

This is our living room. I keep forgetting to show our living room. Sorry, ha ha ha! It's really big! It's 12 tatami. Umm what else should I say about it? It has a lot of windows. It also has a sliding glass door which leads to the back yard terrace just like the dining room does. The living room is on the first floor. We made all the rooms where our guests would go on the first floor. So common areas on the first floor. Meanwhile all areas of the house that are more private such as our bedrooms and laundry room and bath tub, etc are on the second floor. We did this purposely when we made the house. In the model house the laundry room was on the first level but Noboru was a stickler about our upstairs being the private areas and the downstairs being the common areas, type thing.
Notice the rounded/arched doorway in the pic. We also have an arched doorway leading to the kitchen as well. The closed door next to the stairs is the downstairs bathroom. Also the wood flooring we chose was the medium shade. We didn't want the yucky too dark color wood and we didn't want the overly bleached wood color either. So we went with the middle medium color.