Housing Seminars in Hiroshima and Nagoya

Home Made will join the following seminars by CMHC in Hiroshima and Nagoya. And I propose “interior renovation by Para Paints” and introduce a characteristic of Para Paints.

These seminars are for builders and architects, but you can take part in these seminars, if you enter registration through “Contact us”. Do not hesitate it. Thanks.

Contact us: http://www.homemade-co.com/otoiawase/index-en.html

Canada Mortgage & Housing Corporation International, together with partners Canadian Consulate in Nagoya, Canadian Trade Office West Japan, and B.C. Wood Specialties Group, is pleased to invite you in Japan, to participate in two activities, June 15-16, 2011, in Hiroshima and Nagoya, Japan.

More specifically, we are organizing seminars on the topic of Canada's experience related to remodelling and reform of existing residential and commercial buildings. CMHC will be bringing a technical expert with practical experience to present a variety of examples of reform projects in Canada including wood frame single-residential housing, multiple housing and commercial buildings. The objective of each seminar is to enhance awareness of the benefits of renovation and specifically to introduce and present Canadian companies whose products are applicable in this area in an effort to facilitate export sales in the Hiroshima and Nagoya regions of Japan.

DATES, TIMES AND LOCATIONS:

June 15, 2011 - Hiroshima
13:00-17:00
International Conference Center Hiroshima
Map: http://www.pcf.city.hiroshima.jp/icch/access.html

June 16, 2011 - Nagoya
13:00-17:00
Japan Housing Financing Agency, Tokai Branch (near Chikusa Station)
Map: http://www.jhf.go.jp/about/tenpo/tokai.html

DEADLINE FOR Participant
Deadline is Friday, June 10, 2011.

Hold a meeting with you about consultation for “Brick house” in Nisshin

We had a terrible disaster in the north east area of Japan.

I must say so sorry for it. Our thoughts and prayers are with them at this terrible time.

We must build strong houses against such an earthquake as much as possible in order to save lives.

Then we hold a meeting with you about building consultation for a western style house at this time.

Please do not hesitate and contact us. Regarding the details, please check an attached insertion. Thanks.

Date: 3/19(sat) thru 21(mon), Time: 10:00 ～ 17:00

Place: Home made Company (At My Office)

4-905, Iwasakidai, Nisshin city, Aichi Pref., Japan

Reservation Call ：0561-75-4087 or Contact us

Insertion Copy ： http://www.homemade-co.com/homemade/consultation_E.pdf

Elegant but Gorgeous!

Our new house in Toyota was opened for public as scheduled.
We look forward to finalizing our house construction. We’re a bit tied up though.

This is a picture of double sidelite door which has stained glass on both side of entrance.

Our customer chose it, but it’s very rare and unique.

A orange bud with blue-gray stalk give us a lovely and gentle impression.

Atmosphere of stained glass seems like a hand made.

It looks very nice!!

It reminds you something like that in medieval times in Europe, which is well suited for pink-gray brick cladding.

Please visit our new house in Toyota on 23rd Nov.Tuesday.

If you have any question. do Not hesitate to contact us.

Contact:http://www.homemade-co.com/otoiawase/index-en.html

House address: 8-3, Hachiman, Maebayashi-cho, Toyota-shi, Aichi Pref., Japan

Locationmap:http://kokomail.mapfan.com/receivew.cgiMAP=E137.4.12.9N35.1.51.2&ZM=12&CI=R

Winter is coming soon!!

Please look at this picture.

There is a wood stove on the 2nd floor at the house that we have an Open-House from 20th November, Saturday. This is a simple free standing type. You can put kettle on the flat-top of that. I meant no dryness in the room.

Both Body and Chimney of this stove is made by double structure, so it doen’t matter if you touched it. This is a High safety standard model from Canada.Unexpectedly, it has a large amount of space.so, You can make a roasted sweet potatoes too.

The Fire-set should be used for clean up the stove sometime.therefore, It is not just a decoration.

We installed full-bricks around the wood stove as same as that for a brick cladding wall.It’s quite different with flat bricks. obviously, There is much benefit of outstanding thermal effect.

We also installed dry-wall for wall and ceiling, it looks like a natural interior though.Para-Paint has a beautiful color variation. and it’s original elegant wall really suit for a dark-brown floor and ceiling.

It’s very important to have something image or view when you built the House.

If you have any question. do Not hesitate to contact us.
Contact:http://www.homemade-co.com/otoiawase/index-en.html

House address: 8-3, Hachiman, Maebayashi-cho, Toyota-shi, Aichi Pref., Japan

Locationmap:http://kokomail.mapfan.com/receivew.cgi?MAP=E137.4.12.9N35.1.51.2&ZM=12&CI=R

Unique bathtub for Japan

in Japan It’s normally sepatated into bathtub, washroom, sink and dressing room.
On the other hand, people in Western countries concentrate them in one place.
Is it rationalism?


For example, Look at this picture on the above.
It’s takes the traditional-room design concept.
This room provides 2 Pedestal, bath-tub and toilet seat with abundant space.
Including cabinet for towels and small articles. You could have a small break by the chair.
and the Rack is used for holding things such as shampoo in the bath-tub

It can afford to put some flowers on the cabinet.
Not only wall and floor but everything unified to be monotone.
One piece of painting and dark-green flowers brings brilliant colors.

You could feel something like that it makes more brighten on day time.

Next, please look at another picture which you might spend a time on there before sleep.

At the dusk, Sunshine get in through the double-hung window. and
Incandescent light bulb vividly illuminate the pedestal.

A bathtub also contrast well with brightness of downlight.
then,
These effort shows indirect lighting real ability.

It’s the greatest sense of that create a difference visual impact both active time and slow time.
By the way,
all of those products are from Neptune Co. Canada.
Of course, you’ll never get those products from a house-maker except the Home-Made Co.

We’re going to offer you such a unique and original designed interior like that. though It may not be completed quite as same as that on these picture.

It is the advantage of Imported House with that are able to provide a valuable design.




If you have any question. do Not hesitate to contact us.
Contact:http://www.homemade-co.com/otoiawase/index-en.html

Our presentation on Nov. 11th(Thu) and 12th(Fri).

We’re going to have a presentation about Para-Paints at the CMHC seminar which introduces some of Canadian products and techniques. We will show you a kind of Paints for dry wall, Although we don’t have enough time then.

We would like to distribute Color-chart to participant as possible as we can. It will also be delivered if you could not get it.

We’re going to offer our new plan "Dry-wall". The dry-wall interior makes your house more unique and original than that of the other house-maker.

If you have free time or interest in presentation, please come and visit to the seminar.
We will be happy to deal with any further questions.

Date : Nov. 11th(Thu)12:00~18:00
Address: 2-14-8 Tenzin, Tyuuo-ku, Fukuoka
Fukuoka Tenzin Center Building 8F
TKP Tenzin City Center
Map : http://tkptenjin.net/access/
Phone : 092-720-8003

Date : Nov. 12th(Fri)12:00~18:00
Address: 5-4-21 Fukushima, Fukushima-ku, Osaka
TKP Gate Tower Building Conference 9A/9B
TKP Osaka Umeda Business Center
Map : http://tkpumeda.net/access/
Phone : 06-4797-6610

Living with pets

Do you design with pets in mind at house building or renovation? When you build a new house or renovate a room in Japan, you may want to consult a builder who knows dog or cat and building materials to live with pets, but actually such a builder is rare near you.

So, I would like to let you know information in my new web page, "Living with pets". Please check it, if you are interested in it. Thanks.

Careful for the details

At last Weekend, a lot of customers came to House Open House in Moriyama-ku, C's house. Thank you.

I guess that they could see design capped with a considerable impact, it may be lucky.

Well, last week renovation in I's house has proceeded smoothly and I removed the old concrete roofing materials and installed the new asphalt shingle roofing.

Let me introduce a bit of the thing.

The roof, according to the shape of the house, is facing various directions. Joint lines happen on roof valleys and ridges where face a different roof direction.

There is a weakness at heavy rain and wind, so I put a waterproof metal sheet on. We call it flashing.

In this photo you can see that I installed a stainless steel sheet baking color paint as flashing under the roof at the valley.

The old flashing was made by a steel painted with a color and I could not use it because of fairly rusty.

The customer says that it has been re-painted six years ago, but I could not confirm the re-painted finish.

Accordingly, I discussed with the roof worker, I decided to use stainless steel in the future without fear.

Of course, It takes an extra cost, this is my conscience to do so. So, I do not request it to the customer.

As for flashing, two things are important: (1) that the asphalt shingle roofing covers it enough, (2) Waterproof adhesive called asphalt coulking, contains properly on the flashing at the part in contact with the roofing. They will cover up weaknesses at the roof.

Even at the Japanese concrete roofing, and this asphalt shingle guaranteed 30-year, such underlayment work (Flashing and Felt) will prevent a leakage basically.

Anyway, my blog is a maniac, so people reads this and he may become an annoying customer for ordinary Japanese builders.

Exterior Renovation Just Started!

I started to assemble a scaffolding in I's house, Nisshin city on last Thursday. It was a little rainy day but I did it as much as possible.

This house was built 16 years ago. As far as you see the picture, it looks beautiful, but the painted concrete roof is discoloured and the inside of wood siding also receives damage by water or moisture for a long time.


It is so sorry that a customer waste much money at this time. I suppose that it would be necessary, if a renovator had taken an action properly at re-painting 6 yaers ago.
(For your reference, most of Japanese roofing materials is made of concrete and is painted on surface for water resistance.)

The discolouring occurs by that he did not clean the surface enough and painted on the stain.

When a customer came to me for advice, he said that a piece of the roof dropped off on land.


I checked it on another day, a new paint came on the back at cracking line as the picture.

It means that the crack occured before re-painting and the renovator knew it then. He does not have a common sense for his job.

I would like to come up to a customer's expectations because I could get a good relationship with him by this trouble.

By the way, I will install a Canadian asphalt shingle roofing which has a function of algae resistant and 30 years warranty. For exterior cladding, I will install the same PVC siding as I posted it before.

Make it new!

I, Home Made renovate a house which was built 11 years ago in Akaike, Nisshin. I have almost done except tiles of entrance stairway.

In this renovation, I install a PVC cladding at exterior. Though it is common in North America, it is not familiar to Japanese.

It is not discoloured and is different from paint because at manufacturing process the colourant is mixed in the material.

And it is quite durable on weather and deterioration does not occur so much, comparing to domestic concrete siding panel.

Please see the upper picture. White trim line has some cracks and becomes dark at the below by rain.

I recommend to fill compound in cracks and to paint exterior wall, but the costomer wants to change it to a maintenance free one and chooses this siding.


This is designed by North America and is made in Japan. It has both of design and quality.

PVC is light. So, it does not impose a burden on the structure and does not go bad by moisture or rain.

Of course, if a problem occurs on the exsisting siding, I can strip it and replace to PVC cladding. If no problem, I can also install it on the exsisting siding. It depends on case by case.

I guess that PVC cladding will increase in Japan for only new construction but renovation.

But please keep attention that we must take measures to fire regulation in Japan at the installation.