Isan Homes

The build, in order

Eight stages, photographed as they happened. No drawings and no brochure: this is what the plot looked like on each day.

  1. A narrow strip of red earth with banana plants, old concrete posts and a new block wall along one side
    The plot, before anything

    The plot

    Red earth, banana plants, a neighbor’s roof on each side. This is what we started with.

  2. Workers building a concrete block wall at the edge of a sandy plot under a bright sky
    The wall goes up first

    The wall

    We built the boundary wall before the house, so the edges of the land were settled before anything else went in.

  3. Freshly spread red fill dirt between two long concrete walls, with a small excavator at the far end
    Fill, spread and left to settle

    The fill

    Truckloads of earth raised the ground, and a small excavator spread it between the walls.

  4. The house from the air during construction: dark roof on, bare ground and building materials all around, village roofs on every side
    Roof on, from the air

    The frame and the roof

    The structure went up and the roof went on. From the air you can see how close the neighbors are on every side.

  5. A bare concrete room inside the house during construction, with a white door fitted and boxes of materials on the slab
    Inside, before any floor

    The shell inside

    Walls rendered, the first door hung, and nothing on the floor but the slab. The house is at its ugliest here, and this is the last moment anything behind the walls is easy to change.

  6. Large white floor tiles being laid on a concrete slab, with red leveling clips at every joint
    Tile going down, a clip at every joint

    The tile

    Large white tiles through the ground floor, set with leveling clips so that the joints come out flat. The red clips snap off when the adhesive has cured.

  7. Looking out through new sliding glass doors and a balcony rail at the yard still full of building materials
    Doors in, yard still a work site

    Doors, windows, screens

    Sliding glass on the upper floor, with insect screens on the openings, while the yard below was still a work site.

  8. The finished covered terrace with a wall of folding teak and glass doors, potted plants and steps down to the yard
    Teak folding doors onto the terrace

    Finished

    The monks came on April 16, 2026, and the village came with them. Walk through the finished house

The house under construction seen from a drone, its dark roof among green, orange and blue village roofs

A village plot is tight. Ours sits between four neighbors, and the build had to work inside that.

Call before you buy the land

It costs nothing to ask. Ben answers in English. Ploy answers in Thai.

Ben, in English+66 63 935 5021Ploy, in Thai092-376-1627