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Our client for this project came to us having found a design they liked online, however the layout did not suit their needs. We worked with them to develop the floorpan and concept into something that met their requirements. With the concept finalised we then produced the full engineering drawings and costing from which to build the home.
This home is based on the style of the "Ban Phu two storey three bedroom home" design that we completed last year. It has virtually the same specification except that it is all on one floor, rather than two. There is open plan living, dining room, kitchen. Master bedroom with ensuite bathroom, two guest bedrooms, guest bathroom, laundry room and covered parking. There is also a front and rear covered terrace.
We have always had an overview of our services on our website, but today I have added further detail relating to the three core strands of our business: Architecture, Construction & Consultancy.
You can find out more detail of the typical flow of a design project with NKD, and the steps involved in designing a dream home in Thailand on a new page: Design, Engineering & Planning Process
Another new page, "Construction services" goes into more depth about the various steps involved in building a home in Thailand and how our workflow is structured. This page also details our project management roles and responsibilities in our construction projects.
The final new page added to our site today "Consultancy services" gives further detail on the consultancy services that we offer to people who are self managing their project to build a new home in Thailand.
Apart from above, links to these new pages can be found on our "What we do" page from the main menu.
As it has been a long time since maintaining regular project blog updates, there are a lot of past design and construction projects that have been, and never mentioned here. Over the next few days, I will add some details of those projects.
The first such project is the design of a two storey three bedroom home that we completed at the end of last year. It consists of a large open plan living, dining room and kitchen and also two guest bedrooms on the ground floor. There is also a large covered carport and covered terraces front and back. The second floor is one large master bedroom with en-suite bathroom and two covered balconies to the front and back.
Construction of this home has not yet begun.
If you were familiar with our previous branding and website design, you would know that there was a large emphasis on the "House builder" side of our business. Whilst this is still our core business, we have increasingly been taking on design of commercial premises and also offering consultancy and construction management services, so we felt that our site needed to be updated to reflect this and also generally just to give it a fresh new look to start off 2014. We hope you like it...
We have already started 5 new construction projects in the first few weeks of this year with additional projects scheduled to start over the coming months. We are also working on the design for six new homes. I will add more details and pictures of all of our projects as they progress.
We are close to completion with this modern two bedroom home. We are adding finishing details to the house and building the front and rear boundary walls. Once the walls are complete and the site cleared a little more we will pour the concrete driveway and also build a modern style sala in the back garden, though we have not been contracted to carry out the actual landscaping of the gardens.
We have completed the roof tiling for this interesting project in Sangkhom. We are now adding the typically Thai decorative detail and facias to the roof sections.
We have also completed the roofing of the 'cottage' which actually houses caretaker's accommodation as well as parking. The next stage is to add the timber cladding and rendering that will give it the appearance of an Elizabethan timber framed wattle and daub cottage. The timber framed windows will also be added shortly.
The two buildings on this project sit on a plot of about 4 acres and we are undertaking a number of other works on the land. One such project is the construction of a spill way for a large drain that runs underneath the land taking water run off from the hills behind the property to the Mekong river.
We also installed another drain and spill way that will handle surface water drainage on parts of the land as well as the roof run-off from the house itself.
We constructed a terrace that is located on the river bank, just out of sight of the main house. Being on the river bank it was necessary to build the terrace on piles, as with the spill way.
There arer a number of other sub-projects on the plot of land, but I shall save those for a later post.
Since last posting about this project, we have completed all of the main concrete structural framework, poured the floor slabs and completed all of the major blockwork. Rendering is nearly complete as is the roof framework. We are mow moving onto the roof tiling. We have also been working on a number of other sub-projects located throughout the plot of land around the house, but I shall detail these later in a separate post.
We have recently completed the design and engineering of a home which is to be built later this year in Vientiane, Laos. The design features five bedrooms, six bathrooms, open plan living and dining room, and home theatre. There is a strong emphasis on outdoor living with this home and there is an extensive terrace featuring a covered lounge and dining area and also a large sala. There are a number of large folding doors to completely open up the interior areas to flow onto the terrace.
NKD was formed in 2009 and employs Thai and English speaking professionals in order to deliver first class design and construction services. We have the experience and capacity to see your project through from the initial concept to final design, structural engineering and then on to construction, interior design and garden landscaping.
Whatever your budget or preferred style, contact us to find out how we can help you realise your dream home.
We also offer complete design and construction services for commercial properties such as restaurants, bars, coffee shops, hotels, resorts, guest houses or offices.
So, if you need an architect, structural engineer, house builder, swimming pool design and construction, interior designer, or garden landscaping, we offer a one-stop-shop solution for all your design and construction needs.
We are based in Nong Khai, Thailand, though we can undertake projects throughout Isaan, including Khon Kaen, Udon Thani and beyond. We also offer our design and construction services in Vientiane and throughout Laos.
Nong Khai Design Co., Ltd. | Prajak Sillapakhom Alley, Nai Mueang, Nong Khai, 43000, Thailand
