A week
and a half without updates! My apologies. Yuko and I haven’t been by the house
in nearly two weeks as work schedules were pretty busy and we had a few days
braving a massive typhoon over in Hong Kong. Though we are heading over to the
house tomorrow for a meeting (about furniture I believe), I realized that I do
have some more recent photos so I’ll share those with you all in this post.
When
we went to the house two weeks ago, Yuko and I went by ourselves and found that
we were able to get inside the blue sheeting to have a nose around inside (the
joys of living in such a safe country I guess!). There were a few small
changes, here and there, most notably the addition of some wooden squares in
the frame into which the windows will soon be installed. It was pretty useful
for us to get an idea of the size of the windows in each room but it’s hard to
tell how much light then will let in when we have no walls and a huge blue
sheet everywhere. I suppose we’ll have to trust the builders there…
I
did venture upstairs but the ladder was especially wobbly this time and so Yuko
bravely opted not to join me. A few things had been moved around upstairs so I
could move about a bit more freely but my enjoyment at wandering around was tempered
somewhat by a nagging fear that when I was finished I was going to have to go
down the ladder again. The sooner we can get the staircase in, the better.
Some
progress has also been made on the outside steps and some new plastic pipes
have also appeared. I’m not sure if they are for water, sewage or both. We’ll
ask tomorrow.
Next
week is the Obon holiday for which Japan basically shuts down. I’m not sure if
that is also going to apply to our construction site, although it seems that
there are still a few things planned in the schedule. We won’t be here to check
up as we have to go and see the in-laws. I’ll try and take a few more photos
tomorrow and get them up early next week. For now, here’s a few I managed to
take last week.
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| New pipes! |
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| Stair construction |
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| The space to the east of our steps. Will be filled in and the wall under the blue sheet (which fell down) rebuilt. |
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| Our first window frame |
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| Frame from a distance. This is in the laundry room I believe. The diagonal beam is temporary |
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| Piles and piles of wood upstairs |
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| View across the living room. Balcony is in the LH corner |
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| View up the staircase to the penthouse/roof deck 1 |
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| View up the staircase to the penthouse/roof deck 2 |
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| The Japanese room, now without piles of wood |
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| Living room area |
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