Tour my $6000 USD house in Japan

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Simply amazing! But PLEASE keep the beautiful timber ceiling. Dont paint it white.

Hey Matt, Congratulations on finding such a big, beautiful home in the Japanese countryside. Just a couple of suggestions: Don't make any changes for six months. Living in the house, cleaning it up, getting through your first winter there will be enough. In spring, you'll have a much better understanding of your home and what works for you. Hopefully, you'll also learn to respect the whys and how's of Japanese architecture -- like the beauty of shoji, wood and tatami floors, wood ceilings etc. Do NOT paint (esp. white!) over any walls or wood; just clean it and buff it to its former beauty. Please take time to learn about wabi-sabi -- the Japanese aesthetic concept that finds beauty and serenity in natural objects and designs that are simple, imperfect, and impermanent (e.g., handmade shoji and fusuma doors, wood ceilings. tatami mat floors). You've got a lovely, traditional Japanese home, Matt. Please preserve it with love and respect ... and live to a fine old age in it.

The previous owners kept the place in amazing condition! 💖

This will be fun to follow. One suggestion: Do not paint over and wood or door panels till you’ve lived there for a while. Little benefit and impossible to reverse. Good luck!

Score!!! It’s beautiful. Don’t paint the ceiling and leave the doors.

$6000 is nothing you got an amazing deal!! The doors are beautiful very traditional.

I’ve heard that when you move into a house in japan you buy your neighbours gifts, could be a good way to get an introduction and start a friendship with them and get some tips from them for what you’ll need to do with the snow in winter. I think that’s gonna be a big challenge if you’ve never lived somewhere with heavy winter snow! It seems super convenient with everything left behind, looks like you’ve got al the tools you’d need to live there, very cool! Also seems like a big money saver, nice to give the old things a second life 🎉 Think some of those screens and shutters are changeable for the seasons.

Love the doors and all the original details.

Congratulations! I would definitely keep the dividing doors, they are beautiful 😄

Keep all the shoji doors. I wouldn't enlarge the bedroom as traditional Japanese houses aren't well insulated, and winters are bittetly cold. It's easier and cheaper to heat a smaller bedroom.

You will only be heating one small room at a time so keep all shoji doors to close off colder rooms. Freezing is a major problem.

You almost seem embarrassed to show the kitchen but I think it’s wonderful and just needs a tidy and a clean! I’ve always loved how practical and simple the Japanese way of setting up a home is and how much sense it makes. If it were me I’d highlight all the quintessentially Japanese kitchen things like the sink area and natural wood colors. Making things cohesive will be a much better plan than redoing absolutely everything. My friend and neighbor here in America is an old lady from Japan and she never wanted to live there again, but she still lives as if she did by keeping to that simple and delightful way of setting up her home.

That's a really nice house, in the yard is a small jungle, but after some pruning, it will look wonderful. I love hydrangeas.

Hello Matt, it seems to me that you have found a gem for yourself. The house is beautiful, I think. I would keep as many original doors and floors as possible. The sliding doors are amazing, all that wood, it's marvellous. And the garden is full of promises. To me, it is like some dream come true, right from some Ghibli movie. I am happy for you and I so would like to see how it all evolves...! Congratulations!

very happy for you! by why does his hurt my heart a little. So much backstory to the people who once lived there

It's a very nice house and makes me sad that what happened to this family...I'm Japanese living in the US for more than 50 yrs and seeing a house like this leaving everything behind is very sad to me...hope they are okay and you'll do great job to update this house!!!!!

The house, the garden, the shed! I love it all! A small Japanese house doesn't need fancy shmancy stuff, I'd love to see the outcome of your project! ❤

I had a smile throughout the entire video, i can tell you are absolutely happy and excited about owning your house and we are really happy for you.

It's huge! What an amazing find! I'm in Hong Kong and that's basically 3 months rent for a small flat here & you own it! 💪🏼bonus, you get lots of furniture that already fits the space. Keep the doors, they're very pretty.