Designing and Building a large Extension to our First Floor Balcony and Extending our Front Porch into a large Spacious Shaded Terrace started off with some rough ideas that we both had. During the process we changed our minds many times or decided to add or change something. We had a lot of help from Meechai's family and especially from Lek (Meechai's sister) doing a lot of the work of contacting the builder, getting estimates and sending us lots of photo's of the situation before we start the project.
Although we spent many a morning enjoying our breakfast and morning coffee the porch was far too small for us to dine outside with the whole family, hence our plans for extending this space into a royal sized covered terrace and at the same time extending the first floor balcony into a huge sunbathing area.
Shade and Sunshine
Two important things we needed were a large shaded area for Meechai to relax in and listen to his music as he doesn't like too much sunshine, and just the opposite for Neil who loves to be able relax in the sun.
The Solution
The solution was to extend our first floor balcony which would give us a large semi private sun trap and at the same time the new balcony would provide us with lots of extra shade on the ground floor with a huge extension to our existing front porch.