My house!

Still a work in progress, but as I have long promised to post photos, here are a few.
This is my house from the street. It is in a shared compound, so the gate also leads to a house to the left of mine, where a Burmese family lives. They have a little-too-friendly dog that the expats have nicknamed 'lickey'.

The large eaves mean that even when it pours in the rainy season, you can leave the windows open, and enjoy the porch.
I live in a trational Thai style teak house. My in actually rather nicer than many you will see around town. It is raised about 3/4 feet off the ground, which helps keep it cool. The concrete addition you see in back is the kitchen and bathroom.
This is the view from my porch, looking right - that's the Burmese family's house.

View from my porch, looking left. Next door is another expat's house, where they host community yoga every sat and sun. The line hanging on my door is to tie it shut to prevent it from banging, as it gets rather breezy, which is very lovely in the evenings.
The view from my front door. The porch has those benches on two sides, which is a very lovely place to sit in the evenings.
My living room. The common space of the house is actually L shaped, and this is only the short part of the L, but I don't have any furniture in the long part yet... The two bedroom complete the L to form the rectangle of the house, and they open off the other section. The door to the kitchen is at the far end of the long part.
Peeking in the door to my bedroom. To the right, at the foot of my bed is a clothes rack. Thats a wee desk in the far left corner, and a shelf (I put _nothing_ in drawers, as that is an invitation to mold), and of course, the ever important fan. The green thing on the left is either a jacket or a scarf blowing in the wind. I have nails there where I hang bangs and scarves.

None of my windows are screened, hence the mosquito net. With fans and mosquito coils, its not too bad. No malaria here, so avoiding nighttime mosquitoes is really about comfort rather than health, but as there has been a lot of dengue lately, daytime repellent is still a must.
My kitchen. Generally, here, when you move in the kitchen is an empty room with a spiget sticking out of one wall. I was fortunate to have a built in tile counter with sink. This was before I bought a stove, which now sits where the wok is in this photo. Its like a 2 burner propane camp stove with a big tank that sits under the counter. The kitchen has a roof, but its not sealed to the walls, so leaves often blow in, and birds, geckos, and other creatures are regular visitors.
My bathroom. Simple, but effective. Cistern for flushing. On the other end is a larger cistern for bathing, or a shower on the wall, if one prefers. I have a hot shower - its just a little box on the wall that heats the water as it flows through. Very energy efficient. Though, if the pressure drops, the heater won't turn on, so its hard to have a hot shower from about 730- 9am.
The view from the back porch (small concrete slab outside of kitchen door). The neighbors have bananas, and I recently discovered what I think is a jack fruit tree on my side. This is where I hope to one day raise milkgoats.

I really love my house, and plan to stay here for a while. Its in a nice, quiet neighborhood on the east end of town, near the north market. It's about a 10 minute bike ride to work (though about 30 min. to the farthest of our partners' offices). The house itself is in great shape, and the neighbors are very friendly. My neighbor has wifi, which she shares with me and the neighbor on the other side.

Tomorrow I'm hoping to make it to the border market to actually but a table and chairs, and some cloth for curtains. Next plans include building a brick oven in the back, and a small garden in the front.

It looks like I will have a roommate within the next week, so I'll be able to split my $100/month rent two ways.

Not bad.