I am an graduate student currently residing near Tokyo, and I have been looking to move from my current residence of one year due to high rent and inconvenient location.
I have visited a few locations and there's this apartment that caught my attention. It is in the perfect location with the perfect price and condition, but with one issue, both of the bedrooms are washitsu, meaning they are in tatami (6 jou).
I am fine with sleeping on tatami (since I am used to sleeping on hard surfaces). But I have quite a few heavy furnitures from my last apartment, including a sofa, an office chair, and a large overhead shelve that wouldn't fit in the living room with wooden floor. Therefore, I am looking to convert one of the washitsu to wooden floor, I reached out to the managing company, and consulted about the renovation, but the owner wants to preserve the room in its current condition.
I have read through some other posts (most are very old) and a few websites about laying wooden mat and anti-mold padding on top of the tatami, but they seems more of an advertisement than actually facts. I am looking to live for at least another four years, so I have plenty of budget.
Any suggestions and discussion are welcomed, thank you!
by Traditional-Key4824