Camping out in the Pink Palace

I wrote this a year ago, when we first moved into this house, and never hit publish. I was trying to take a video tour to add to the post so you could see what I was talking about, but it didn't turn out well, and so I was going to try again... you know how that goes. Anyway, we've lived in this house a year now. I'm using pictures I took on my first walk through it before we signed the lease. This is what it was like just before we first moved in. ************ Yes, there's a tree trunk in my living room. The last 9 Thai kings have their pictures displayed over that window The living room from different angles. This built in cabinet hides a stairway that goes down to a basement. Most Thai houses don't have basements. Ours is full of water, maybe that's why. Here's the flooded basement. bathroom off the upstairs balcony The Kitchen is actually very bright with windows looking at the back yard. But the shutters are closed in