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Homes Embracing Natural Light

A home filled with natural light uses soft, diffused illumination to connect indoor living with the passage of time. Combining south-facing windows, high clerestories, skylights, and courtyard openings carries light deep into the floor plan. Shifting highlights and shadows on walls and floors change beautifully between morning, afternoon, and seasons. Interior windows and open-well ceilings guide light into inner rooms. Eaves and planting manage summer heat and glare. We present light-filled homes wrapped in warm, gentle brightness.

Japanese-Style House

Japanese homes utilize natural materials like wood, earth, paper, and stone alongside spatial compositions rooted in Japan's climate, creating a serene lifestyle. Incorporating deep eaves, verandas, shoji screens, and tatami mats softly receives light and breeze while gently connecting interior and exterior boundaries. Installing openings or courtyards facing the garden allows you to feel seasonal changes from indoors. Combining traditional motifs with modern amenities results in a comfortable living space suited to current life while preserving historic charm. Here, we introduce Japanese homes that value Japanese aesthetics and proximity to nature, nurturing quiet, rich time.

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View back from the entrance earthen floor. A relatively wide opening accommodates bicycles and motorcycles.

The roof's earthen bedding was removed and re‑roofed with sangawara clay tiles, enhancing seismic performance.

The staircase originally located inside a closet was replaced with an open‑riser (strip) stair. A shoin‑style shoji screen functions as the visual terminus.

View from the entrance earthen floor toward the living room.

Unfinished cedar plank flooring. Ceilings are painted with small beams exposed.

Entrance earthen‑floored area. The storage room at the front is also accessible from the living room, creating a convenient circulation route.

Most interior fittings were refurbished and adjusted before being reused. The now‑rare frosted glass features a maple motif.

View of the garden from the dining area. The fence is clad in yakisugi (charred cedar).

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Exterior. The exterior walls, which the previous tenant had painted black, were restored with a lime plaster finish. The mushiko‑mado (insect‑lattice) window was repaired.

Converted the previously dim two adjacent tatami rooms into a large cedar‑clad living room, rehabilitating the property as a family‑oriented residence.

View from the entrance storage through the earthen floor toward the street.

Light entering from east‑ and west‑facing windows and from above the stair is diffused by the white walls and ceilings, imparting a bright atmosphere to the living room.

Second floor. Existing ceiling boards were removed and replaced with a boat‑hull (inverted‑boat) ceiling.

The bay window's lattice was removed and the timber joinery was converted to frosted glass and reused. Soft light filters in from the alley.

Walls and ceilings are luan. Floors are structural plywood that also serves as reinforcement. All surfaces are left unfinished in their natural state.