Taka wasn’t satisfied with just building a house. He especially wasn’t satisfied with building a samurai house; that’s where we used to live. Taka wanted to build a palace, for me. And, of course, we have stuck with Japanese style and the Edo period in Japanese history (~sorta). I’m sure no one will notice that I’m saying this, but we still are experimenting with textures and we aren’t finished furnishing. So, with that caveat, on with the show.

I’m not sure when we’ll declare the house complete and furnished, but the building of the house has been a source of great interest for Taka. I think it’s obvious that he’s a very good builder, especially when considering he only started building in mid-January (seriously, he’d never built anything before that). I think we’ve both discovered that finding and in some cases creating textures is one of the biggest challenges, but Taka has bought up every Japanese texture he’s come across. So, even though I’ve shown the house before, it’s worth one last peek at the progress of it’s exterior.