CEO of K&now, the company responsible for D-HOUSE.
A place where there’s always someone to welcome you home.
The most important thing for us is to provide a safe and comfortable environment for residents to live in, so we are devoted to supporting our tenants in that way. It might sound like I’m bragging but the house stands in a quiet neighborhood and all rooms have 9.18m² of space so privacy can be maintained.
We really want everyone to have a great time living here, and up the loft staircase there is even a games room where movies can be screened.
It’d be great if relationships in the house develop into that of a family, who are always there to welcome you home. So says Mr. Daimon, CEO of K&now. K&now have looked after many sharehouses, including large scale properties and well-known houses with their own commercials on television. A man who enjoys finding interesting things and watching the reactions and changes of those who come in contact with them, this time Mr. Daimon has stepped up to the new challenge of a sharehouse x café.
Mr. Daimon’s younger brother helps out with the house, which is quite heartwarming.
- ---Your new sharehouse opened in July. What made you come into the industry in the first place?
- M. Daimon
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Actually, I’m living in another company’s sharehouse at the moment, and by living in a house myself I realized how great it was, and wanted to try my hand at managing one myself.
- ---That’s very dynamic of you. Is that your personality, once you start thinking about something you can’t stop?
- Mr. Daimon
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No, not at all. I started looking into management about a year ago, meeting with those in the industry and learning a lot from them. The design of D-House came about through many discussions with the people in my own sharehouse. I guess females really do have good sense after all, because my ideas are always shot down as no good...
- ---(laughs) I did think the interior was quite stylish, but it was actually designed through discussions with the people you live with, right? That’s amusing.
- Mr. Daimon
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Yeah, and these kinds of connections are the great thing about sharehouses. Like, you meet people you wouldn’t normally meet in your everyday life. Living by yourself you tend to go from home to work and back again, but with the place I’m living now if I want to make myself something to eat I pop into the kitchen and it’s full of girls, or Westerners - it’s different every time. The food everyone cooks is different, too. I’m rubbish at English so I communicate with gestures, but even that is fun. Hearing laughter and having people around to teach you how to cook become everyday occurrences. I’d love sharehouses to spread and become even more popular.
- ---And the cookware in the house is all Le Creuset cookware, something that would make those who love to cook happy. Was that a decision made from the advice of women, also?
- Mr. Daimon
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I actually love cooking myself, and wanting my tenants to really enjoy their life in the house I paid particular attention to these kinds of details. My younger brother and I take care of the management side of things, and we think that going out to buy rice is difficult for females so we do that too. There is even a screen in the kitchen that displays messages from mobile phones. We really want to provide an easy-to-live, easy-to-communicate environment for the tenants.
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---I bet the female tenants love that they can get you to go out and buy bags of rice for them. I also thought that the umbrella stand at the entrance and a lock for garbage duty are great ideas for shared living. Did that come about because you have experience living in a sharehouse yourself?
- Mr. Daimon
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I want to take in and use everyone’s advice as much as I can. Rather than deciding ‘rules’ for the house myself, I talk to the tenants living there and go on whatever everyone agrees on.
It’s great he thinks from the perspective of the tenants and reassuring that Mr. Daimon’s brother also helps out.
Nevertheless, Mr. Daimon’s idea of wanting to provide a safe and comfortable environment for tenants to live in really comes across in the interview. His house would be great for people who love cooking, people looking for a room near Nippori station, and with the Skyliner connecting Nippori with Narita Airport’s Terminal 2 station in 36 minutes, it’s perfect for women who go on a lot of overseas business trips.
That said, there aren’t many rooms in the house so you should make contact ASAP.
