Tuesday, 10 September 2013

Finally.....

Finally, I can share some more news and pictures with you. 
 
Gary headed back to Krabi on Wednesday (04/09), via Bangkok to do some shopping (shopping without me L).

The floor tiling is all done - inside and out.  The bathroom tiling is basically finished - probably just tidying up when all the fittings go in. All the rendering on the outside and inside is complete and the paint colours have been chosen and ordered and hopefully finished by the time Gary's ready to come home, so I can see and share more pics.  Some of the windows and doors were being fitted when he was at the site on Friday.  They do things differently there, putting the doors and windows in after a lot of the other stuff has been done.  All the bathroom fittings have been ordered but I'm not sure if they've been delivered yet. 

Here's some of the photos he took.  I think it's looking great.

front of the house from the road

front entry

looking into the kitchen

steps from outside dining to side of the house
 

front entry from inside the house

looking to the front door.  Dogs are in the lounge

looking into the kitchen

back of the house.  looking from door way of master bedroom to lounge kitchen area.

master bathroom

looking from master bedroom across to outside dining

master bedroom bay window

lounge room looking across to kitchen.  through the door at the end is the study

from the master bedroom

lounge room

from the dining room looking across to the master bedroom

from the dining room.  if we decide not to get the pool put in, that hole will make an excellent garden :-)
 
 
from the outside dining looking into the kitchen

looking out to the outside dining
 
Will share more when Gary sends through more pictures.


Saturday, 17 August 2013

finally - more photos

here are some photos sent by the builder this morning.

ceiling in the lounge

 
bedroom 1 at the front of the house

tiles on the wall in the master bathroom

outside dining room

dining room tiles

stairs to laundry


front entry ramp from the road
 

Saturday, 27 July 2013

latest update

Today's update is mostly in the form of pictures.  Gary arrived home this morning and has taken a lot of pictures of the latest developments.   They have done most of the bathroom tiling in all the bathrooms and have started laying the floor tiles.  All the outside rendering is complete.  It's going along quite well at the moment.




outside bathroom





steps leading to laundry on the left and up to the dining room on the right




front of the house

 
looking across the pool to the dining room from the master bedroom

bathroom 1

wearing all the appropriate PPE

looking into the kitchen

 

they've started tiling - in the study
 

bathroom 1

 

bathroom 2
Might be a while between photos - Holger the project manager is on holidays for a month and Gary doesn't head back for a week or so but I'll share as they come through.  Trying not to bore you with too many pics but if you want to see more, send me a comment :-)
 
Ciao for now.




Saturday, 20 July 2013

ceiling and tiling

Thought I would share a few photos that Gary took yesterday.  They're tiling the bathrooms and doing the ceilings.  Seems that one lot of bathroom tiles they told us they couldn't get, they actually did get.  Gary has chosen new floor tiles which are almost exactly what we had previously chosen.  At the moment he's trying to choose bathroom fittings - basin, vanity, taps etc.

bathroom 1

lounge

bathroom 2 - top of wall

 


bathroom 2 - bottom of wall

hallway to master bedroom
 
master bedroom
 
in the hallway looking towards other bedrooms

lounge looking to front of the house 
 
I'll post more pics as I get them.
 

Tuesday, 2 July 2013

a roof over our heads

Finally, after an almost 3 month delay, we have a roof on our house - yippee!!!  Holger sent these photos through last night.


front of the house
looking into the master bedroom from dining room

 
front of house - spare room to left, lounge through that big window to the right
 
front of the house
 


 

 

You can see in the second last photo, they've started to render the outside walls now the roof is on.  We have already chosen the outside wall colour so they can go ahead with all of the painting too.
 
Along with the good news though, he also gave us some bad news.  2 lots of tiles we had chosen are not available.  One of the spare bedrooms bathroom and the major ones - the floor tiles.  Bugger.  Gary is going to have to head back to Krabi to choose an alternative.  He'll pick a similar one for the floor tiles and I'll have to trust his judgement for the other bathroom (eek!!)  I'll let you know how that goes! 
 
We're also waiting for a couple of quotes on the kitchen.  We have one drawing at the moment.  Can't share that right now as we agreed not to use the kitchen company's drawing unless we use them to build the kitchen (copyright etc).
 
Will share more pics as they come through.  Holger has promised to keep sending them.
 
Have a great day.
Louise