A tiny Kyo-machiya renovated on a budget - Find out some drawbacks that made it cheap
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- Опубликовано: 15 окт 2024
- In Kyoto city, rarely can you find a fully renovated Kyo-machiya townhouse for under 20 mil JPY, but this house that I visited was an exception. The land & house is fairly small, but that's not the only reason. Let me show you some drawbacks that this house has, and don't worry nothing bad has happened here...not that I know of.
See here for detail and location of this property
koutoku2018.co...
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I love this place! I’m searching for a machi-ya style house in Kyoto, Nara or Osaka to live in part time for when my wife comes back to visit her family. Something like this would be perfect!
For the price and location, one shouldn't complain. It looks updated and only minor repairs and some DIY to make it cozy. Thanks for sharing!
Definitely not easy to find a renovated machiya under 20mil JPY in Kyoto city!
I like it, actually. This place looks really nice. The only drawbacks I mind are the broken window screen and the unplanted garden, but those are both easy to fix. The price seems very reasonable, too.
If I lived in Kyoto today, I might consider buying this place.
Glad you liked it! Window screen and garden can be fixed easily but the surrounding is something that can't be changed.... it would be nice to have more privacy as a home.
This may be the budget renovation, but it is the renovation I like best of the ones you have shown up until now because you can still see that it is a matchiya, but it is also suitably updated for a modern lifestyle. It is tastfully respecting the bone of the building. Probably the best way you can go unless you want to do an restoration.
Thank you! I liked the overall atmosphere inside the house as well. Didn't like the exterior and surrounding that much but I guess you get what you pay for. A restoration would be nice for a community space for the public :)
So glad i've found your channel! Wish i'd known you back in 2015 when i was trying to buy a place of my own. I really struggled and put it on hold. I lived in Kyoto and Shiga 20 years ago and would love to have a place to spend my vacations and my later years. Thank you for making these videos in English- i really appreciate it and enjoy them so much.
Thank you for the comment and glad you liked the videos! There really aren't that much information available regarding buying or living in traditional Japanese houses even now... but then it's never too late to start searching for one again :)
that house would be perfect for me!! good price too. i love those two top rooms but i would be paranoid with that folding toilet door lol
I love your videos. I just recently found out about akiya houses and for days I couldn’t find information about them because it’s in Japanese. Your videos are godsend, please keep sharing!
Thank you for the kind comment! Glad you enjoyed the videos and find them helpful.
Looks lovely.
I really like the house, though I would have chosen traditional style for the entire room.
Your videos are amazing, please keep doing more like this!
Thank you Thomas, I'm happy as long as there is some Tatami space :) I will try to share more in different styles & sizes.
Nice little place, for 1 or 2 people. A nice step-up from an apartment. Too bad about lack of outdoor space, but you could put a little micro garden in. If I were living alone in Kyoto a place like this would be perfect.
The back side window seems like a good place for a balcony since there are just roofs with a few sky lights around.
I love your house!It's really looking good.My dream is to own a house in kyoto like yours.Keep posting videos.There enjoyable to watch.
Hi Shawn, thank you! This is not my house but I'm hoping mine to turn out nicely...fingers crossed. Will be showing more traditional houses before & after renovation.
Thanks for sharing! This place seems really nice in the video, I'd quite happily live here. 😀👍
Thanks for watching! It was a nicely renovated Kyo-machiya.
Size wise I think this house is what I would like to get. Smaller houses are cheaper to buy materials for. The garden was a little bit of a disappointment But I feel like with that balcony there Is enough space to have a small garden. Plants could also help against seeing or being seen by the neighbors. Lovely house!
Considering the prices back here in the Netherlands. This is really not bad. I would most certaintly buy it for that price, no questions asked.
For a renovated machiya in Kyoto city, anything under 20mil JPY is very cheap. This place sold quickly as well.
@@GoodOldHousesJapan If I worked in IT and could work from home I would be very tempted to go live there.
It has a tub AND a shower. That's more than I can say for tiny houses and apartments in the US.
great video, what were those wires outside the house, just asking, am looking to get a home in the near future, but I would like to have a house thats budget friendly, do you know of any web sites that would be budget friendly, am looking mainly in the Kyoto area...
I think those were electrical wires. Should be tucked in somewhere else but not sure why they are just hanging there. Athome is the biggest platform so it's probably easier to use the price range filter and look for ones within budget...
@@GoodOldHousesJapan thanks that helped out, am looking to make friends, don't know if I said that before, maybe we can do a youtube video together as friends, just saying, but I like the vending machines that they have in Japan 🇯🇵 😀...
honestly the place isn't that bad. maybe different in person? would be a cute vacation spot
The house itself was nice! The surrounding houses & atmosphere I didn't like so much.
Just wondering for these kind of Machiya where very closed to each other Machiya (no matter front and back), how is the air circulation work? I am pretty sure I will not open the windows often. BTW, I will prefer to use ceramic for the toilet flooring instead of hardwood.
My guess is that it is plastic laminated floors, not hardwood. Plastic liminate is by fare the most common and cheapest flooring available in Japan today. The newer styles can look quite convincing at first glance.
I didn't check carefully but from how it felt I think the entire 1st floor was hardwood. Air circulation for these townhouses should be fine with windows front and back...cold in the winter though.
How much did you pay for it all to renovate ?
Do you know which company renovated this house ?
I am interested to work with them. Thank you !!
Yes of course. The company that renovated this machiya is called Kotoku.
Here is their web page. koutoku2018.co.jp/
@@GoodOldHousesJapan Thank you !
can i know what are the advantage of machiya vs akiya?
what do u estimate they actually spent on the renovation only ? to bring it from what it was to this stage
this - koutoku2018.co.jp/reform_3.php includes entries from the start to just before paint/paper and new appliances were added - not sure about the cost of renovation, my guess is under 3.5mil ¥
Hi Dave, the total floor area is only about 50sqm and the roof tiles were not replaced. I'm thinking something between 5mil - 8mil JPY? Carpenter (大工) fee is really expensive for fixing traditional Japanese house like this...
@@GoodOldHousesJapan For around 5-8mil Yen, I assumed this is included labour and material. By comparing to Canada, I do consider low for traditional carpenters. I always love those no nail technique for the framing.
@@LOCATlON wow that pretty cheap thanks
Does it cost less to use that ugly composite flooring on the second floor rather than tatami? It seems like the tatami room should be the closet. I don't mind the composite in the LDK, but the upstairs should be all tatami.
I'm not sure but Tatami mats are not that expensive... putting 6 new tatami mats should only cost less or around 1k usd.
KILL IT WITH FIRE!!!1!11 :P Can't have that small of a garden area with a window that needs the whole space just to open, that's the kind of joke rock musicians would play on each other in the 1970s just because they had money to literally burn just for laughs. Good video, though.
Just got to be creative with limited garden space! Thanks for watching again!
You can’t really call it a garden I would just plant such an small Japanese tree there and do some grass
wow hughe bath
huge bath??