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Looking at houses from readers (35)
We have passed beautiful houses in this series and if you have a budget of a few million baht, that is not surprising. Today, consider a house in the budget class. This modern style cottage has 1 bedroom, 1 bathroom, kitchen and veranda and costs only 150.000 baht (approximately $4.000). Excluding land, of course.
A nice house when you consider that many Thai people mainly live outside. Maybe something for your mother-in-law? 😉
Submitted by Editor
Dear reader, have you also had a house built in Thailand? Send a photo with some information and the costs to [email protected] and we post it.
Nice sweet house anyway. You don't need much more anyway.
Indeed our house (or actually my wife's 😉) also falls into the 'budget class'. Did some sprucing it up by tiling it, a lick of paint, some filler and leveled the ground around.
What was important to me was a good shower with a Western toilet and I put a sofa and coffee table there.
Ah, feel peaceful there, a lovely wife and family, the sun shines almost every day, the food is good, that's all you need.
Where and by whom to build?
What is your foundation?
Yes it's just in how you go along with life here
Show and what you want yourself and your wife
Anyway we live in Thailand and yes that is a lot of outward display to the outside world
Certainly something that is important for Thai culture
And this in many layers of the Thai population
Gr Peter
What a nice nice house, and you don't need more, right?
Well,
Really a house for my mother-in-law in the back of the garden.
Every now and then I get a little tired of her, she also has her own place.
Indeed Laksi,
a house for mother-in-law.
In my opinion, we, with our Western standards, are not satisfied with living in such a house.
You want to have a bit of a “holiday feeling”.
Basic indeed, but we are used to practical matters.
Just take a look at the kitchen, toilet(?) and bathroom.
yes I want to buy that but who's name !!!!! I'm also looking for love I'm retired and want to live in khonkean ,, hope I can spend my life there I'm going to thailand in March for exploration go, Emily
You can put a house in your name. Thai soil does not. You can rent land through. lease or usufruct. Just search those terms. There is also a lot written about it on this forum.
Laksi,
Renting is cheap in Thailand.
For 300 euros per month you can rent a great house in Isaan.
I would therefore recommend renting for the first few years.
You can then take a better look at the situation on the spot.
There are the necessary pitfalls that you will not encounter in the Netherlands or Belgium.
When you get there talk to the Farangs who live there, how they experience it and what they have been through over the years.
Khonkean is quite attractive for Farangs. I have 2 Dutch acquaintances living there.
Good train connection with Bangkok and beautiful shopping center.
You can also rent (perhaps first). Do you have "nothing" to worry about.
There are plenty of rental accommodations ranging from +/- 4000 – infinite bahts.
When you google “house for rent in Khon khan”, you will see enough sites with rentals.
As an example https://www.dotproperty.co.th/en/3-bedroom-house-for-sale-or-rent-in-chum-phae-khon-kaen_3910756
Or e.g https://www.hipflat.co.th/en/listings/khon-kaen-house-KMWSCKCT
However there are cheaper ones. For the really cheaper you will have to look on the spot.
Depends on what you want and spend.
So-called love is a completely different story and can also change just like that. There is no rope to tie. You may know the charity song, now I've adapted it for love:
Love is a dream , a package of syrup with a thin layer of chrome
Very nice and not expensive
Nice house!! But what does the land cost?
Sincerely,
Henk
Hank,
that house will be put somewhere on family land in Isaan. You're not going to worry about the ground anyway. You don't have a second-hand car for this budget yet.
This cottage can also serve if you only spend your holiday with the family (because you still have to work) and still want a bit of privacy.
Quite a nice house, for some solutions
For example, if your teenage daughter/son becomes difficult.
Can they learn to be independent?
And is rest in other house.
Nice (holiday) house, for a very competitive price, unfortunately no dimensions of the house, the foundation (concrete slab) and the ground and also no photo of the bedroom. Are the posts on the terrace steel or concrete?
Three times (responding) is a charm. 🙂
My (un)educated guess:
This is another example of the so-called concrete skeleton construction that is very much used in Thailand.
2 times 3×3 m² indoor and 2×6 m² veranda.
Concrete slab 10-15 cm thick on the cold ground.
Poles of approximately 5″x5″ (12,5×12,5 cm²).
Kitchen plus bathroom (almost) half, living/bedroom the rest.
Dear Peter,
How nice,555.
Certainly a nice garden house, but since our large family it will be tight
when the little kids come to sleep.
You will get rid of your mother-in-law this way.
How do you come up with this to make it so compact that you have everything you need.
Nice piece of thinking for the money.
Lots of living pleasure and a beautiful ceiling.
Yours faithfully,
Erwin
I don't live there. Is just an example.
Dear Peter,
I understand that. Was meant to be nice.
Regards, Erwin
Dear Peter,
Is it possible for me to email the details, please. From the construction company or the website of the company that sells these houses.
I would also be very happy with the floor plan, then I can recruit a construction team myself to have such a house built.
E-mail. [email protected]
Thank you in advance.
Rewin Louis.
This is all I have: https://idea-home.thailetgo.com/7884
I also built a very small house with a large veranda under my mother-in-law's roof.
Bedroom kitchen and bathroom for 2500 euros with large garden vegetables and flowers.
Washing machine, TV, internet, refrigerator and cooking equipment, total 4000 euros.
Because you're always outside, you REALLY don't need more.
Now also bought a Honda scooter, who does something to me
Too bad about those wooden folding windows, they always jam or crack sooner or later. The last house I had built, I had the window openings made to size for PVC, because home pro has standard sizes of PVC windows. cheaper than aluminum and the sizes that are made as standard are spacious sliding windows with mosquito nets.
The fact that those wooden windows get stuck or crack is, in my opinion, mainly due to the quality of the wood used. If the windows are made of 'straight' wood, you will not be bothered by this. Unless the house sags, but then it's not the windows.
Aluminum is stiffer, so it retains its shape, than PVC. For equal stiffness, PVC needs more volume. PVC also attracts dust.
If PVC were better than aluminum, the manufacturer would charge a higher price than aluminum.
Hello Pieter,
Very nice house, am looking for something like this for when visitors come from outside,
Is it possible to pass on the details of the builder.
best regards
Joop Udonthani
One can of course always, like many commenters here, have the opinion 'that's all you need'.
Has a point of truth in it. However, when I look at the various interiors in the houses, and especially at the kitchens and sanitary facilities, one thing strikes me.
None of the readers in the Netherlands, whether buying or renting, would accept a house or home with as much primitiveness and 'poverty' in the kitchen and bathroom as I sometimes see in the photos here.
So why in Thailand? Because it belongs to the country? Just act normal? Dutch Calvinism?
Do know that at my Thai acquaintances and business relations at home I really come across the Siematics, Grohes and Gerberits. Nothing wrong with comfort right?
Not everyone has the budget for a Mercedes or Audi or a Bentley. In my village you don't see any Thai acquaintances (certainly no business relations: noodle shop, food stall, t.shirt seller for 100 Baht) with Siematics etc etc. Can it be ordinary and simple? Everyone's budget. Everyone's craving. Everyone's priority. And as many write, why all those luxury brand names if you usually live outside. An outdoor kitchen is sometimes sufficient for simple dishes. But if you're happy with a Dyson etc etc and you're very happy because of it and you can afford it, buy it. The business relations will be satisfied that you live in comfort.
It's also a killer if you're always outside. I don't see anyone sitting outside in the sun, everyone is sitting inside or on their veranda. Often mosquitoes in the evening or 4 months of rainy season or 2 to 3 months of cold season; everyone is comfortable inside. And then you also want some space in your house and not just a 12m2 room where, in addition to your bed, which takes up half the room, you can also store your things and/or walk around. You can rent a larger apartment/condo anywhere for 1500 – 3000 baht, it is also cheap and I prefer it to this detached student room.
Very nice house. If you look at the practical side and imagine that you should be able to live there during all seasons, the following is the case. Such windows with 'blinds' usually have a 'fanlight' with glass above because when it rains and the wind blows, you close the blinds and it is dark in the house. People will also want to keep mosquitoes out with mosquito nets. Then behind the house a gutter against splashing water and the entire concrete slab at least 1 cement block (20cm) high so that the sidewalk and immediate area around the house remain passable. Too bad I don't see the sitting area and whether there is a separate bedroom or box bed? The seating area can also be laid and tiled and then placed with loose cushions. Small shelter next to it to store the moped or carport for the car and it is very useful.
In Thailand Isaan you can be very happy if you get rid of unnecessary luxury and excessive possessions. I live there a bit like camping all year round and a bit like a nomad. Life mostly takes place outside anyway. You really don't need a good bed and a room where you can wash yourself and a 'normal' toilet as well as a nice wife, other than things to annoy you…..and that is exactly what I have always wanted to avoid here
It is precisely that Western materialism that I have thrown overboard here. When I tear my scooter along the rice fields with the wind in my hair and the sun on my half-bare bark and can stop for a coffee or a beer along the way, I am the happiest person in the world. I am satisfied with very little here.
What company did you build this house with?
Assuming most life takes place outdoors in Thailand, this is just what you need for 2 people.
Why lock up a large part of your money in a house of 300 square meters, of which, given that you live there with 2 people, you only have a lot of work.
Anyway to each his own, I don't want to become the slave of a castle, which I admit I can only show off with, while I need 2 rooms at the most.
In your little house, with which you basically have very little maintenance work, you remain independent for a long time from outside help, and you can use this saved time for everything else.
Well described John,
What also plays a role is that the Thai often let the whole family live in the house and if you are unlucky like us, you can no longer live in your own house and damn the family to go to work because the mother / daughter with a so-called rich farang is married.
Nice house for a nice amount. We just don't all have 5 million to spend.
And I thought we lived small!
For my holiday on Koh Tao, a friend had rented a beach house for me, so that I didn't have to start looking immediately after my arrival.
Exactly a house like this, but placed on high concrete piles (4 – 6 mtr) on the rocks right on the coast with a view of those 2 islands that are connected by a sandy beach.
However, with a covered terrace and a reasonable living / bedroom upon entry.
I spent 2 wonderful months there without radio or TV.
When I returned to my home in the Vallée de la Dordogne in France, I wondered for a long time if I still wanted this… But over time I got used to all this again.
Living here or there with a loved one, they are two worlds that you should enjoy and not argue.