Thread: Bantak bungalow expansion

After moving to Thailand fulltime back in February my wife and I quickly realized our holiday bungalow was way to small for us to live comfortably here. We did a full makeover on it 4 years ago when we bought this place but only really used it for our yearly holiday. Other than the horrible roof color its been ok and we didn't really want to tear it down. After a lot of back and forth we decided to just build a separate building with a proper kitchen, outdoor space and living room with a pool. Unfortunately this meant putting a hold on our wooden river shanty project which was something I was really looking forward to but there was no point ending up with two small houses. So that will be on hold for now.


It will be an L shaped building with a covered patio space connected to a large kitchen then a living room / bedroom down at the end with a bathroom. Were hoping to end up with a Key West style tropical style garden pool house, but hay this is rural Thailand so I'll be happy just to have more space to hang out and set up my stereo gear so my expectations are realistic.


This is the space we chose along the back wall and next to the current little house.



Sadly one of our nicest patches of grass soon to be destroyed.