From a 1968 fishing-village shophouse to a fusion loft with a sea view.

In 1968 this was a half-wood, half-concrete shophouse — 120 square meters, two storeys, the kind of practical Thai building that fishing families lived above and worked below. It survived. Hua Hin grew up around it. The fishing village stayed.

We took it back to the bones, added a third storey and a rooftop, and rebuilt the whole thing as a 250-sqm fusion loft. We kept what was honest — the dark hardwood floors, the proportions of an old Thai shophouse — and brought in industrial black-framed glass, warm teak, Scandinavian light, and Asian craft.

The whole thing opens upward to a rooftop terrace where you can watch the Gulf of Thailand turn pink at sunset. It's the kind of house that doesn't exist in new developments. You can't build this anymore — the old town is full, the plots are spoken for. You can only inherit it from someone who took the time to do it right.