Thai kitchens

[stroller]

The counter-top at the end of the kitchen is about 1 - 2mm too short to get the gas bottle under

There's a smaller bottle available, should still last about a month with moderate use.

[stroller]

This is a traditioal kitchen 'round here, some storage and the washing of foods and dishes takes place outside:


Utility table and chopping boards:


The cooking room:

[a. boozer]

This is just the sort of thing that the Missus was used to up North, I never really considered what a learning process she had to go through when she came to live in the U.K. Fortunately she coped, and now back in Thailand has ordered a 'Tinglish' kitchen in the new abode. I have stayed out of the plans to fit it out, after all, I only need to find the fridge and the water cooler!

[dirtydog]

Well time to smash out the bad sloping tiles and redesign this kitchen, trouble is this is now the hardest design and the most work, the counter is about 10 meters in length and I reckon a fair price for this would be about 50k baht, thats for the whole lot, so here we got the first few tiles down, tileing in Pattaya the cheapest you can get is about 120baht per sq meter, thats for a nice big floor using 30cm by 30cm tiles, ie, 11 tiles per meter, thats the labour only price, these tiles are 10cm by 10cm, ie, 100 poxy little tiles per meter, with this design it also involves the most time for the cutting in, we shall see how it finishes up later.

[dirtydog]

Well this aint looking too bad for a thai kitchen, bloody hard work though

[Marmite the Dog]

Did Stroller help design it?

[dirtydog]

I think stroller will be proud of this one, it is quite horrendous

[dirtydog]

Well it is slowly progressing, don't look too bad for a kitchen.

[Lily]

^Yiiiiiiikes!

[lom]

^Yiiiiiiikes!

Not really, it's more like merry Christmas..

[El Gibbon]

Why do Thais insist on tiles on the counter top... ?

I just made bread and I'll tell ya its a real pain in the ass
to clean a tiled countertop. I'm not messy, but, if you can
make bread/pastry without getting some on the counter your
better than I.

Tiled counter tops suck!

E. G.

[dirtydog]

Yep I think I would have granite tops given the choice, anyway it is all finished now but here is a nearly finished picture.

[Lily]

Why do Thais insist on tiles on the counter top... ?

In my first house (70s bungalow) I had tiled counter tops and they were quite practical, but the grouting was sealed as well.

They were all one colour though.

[Anonymous Coward]

They were all one colour though.

Not into patterns, eh Lily? Might make one hurry through the task of cooking, just to give the eyes a rest.

[Marmite the Dog]

I built a tiled counter top in my utility room. It was very nice and practical.

[stroller]

Well it is slowly progressing, don't look too bad for a kitchen.

The colour-scheme is a bit conservative. Looking forward to seeing how the floor tiling will compliment with the rest.

[dirtydog]

Well as you can see it didn't turn out as awful as stollers kitchen.

[Anonymous Coward]

What brand is the cook top?

[lom]

What brand is the cook top?

My guess is that the customer, not DD, has chosen both the cook top and the colour scheme of the counter.
You wouldn't take his recommendation for the cook top, would you ?

[dirtydog]

No idea AC, yes the customer choose everything, if it was my choice the counter would have a couple of nice big slabs of granite on it.

[Anonymous Coward]

This rather cave-like kitchen is in a house in the same moo baan where our new house is. In fact, it's the same floor plan except that they used the original kitchen to extend the living room and tacked this room on to the back of the house:



It seems odd to have no windows and no ventilation other than the door and window at the far end:

[Dougal]

I am guessing that the worktops will be down the left hand side. If they are it is going to make it very narrow. It wouldn't be my choice.

[Anonymous Coward]

I am guessing that the worktops will be down the left hand side. If they are it is going to make it very narrow. It wouldn't be my choice.

What baffles me as well is the lack of ventilation. One window? No vent? This is a Thai family building this. It ought to be outdoors, not in a cave!

[Marmite the Dog]

This is a Thai family building this.

I think you've answered your own question there.