Sakaguchi-san’s work on the bathhouse was completed in the fall of 2018. The owners, themselves, finished the interior flooring, stone work, dressing room cabinet, and the landscaping.
Bathhouse completed
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Construction of Japanese soaking tub (ofuro)
Sakaguchi-san constructed an ofuro for the bathhouse from high quality Port Orford cedar procured by the owners. He fabricated the walls and floor of the ofuro, hand planing them. He then assembled them through a combination of Japanese joinery and the use of screws and bolts that add strength and endurance to the tub.
Finish plaster applied to exterior and interior walls of bathhouse
When all the windows and doors of the bathhouse were installed, Sakaguchi-san applied an earth tone acrylic stucco over the base coat on the exterior walls.
Sakaguchi-san then applied juraku or Japanese mud plaster to the interior walls. Again, an earth tone was chosen with small pieces of straw mixed in to create texture.
Shingling roof and adding exterior wall sheathing
The roof was shingled by a talented local roofer to save on cost and time. Western-style wooden (Western red cedar) shingles are thicker and larger than Japanese-style cedar shingles, so the look is not as subtle as a traditional Japanese shingled roof.
After the shingling, exterior wall sheathing was added.
Then Sakaguchi-san troweled a basecoat plaster over the sheathing.
When this was completed, he returned to his shop to cut out redwood siding for the lower portion of the exterior wall. The owners attached the siding themselves.
