Originally Posted by
Bangyai
Originally Posted by
WhiteLotusLane
Would 50,000 baht be completely impossible? (including built in stove and smoke extractor, but not including fridge)
Had this built a year ago for about 50,000 including tiling on the rear of the house 2 metres by 6 and extractor fan and granite worktops but not including fridge and oven etc
The Kitzo cupboards were pricey but good quality.
Nice! That looks just fine!
I would say that if anyone is having a kitchen built in in Bangkok its better to go the Thai way with built in ceramic counters. If you get an expensive built in kitchen made of fibreboard and the house gets flooded then you can kiss that laminate fibreboard goodbye. This happened to a couple of places in our village during the recent floods.
Heh, yes, being flood-resistant is a consideration. To the point that I'm really wondering if I want to use wooden door-fronts below the counter, or go with some other covering. (The plastic fronts don't look nice and aren't even that cheap, but perhaps there's some other kind of covering I could use.)
The house is 50m from the road along the river in Chiang Mai. That's not flood-prone for things like heavy rainfall, but in those years that half the city floods (like last year) when the river bursts it's banks, the house will flood too. It will also drain away real quick as soon as the river water level drops.
Anyway, flooding on such an epic scale doesn't happen too often, and my bet is on the situation improving in the future. But when it does happen again I want it to be as manageable as possible.
The up-side of course is the great downtown location; on last Friday's bar crawl I parked at the house and walked; it's about 10 minutes walk to either the riverside pub/restaurants or the Loi Kroh bars. If I lived there I'd just have a bicycle.