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hillbilly

My family like many other falang/Thai families had bought a starter home many years ago here in Bangkok. But now what happens when the family has grown and it is time for the house to grow also?

This thread will show the ups and downs of expanding a home in Bangkok. But first some background. I have talked about my mooban (or for some of you a village or neighborhood) before. Basically, it was setup by the Thailand Queen about 40 years ago. The original idea was to have an environment in where the poor, middle-class and rich could live together.

As you can imagine, the poorer people have sold out and now the mooban is middle-class to multi-million baht homes. We are on the lower end.

Our original home (50 sq. wa) was bought for 1.8 million baht. Now the same home is close to the 4 million baht mark. Luckily we were able to buy the home (60 sq.wa) next door for only 2.6 million baht.

Now comes the tricky part of combing both homes so that the end result does not look like a trailer park add on. Here we go!

First, a view of both homes and what I will be dealing with. Uh, my old home is on the left of the pictue.

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