Thread: Photo reporting the build of the house we bought in a walled village complex

Terrific thread Neil and congrats on your beautiful house.

You certainly seem happy and content with your life.

nice pics and a wery nice house

Originally Posted by smeden

nice pics and a wery nice house

Thanks for taking the time to say hello ... and so many smilies! ...
Have a great day ...

Originally Posted by neilandmeechai

as it can seem that sometimes nobody is interested

Your thread has been viewed over 1,700 times so don't be disheartened if people do not post a comment. I am sure a lot of people have learned a lot from this very informative, interesting thread.
The mere fact you have obviously enjoyed sharing your experience with so many others is more then worth your effort.

Originally Posted by Loy Toy

Originally Posted by neilandmeechai

as it can seem that sometimes nobody is interested

Your thread has been viewed over 1,700 times so don't be disheartened if people do not post a comment. I am sure a lot of people have learned a lot from this very informative, interesting thread.
The mere fact you have obviously enjoyed sharing your experience with so many others is more then worth your effort.

Thanks .. I am also having a great time here on TeakDoor, learning all kinds of things! Water harvesting, Growing tomatoes, and I am following many other threads.

thanks for the thread,very nice house.

Originally Posted by ferretface

thanks for the thread,very nice house.

and thank you for taking the time to say hello ... We really are very pleased with the house and buying a plot and a house in a village complex does have it's advantages.
Have a great day ....

We were able to choose from various floor surfaces during the build and also different tiles for the bathrooms and kitchen.
In the following few postings you can see what we did choose and although most of the choices were very good, we would have chosen other tiles for the kitchen if we had thought more about it.
As the kitchen will be having a re-style during 2011 we will be able to discard the tiles and start again.

Here in the Lounge and Dining area we chose the Polished White Marble for the floor.

The Staircase is polished hardwood faced (I don't know which sort?) and looks very nice when the lighting is on.

Second and Third Bedrooms (Both at the back of the house).

Again all Laminated Wooden Floors upstairs.

Excellent thread from the start .

The village and amenities look superb. All the homes are a credit to the designers and builders.

Your own is outstanding.

A real credit to you Neil, and Meechai.

Well done, the sharing is much appreciated.

Thanks for the thread and all the work N&M. Liked the bit about the taps. Soapy hands and circular taps dont work well together!!

Looks good but is not practical. "Function versus Form" is what I believe Architects call it.

Originally Posted by Top Cat

"Function versus Form" is what I believe Architects call it.

bad design, that means

I dn't like laminated flooring, makes me cringe

In Thailand there is so much nice wood flooring to be had; teak parquet, for instance, can be around B450 a sq m, or less

Originally Posted by DrAndy

Originally Posted by Top Cat

"Function versus Form" is what I believe Architects call it.

bad design, that means

I dn't like laminated flooring, makes me cringe

In Thailand there is so much nice wood flooring to be had; teak parquet, for instance, can be around B450 a sq m, or less

You mean wood floor already make or need to buy the wood and after let it make by a carpenter ?

already made and sold in 1 sq m packs, like tiles

Nice thread. It's a very attractive complex. I have a couple of questions. I just finished building a house here in the Philippines about two years ago. My lot area is 612 square meters; the house living area is about 250 downstairs, and about 270 upstairs. Six bedroom; six and one-half baths. What is your lot area and living area? I would guess that from the quality of the compound and the construction that houses range from $150,000 - $250,000; is that in the ball park? At those prices, who lives there? Are most of the residents mixed couples; Thai and foreign? Just wondering as I have rarely seen a compound this upscale in Thailand. Not probing for price, just wondering about a ball park figure given the different house sizes available.

Originally Posted by Mathos

Excellent thread from the start .

The village and amenities look superb. All the homes are a credit to the designers and builders.

Your own is outstanding.

A real credit to you Neil, and Meechai.

Well done, the sharing is much appreciated.

Thanks Mathos for your comments ...

Certainly in the begining for us it was very important to have access to such amenities (Swimming Pool and Gym), but we were not "full time" permanent residents in the country.

Having a swimming pool is not just for Christmas as the famous saying goes! (about wanting a dog for Christmas).

We have seen some expats who "must have a pool" and end up forcing and squeezing one into what could have been a very nice garden.
They then try to force some kind of tropical greenery arround the squeezed in pool .... (we saw this by a friend of ours and really wanted to take some photo's but didn't get the chance!).

What happens next is that (at the time of squeezed planting!) it looks great, fantastic! .... untill it's time to shed the leaves, into the squeezed in pool of course!

Originally Posted by Top Cat

Thanks for the thread and all the work N&M. Liked the bit about the taps. Soapy hands and circular taps dont work well together!!

Looks good but is not practical. "Function versus Form" is what I believe Architects call it.

Hi Top Cat and thanks for the comments ...

Staying on the topic of "Looks good but is not practical. "Function versus Form" I would also have prefered the upstairs windows to have been "swing and clean" (for lack of another name!) ... if I was building again.

The problem is when it comes to cleaning the upstairs windows (No, we don't have an acrobatic maid, ha, ha!), although I am sure they must exist in Thailand!

All the windows seem to slide over the other one which is quite a problem when it comes to cleaning them.
Certainly worth thinking about for others wanting to build in Thailand, but for us we have solved the problem with a long hose pipe extension (the famous Blue Thai Water Pipe!) with a soft brush on it ... and our upstairs windows would now pass the "Mrs. Bucket" test (pronounced Bouquet!).

Originally Posted by DrAndy

Originally Posted by Top Cat

"Function versus Form" is what I believe Architects call it.

bad design, that means

I dn't like laminated flooring, makes me cringe

In Thailand there is so much nice wood flooring to be had; teak parquet, for instance, can be around B450 a sq m, or less

In the begining I could have agreed with this, although it didn't exactly "make me cringe".

I remember when we were in the sales office looking at each other when they mentioned "wood laminate" floors upstairs and we made a point of checking it out when we were shown the "Show House".

Eventually we decided to "let sleeping laminate lie" as it was inclusive in the quoted house price and we could always have it re-laid at a later date.

Also, as we are not "full time" permanent residents yet, we decided to leave it for the moment although we have seen some beautiful "Teak Parquet" in a friends house, and we will eventually replace it.

Thanks for the imput ...