Saturday, April 25, 2009

House Remodeling project 1

只今我が家は、リフォーム中。とりあえず、くつろいでお風呂に入れるようになりました。その他はまだ工事中。今日は新しいキッチンを搬入の予定です。本当は、全て今日中に済むはずだったのですが、搬入された一部の部品が壊れていて、取り替えを余儀なくされ、完成が少し遅れそうです。
I have my house remodeling right now. Somehow, the new bathroom work has done and I can have my relax bath time. But all the other parts are under construction still.
Today, they will bring into my new kitchen sets. It was scheduled to be done by today however, it will be expanded. Because we found that one of the parts was broken and it has to be changed. So it will be a bit delayed to be finish them all.

古い風呂場の写真を取り忘れたので、ウェブからイメージを拝借しました。これまでの物は、典型的な日本の家庭風呂でした。
I forgot to take a photo of the old bathroom. So I have used the image from the web site. It shows a typical/traditional Japanese bath tab.



完成したお風呂場です。今までより40㎝広くなりました。年寄りのために手すりを3カ所に付けました。それから、暖房・換気・乾燥は勿論、せっかくですからミストサウナも付けました。髪が濡れてしまう通常のミストサウナに加え、髪が濡れないマイクロミストが2種類付いています。
お風呂が壊れてから、4ヶ月以も上スポーツジムのサウナやシャワーで凌ぐなどの不便な生活をしていましたが、これで快適お風呂タイムの日々がやって来ました。
This is the new bathroom. It became 40 centimeters wider than before. It has three bars for helping/supporting my old parents. It also has not only heater, air duct, laundry dry system but also three different kind sauna (splash mist, 2 different kind steam sauna) system!
I had to put up with all those inconveniences for over 4 months. I used shower and sauna at a sport gym where I have a membership. Now I can have wonderful bath time!!
Generally in Japan, we take a bath in the evening and don't have shower in the morning. So as long as I followed our way, it was OK. So I didn't take shower in the morning.

さて、完成した真新しいお風呂場を一番最初に使ったのは一体誰でしょう?
Guess who used this brand new bathroom for the very first time?


私ですけど・・・何か?
It's me, of course!

4 comments:

California Kayaker Magazine said...

looks nice

Nobue Masuda said...

Peterさん
ありがとう。とても快適で、寛げる時間を過ごしています。

My friends think that I may have a large bathroom for sauna. It's not true. As you know our house in Japan are much smaller than yours in the US.

In fact, this bathroom is about
160 x 160 centimeters wide.
Very small, right?

The secret is a combination system of heater/air duct. It has multiple functions into one machine.

California Kayaker Magazine said...

It sounds like the bath room is large enough to be usable, so I guess that is what matters.

Nobue Masuda said...

Peter
You are right. It is just big enough to be. As you know, we don't have toilet pot right next to the bath tab generally. So we can use the room for a sauna that what the designer/engineer thought, I guess.

It was created and built by Panasonic. According to their web site, they have tried to make it for a long while. The info is here. (Japanese only)

http://panasonic.jp/kanki/ours/03.html