This is the outside of the house. It is a little more traditional than the other two options - also a little older. The bathroom and kitchen need updated, but that's not part of the deal.
Our 'yard' is more of a garden. Instead of grass, we have rocks. There were a lot more trees, but they must have died since there are only a few stumps left. The other day, we saw a brown lizard in the yard. The kids named him 'Slinky'.
These are tatami mat rooms. The floors are made from what we think are rice stalks but we are not sure.
We are using the larger room as our bedroom. It's an 8 tatami mat room. The smaller one is our TV room. It's a 6 tatami mat room. As you can tell, they measure rooms by how many tatami mats fit.
The kids' bedrooms are on the second floor. The look about the same. They are bigger than the rooms they had back in Ohio. Also, they each have large walking closets. Overall, if you don't count the basement, I think we have more room now than we did before we left the U.S.
Im glad to here everything is going fine. Your house looks nice compared to what I was thinking. I thought it would be real small. Cameron and I miss you!
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