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Seven best friends buy a mansion and spend 460K renovating it into their dream home in China
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Do you choose where things go in your house?
Spouse and I work together but I do most of the furniture arrangement and I design the custom built-in furniture for our projects, with his input. I am a firm believer in 'a place for everything and everything in its place.' I am also a believer in 'form follows function'--and trumps feng shui. From your description, your living space needs improvement. I suggest you take your girlfriend and tour some decorated model homes or condos. I think you both need to be educated a bit in furniture placement and how rooms function--or don't. Show houses and condos usually have good design elements and good use of space. If you see a room you like, snap some photos with your phone--tell them you're touring a lot of projects and want to remember this one to circle back to and maybe purchase. These tours will give you some idea of what is possible. Take a hard look at your space and how you spend your time in it--then choose furniture and an arrangement of it that best fits your needs. If you like to watch a lot of tv, for example, design your space for comfortable tv viewing. That would include facing the tv directly with a comfortable sofa, side tables at hand for drinks/popcorn, and the tv at a good size, viewing height, and distance from the sofa. It sounds like you need to start over with where your tv is placed. Power cord management is important--both for safety and looks. If you have a power cord snaking across a room, that indicates poor design. Usually a design can be rearranged to eliminate this. For those planning a new construction or renovation, think about where you will need outlets and light switches before you begin. Have a furniture plan in mind, if possible, and note where furniture needing power outlets will be placed. At our current project, I knew we would likely be floating an electric 3-seat sofa recliner in the middle of the living room, so I made sure there was a power outlet built into the floor right where the sofa would sit. The power cords for the sofa, and also a floor lamp next to the sofa, are hidden under the sofa, rather than visibly, and unsafely, snaking across a walkway to a wall outlet. We also have a home office space with custom built-in furniture so we planned for power outlets to be where we needed them for a printer in a cabinet, table lamps, computer, etc. Do as much planning as you possibly can before construction. If a place is messy, it's usually one of two things--messy people living there or not enough storage to put everything away. If you fall into the latter, start with getting rid of junk you don't need and then look at ways to increase your storage for what's left. Stuff sitting all over the top of the microwave? Look for a small, counter storage unit that fits around the microwave and provides some storage to neaten things up. There are lots of storage selections for everything you need to store on Lazada and also at places like Index and Home Pro. Look for ways to add storage. If your armoires don't go to the ceiling, large wicker baskets can be put on top of them to store things like Christmas decorations, extra linens, household/hardware stuff, etc. Big, round wicker baskets with lids are also useful for storage if you have a free corner in a room. IKEA makes big, rectangular upholstered ottomans with lids that store quite a lot. We've used them several times. Put a big tray on top and you have a coffee table that doubles as a foot stool--with storage to boot. Bathrooms often don't have enough storage but usually there is space for a small cabinet with drawers to slot under a wall sink. If you have counter space, small baskets are also good to neatly organize the toiletries scattered all over the counter into one easy to get to container. Life is short. A nice, comfortable, well-designed place to live is important. Believe me when I say you will feel better, and live better, in a space you have taken some time to design to fit your needs. Get started and good luck. -
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Bangkok Authorities Issue Rabies Warning After Infected Animal Found in On Nut Area
People get so sensitive about soi dogs, yet they do not hesitate to encourage the killing of pigs, cows and other animals for their own enjoyment and consumption. Isn't there a bit of hypocrisy there? If you eat animals, you are responsible for their slaughter. Now if you're a hunter and you slaughter and dress the animal yourself that is an action that has a bit more integrity. At least one can make an argument that the animals they eat serve a function. That argument cannot be made about the mangy, diseased, pestilent, sad, forlorn, abandoned soi dogs. They lead lives of desperation. If you love them show some commitment and adopt a few. Otherwise, let's get rid of them. Rabies is an epidemic here. And a series of rabies shots at a private hospital costs a small fortune. They shut down the economy for covid. They don't shut down the highways due to traffic deaths, and they don't do anything about the soi dog tragedy and dangers. -
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Rachel Reeves Under Fire: Career Claims Spark Controversy
I can quite believe the frequent absences were due to suffering from hangovers after a night on the piss. Another lying politician, as the vast majority are... The stuff and scandal coming out of the woodwork now is getting better than the corrupt Tories, polls at a all time low, inflation and economy trashed... -
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Marrying a Thai Wife: Overrated or Underrated?
Good advice, KhunLA. Also worth mentioning ,and this goes for everyone who enters matrimony here, spend as much as you can afford to lose. -
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Should I buy a condo or rent?
You gotta be kidding. More like 15k baht per month to rent a $4 million baht valued property. -
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Ex-Thai PM Yingluck to face legal proceedings on return home
She did nothing wrong. You can not blame her for what others did. The rice pledging scheme in theory was sound and good (Remember Joseph and his technicolour coat) it was the dishonesty of those involved. Plus she did the right thing and called an election but the generals wanted control so rounded up the politicians and held them at gun point. They gave themselves powers that any dictator would dream of, rewrote the constitution and arrested anyone who dared question them. Even removing a brase plack that had been in place for decades. Maybe the question should be "Where did the money go from the sale of the rice?" Also, how can generals become billionaires on a very modest salary?
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