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Originally Posted by Smithson  If you search for Bali style you'll find some really nice pics, although it looks pretty expensive so it depends on the budget.  |
Why, you're saving on walls and lowered ceilings?
Couple old fasioned light bulbs and it suddenly looks like the Oriental hotel. (The expense may be in a maid to dust it off twice a day.)
Anyway, as it happens the 'open living' concept is one of the parameters I'm toying with for my 'cheapo cottage in the rice fields' project.
There was talk here of having some rooms closed and some open... well that implies multiple rooms. I may be going for both at the same time. See below, there's a huge outdoor deck, and then a single room that's also fairly big, but the entire wall is one of those folding door panel thingies, so you essentially open up the whole lot of it. And then there's the downstairs area to play with.. Some nice tiles, plants, etc. (Bathroom area is still the ugly after-thought that it seems in most rural Thai houses.. Need a solution for that)
Those door panels are fairly expensive though, for example Häfele make that shit where it all folds very smoothly but solidly. But I see these panels also in a much more crude form in old Thai shophouses, where it goes on a steel rail, with clunky wooden panels. Either way the concept is the same.