Thread: Building the Farmhouse

Originally Posted by withnallstoke

I do like the Thai style dimmer switch.

you just have to touch the red and white wires together to dim each time.....nuttin could be simpler.

nice thread - I like reading stuff like this

keep the pics coming

Your house looks great mate; amazing work with the budget that you were working with.

lovin it, more!!!!

Patience is a virtue..so I've learnt..windows to be put in tomorrow, so I've been told, we've ordered the tiles for floor and bathroom which will be here on the 5th (of this month)..well, that's what they're saying and I'm gonna paint the bloody thing myself, next weekend..fact.

Absolutely brilliant. Good coverage and very interesting article. Love the pics and progress. Has eased my fear, about g/f (future wife) harping on about house etc etc. 480,000 Baht (plus extras I guess ) a reasonable price for house! lol

Love it

Well another month has past, and no word from Somtamslap!!!

Is he still busy painting? Has the final touches just gotten to much?


Is he away on holiday?

Just wondering!

^ No, he's still here.

Originally Posted by maraudingscot

Is he still busy painting?

Funny you mention it..just finished cleaning the brushes and rollers after applying the first of two coats for the exterior..lovely couple of days..had bbc radio 2 for company all the way..

After a few other complications..ie lack of dosh..the floor tiles and bog will be being sorted tomorrow..pics to follow..

Your continued patience is much appreciated gentlemen..

Suprised he has time to paint considering having to take care of his new bull.

Originally Posted by somtamslap

^ No, he's still here.

brilliant, glad of that

Originally Posted by maraudingscot

Is he still busy painting?

Originally Posted by somtamslap

Funny you mention it..just finished cleaning the brushes and rollers after applying the first of two coats for the exterior..lovely couple of days..had bbc radio 2 for company all the way..

Well enjoy radio 2 while you can, no doubt BBC will axe it in their cut backs to justify their continuing exsistance!

Originally Posted by somtamslap

Your continued patience is much appreciated gentlemen..

looking forward to seeing them

Finally, we're back on some sort of track.

I left it in the wife's capable hands to pick the floor tiles (mine have been pretty much washed of the whole thing..a what the fuck ever, sort of attitude).

However, when I saw these, I started caring again..I picked one up and headed towards my mrs with it..my intention, to batter her..



Fortunately, for her and my sanity..there was a joint order of tiles and these were for someone else..a blind retard by the looks of things..(absolutely no offence meant if you have these in your house..just not my cup of rosie lee..)

The mrs went for an off white, sort of coffee ish effect..

Here they are being put down..

We've got this style going up on the kitchen wall..three tiles high..



And these in the bathroom, along with plain white..

Ceiling is on..just needs a lick of paint, which I shall administer..



Gave the place the first coat on the exterior last weekend, will probbaly go over it with a slightly darker colour..cat foot-prints up it already..bastards..



Windows ordered and delivered..should be going on this following week..



Once the front door is up, I'm in there..

More on the morrow..bog content.

Looking good...... was wondering what the progress was. Hows the budget holding up ?

Cool. Looking good.

You should have gone with the flowery ones! Just imagine walking through from the bedroom first thing in the morning!! lol would have been

Wake up.

Put dark glasses on! OK ready for them tiles.

Good build and nice thread, though I get the impression from your last post that you are a little fedup with it all now!!!

You'll be glad when its finished and you can get in there. It will all be worth it in the end.

Regards

Originally Posted by Bangyai

Hows the budget holding up ?

Still under the 460k mark..with tiles windows and all..bought the bog today, that was 3k..yes!..it's a flusher..gone are the days of pouring buckets of water down there first thing in the morning, bleary eyed..not the best way to start the day..

The shower will bring it up to the 460k plus paint and odds and sods for the interior should see us on about 480k done and dusted..

Originally Posted by maraudingscot

Good build and nice thread, though I get the impression from your last post that you are a little fedup with it all now!!!

yep, just wanna get in there now..although I'm enjoying this bit coming together and doing some of the work myself..I won't give any sort of a time frame as to when I think it'll be finished as that seems to bring bad luck..but we should be in by Christmas..

So will this be your primary residence when it's done? It has a western (think cowboy if your not from the USA) feel or look to it. Just make sure to build a nice strong pen, to hold that extra family member, in the back. Unless you cook it up as part of the move in party.

Looking good.

(Had to add my 'Looking good' to the others, but it does look good so what else could I say..)

Originally Posted by Deris

Just make sure to build a nice strong pen, to hold that extra family member, in the back

He's lurking in the garden at the moment..just out of shot in the front view pic of the house..said to the mrs, when we move in, either he's out (of the fucking garden at least and tethered to a tree somewhere, preferably in different province) or I am..I've started looking at the price of apartments already..

Looks good, and had a good laugh about the tiles. The ones you got look good...I've had to shake my head looking at alot of the threads on this site when I see a nice house and then the tile selection!

Originally Posted by somtamslap

Ceiling is on.

did you put any insulation on top of it ?

Originally Posted by baldrick

did you put any insulation on top of it ?

I wasn't present at the time of installation but I'd hazard an educated guess of, no, I didn't..never gets too hot round here anyway..well, it didn't until this year..wtf is going on with the weather!!

How many square meters of inside living space, Slappa?

^ Only 64..and another 17 outside..ample for now..but we're expecting other nipper in 4 months, so it'll start getting a bit crowded..be smashing a wall down over the next couple of years to make another room..plus I want a balcony joined onto the back of our room at some point..

But we'll make do for now.

Cheers, I just knocked the thread up to 5 stars. 7,500k per sqm, not bad. The advantage I will have when building my place is that a good friend (a fellow geordie) owns a Marble and Granite place here in Bangkok and will supply all my flooring, Kitchen tops and bathroom wall coverings for cost price. My marble flooring is going to work out at less than B300 sqm.