Beautiful Houses in Thailand

[Dougal]

I'm a simple soul DD. Those palaces are far too elaborate for my tastes.

This is one of a block of four on Ao Chalong beach in Phuket any of which would suit me down to the ground.

I suppose you would always be a bit wary of when the next tsunami was going to hit though.

[poolcleaner]

Do you think that logo MP could be member of parliment? Through the gate, I could see it in Thailand!

Madame Palmer???

[aging one]

Now Poolie, I do appreciate that!! Its damn funny. Not ostentatious at all.

[12Call]

Click the first pic and slide through some beautiful houses:
http://www.pd.co.th/eng/gallery_eng/...y_indexeng.php#

[Whiteshiva]

I'm a simple soul DD. Those palaces are far too elaborate for my tastes.

This is one of a block of four on Ao Chalong beach in Phuket any of which would suit me down to the ground.

I suppose you would always be a bit wary of when the next tsunami was going to hit though.

I think I'd be more concerned about security than any tsunami - that house looks like it is asking to be broken into.

[Dougal]

I think I'd be more concerned about security t

I guess that anyone who can afford to live on the beach can afford adequate security.

[Whiteshiva]

I think I'd be more concerned about security t

I guess that anyone who can afford to live on the beach can afford adequate security.

True, but with perimiter spotlights, a couple of rottweilers, barbed wire, watchtowers and half a dozen armed guards, some of the charm is gone.......

[dirtydog]

Ok, the next 2 houses aren't exactly mansions but I quite liked them.

[Dougal]

Not mine unfortunately.

[Dougal]

Not a house but a small hotel. If I had the money I would like something like this to live in.



3600 B a night in low season (I'm not on commission).

[Marmite the Dog]

Not a house but a small hotel. If I had the money I would like something like this to live in.



3600 B a night in low season (I'm not on commission).

We drove past that place. It's near the new temple that I posted pics for, isn't it?

[Dougal]

^

Correct, - on the back road from Khao Ta Kiab to Hia Hin. There were a lot more nice houses in that area that I would like to have photographed but my youngest was getting fed up with my keep stopping the car.

[dirtydog]

This place is half way between Pattaya and Satahip on the main road, now this is nice, just a shame it is on the main road really.

[Marmite the Dog]

^ Obviously a Thai owned place as it's pink & peach. Yuk!

[Fabian]

Double yuk.

[Whiteshiva]

^ Obviously a Thai owned place as it's pink & peach. Yuk!

That was my first thought as well - there is also something about the architecture that I don't like - too "modern Thai" for my liking.....like small balconies that will never be used, no open area to relax outdoors, and especially the part of the building around the front door - what the hell were they thinking?

[attaboy]

Not to my taste but someone likes it

If this were the back of the house I'd like it. A huge brick patio with a brick bbq and the steps lead down to the pool. That would be nice.

[Whiteshiva]

Not to my taste but someone likes it

If this were the back of the house I'd like it. A huge brick patio with a brick bbq and the steps lead down to the pool. That would be nice.

Ditto - and a nice big sheltered setting in which to take my evening gin&tonic while the rain is pouring down (or the sun is shining, for that matter)

[aging one]

Thats the one thing I will never get used to here. With the size of housing lots here you rarely see a nice back yard. The front is often very nice but in the back you are wall to wall with another house. The main reason I bought the house we are in now was the fact that there is a klong rather than a house after my small back yard.

[ChiangMai noon]

^
Yup, our backyard was so small that it was reduntant, so we stuck a kitchen out there building onto the back wall. much better use of space.

[attaboy]

Ditto - and a nice big sheltered setting in which to take my evening gin&tonic while the rain is pouring down (or the sun is shining, for that matter)

In the photo a person can sit upstairs on the balcony/lanai and look out on the garden and the pool, if sittting downstairs a person can sit in the shade underneath the lanai. I'd widen the steps and open up the view from the patio out to the garden. In the photo the distance from the house to the railing and steps would all be in brick. It would be a huge patio. The steps would lead to the pool on one side and lawn on the other. So in the photo we are looking at the back of the house while standing near the swimming pool.

[Airportwo]

It's strange isn't it, I had to redesign my house so that the side was used as what would traditionally be the back.
The houses are still designed as they are else where in the world, as if you had a decent sized back garden.
Any architect, in reading - please change the Thai perception of "back gardens"
Cheers

Thats the one thing I will never get used to here. With the size of housing lots here you rarely see a nice back yard. The front is often very nice but in the back you are wall to wall with another house. The main reason I bought the house we are in now was the fact that there is a klong rather than a house after my small back yard.

[aging one]

I too had to add another kitchen in the back of my house as well CMN. How are you supposed to cook in a 3 meter square room. Now I have a cabinet and refrigerator room and then a nice full sized kitchen.

[Dougal]

The front is often very nice but in the back you are wall to wall with another house.

My wife tells me that it is because Thai people want everyone to be able to see what they've got.

[Airportwo]

My wife tells me that it is because Thai people want everyone to be able to see what they've got.

Guess that explains it, it's ALL upfront or out front!