By popular demand

Several readers e-mailed me specifically requesting to see some photos of our Japanese home now that everything is unpacked and organized. Here is a virtual photo tour of the V-Team Mizugama house:

After you park your car, walk up the stairs where there are two duplexes. We are duplex A. Look for our mailbox.


Hello there. I'll be your tour guide.


Once inside, here is the entryway. Benny usually hangs his uniform here. I have my bridesmaid dress, since I just picked it up from the alterations shop.


Please put your shoes here. This box at the entryway to leave your shoes is typical of a Japanese home. This photo is a little blurry. Apparently I was moving fast when I snapped this shot.


Walk into our dining room on the right and kitchen on the left.


One side of the kitchen


The other side of the kitchen


The Japanese refrigerator


From inside the tatami room looking out into the dining room. The tatami room is our guest room, my reading room and Benny's napping room.


Benny grilling kobe beef on our narrow patio. Notice how much smaller this grill is compared to the one we have in the States.


The shower/bath


Now up the stairs and behind door No. 1 is our bedroom.


We have a second balcony outside our bedroom. This is usually where I hang up our laundry to bake in the sun.


This is the view from the second story patio.



Behind door No. 2 is the storage room, where we dump everything that doesn't fit somewhere else in the house.


Behind door No. 3 is our study/entertainment door.

This is where we watch television and I write.



So that completes your tour of the Volkmann Japanese house.