DrAndys Concrete Box in the City

[DrAndy]

We bought a small piece of land in Chiang Mai old city centre about three years ago. It is only about a quarter of a rai. there was an old wooden house in situ, with poor foundations.




We designed a house, essentially a U shape, which would take up most of the land space. The centre of the U was intended to be a courtyard.

We got planning permission for 3 stories, and a 3 metre front wall. This latter was intended to reinforce the enclosed courtyard feel.

After a couple of years, and renewing the planning permissions, we started building the wall




My SD card failed, unfortunately, so there are no more pics of the building of the wall until this next stage




we will increase the side fences later

This is the Soi that the land is in, quite small connecting two of the main roads in the old city inside the moat. Very quiet but very close to lots of bars and restaurants etc etc




more wall building pics




I don't like the knobs on top, they will go. The lower inset decoration is good though. Both of these features were put in by my wife when I was away!

There is a large back-set gateway and a small pedestrian gate; both these will have wooden gates made eventually.

The left hand side wall




and the inside view of the right side





well, that is the wall. We did not do any more building for a while. We let the wooden house to parents of a friend and did other things (like building our house in the ricefields)

When we returned to CM last year, in September, we thought it was about time we built the place.

so we demolished the wooden house and started in earnest