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[churchill]

Just stumbled on this thread .. Interesting
a few pics of my house and views in Samui

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[aniMAL]

The view from the master bedroom balcony!

[aniMAL]

All seems less rural from the front...

[tassini]

Any of you that have built your own houses know that they are always a work in progress. Well here is ours, house, kitchen building and guest pad all finished......now it's time for the pool, driveway, landscaping.................................................

Tas

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[villagefarang]

tassini, on 2012-02-18 13:12:51, said:

Any of you that have built your own houses know that they are always a work in progress. Well here is ours, house, kitchen building and guest pad all finished......now it's time for the pool, driveway, landscaping.................................................

So true, so true.

[JurgenG]

aniMAL, on 2012-02-18 01:42:19, said:

The view from the master bedroom balcony!

Having a swimming pool party ?

I think I recognize a couple of fellow TV members

[villagefarang]

JurgenG, on 2012-02-25 09:00:00, said:

aniMAL, on 2012-02-18 01:42:19, said:

The view from the master bedroom balcony!

Having a swimming pool party ?

I think I recognize a couple of fellow TV members

I would appreciate no one pointing out which one I am.   That really is an amazing contrast from the front of the house to the back.

[fezzy]

Our 17 rai with existing house soon to be knocked down to make way to build our new one,family draining the old pond and getting the fish out to eat.  thailand 2010 342.JPG   1.39MB   40 downloads  thailand 2010 344.JPG   1.46MB   40 downloads

[KNJ]

tb86, on 2009-04-15 22:37:40, said:

Crossy, on 2009-04-15 21:45:26, said:

tb86, on 2009-04-15 21:20:09, said:

side angle hmm how to rotate these?

You have to rotate the image before you upload it. Any photo editing software will do it, even Vista can do it (right click on your photo file, choose rotate).

Here you go



Nice, how big is this mansion?

3 stories, underground parking, pool, seperate maids quarters, 8000 sq m... a bit bigger than we need but oh well not too bad for a wedding present
of course its right next to mom and dads house

8000  or 800?

[harrry]

JurgenG, on 2012-02-25 09:00:00, said:

aniMAL, on 2012-02-18 01:42:19, said:

The view from the master bedroom balcony!

Having a swimming pool party ?

I think I recognize a couple of fellow TV members

The little one is much too cute to be related to a TV member.

[Chonburiram]

View from our outdoor kitchen at our place north west of Chiang Mai ( secret valley...)

[villagefarang]

Chonburiram, on 2012-04-10 17:12:39, said:

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View from our outdoor kitchen at our place north west of Chiang Mai ( secret valley...)

Looks like a nice place to live.  The picture doesn’t look recent though.  I assume you couldn’t see anything the last couple of months.  Hope it is better now.

[samsiam]

Some nice homes with nice views.

We have land in a very cool valley....mountains all around....but no house yet....no rush.

[villagefarang]

samsiam, on 2012-04-11 10:38:48, said:

Some nice homes with nice views.

We have land in a very cool valley....mountains all around....but no house yet....no rush.

When you do get around to building something, don’t forget to post a picture or two.

[IsaanUSA]

Amazing thread.  I just discovered it.  I generally lurk the wooden door forum in the construction sub-forum.  I love seeing the house builds.  Some guy even posted a build thread of his house in Cambodia, however it was very very similar to the modern Thai houses.

I'm a young guy, so I'm a bit jealous of all the fantastic houses in this thread.  Even people with modest wooden homes have some very cool features.  I read thread after thread of people saying "rent, don't buy" and "only spend what you are prepared to lose" but the builds/photos in this thread are refreshing.

I'm assuming that the more impressive houses in here are occupied year round.  Do the people with the nicer builds also keep a house in their home country?  Also I'm assuming the people that live outside of town have a car or two?  At that point living in Thailand is a serious life changing commitment.

[villagefarang]

IsaanUSA, on 2012-04-18 02:26:32, said:

Amazing thread.  I just discovered it.  I generally lurk the wooden door forum in the construction sub-forum.  I love seeing the house builds.  Some guy even posted a build thread of his house in Cambodia, however it was very very similar to the modern Thai houses.

I'm a young guy, so I'm a bit jealous of all the fantastic houses in this thread.  Even people with modest wooden homes have some very cool features.  I read thread after thread of people saying "rent, don't buy" and "only spend what you are prepared to lose" but the builds/photos in this thread are refreshing.

I'm assuming that the more impressive houses in here are occupied year round.  Do the people with the nicer builds also keep a house in their home country?  Also I'm assuming the people that live outside of town have a car or two?  At that point living in Thailand is a serious life changing commitment.

I am glad you like the thread and will take a stab at your questions from my perspective.  I have on several occasions recommended against fellow foreigners putting too much money into a house they are not going to live in full-time.  

There are just too many things that can go wrong if a nice house is left unattended or is left in the hands of those who don’t know how to take care of it.  I understand the desire to have someplace nice to stay when visiting family in Thailand but I don’t usually recommend it for a once a year visit.

I briefly had a condo in Bangkok and the house in Chiang Rai but chose Chiang Rai as our full-time residence and sold the condo after ten years of living there.  I own no foreign real-estate.  Trucks and SUVs are the preferred mode of transportation if you live as far outside of town as we do.

I have lived here so long, it has been a long slow and gradual transition to where I am today.  You are correct in your observation of this being a serious life changing commitment, especially if you find Thailand late in life and want everything all at once.

[IsaanUSA]

Speaking of which, what can go wrong to a house left unattended?  Besides theft, I really don't understand.
In the USA, our family has a country house that sits unattended for 300 days out of the year.  We had a squirrel get inside once and that was the only thing bad that ever happened as a result of leaving it unattended.  The squirrel was inside for maybe 6 months!  He ate any kind of food item he could find.

[mrbojangles]

IsaanUSA, on 2012-04-18 21:12:59, said:

Speaking of which, what can go wrong to a house left unattended?  Besides theft, I really don't understand.
In the USA, our family has a country house that sits unattended for 300 days out of the year.  We had a squirrel get inside once and that was the only thing bad that ever happened as a result of leaving it unattended.  The squirrel was inside for maybe 6 months!  He ate any kind of food item he could find.

Never mind a Squirrel getting in the house. There are many instances of the extended Thai family getting in and they are really hard to get out again.

[RAZZELL]

If only for a lottery win and this might be mine

http://freshome.com/...sive-landscape/


RAZZ

[IsaanUSA]

mrbojangles, on 2012-04-18 22:52:23, said:

Never mind a Squirrel getting in the house. There are many instances of the extended Thai family getting in and they are really hard to get out again.

Not sure if serious

[necronx99]

IsaanUSA, on 2012-04-18 21:12:59, said:

Speaking of which, what can go wrong to a house left unattended?  Besides theft, I really don't understand.
In the USA, our family has a country house that sits unattended for 300 days out of the year.  We had a squirrel get inside once and that was the only thing bad that ever happened as a result of leaving it unattended.  The squirrel was inside for maybe 6 months!  He ate any kind of food item he could find.

If you leave a house unnattended, especially in an area where you have no family to keep an eye on it it will get stolen.
Not things inside the house, I mean the house. You would come back to find a slab or stumps.

[villagefarang]

So we have established it is unwise to leave a house unattended.  Homes need constant upkeep and there is a risk of having your possessions stolen.

Now does anyone have any new pictures to share?

[ripstanley]

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Our house 12 km from Phayao on the opposite side of the lake

[monty1412]

tb86, on 2009-04-15 21:18:10, said:

almost finished

crikey tb86  et onto your builder. the've built it the wrong way up