Thai Dhupp and Princess Joy's Thai House Build

[NamPikToot]

TD, I recall Klondyke kindly providing piccies of his kitchen and other furniture he'd crafted and in Thailand you'll know the North,CM / CR etc are the go to places for getting wood stuff made. Norts I think got some great work out of a chap he knows and is soon to retire. Ant also showed some really nice furniture on his "Classic Cars" thread he'd got in CM.

The reason i mention some posters above, its likes house builders and reputation - word of mouth works.

I think if you are going to invest in solid crafted wood its worth taking your time on designs and also then the craft-person(s) to make it; bit like a dog really, you're in it for the long term. With a house like yours you could throw in almost any design from Modern to Classic (European) or Oriental - Unless you've already got ideas in mind I think the workshops in CM will have a a range of "brochures" or design books you can peruse and would warrant a week long break looking into it.

Weirdly, the furniture we've got which is mostly passed down through her family but some bought - the biggest challenge has been......cushions and material. The correct foam that will last and on the material front we opted to get the cushions made very reasonable in CM using raw silk - fuking tarts boudoir.. only joking but we loved the range of colours and the two tone raw silks so opted for different shades , none repeated and it kinda works.

PJ will love this bit i would imagine - women and nest feathering..

[Thai Dhupp]

TD, I recall Klondyke kindly providing piccies of his kitchen and other furniture he'd crafted and in Thailand you'll know the North,CM / CR etc are the go to places for getting wood stuff made. Norts I think got some great work out of a chap he knows and is soon to retire. Ant also showed some really nice furniture on his "Classic Cars" thread he'd got in CM.

The reason i mention some posters above, its likes house builders and reputation - word of mouth works.

I think if you are going to invest in solid crafted wood its worth taking your time on designs and also then the craft-person(s) to make it; bit like a dog really, you're in it for the long term. With a house like yours you could throw in almost any design from Modern to Classic (European) or Oriental - Unless you've already got ideas in mind I think the workshops in CM will have a a range of "brochures" or design books you can peruse and would warrant a week long break looking into it.

Weirdly, the furniture we've got which is mostly passed down through her family but some bought - the biggest challenge has been......cushions and material. The correct foam that will last and on the material front we opted to get the cushions made very reasonable in CM using raw silk - fuking tarts boudoir.. only joking but we loved the range of colours and the two tone raw silks so opted for different shades , none repeated and it kinda works.

PJ will love this bit i would imagine - women and nest feathering..

lol you got that right, NPT... she says 'up to you' but in this case the thai-to-english translation is 'up to me!'

luckily shes not into the mismatched set of plastic chairs so we are saved from that.

i would consider getting furniture made, but the downside is of course...the cost of hauling it several hundred km to Chonburi....

i know there are some great craftsmen up in that neck of the woods, so maybe we will look into it a bit more..

so...

1 x 10-seater dining table + (not surprisingly...10 chairs. chairs will be upholstered, base and back

2 x wooden steamer-type chairs for our bedroom balcony, plus a small table to go between them

bedside tables x 2 for master bedroom, but have to match....

.....wooden bed frame for super-king mattress.

2 x bedside tables for bedroom 2

lol hope u (and the others) are getting this.!!!

and lastly... i want a pair of single beds that later can be joined together to make one king size double. i was going to make this myself - i see the bed frame ith mattress retaining on 3 sides, and the side without being against the wall. the mattress would be sised to be right up to the bed edge on that open side. then, to join them, reverse the frame positions so that the 2 open sides where then butted up and so were the mattresses. mattresses to have a joining band, and bed frames to have through bolts on frame at each end. lol it could work. would need a flat, horizontal head and tail board so the single to double bed transformation would not look crazy when joined.

all classic designs, i have a the ideas/ pictures etc. not modern-looking. not light wood colour, eg the dining table HAS to match the wooden floor and red walls so anything light will definitely not go.

other stuff will come later

jeeeez... i think i got carried away with this email.. is this the longest one i ever typed!?