Right so here we are....we are currently at the roof stage of building and i thought now was good to start off the story. Unfortunately names of builders will be difficult as i can rarely remember mine, so me and the wife usually make up names.

Anyway you can follow previous meanderings of how we got here from:

https://teakdoor.com/construction-in-...read-ever.html

Where we left off from was having a plot of land in Chinagmai Muang, Padaed. A lovely quiet suburb near the Ping river about 7 mins to center of town. We have 1000 sqm of land over 2 plots split up as 600 and 400 sqm. The first plot is filled and the second isnt, this has now had 2 seasons of rain and is very well weathered.



So now we had the land, we needed a house.

We had compared the different avenues and in our hearts we wanted wood, but prefab wood construction was coming out at about 20,000 badt sqm, where as concrete was coming out at half that value.

I am 27 and have not had a lot of opportunity to build up a mass fortune, so we were settling towards the concrete house. Then my wife read a Thai book about a Thai celebrity who had bought traditional wood houses and built a house from this. She started trawling the websites and we started to find places selling houses for 200,000 badt upto 600,000.

It seemed like we had found a way to get exactly what we wanted, at a cost that was practical.

From here we started to get ideas about plans and how we wanted it to look see here:

https://teakdoor.com/construction-in-...-to-build.html


We now felt positive we could build a house that we could live in and be happy.

We decided after much trawling on the websites and little wood to be found in Chiangmai, to go to Phrae where we had met a man selling wood houses. We stayed there for a week looking at houses and had fond some really nice wood, at incredible attractive prices.

But there was one house that gave us the goose bumps as we walked into it (no ghosts) an old styled house which was like a tardis. The wood was mostly TEAK and the house was mostly complete.



The picture is amazingly deceptive, fistly because the house is on concrete pillars and they are about 1.80 m off the ground but secondly because this house is 12 x 10 m. We measured 2 bedrooms lounge and bathroom all good sizes.

But the main ting was the internal space was amazing, it felt like our home and we both instantly took to it.


So we went back to the hotel and me and the wife talked, and we came up with a decision. BUY< BUY<BUY!

This house was without concrete poles but was in amazing condition, we offered 10,000 less knowing it was already good value, and the cost included delivery to chiangmai. It was accepted and now the ball started to roll, we are building a house, ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!