表の玄関（ガレージの前に車を停めているのですが、すぐ隣に裏口があるのでほとんど表玄関を使いません、お友達もみなさん車で来られるので裏口から入られるのです）と２階に上がる階段の壁、２階の廊下も壁を塗り直し（色はキッチンとダイニングの壁と同じ淡いグレー）、先日絵をかけていただきました。
We hardly use the main front door because there is a back door near the garage, even our friends use the back door because they all come in a car, but this is the hall. We had the walls painted in the same colour as the walls in the kitchen and the dining room. It’s a very pale grey, not as cold looking as in the photo, and we had these paintings put up on the wall.
階段から撮った玄関。右の船が浮かんでいる絵はわたしが香港で描いた油絵で、左のちょっと面白い絵は広州にいらした親しいお友達のお家に伺ったときに買った絵です。
The blue painting on the right is one of the paintings I did in Hong Kong. This reminds of me Hong Kong a lot. The one on the left is a painting we bought in Guangzhou when we visited our good friends when they lived there.
インテリア・デザイナーさんが着物を壁にかけてはどうかと勧めてくださったので考えてみたのですが、大掛かりになりますし、いかにも日本趣味の外国人の家のようになってしまう気がして結局とりあえず今は着物をかけないことにして、代わりに帯をかけてみました。ちょうどとてもよく似た色合いの帯が２本あったので、並べてかけました。縦長の壁に映えてドラマチックで気に入っています。（裾が解けてきているので、縫わなくてはいけません。）
３枚のキャンバスの絵も香港で描いた絵。
Our interior designer suggested to hang one of the kimonos I have on this large wall and we thought about it, but as it will cost a lot and also it’ll give a look of a house of a westerner who likes Japan (not that there is anything wrong with it but as I am Japanese I’m not sure if I want that look) so for now at least we decided not to. Instead we had these 3 oil paintings that I made in Hong Kong. Also we had 2 Obis hung as well on the other wall; we happened to have two very similar colour scheme Obis that look great together. I think they look dramatic on the long wall. (I have to stitch the end of one of them as it has come undone.)
２階の廊下。階段を上がって左に曲がるとわたしのクロゼット部屋、隣にゲストルーム、その隣にストレージにしようと思っている小さなお部屋があります。オレンジの絵も香港で描いた絵。
When you walk up the stairs and turn left, there is my dressing room, then the guest room, then a little room that we are thinking of using as a storage. The orange oil painting is one of the paintings I painted in Hong Kong.
右に曲がると主寝室。グリーンの絵もわたしが香港で描いた絵。赤いフレームの絵は、大昔神戸の東急ハンズで買ったピカソの絵のプリント。闘牛の絵ですが、墨絵みたいで面白い絵です。
When you turn right from the stairs, there is the master bedroom. The green painting is also one I painted in Hong Kong. The other one in a red frame is a print of a Picasso ink sketch, which looks like a Sumie; we love this one. We bought it in Tokyu Hands in Kobe so many years ago.
