Name: Our Japanese House Tour: Big Family Small House | Life in Japan Episode 173
Uploaded: 2022-07-16T17:45:20.000Z
Duration: 10 min 23 s
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I have Sarah Reutter here, and Rebecca Reutter and Anna Reutter.

A number of you have asked how do we make our house work for so many people here in Japan.

Well, we are going to show you. Here we go.

So we have a very, very large genkan (entrance) which is great for all our kids,

However, I think I would prefer a smaller genkan that is closed off

so that I could heat or air condition the rest of this part during the summer and winter.

Because I would much prefer an extra room, than this huge genkan.

Right here, Anna can you show us the piano?

So we've wanted a piano for a while but in Japan they make these super skinny electric pianos,

That work perfect to put right here in our entrance where we had some space

This has been a great way to use that space.

And I'm sure you've seen, we use it a lot.

Ok, now let's go see Sarah and Joshua's room.

Whoa! Here they are! The not so little, little Reutter kids.

Tell me, about this, one of our few big rooms.

And then we switched it because we needed it to be ... I don't know why we switched.

But anyway, then this room became Becca and Anna's room

And Sarah used to sleep in the office because she was tiny.

Then when she got bigger she moved in with them.

And then at one point we switched them to room - I mean we have switched this room a lot of times.

Oh yeah. But it used to be all four kids.

We're going to take you to Becca and Anna's room.

With a bunch, like Joshua's clothes and everything was still in here.

And all four kids lived in the other room.

What's the deal with the shape of this room?

We do not know about the shape of this room or why they have this dumb little sliding glass window here?

Who knows. This room is pretty much a not cool room.

But we made it look pretty cool. And it's your own room.

Good bye. And then we have the tatami room as our bedroom.

And, Life in Japan studio and Nate's office.

It's usually, my side is usually pretty messy, so we won't show mine too much.

I have way too much stuff and not enough storage space.

What do we do for storage with all of the stuff?

We put them in air vacuum bags and stuff them in the tatami closet and under the bed.

Here's a little part that maybe, people who watch don't really know.

There's a hole. There's a huge hole in our house.

And while it's very nice for shouting.. Daddy come upstairs!

It's very nice for that, but it's a lot of space that is just there and not used.

There could be like a whole room right here.

Alright, let's go upstairs. Up these stairs - you have seen them before.

This is the most challenging room of the house.

So, when it's teeth brushing time, all 4 kids are trying to fit in there and it's just a little bit tight.

It just all gets crammed in there. All in there. All 6 of us using that.

You have to buy add-ins and just be very organized.

Although I have a very large kitchen for Japan.

So I'm very thankful for that and I got a large fridge.

You buy units that work for what you want.

So, since this has to be our dinning and living,

We have an expandable table so we can fit more people around it if we need to.

But most of the time we just leave 5 chairs around because we can hardly fit 6 chairs around.

And we have an air/heating unit up there,

But, we have to put a curtain between the kitchen and the living otherwise all the cold air just goes straight in there.

We tried putting in another air conditioner here.

But this wall will not support it, it's not made to hold another air so that was shut down.

And then we have a gas heater - it's Tokyo gas.

So it's much cheaper than those LP gases that a lot of houses have.

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Our Japanese House Tour: Big Family Small House | Life in Japan Episode 173

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