We need to buy a house (not in Tokyo) and there’s a Blooming Garden one that will soon be completed and my family wants it. I am not really a fan, it seems cheaply made and what if it starts falling apart the moment we move in. Any experience?
What do you consider cheaply made about it? From what I understand Blooming Garden line is upper middle quality for house construction.
Bought one last year. One of the better tateuri however all Japanese houses are lacking in design and quality, in my opinion. If I could I would design and build myself.
At least the warranty is good and they will actually fix stuff that you point out.
For the longest time I agreed with the prevailing wisdom about Japanese homes being overpriced and not built to last. Then I spent some time in, shall we say, a certain Brit Commonwealth country where houses are fetishized and valued like flawless blue diamonds from outer space, but constructed like the First Little Pig’s home. It made me appreciate the relative good value of Japanese houses.
Toei housing is well made structurally but otherwise cheap, ugly and cramped, that’s true. So yeah you get what you pay for.
Bought ours over a decade ago. It qualifies as [長期優良住宅](https://www.mlit.go.jp/jutakukentiku/house/jutakukentiku_house_tk4_000006.html), it’s built very well and has needed surprisingly little attention over the years. Luckily it came without a token *washitsu*, there are some minor design annoyances (inevitable if you’re not desigining it yourself I guess) but no regrets. It was certainly an improvement over the other new-builds we saw at the time and no particular regrets.
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What do you consider cheaply made about it? From what I understand Blooming Garden line is upper middle quality for house construction.
Bought one last year. One of the better tateuri however all Japanese houses are lacking in design and quality, in my opinion. If I could I would design and build myself.
At least the warranty is good and they will actually fix stuff that you point out.
For the longest time I agreed with the prevailing wisdom about Japanese homes being overpriced and not built to last. Then I spent some time in, shall we say, a certain Brit Commonwealth country where houses are fetishized and valued like flawless blue diamonds from outer space, but constructed like the First Little Pig’s home. It made me appreciate the relative good value of Japanese houses.
Toei housing is well made structurally but otherwise cheap, ugly and cramped, that’s true. So yeah you get what you pay for.
Bought ours over a decade ago. It qualifies as [長期優良住宅](https://www.mlit.go.jp/jutakukentiku/house/jutakukentiku_house_tk4_000006.html), it’s built very well and has needed surprisingly little attention over the years. Luckily it came without a token *washitsu*, there are some minor design annoyances (inevitable if you’re not desigining it yourself I guess) but no regrets. It was certainly an improvement over the other new-builds we saw at the time and no particular regrets.