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As it is on the slope we have to cut the mountain to get
more space for the bathroom. 5 Karen-People were digging for
nearly one month to make that hole.
We have spent hours of planning and thinking, consulting our
friends, Markus and Sabine, who
are geologe and construction-engeniers and when it was done,
it became such a wonderful hut. Each corner is five meters long and
the cross-section of eight meters, so it is spacious enough.
The bathroom, 4 by 4 meters, is under the living room.
As usual we try to use as much natural materiala as possible. So
the walls are made with wovened bamboo, the roof like the old style
with ding-leaves, the main construction and the floor of the living
room is made of teakwood, which is more and more dificult to get.
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The funitures in this Pentagon were all customed made following our
design, a big double teak wood bed with mosquito net, down
blanket and pillows. Around the steps to the bathroom
we have built a balustrade. The frontside has two open
shelves and two closed ones equiped with
boards for your stuff, but also stereo system (by the way,
only CD player). On the opposite side you have a mini bar
with a small fridge, wash basin and shelves. At the
top is a double sitting place where you can enjoy the view.
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In front of the big panorama window you have the sitting area
with a sofa, made from waterhyazinthe by Hang Dong Rattan,
following Babs" design, a metall-table, which we found in
Hamburg and big sitting piollows.
If you like to write some lyrics or write your postcards you
have a desk next to the tree which is in the hut, cause we
hate to cut trees, so we intergrate it in the house.
The veranda gives you a great overlook over the mountains and
valley covered by our teaktrees. Just the installing of an
hangmat drives us nuts, may be you have an idea how.
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The steps down to the bathroom are made from Terra cotta and
Toe has to install an aquaruim in front of the bottom window.
With the size of 20 qm it is not a small bathroom, the floor
has terra cotta ceramics, the wall a pattern of antic white
and dark blue. This bathroom was Babs" element. She designed
a big washing table, with shelves on both sides for towls and
cosmetcis. This time we used a German hotshower system for a
cosy warm shower, but also for the hot days we installed a mandi
bath. On the front side you have windows and view to the garden.
You can see more picture if you click on that link
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