs is a little area where we eat. 

This room is mainly empty except for this kotatsu table where we eat and sometimes work at. A kotatsu is a special kind of table that is two layers of wood, and squished in between is a fluffy blanket. When you turn on the kotatsu, there's a heater underneath it, so you put your legs inside the blanket and it's warm. It's very nice, I'm going to miss it when we get home.

Moving towards Zadi's room we have this small area here.

There's hardly anything in it except for a door to the kitchen you can't see in this picture.

Now time for Zadi's room!

This is one of the biggest rooms in the house, in fact, it might be the biggest. In here she has lots of room to toss her stuff on the ground. I got this picture right after she cleaned, so it looks quite nice. She has a heater and plenty of drawers and tables to put things. She also has a large bed and one of the only mirrors in the house.

Time for kitchen!

The kitchen is small, but has everything you need! Lately, I've been making bacon, eggs and toast for breakfast, and yesterday we had rice with mackerel and karaage. Which are fried and marinated bite sized chicken pieces. We have an induction stove, a rice cooker and a fish smoker! We don't have a dishwasher but it's fine if we wash everything right after we use it.

Getting close to the end of the tour we have our bathing room. (not bathroom)

I know, it's a really bad picture, you probably can't even tell what it is. It's a soaking tub, it's in a small room and I couldn't find the light. I think there's a light. It also has a shower. I have not used the soaking tub yet but apparently it's very nice. It's heated by a flame underneath and it's very deep.

Close to that room we have a place to brush our teeth.

It has a very harsh light above it, but the camera softens it a lot. This is the only mirror in the house besides the one in Zadi's room. It is hard to get here at night because it's pitch dark and there's no heat.

Moving outside we have the mudroom.

We got here and there were lots of umbrellas already, which is nice because we didn't bring anything to help with rain or snow. (Besides rain jackets) We went out this morning while it was snowing and it was not actually that cold for some reason. (I think other people felt differently)

Let's head outside!

I would've gone farther outside but I don't have boots. This is right outside our house, we can go up a little staircase that leads to the road. Across from the road we have a river that goes very far. If we cross our river on a bridge near our house, we get to a little downtown. There are no tall buildings and it's scattered with amazing restaurants and shops. Our house is right next to the Kamigamo shrine, which is one of the oldest Shinto shrines in Kyoto. It was established in the year 678.

Back upstairs in the parents room we have a little balcony.

We can see the city and some big mountain ranges surrounding us. We get out here from a little sliding window inside. We have a washing machine but not a dryer sadly, but it is pretty fun to hang the clothes on the weird little poles out here.

That's pretty much it for the house tour. Thanks for reading!