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Phuket Townhouse Renovation
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Front of Townhouse 2010Front of Townhouse on one of Phukets Golf Courses.verticalift
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Entrance"Cool-A-Roo" Sunshade material helps extend the car park and provides sunshade in the courtyard / bathroom behind the curved wall.verticalift
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Car Park / GarageInstead of a bare concrete floor at the front entrance, we laid tile and sandwash.
Cabinets provide storage for shoes and flip flops.verticalift
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Car Park / EntranceMango "Guarding" the Car Park / Entranceverticalift
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Dining roomDining room with a view to the kitchen and upstairs landing.
10mm Teak T & G Ceiling.
Plan to install a large wall-to-wall skylight at the peak of the ceiling.verticalift
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StairsThe original stairs were the standard concrete type with a small storage area underneath. I had the concrete stairs "blasted-out" and installed a steel beam with steel supports for the 4cm thick teak steps. With the house orientated to take advantage of the North-East / South-West monsoon winds, there is a Venturi effect in this part of the house with the wind blowing through it.
Who needs air-con...? Plan to install a skylight overtop of the stairwell.verticalift
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Living roomView from the dining room to the living room, kitchen and main entrance.
All wood work is solid teak.verticalift
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KitchenLike the rest of the house, the kitchen had been completly gutted and rebuilt. Though this is a traditional concrete kitchen, we used solid teak on the face of the vertical concrete columms. The inside of all lower cabinets have a white tile so that when the fish sauce spills, it's an easy clean-up. Countertop - Black African granite. UV Water Filteration system under sink. Travitine marble backsplash. All cabinets were hand made on a table saw in the living room.verticalift
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Downstairs BathroomIndoor/Outdoor bathroom. I first saw this stainless steel rain shower spiral, in a magazine in Abu Dhabi where they were asking $2000USD. I tore the page out of the magazine and took it back to the local marina in Phuket where I kept my boat. I had the guys in the stainless steel shop fabricate it for me. My cost: 2,000 Baht. The 500 Baht shower curtain hangs on the stainless steel pipe.
Stairs are solid teak with 25 coats of "Deks Olje" (Aquired at the local marina)verticalift
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Cement bathtubOutdoor courtyard 2m x 6m next to bathroom 2m x 3m.
Total bathroom/courtyard area: 18sqm verticalift
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Cement bathtub.A 2 meter section of this 30cm thick cement wall had to be knocked down and then re-built to get the 1/2 ton bathtub into the courtyard.
We used a truck with a crane in case you're wondering how we did it.verticalift
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Cement bathtub in outdoor courtyard/bathroom.I had this 1/2 ton cement bathtub constructed offsite at a factory in Phuket. Because the istallation of the tub is in an outdoor courtyard, we could'nt use a standard prefabricated air-jet fiberglass tub. The sun's U.V. rays would have eaten-up a fiberglass tub inside 6 months.
Have a look at the other folders for how we built it and had it installed.verticalift
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