Now. All is not as wonderful as it seems.

As mentioned previously we want to get glass bi-fold doors on both the balcony and the downstairs terrace openings, so that during the day the house is open to the breeze and mozzies, and then in the evenings we can close the mozzies in and let them feast on us.

These are the sort of things that I'm after:



The thing is that it was clear that this was going to take our presence to sort this out as nobody we spoke to in Chaiyaphum had a clue about what a bi-fold door was so, purely as a temporary measure, I'm embarrassed to say that we did this:



Yes, they are steel roller shutters.

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Exactly. Just like the ones you get on a shop.

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No, they are not pretty at all, I know that.


We also did the same downstairs, and we'll probably keep those ones up as a security thing (we can hide the downstairs ones above the gypsum ceilings so that all you see is the tracks running down the pillars, and we'll work out a way of hiding them too)

These balcony ones will not be a permanent feature. The thing is that having spent Baht 20K on them it's a shame to see them go to waste.

What I need is a big garage/man cave, which means I can then transfer the roller shutters to that once we have sorted out the proper doors.

As I stand on the balcony the perfect place for this double garage/workshop thing presents itself...



Yup, over against that fence by the trees. I reckon you could get a double garage and a sort of workshop thing in there, maybe even with a Bankao Dreamer pool in front of it.

Stay tuned, this may well become the next project...

Oddly enough, this is actually what the purpose of the house is all about, pottering about and working out what the next thing to do is. I doubt it will ever be finished.

Anyway, back to the balcony roller shutters, they keep the house secure for now. The upstairs ones are definitely not permanent as, aesthetics aside, they rattle horribly in the wind.