Thai Dhupp and Princess Joy's Thai House Build

[NamPikToot]

I agree with your sentiment, but nearly five years in the NE I have yet to find one piece! been looking seriously for a dressing table for the last six months - nothing!

Summer has arrived here, too hot for me outside in the afternoons now ~38c & will get hotter, windows and doors all closed up and AC running

A2 you'll have to get one commissioned if you can get the design and or photos.

38Deg, is that Udon - christ where we are i wouldn't expect that for months yet if at all, i'd struggle in them temps.

[Airportwo]

38Deg, is that Udon - christ where we are i wouldn't expect that for months yet if at all, i'd struggle in them temps.

We get nice cool winters but the summer gets warm, humidity still low so not so bad!

[Thai Dhupp]

We get nice cool winters but the summer gets warm, humidity still low so not so bad!

Its not at that temp in Lat Krabang yet either!

I was more hoping for a bit of rain to ease some of PJ's plants into their new homes. she's starting some plantings this weekend.

jeeez its not even that hot in Dubai yet...

[NamPikToot]

TD, we demand a post from PJ laying out her nest feathering thoughts;

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[Thai Dhupp]

Boundary wall update - undercoat

The Grand (boundary) Tour - Part 1

Anyone get the notion that K.Pot needs some money!?

He's definitely speeded up on a couple of things, i notice.


so...we are starting off in the lower corner on the roadside


approaching the gate entrance at the front


Around the curved gateway entrance


Looking out from the gate


...and continuing up the road. Note: the main pedestrian gate curved wall panel has not yet been completed.


Looking back down the road from the top corner

[Thai Dhupp]

Boundary wall update - undercoat

The Grand (boundary) Tour - Part 2


Turning the corner between TD Towers and 'Miss I-wanna-million-for-this-plot'


Oops we flattened a lot of her prime real estate. Looking towards the road


At the other corner, inside the plot


and now looking towards the back door entrance and Sala


The wall enclosing the Chonburi Hilton and the back track. Note its been tidied up


The wall next to the house

[Klondyke]

looking seriously for a dressing table for the last six months - nothing!

Not so difficult in LoT (Land of Teak):

[Thai Dhupp]

Boundary wall update - undercoat

The Grand (boundary) Tour - Part 3


The wall past the back entrance and now near to the Mango land


Looking back at the house from the mango land wall


At the inner corner of mango land


going round the corner towards the road again


The lower access track to the back of TD Towers


Thew front corner, and right back to the start point.

[Norton]

Looking good TD.

[Thai Dhupp]

Looking good TD.

thanks!

[Airportwo]

Not so difficult in LoT (Land of Teak):

The top two are not my style whatsoever, bottom one ok, but as she is vertically challenged, would be too high.

House making a grand statement on the landscape now TD.

[knowsitlike]

that’s an interesting shout from Norton there for the wall with your overall theme, palace inspired merlons anyone?

[HuangLao]

Aesthetics and subliminal irony at work here....

[Thai Dhupp]

The top two are not my style whatsoever, bottom one ok, but as she is vertically challenged, would be too high.

House making a grand statement on the landscape now TD.

thanks AP2!

...just got to fix the lights, bosses and auto-sensing gun turrets.

We had to get the wall finished quick because the crocodile is being delivered next week...

[Thai Dhupp]

that’s an interesting shout from Norton there for the wall with your overall theme, palace inspired merlons anyone?

He's toned it down now, KiL.... previously he was comparing it to the Great Wall of China (or should that be..Chonburi?)

[Thai Dhupp]

Aesthetics and subliminal irony at work here....

i think you mean anesthetics? ...sure need 'em after this epic!!

Anyway...we already know the laundry fairy does all the iron..ing

[knowsitlike]

it’s all looking really good TD, think you have got the balance with the Thai style and modern high quality spot on

[knowsitlike]

still think the wall needs a merlon or two hundred!

[Thai Dhupp]

it’s all looking really good TD, think you have got the balance with the Thai style and modern high quality spot on

Cheers... that was the thing... I wanted the look but not the downside.

It was interesting to see how far we could push to get the trad look with modern techniques.

K.Pot has also enjoyed it. Its been an eye opener for him too - hes a qualified and experienced engineer, but did not tackle a big house incorporating all my ideas before - he has risen to the challenge.

The good thing is... he's up to speed on everything so when we build zone 3 he will be quicker with it.

[Thai Dhupp]

still think the wall needs a merlon or two hundred!

Some bosses are coming....





On every column where there is no light

[Thai Dhupp]

Cleaning the Terracotta

haha at last they cleared zone 2 downstairs and now someone (the ladies of course...) has to clean all those tiles.





oh...and seal them.

[Thai Dhupp]

Main Bathroom update.

Sorry - forgot to include these in the recent sanitary-ware pix


Taps in place...


Toilet in place, as is the dust


Bath in place, yeah its tucked away but it's only me using it so no problem. Shower cubicle wall construction had started too


General view of that side. there will be a large mirror in front of the twin sink bowls

lol... really needs a clean-up

[Thai Dhupp]

Main bathroom - update 2


OK... everyone gets the idea of mosaic, right?
...something like this



Builder said he understood it too...

...trouble was.. his front line workers did not

OMG


...so he had to start taking tiles off, cleaning them up and re-working them into the mosaic pattern


Both sides of the shower wall of course...


Part way there... this is one of very few fcuk-ups on his behalf




Then he ran out of gold detail tiles.

OMG

At least he managed to include the shelf for the bath side and another one in the shower cubicle...

[Norton]

If the tiles are magnetic you and the princess can play chess in the shower.

[Norton]

Then he ran out of gold detail tiles.

Proving again, "devil is in the detail".