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    I was there last time perhaps 4 years ago, just longing for the quiet surrounding and peaceful atmosphere I had kept in my mind from my first visit.

    However admitted, the interest of tourists (and the organizing agencies ) has increased hugely. And there are many beautiful things to see that are no longer much available anywhere else in the country...

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    Quote Originally Posted by Klondyke View Post
    I And there are many beautiful things to see that are no longer much available anywhere else in the country...
    Totally agree, you step in and forget Bangkok and the 21st century... I hope I can re-create some of his jungle-type garden at TD Towers.

    His is a real tranquil place and I would like a little of the same. Fascinating building complex too.

    I drew inspiration from the whole thing.

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    In my first years whenever having few days free for travelling I had often driven to see towns and provinces known from Thai history to see something interesting from the old times.

    However, what I had found (besides the numerous Wats, not always historically worth) were the ugly town units with the mess around, very rarely seeing something worth of the trip...

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    Balconies - latest update before painting / cleaning.

    Here are the last few pictures of the main balcony and the balcony out from the master bedroom, with finished (although dirty) flooring and wooden handrails fitted all around.

    Main Bedroom


    Just got the painting to do





    Very happy with the floor tiles








    cleaning up...


    Makes a great extension to the bedroom


    Soon the folding doors are coming. He wants those in place before he starts on the Mae Daeng

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    Balconies - latest update before painting / cleaning.

    Main balcony outside living room area








    When the painter comes back to complete I think the effect between wall and floor is going to be OK.


    Looks a lot better with the handrail fitted everywhere





    See the cut out bottom left?


    Nice warm 'wood'(!) tones everywhere...


    Just needs to paint that last lower section





    The 'cut out' is where bedroom 3 comes, when we build zone 3. no sense in tiling it - I will fit a safety barrier along that edge.

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    Really coming along now TD. You've got nice shade on the balcony, lots of G&Ts foreseen. Rolling beer bottle danger still in evidence tho.

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    Looks great if it were mine I'd by very happy so far. Even if something is not done right your builder seems to be OK with correcting it so I can't see the final product being any less than what we are seeing now.

    Just 1 question, you have said before that your house is at an angle (40deg?) to the road in front, can you tell me why you did this particularly as it meant you needed to buy the "mangoland" to fit the carport on the side. I see a lot of Thai buildings angled to the road in front and have always wondered why they do it. Hopefully you can enlighten me.

    Cheers

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    Quote Originally Posted by NamPikToot View Post
    Really coming along now TD. You've got nice shade on the balcony, lots of G&Ts foreseen. Rolling beer bottle danger still in evidence tho.
    yeah that gap was a bit of an oversight NPT, but I could just put some very fine mesh there which would be invisible and still let the maid sweep the floor.

    Before anyone jumps in about PJ.. I look quite good in the maids outfit....

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    Quote Originally Posted by ootai View Post
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    Looks great if it were mine I'd by very happy so far. Even if something is not done right your builder seems to be OK with correcting it so I can't see the final product being any less than what we are seeing now.

    Just 1 question, you have said before that your house is at an angle (40deg?) to the road in front, can you tell me why you did this particularly as it meant you needed to buy the "mangoland" to fit the carport on the side. I see a lot of Thai buildings angled to the road in front and have always wondered why they do it. Hopefully you can enlighten me.

    Cheers
    ootai...I want to tell, really I do but it's a closely-guarded secret that only me 'n the Thais know... handed down through the generat... OK OK.. I will tell.

    The plot was longer than it was wide and with the two 'wings' on my development (we have not built the second wing, zone 3 yet), it was a squeeze between the front and back walls,

    By turning it a bit, zone 1 moves back 7.5m from the boundary wall, and as zone 3 is shorter than zone 1, it is unaffected (zone 1 is 20m long, zone 3 is only 14m long).

    We then had the space to put the swimming pool (when we build it) between the wings, for privacy - its not going to be a massive pool, just a lagoon-type pool with a 10m+ 'lane' for swimming lengths at a diagonal, corner to corner (actually there are not really square-cut corners in a lagoon pool).

    Also, by doing it we created 2 possible locations for the gate and bringing the vehicles inside.

    Would have all worked without the mango land purchase but I had a strong idea that Lady Mango would cave in at the end and I was right. That purchase just makes things easier.

    For example, we have now diverted the septic run off to the drain-field near to that 'mango plot' in an area that will not affect the mango trees.

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    TD, given your comment on the purpose of the sala, why not design in the pool as a security measure and build a moat - you'll also be able to do reeeeeaaaalllly long laps.
    Last edited by NamPikToot; 04-11-2018 at 08:37 PM.

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    Quote Originally Posted by NamPikToot View Post
    TD, given you comment on the purpose of the sala, why not design in the pool as a security measure and build a moat - you'll also be able to do reeeeeaaaalllly long laps.

    Moats aren't socially acceptable here.....and I'm sure that the good TD would prefer to secure a decent and familiar standing within the community - as he probably already has.

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    Jeff, what can I say, its a British thing.

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    Quote Originally Posted by ootai View Post
    I see a lot of Thai buildings angled to the road in front and have always wondered why they do it. Hopefully you can enlighten me.
    It's a Thai feng shui thing. Keeps ghosts from getting a staight shot at your front door. Angle makes em deflect off toward the neighbors place.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Norton View Post
    It's a Thai feng shui thing. Keeps ghosts from getting a staight shot at your front door. Angle makes em deflect off toward the neighbors place.

    Very practical.

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    Quote Originally Posted by NamPikToot View Post
    TD, given your comment on the purpose of the sala, why not design in the pool as a security measure and build a moat - you'll also be able to do reeeeeaaaalllly long laps.
    A lot of ideas have been talked through..including a moat or larger water area - PJ especially liked it as she would fish all day every day if given the chance... lol but eventually we settled on no moat.

    I am not the worlds best swimmer, and he girls are even less so.. a smaller, shallower pool will be OK I think..10m is there for my early morning 2 lengths after my 100m jog round the perimiter and the sit up when I first get out of bed. By that time i have earned the fry up...which hopefully...shes already got on the go.

    Reality check... she does do the bfast... but for me its a strong fresh ground coffee and some wholemeal toast. Low fat fry up once a week, lol boring i know

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    Quote Originally Posted by HuangLao View Post
    Moats aren't socially acceptable here.....and I'm sure that the good TD would prefer to secure a decent and familiar standing within the community - as he probably already has.
    I'm pretty sure 'the community' is actually saying 'who's that rich fcuker who's muscled in to our country idyll?'

    The 'standing' will probably come after I do the party with free beer for the 'locals'...

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    Quote Originally Posted by NamPikToot View Post
    Jeff, what can I say, its a British thing.
    Yeah... we've all got moats back home. pretty much standard on all new builds...

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    Quote Originally Posted by Norton View Post
    It's a Thai feng shui thing. Keeps ghosts from getting a staight shot at your front door. Angle makes em deflect off toward the neighbors place.
    err... yeah, Norton's right... that was really why we did it.... nothing to do with pools or wing lengths, lol

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    Quote Originally Posted by HuangLao View Post
    Very practical.
    Mind you... the moat could have worked as well. I heard those ghosts don't like getting their feet wet....

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    Quote Originally Posted by ootai View Post
    I see a lot of Thai buildings angled to the road in front and have always wondered why they do it. Hopefully you can enlighten me. Cheers
    Quote Originally Posted by Norton View Post
    It's a Thai feng shui thing. Keeps ghosts from getting a staight shot at your front door. Angle makes em deflect off toward the neighbors place.
    I never seen an angled house. just my experiences.

    I thought the idea was that the driveway/front gate should not align with the front house egress?

    And the front and rear doors definitely should not be linearly aligned, otherwise the the good luck entering the house will be lost out through the back door.
    Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago ...


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    Quote Originally Posted by David48atTD View Post
    I never seen an angled house. just my experiences.

    I thought the idea was that the driveway/front gate should not align with the front house egress?

    And the front and rear doors definitely should not be linearly aligned, otherwise the the good luck entering the house will be lost out through the back door.
    Yes David... I heard something along those lines, but also variances for example.. we held off building the wall, on advice, so as not to trap any negativity in the build area.

    Luckily our house doors do not line up so we are OK...
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    Love the panel look and the patterns in the balcony rails. Great project but it is these types of details that put it over the top, at least for me.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Joesixpac View Post
    Love the panel look and the patterns in the balcony rails. Great project but it is these types of details that put it over the top, at least for me.
    Thank Joe... I wanted that 'look' without the cost, and had the idea to do it along the lines shown. K.Pot though took my idea and developed it with his painting skills and the result passes my expectations!

    and of course... a LOT cheaper!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Benghazi View Post
    Have you insured the property or will you wait until completion?

    Jeez... thats a really good question!

    Never gave that a thought as its under construction and K.Pot and Co are on site. the build team live on site in the Chonburi Hilton

    after, for sure....

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    Sala floor finishing

    Thing a bit slower just now because K.Pot moved a lot of the 'team' across to his other job, where it needs a push.

    No issue for me with that, as I need to finish paying for PH apartments at the same time as paying him the stages, so if it slows him a little, no problem..

    Obviously , working in the Middle East I'm 'stinking rich' and its easy money with hardly any actual work needed to get it, but there's a limit even to that, so I'm a bit strapped at the moment!!

    lol.. well that's the opinion of some peeps in UK, anyway! (Middle East is NOTHING like that now, BTW)

    PH - 7 apartments now 'ready for turn over'... hopefully all will be turned over by Christmas (and paid for) meaning I'm back on track with paying K.Pot.

    Anyway... I digress... here's the finishing work on the sala steps:



    If you remember, the rails were in but it was still bare concrete below


    yes.... finishing work needed


    fitting the edging....


    ...and the tiles.


    looking down the run


    and now with tiles in place

    We are waiting for the paining team to return as there is now quite a bit of work to finish

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