Search This Blog

Kominka Restoration

Desperately Needed Roof Repairs!

Get link
Facebook
X
Pinterest
Email
Other Apps

April 11, 2017

I'm really not good at heights, but this and a couple of other far less badly damaged spots need sorting out ASAP! Anyone know a roofer who could help me out??

Get link
Facebook
X
Pinterest
Email
Other Apps

Comments

Progress update (September 1st, 2018)

August 31, 2018

Spent the summer putting cedar panelling on the barn ceiling, oiling the beams and building a staircase for better access to the loft. The first two photos were taken before I bought the house. Here's the staircase (before 'n' after):

Transforming the 2nd floor of the main house

March 02, 2019

Evening view across the lake towards Mt. Fuji (Only visible on clear winter days) The Main House and Annex The Transformation (Before): Work in progress: Still much more to do...

My lovely Taisho-period (1912~1926) 'kominka' in 2017

April 10, 2017

Located beneath the lighthouse in Isumi-shi, Chiba prefecture, this is my very recently acquired kominka project (April 5th, 2017). I've been looking at this house for some 5-years now, since it first came on the market. The original photos posted on the estate agent's website looked as though the previous occupant(s) lived like animals and got up and walked out in the middle of the night! There was trash everywhere! However, I could see past all that and went immediately to view it. It was love at first sight. However, at 25 million yen, it was rather ambitiously priced, and of course nobody bought it. Fast forward a few months, maybe a year or so, and it was taken off the market, cleared out and put back on the market at a more reasonable though still rather expensive 17.8 million. Still nobody bought it. I kept on dropping by whenever I was in the area, but couldn't really justify splashing out that sort of money. Another year or so passed an...