House plan plus bedroom photos

Here is our house plan.

You've seen photos of down-stairs. Upstairs our room is "Bed 1" and the flowers are on the landing and in the bay window half-way up the stairs.

Over the coming days I'll put up more photos of the house from various angles. Today I've posted photos from our bedroom.


 
Out the window on the left of the first photo is where we go to hang out our washing. It is not a wide balcony, but quite functional for washing.

The wall is like a loose sandpaper. Kind of annoying for housekeeping, because it tends to shed!

Can you see where things are hanging from? This board has a gap behind it at the top from which hooks can be hung. Very useful as you don't really want to stick things into the wall.

The window coverings are the same as the ones in the lounge room. Wooden frames covered in paper. Thankfully on the outside of the house there are large window-sized metal shutters that slide into place and help us to sleep past the early sunrise (before 5am at present).

This style of room is called a "Washitsu" or Japanese style room. We call it a "Tatami room" which refers to the floor, a thick rice straw matting. Below is a close-up of the floor. It has a distinctive scent that takes a little time to get used to.

Tatami matting (cannot be lifted up for cleaning)

Then we have the cupboards along one wall. Deep Japanese cupboards designed to stack the bedding in during the day, but we're not using it for that, so there is lots of room for other things. Down the bottom on the right is our new linen cupboard, or part of it anyway. We found this lovely set of plastic drawers at a second hand shop and they are very useful. Japanese houses don't come with hanging space, but thankfully someone had previously put up rails inside the cupboards that we can use. The cupboard on the left has them too. I've taken it over and my sewing machine is in there too.