Thread: Traditional thai wood house build...

I hope to post some more pics of the house and ricebarn and knockdown grade A house as we develop them.
Might start with some sketchup plans in the next couple of days.

Trying to get good wide shots of house is difficult but dont give up on me yet!

Cheers and a belated happy thai new year.

What a house , Ben !!


What a house !!!




Wasp

Thanks Wasp. We are very pleased to have stuck at it.



This was some of the last work carried out the eaves are old teak an finish the terrace off great. The floor was not sanded by machine but hand sanded lightly and then matt polyurethane. The colour in these red wood panels is great the width about 35-40cm wide. The double bay chair is my wifes idea and was a pretty good one we can see a nice vista at festivals like loi kratong. As well as Doi suthep lit up at night.


Inside the master bedroom, the colour of these big red wood planks has come up great with the matt poly we used. We went through a few ideas and options and weighed up oil against water finishes. We went with oil, but after all the smell and time to cure it probaly would have been better to pay abit more for the water finish.


This terrace is looking really nice with the hand sewn finish preserved and not sanded. The wood looks great and this is going to make a great place to lounge.



Split level lounge to both bedrooms, through to the front terrace. Again the wood has finished really well. We dont have any real furniture yet because we hold out for nice antiques which takes time to find. You can see little features on doors of old building techniques like locks.
This house ia a true pleasure and I hope to send more pics soon

thanks

Missy never showed any great interest in the homes that fallangs make in Thailand .

Except for this home ................. which she checks on from time to time and always says just 2 words about it .

" Beautiful "

and ....

" Pang ".


Great place .



Wasp

Wasp and partner

Youre kind comments are very much welcomed. It is a very nice house to live in and we hope to make more interesting pieces in the near future.

Cheers

Are you still selling this house or have you decided to hold onto it for yourself long- term?

Looks very beautiful and comfortable, should be perfect to live in

Iceman123 - we would like to hold onto it although if the right price was offered we would of course consider as we have had our eyes on a building inside the city. We still have rice barns to build and things to do but if someone was looking for a traditional house and small guesthouse projects this would be right up someones street.

Fatone - thank you its a great place making use of old materials where possible and so far so good

Well done Ben and partner on your build and thread.
Have worked with wood for years and have always enjoyed working with reclaimed wood. It always has more character and ends up with a nice blend of old and new.
Keep up the good work and Im sure when finished will still be very hard to sell even for the right money, although I understand this build would be a stepping stone to another project. what a difference it makes having a builder that loves his job and not a block working off a plane bashing in nailes

Originally Posted by window

Well done Ben and partner on your build and thread.
Have worked with wood for years and have always enjoyed working with reclaimed wood. It always has more character and ends up with a nice blend of old and new.
Keep up the good work and Im sure when finished will still be very hard to sell even for the right money, although I understand this build would be a stepping stone to another project. what a difference it makes having a builder that loves his job and not a block working off a plane bashing in nailes

Thank you for your message. We have made a decision to use wood and make a traditional house, because if we were going to the trouble of self build, we wanted to get something that felt right.
We have a house that is comfortable and sits well within the landscape. We both enjoy going to find wood at wood yards and so enjoy every process in the build.
Seeing a building crafted is a great thing, and being able to add and take on challenges and change when we needed was great.

I would say wood houses can be as modern and confortable as is associated with concrete, in regards to western living. We use cross ventilation, designed in the house, as well as fans to cool the house when really hot. We hope to add various add ons to the house and build a guesthouse very soon.
A good builder will make a massive difference, we have spent years building and has meant getting to know our builder very well. This is important and will make a big difference with the finish.
Hope to post some pictures when im back of the progress.

Cheers

Over the last 2 years we have remodelled the house and we are still in the process of getting to the end of a very long build.
At the moment we have ended up with 350m2 of livable space, with the guesthouse out the back which you can see on another thread and the front garden and garage.

Here are a few pieces and I will continue to add more as we finish off the house.. thanks.

We were unhappy with the end of the house, as we originally wanted an outside terrace to walk onto. This was the inital idea of extending the house from 160m2 floor space on ground floor to an extra 30m2. Half way through we decided to m ake this an internal space to house internal stairs, kitchen and dining.

We extended the concrete foundations inline with what we had and then built a metal frame which was welded onto plates from the concrete. we used 6x2 3.2mm for the floor base, and as we were using viva board 20mm floor boards we would be going 40cm on center. You can go 30cm on center to increase weight per m2 but this is more for commercial use.

In the pic above you can see we started to use wood framing, however as all things seem to go. we ripped this out and instead used box metal in a rigid frame for the smart board.

here you can see a view from the guesthouse, with the structural frame complete, and most importantly the seamless metal roof on. This sits on 4mm smart board and 1cm thick foam insulation (this works out much cheaper than buying it glued to the roof). This was mainly not about heat but sound insulation, and seems to have worked well.
I really like the aesthetic and clean lines of the roof, and im seriously thinking of re-roofing the house with this instead of the heavier concrete tiles we currently have.


The terrace will be modern and will have wooden elements so it fits with the more traditional wood house elements, these 2 teak square posts will be an area of wood with doors to outside. You can see where the metal comes out from the posts by 1m and will start the kitchen which will be an L shape.
Before all of this end was closed off with wooden doors and dark, it will soon be light with floor to ceiling glazing.

more to come....

that metal roof looks nice, could you provide a few more details on it please?

Looking great Benl, great to see this thread resurected

Originally Posted by FatOne

Looking great Benl, great to see this thread resurected

Hats off to you Ben

I agree M. I saw this thread originally as my wife and I were looking and wanted to refurbish and expand the original teak home that was on our property. As we dug deeper and deeper what we wanted to do quickly became cost prohibitive and a much longer process.

Originally Posted by sweaty

that metal roof looks nice, could you provide a few more details on it please?

yes, its a seamless roof design from a company in Chiangmai. Very happy with the roof, we used 4mm smartboard, 10mm foam insulation and then screwed the roof through this into the steel rafters. comes in a range of colours.

The cost for 0.40m is 90badt a meter length but its half the size of the standard metal roofing you get, at this thickness in colour so its basically double the price. but the look is more distinct, and I think im going to replace the main house roof with this at some point in the future.

Thanks.

Originally Posted by FatOne

Looking great Benl, great to see this thread resurected

cheers will be doing a bit more on it.

Have a good one.

Originally Posted by JPPR2

Originally Posted by FatOne

Looking great Benl, great to see this thread resurected

Hats off to you Ben

I agree M. I saw this thread originally as my wife and I were looking and wanted to refurbish and expand the original teak home that was on our property. As we dug deeper and deeper what we wanted to do quickly became cost prohibitive and a much longer process.

Yes, in the first instance we didnt know what we wanted and we didnt know what we were doing. We got to stages slowly and I think we are getting finally to a place where the finish is in sight. Its cost a reasonable sum, but at the moment we have a 250 tw plot of land with a 4 bedroom 4 bathroom 3 lounge 1 dining 1 kitchen 1 sala house. with a rice barn guesthouse at the back and plenty of more land out the front for building if everything else turns sour. I love the feeling of walking on real hard wood planks, its not the same on laminate or "wood" flooring.

The teak in the house has a great feel about it, I think we will have to keep maintaining and modifying from the builders work, but that's mainly because I like things to be done properly, and now im in a better position to see that through.

so new parts of the house if you look back you might see the old kitchen which was partly outside under the back terrace, to a winding staircase leading to the downstairs.
now we have


We have a metal frame of hollow box section steel framed between the wood posts, they have viva board, aluminium grey windows, teak wood cladding and floor to ceiling height glass.
I glazed the frames with wood profiles made from teak that I got from global house. We went with grey because I dont like black or white on metal generally. I think its more sympathetic to the wood and is not such a strong colour, and works well with the viva board which is being left exposed. It will have an epoxy finish.

The steps are teak wood hand cut and sanded, then bolted through the metal. They are temporarily being used, but will get a final sanding and finish coat put on.ntiles finish off the floor. This area underneath will be where the big fridge and small utilities for cleaning and other odd bits go.



This is the now almost finished extension of an extension. originally going to be outside, this is now inside and will be the modern kitchen as you see in this picture taking up the smart board walls and dining on the hardwood floor next to it. I have used aluminium grey windows from home pro, and then teak wood framing for the fixed glass windows.



Here is the view looking up the stairs from the last pictures position in the kitchen. All of this is newly renovated, with concrete wall with a stucco textured finish, behind this wall is one of 2 bedrooms downstairs with aircon for hot aprils and may months. More to show on this later.

The view up you can see the lights which show the terrace to master bedroom, this has all been changed around and we have added walls with teak cladding, and have now although not in picture added railing to the small mezzanine level. This makes this space double height and has a great view out to doi suthep and the temple.

We were never fully happy with the bathroom in the downstairs, and so this is what we decided to do, break it all up and start again. I had a general idea in my head but as usual we went with no specifics and got started.

my wife really loves it when i start smashing the house up, by the way....

Some details of the new extension, are teak frames that extend out from the wall, which is a lot more modern. fixed glazing is going to be green glass 6mm from a good company in chiangmai.



Outside the smart board, which will at some point be painted. The frame is exposed it had red oxide painted on first and then 2-3 coats of the enamel paint you see. The floor to ceiling holes will be fixed with 6mm tempered glass. I am using teak wood profiles to hold the glass with foam rod to fill the spaces, and then silicone on the outside. The outside profile is painted with enamel but is also polyurethaned first to close any gaps from water. flashing will be applied and cladding will be used underneath all windows.


Again all joins are poly'd and then will have flashing and cladding put ontop, all fixed tempered glass in these holes.

Excellent work, quality fit and finish make all the difference

excellent work, looks the biz: certainly given me ideas.
Thanks for sharing, good read.

Wow and heeeaaaavvvveeeee-looking. I wonder what custom yellow clay thin large tiles would set a person back? I've seen relics of Buddha tiles online. How to incorporate that I wonder. I'm hoping to build a Lanna teak house temple that is old and authentic. How old? Older the better. Thanks, Paul V Bangkok