The homes in the moo baan in which I currently reside are about 15 years old and of very poor quality. They have two normal sized bedrooms (12 square meters), one half sized bedroom, two Thai style bathrooms (cistern and squat toilet), a moderate living room and a small room for a kitchen. In the two years that I've lived here a number of these places have sold and been renovated. Some of them actually look quite nice.
Until a month or so ago our next door neighbor was an older Mor Du (fortune teller) and his much younger wife who works for the tax department. They didn't do much to the place and allowed the front yard to revert to jungle and did no outside maintenance. They moved out, the house was sold and the new owner is renovating.
You can see it here, in the background, before the work started.
A whole crew of Isaan (not Korat) workers moved in over the weekend and started work. It looks like they will extend the living room out on to what was the front porch.
These materials began to arrive the day before yesterday. They will replace all the existing doors and windows.
It looks like they'll also extend out the back right to the rear wall.
I'll try to remember to take and post photos as the project progresses.
(Might as well; nothing to post on my own house. Grrrr.)