{"id":295493,"date":"2025-11-16T17:31:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-16T17:31:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/295493\/"},"modified":"2025-11-16T17:31:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-16T17:31:11","slug":"finding-balance-in-a-japanese-mountain-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/295493\/","title":{"rendered":"Finding balance in a Japanese mountain home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p role=\"text\" tabindex=\"0\" class=\"is_Paragraph font_caslonIonic _dsp-inline _bxs-border-box _ww-break-word _mt-0px _mr-0px _mb-0px _ml-0px _ff-f-family _fw-f-weight-3048 _fs-f-size-18 _lh-f-lineHeigh3500605 _col-c-grey_600 _select-auto _ws-normal\">The opportunity to expand came a\u00a0year later. A\u00a0neighbouring plot of land, three times the size of their home\u2019s footprint, became available, and by then the pair had become accustomed to the town\u2019s natural rhythm. \u201cWe got to know the neighbourhood, the landscape, how the weather changes,\u201d says Ng. \u201cSo\u00a0when we bought the land, we pretty much knew what we wanted to do.\u201d This time they wanted more than a cottage. But rather than one grand house, the pair conceived something more like a hamlet \u2013 four smaller, interlinked buildings arranged along the slope, each with a distinct purpose. \u201cI didn\u2019t want to build a huge mansion that didn\u2019t fit in with the landscape,\u201d explains Ng. The original house, they decided, would become a\u00a0guesthouse, while a newly built home would be the heart of their mountain life. In addition, there was a\u00a0building to house a gym and garage, essential for the area\u2019s heavy snowfalls, and a\u00a0sizable greenhouse to provide year-round foliage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The opportunity to expand came a\u00a0year later. A\u00a0neighbouring plot of land, three times the size of their home\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":295494,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[230,228,226,227,229,88,7488,63666],"class_list":{"0":"post-295493","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-architecture","9":"tag-arts","10":"tag-arts-and-design","11":"tag-artsanddesign","12":"tag-design","13":"tag-entertainment","14":"tag-interior-design","15":"tag-interiors"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295493","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=295493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295493\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/295494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=295493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=295493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=295493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}