https://imgur.com/a/d5TEABI/
My garden originally looked like shit when I bought this house, as did the house as many of you know. The house for those of you who don’t, I did this write up a while back.
More recent pics:
I assume the yard had some kind of poison sprayed on it because I live in the mountains and weeds grew everywhere except my yard which was totally barren.
I had the top of the soil scraped off, new soil (山土) brought in, leveled+ compacted, and then I planted seed about 5 times until it finally started to look like it does now.
I’ve done Kentucky bluegrass, perennial ryegrass, tall fescue, and Texas bluegrass heat mix seed. I didn’t see much benefit to one type of seed and just kept seeding over and over until it finally started filling in the bare spots.
A lot of people thought I was an idiot when I bought this place, shout out to my fans at r/japancirclejerk 😘. I saw potential in this place where others didn’t and I keep getting more and more sure I made the right decision as projects come to fruition.
If anyone else is working on a traditional house I’d love to see it too.
https://www.reddit.com/r/japan/comments/uvazkm/kominka_garden_renovation_2_years_of_work_finally/
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Congrats. The turn around looks amazing
I hate you for living my dream.
But in all seriousness super cool, been following since the beginning.
I love what you did. This has always been a dream of mine, too. I’m moving to Japan to live next week, so who knows?
OMG, the house is gorgeous! Do you have before and after pictures and, the elephant in the room, what was your budget?
Damn that’s nice
Show us the new toilet. You can’t just leave us hanging from what was that squatie. Also, for the “picture that showed the property had potential”, what is that type of renovation called when you saw that beam?
Your house looks fantastic, beautiful job.
I love watching these komikas getting rehabbed on YouTube. Thankfully for all the ones that subtitle
That’s absolutely lovely, great job!
I saw your post awhile back. The house is looking real nice. Love it. Good job bro!
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How far are you from a large city?
Amazing work. I live vicariously through your blood, sweat, and… Beer!
Really nice work! Do you have a site or a blog where people can follow your projects?
I do remember when you bought, that’s an amazing transformation.
I thought it would cost you more than ¥1000万 for renovation but it’s cost efficient as well.
If you don’t mind me asking, how much you bought it?
That’s for sharing this. What an amazing project! Reminds me of Tokyo Llama’s project
https://www.youtube.com/c/TokyoLlama
https://www.instagram.com/tokyo_llama/
That looks awesome man. Saw your insta, you don’t see many people rich piana’ing in japan lmao, did you set up a gym in your place?