The sliding doors on BaanLoiNaam were just completed and installed: Additionally, the sliding windows on the opposite side were installed too: Since the roof over the doors extends out more than 2 meters, we aren’t too worried about water coming in, but just in case, we added a slightly raised frame down below: (On the…
Building a sleeping hammock: part 2
I recently posted about my interest in exploring sleeping in a hammock rather than a bed. Now I will write more about a simple recipe we came up with for building our own hammock. I’m actually quite surprised how simple it was. We started with the best hammock we had in our possession: The material…
New Project: Building a sleeping hammock
This is the hammock we built. I’ve always seen a hammock as something to lounge on the balcony in and read a book on a nice summer day, but not something to spend the night in. On a lark, I decided to Google “is sleeping in a hammock bad for you?”, and came up with…
Filling in the cracks of a wooden house
This isn’t the most exciting thing going on around the land, but I don’t think I’ve ever mentioned this before. Since the houses we are building are all wooden, and they use tongue-and-groove connections between the wooden planks in the walls, there are always slight imperfections in the fit between all of the wooden planks…
Sliding doors on a floating house
Now that the walls are done on BaanLoiNaam, the workers are working on the doors. I barely need to interact with them on this now since it is almost exactly the same design as the sliding doors on BaanMae and BaanRimNaam. They have finished one of four door panels and mounted it on rails already:…
Four out of four walls on the floating house completed
The workers have finished the fourth wall on BaanLoiNaam now, so all of the walls are completed. Here is a picture or two of the wall going up: Now, the wall is complete, and if you look at the top, there is a “chong saeng” or small window to let light in at the top…
Scary plant gets a funny name
I wrote previously about the scary spiky “Little Shop of Horrors” looking plant that Praew planted in her keyhole garden, and now that it is bearing fruit, I understand what it is and why she referred to it as “a kind of a tomato”. We had stumbled across a packet of seeds for a plant…
Finalizing the composting toilet
One of the most interesting aspects of moving in to BaanRimNaam was getting the composting toilet ready for actual use. Unfortunately, I left this for after dark, so the mosquitoes were chewing me up, but the process was fairly straightforward (albeit somewhat improvised). For the tank down below the house where the composting will occur…
BaanRimNaam gets light
I’m still getting caught up on the posts I didn’t get to over the New Year’s weekend. I mentioned in my last post that we moved into BaanRimNaam, but I forgot to mention that we got the lights up and running. We haven’t yet mounted any solar panels onto the roof, but when we ran…
Living in BaanRimNaam
The New Year’s holidays were a bit busy this year with getting BaanRimNaam ready to live in so that Praew’s mother and cousin could live in BaanMae, so I haven’t had a chance to post any blog entries in the past week. So there is quite a bit to get caught up on over the…
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