Beautiful Houses in Thailand

[glassdude007]

looks like quite a project too build a farang style house in thailand

[Rigger]

1.9 million sounds a lot for Khon Kaen.

I did look at some cheaper houses around but to far out from town for the missus and this one 5 mins from Erics bar as well close to the kids school. I looked at a lot of houses before buying this one and to me made the best deal. I looked at some old little homes less than 1 klm away started at 4 mil and went to 7 mil

[Spin]

1.9 million sounds a lot for Khon Kaen.

Why do farangs always come out with this kind of thing?

Total nonsense, materials are the same price in every province and the land Riggers house sits on has cost him about 11,000 baht per talang wah. So hes got about 70 tw there so the land alone is 770,000 baht.Thats a good price for a house which is less than 2 kms from the city centre. thats house is at least 120 m2 so the remaining money works out at 9416 baht per square meter which good value these days. 3 free aircons is a good bonus too.

I once heard a farang say 2.4 million was expensive for a house that was for sale here in Khon kaen. It was 3 bedroom 3 bathroom on 1 ria of land with a 8 x 5 meter swimming pool. Now this twat had not spent any time in builders merchants coz he was always sat on his fokin stupid fat arse in farang bars complaining how expensive everything was.

[Fabian]

Total nonsense, materials are the same price in every province ...

You will find that this is not true, it was mentioned somewhere on this forum.

I came up with that comment from what I have seen on offer at Big C Khon Kaen. I cannot judge though if those houses were made of inferior building materials or the land was cheaper, but that project was not far from the city centre either.

[Rigger]

I came up with that comment from what I have seen on offer at Big C Khon Kaen

Yes they all look good untill you head out for a look and find half the moo ban is already dead and new houses are going to waste as well as the local motorcycle races have moved in. The cheapest I found was 890,000 bht but that is your basic small no frills Thai home in a not so nice area.

[Spin]

Total nonsense, materials are the same price in every province ...

You will find that this is not true, it was mentioned somewhere on this forum.

I came up with that comment from what I have seen on offer at Big C Khon Kaen. I cannot judge though if those houses were made of inferior building materials or the land was cheaper, but that project was not far from the city centre either.

Materials are similar prices in most provinces apart from those near the coast and the hooker fests like Pattaya. The notion that things should be wildy cheaper in Khon kaen or whatever is something i come across a lot.
Maybe that opinion is forthcoming from those folk in the unfortunate position of not being able to afford a house here, rather than the houses being obviously overpriced.

The places on offer at big C are bottom dollar in every sense of the word, the VIP series of developments for example will never be fully occpiued and residual values are very shaky indeed.

[dirtydog]

This is a nice house that is being built in Jomtien, gonna cost him a fortune in curtains though.

[Dougal]

^ I'm not keen on that strange hairy mushroom he has growing in the garden.

[dirtydog]

Not sure what the mushroom is for, maybe a giant joss stick perhaps?

Anyway today I nipped down to Bang Saray and saw this house, small plot of land unfortuneately but still a nice house.

[dirtydog]

Further down the road and nearer the beach was this one, not too bad.

[DrAndy]

looks Ok but it seems to be squeezed in

A lot of places, even the big money "villas" in developments, have this problem

[dirtydog]

Yeah the building next to it is about 5 storeys high and about 2 meters away, I wouldn't be to happy about that if it was my house

[hillbilly]

This home is the only fancy home that I have seen in the village my wife grew up in. It is impressive! As many of you know I recently built a 'upcountry' home near P-lok. My land and home cost me close to let's say about 2 million baht.

But this guy's home cost close to 22 million baht according to the owner. After looking at the home, he is probably right. This Thai guy is remotely related to my wife's family. He use to own, well he still does a construction company in BKK. He got tired of running the business and turned everything over to this wife.

While still married, he lives the playboy life in an rice farming village outside of P-lok. Let's take a look at his home.


Keep in mind that my Teak home is the 2nd nicest home in this area. Please do not think that I am bragging. I am just trying to show you the difference between 2 million and 22 million baht.

So let's let the owner take us on a tour.

[hillbilly]

Here is his bar.


Here is his aquarium. Mind you the filtration system involves a waterfall on the outside of the home along with a creek running through the home.

[Spin]

yep this is a cracker, look at all the shade cast by the big eaves.

[hillbilly]

Here is what I would call a living room. Please notice the camera.


A waterfall in the home.

[hillbilly]

Now here is a look from the 2nd story dining table.


Why not go to the master bedroom?


The TV is not bad.

[hillbilly]

And then don't forget, we all need to cleanse...

[hillbilly]

This is the confusing part. The owner had 2 kitchens built. One for the maid and one for him.


Can you see the difference?


Overall, a fancy Thai home overlooking the Nan river.


Next trip I will show you his fishing cabin on the Nan River...

[NickA]

^fokin hell, 22 million baht and he got Stroller & CMN in to do the colour scheme

[Spin]

^ the pink bathroom is pretty 70's

[Marmite the Dog]

Please do not think that I am bragging. I am just trying to show you the difference between 2 million and 22 million baht.

I think your place is nicer, HB. The expensive one shows a distinct lack of taste as is usual when a Thai gets money.

[sabang]

I have to say the colour of HB's guest bathroom is a bit Thaii...

[Marmite the Dog]

Due to the advantages of being colonised by a European country, there are many nice places in Phnom Penh. Sadly, many of these places are not being bought up/rented by westerners in time to stop the Cambodians tearing them down and replacing them with carbuncles as is the Asian way.

This place has loads of potential.

[dirtydog]

This place I took some photoes of last year, they are still building it.