shepsel

Probably the western kitchen is the spoiler for finding something in your price range.   If you are planning to stay as a long term tenant, you might want to find something that you can live with in terms of layout, then negotiate a long lease with a renewal clause in it.   You might have to spend some money--to make a suitable kitchen by western standards.  You can get stainless steel shelving and cupboards that you can take with you when you leave.   You can get an oven/stovetop which you don't have to have built in.  

When I leased a condo for a number of years, the kitchen was tragic.   I invested a couple of hundred dollars in local granite countertops, got a hot water heater for the sink (which can be removed when I leave), and everything else can be moved out when I leave.   I am quite happy I did this, because finding proper room sizes in a location that I wanted was impossible as I looked at almost 50 places before I made a compromised decision.  Unless I wanted to raise my accommodation budget to 20,000 baht or more--western kitchens are virtually non existent in the centre of town.

There is a cooking course given in Thai language at the Humanites V department of Chiang Mai University.   It is open to the students attending CMU, but I believe that they have one or two courses open to Thais who are not students at the university.

I sent City Life an email asking where the classified ads could be found on their on-line addition.    I got a response that had nothing to do with my question.    

I am assuming that they when they get all the kinks out of the new on-line newsletter, they will start the classifieds up again.   Classifieds were a great addition to their on-line magazine, and if I see Pim (Editor) I will let her know.   It would help if TV readers will also send an email to City Life directly asking them about the classified section--and maybe it will return sooner than later.

I remember seeing a unit similar to what you describe at the Embassy House on the east side of the river. It is a condo building, and I guess that you would have to check with the management there to see if there are any units available for rent.

I cannot recall the name of the building, but I have been in it looking at the rooms.   As far as I know, the rooms are studio units, and there are a few different layouts for them.   The 690 baht is for one night, and there is a weekly and monthly rate as well, but electricity and water charges are tacked on at the end.   I wouldn't call this place a condominium like the OP does, it is rather a serviced apartment.