modern living room japan

hi everyone! we moved apartments earlier this year andit's finally time to show you our new place. i know a lot of you really liked the lastapartment we were living in. it was around 300 square feet, and it wasa studio. everything was brand new. great amenities and a beautiful aesthetic. however now we are living in a place thatis about twice the size yet the same price. and in order to achieve that we had to gowith somewhere that was a little bit older and a little bitmore outdated.

one of the reasons we decided to make thattrade is that i'm an introvert, my husband is very much an extrovert and living in such a small place without wallsreally wasn't working for us. now after living here for about six monthsi can confirm that we did make the right decision. having the extra space to spread out and spaceto just be alone at times has been wonderful. now to avoid any confusion we are no longerliving in that apartment. we moved out about a month ago, rather unexpectedly,so the footage you're about to see i kind of had to throw together. so my apologies if it's not perfect, but idid want to show you where we were living,

and if you're counting or keeping track you'reabout to see apartment number three and the place we're living now i will hopefullybe able to show you sometime in the future. upon entering our home is a long hallway. on top of the shoebox is our keys, coins andour books. there's a box for our sunglasses and wallets, some clothing care items, and all of our shoeson this side. as you head down the hallway to the rightis the master bedroom. we keep this room very simple with just arug, two pillows, and a small lamp. during the day it's a wonderful place to relaxor read,

and as evening comes we put out our futonand the space transforms to a bedroom. we keep our futons in the closet during theday. this is also where i like to keep my coats. we keep all of the ski gear in this box theni have my backpack, and my husband and i each have a black box to keep our non-seasonalclothing. directly across from this room is anothersmall room. in order to use the space we bought some clothingracks from ikea and we keep our clothing in there.

you can see my capsule wardrobe and my husband's,then we have two boxes on the bottom. our laundry basket is on the side there andthere you can see two doors. those are doors we removed from somewhereelse in the house. further down the hallway on the same sideas the closet is a small room with a toilet. this sink turns on when you flush the toilet and then we have some toilet paper down inthe corner along with my homemade room spray. directly across from the toilet is our livingroom / guest bedroom. in order to transform this into a guest bedroomwe just move the furniture out, and we insert those two doors into that brown wooden frame.

then in the closet you can see that we havetwo guest futons, some blankets and towels. in here we keep our two suitcases, a vacuumand the set of drawers which keeps our papers, camera gear, electronics and some other stationeryitems. coming out of the living room is a small diningroom attached to a kitchen. these are two ikea tables, which we shortenedby cutting off the legs. we have a small station over here for freshfruit and vegetables as well as my essential oil diffuser. the kitchen is just behind that and then wehave two refrigerators off to the side. these refrigerators belong to my employer,and we needed to keep both of them in the

apartment. in this cabinet we keep all of our disheswater bottles coffee machine and extra utensils. on the bottom we have our glass tupperware,box of tea, and spices. and on the top we have all of our packagedfood items. those are our spices and a few of the packageditems we use for cooking. under the stove we keep some of our appliances. next are some ingredients we use for cooking, our cleaning supplies and rags and water filter. then we have some empty jars and some otherthings i use for making my own beauty products.

in this drawer you can see the utensils thatwe use every day. on top of the fridges is the papers i useevery day, a drying mat and a few tea towels. from this angle you can see the hallway andjust down and to the right is the bathroom. in here we have a vanity with a sink. again, i'm not a fan of this particular styleof vanity because everything's on display, but we try to do our best to keep it minimaland put some flowers in there to liven the space up a little bit. and down here we have all of our shaving stuff. now because most of our bathroom supplieswe buy in america, we do have backups, which

we keep in these containers, and then you can also see my hair brushes,makeup and towels, hair care. then tucked in the corner is a washing machineand some washing powder. we try to remove things from packaging wheneverpossible. finally is the shower room with the bathtub.

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