I bought a 90+ years old Kyo-machiya townhouse in Kyoto city and the renovation will start soon as the final floor plan has been decided! I will go through the layout changes in different parts of this traditional Japanese house and hope the video can be helpful for those who might be interested in buying or renovating his/her own machiya or kominka house in Japan.
0:00 Introduction
0:22 Before & After Floor Plan
1:35 Change #1 – Entrance Hall
2:22 Change #2 – Living Room & Dining Room
4:26 Take a break – Kids running around the house!
5:48 Adding a slide from the 2nd floor???
6:44 Change #3 – Adding a room on the 2nd floor
8:02 Hello beam and how I decide to keep it
9:02 Lattice windows on the exterior & other things I want to keep
This is the kyo-machiya that has a slide inside…
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I'm actually really excited to see how this turns out. It's a beautiful house already and I can see you're gonna do good things with it! Do you have an estimated time when you want to complete the renovation or are you going to take as much time as you want?
The plan looks really good already! I'm looking forward to see the end result 🙂
Would love to live in a house like that…its a bit too big for me though. Nice little space for the garden as well. Are there small machiya like this with larger gardens in the city? Or is it kept to a minimum?
I still love the interior spaces, and will be interesting to see how the work develops!
For the house plates, if you're reworking the street facing wall for additional bike space and need to remove the plates, maybe use a display box or frames to display the plates on the interior walls of the genkan?
Again, an amazing house, thank you for sharing it with us!
Great video!
Sorry but your plan designs are too cold, too stark. Everything is removed or covered in white paint and wood floors. The respect for the past is erased and in 10 years you may regret doing such a severe change. Please, please, leave the old wood alone. If you wanted a cold white box , why buy and strip down this maichi-ya?Just buy a modern house and leave this beautiful traditional house for someone who will try to retain and respect it's historical beauty.
I enjoy watching videos like this, and I think what you have is going to look incredible once it is finished. Do you have any plans to add skylights or windows on the upper balcony area to allow for more natural lighting? It should be very interesting to see how the house looks as you transform it! がんばろう！
Brilliant new floor PLAN and innovations! I expect it will be a very bright happy home when you're finished!
The mascot shall live on!!
Keep everything that you want to keep. After all, you buy a house like this for its soul.
Beautiful house!
The house you choose is perfect ! The roof structure is amazing !
If you don’t mind, could you please share the estimate renovation costs for your machiya, thanks.
Skylights on back roof.
Too dark otherwise.
Bicycle helmets required for staying on second floor!
You could extend the House to the fence line and put a garden space on the roof
Thank you again for yet an other very interesting video ! If the other still stands to visit your renovated home and have a cup of tea i am also in the kyoto area. 🙂 As an architect i always find these projects very fascinating to see how people adapt traditional architecture to their contemporary lifestyle. Looking forward to checking the rest of your video and maybe meeting in person.
Happy Christmas week.
Spiral staircase?
First off congratulations on the new Daughter, well done and second I really think you have it together every upgrade/improvement was great I can’t wait to see the finished product looking outstanding so far keep up the great work!!!