A couple bought an abandoned farmhouse in rural Japan for $30,000 and has spent 2 years renovating it. Here's how they turned it into their dream family home.

Jaya Thursfield, his wife Chihiro and their farmhouse, a traditional Japanese farmhouse, was purchased in 2019 by Jaya Thursfield. They have since transformed it into their dream home and family home over the past two years.Jaya Thursfield with his wife Chihiro and their sons Marco and Anton, as well as one of their cats Kotora, are pictured in front of the house this past week. Jaya ThursfieldBoth of them work in IT and moved to Japan in 2017. They started looking for a home.Thursfield had one of their top priorities: to find a house on a large piece of land where they could have barbecues and vegetable gardens, as well as so that their twins Anton and Marco (now 10 years old) could enjoy the outdoors."The topic of the abandoned house or akiya had appeared in a few articles over the past couple of years, and people were just beginning to talk about them ..." Thursfield stated. We thought this might be the best and most affordable way to get a house on larger land blocks.