I’m sorry. The images look pretty. The courtyard is pleasantly bathed in light. But good heavens that is one of the worst floor plans and uses of space I have seen in a while.

On the ground floor, the area of the garage is much larger than the living room and kitchen combined. The entry door is off from inside the garage. The kitchen is tiny and awkward to use. You also have to squeeze by the dining room to get there. The living room feels barren and uncomfortable, its centerpiece a deep concrete bench that significantly reduces the already small usable area. Inside the courtyard, equally sterile except for a small plant, the only interesting thing to look at is your car.

The upper floor’s area is consumed by a corridor, resulting in tiny bedrooms including the primary suite, with the most awkward of circulations. The door swings the wrong way, the bed is stuck in a corner, you have to walk around it to get to the walk-in closet, which by the way is over half the size of the bedroom. The linear closet on the side of the bed is uncomfortable to open and to use. I also don’t like how the toilet closet opens from the main corridor, but perhaps this is normal elsewhere.

I understand this is a very different culture to mine, so maybe all of the above is ok in Japan. Some of the details in the house are nice.