After not being down at our land for most of the week it was good to be back again. We stopped and met some of the locals as they were planting the rice fields together and had a lovely time chatting with them.
We went to make a video to use for the crowd funding campaign we will run ... stay tuned for more info on this. Becuase of our difficulties with the builder and a lot of other circumstances resulting in our backup funds having been swallowed up in the process this early on we are needing to raise some more money and have decided to crowd fund. We have loads on offer as 'perks' for people who invest and I am sure we have a good number of people who will get behind us and help build our dream together.
Suan Sook Homestay
We are building a home and guest accommodation to provide lifestyle photography workshops.
Our home and the first guest room are being built as one main structure, future guest rooms will be separate. The main house will include guest room, our bedroom, bathrooms, studio/gallery, store room, indoor and outdoor Thai style kitchen, outdoor dining /bbq area.
We are planting 20+ fruit trees and leaving some of the existing 15 year old longan trees in place. We will have vegetable garden and other plants and flowers throughout the property. We will landscape it from a photographers perspective as our aim is to make it as photogenic as possible. It will be as organic as possible. In future as we are able to we will drill for water to avoid problems in the dry season. We will also approach our neighbour and offer to provide water for his rice fields in the dry season so we can maintain a beautiful outlook across his fields. We also have a pond at the back of the property which we'll beautify.
Our plans are to eventually build three more guest rooms. These will all be stand alone and with relative privacy and stunning views. Our guests will be people who come for photography workshops and people only wanting accommodation. We are 7 minutes drive from the road that leads up the mountain and there's very little other good quality accommodation in the area. Doin Inthanon is mostly a national park so has little available accommodation. During the cool season the mountain is extremely popular with Thai tourists so we are confident we will be able to make good bookings.
We are also hoping in future to install a solar system to provide our electricity needs.
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