There's no doubt that Thai wooden houses possess a quaint and charming character you'd be hard-pressed to replicate elsewhere. Therefore, it's somewhat aggravating that they don't enjoy the same fawning over that neoclassical or colonial buildings in Bangkok do when it comes to preservation. Rickety, stilt wooden houses alongside the river may seem common and "normal" for the average Thai, but Bangkok-based Filipina entrepreneur Irma Go has always loved these structures, especially while taking visiting family and friends on boat tours on the sleepy canals of Bangkok.
When she saw a waterfront property on sale in Bangkok Noi back in 2016, she and her Thai husband Kirati Thepsoparn immediately acquired the land and the three dilapidated stilt houses that came with it. It would be the beginning of a five-year project that envisioned an authentic but glorious Thai riverside villa in which travellers to Thailand could stay over together as a group. The result is now Siri Sala, a waterfront private villa, which launched last month.
