Friday, July 07, 2006

Our House 2

This might give an idea as to how the house "sits" on the side of the hill. We sort of carved a step out of the rock and clay layer. It makes for a very stable seat, or at least, so far, so good. As you can see by the flag, most of the materials were imported from Canada. Below, is the house with siding and without scaffloding. It kind of sticks out here surrounded by many more traditional structures.

Sunday, July 02, 2006

Our House


Some of you may know that we recently built a house here in Japan. We designed it ourselves and were very much involved in every aspect of the planning and building(I even did some of the drywall priming and painting.). This is a putty model of the land. The cut out spare is where we dug out the land and sat the house.