Frangipani leans over the pool.

A lap pool in stone coping with frangipani and palms crowding the edge, and the house looking straight onto it through sliding glass. Inside it is cream and rattan rather than modern: slip-covered sofas, a long teak dining table, ceiling fans, a coved ceiling. Four bedrooms, three bathrooms, three hundred square metres.

Mantana village, Hang Dong, eighty metres from the village green and close to Kad Farang.

80,000 THB a month.

For a family that would rather the house felt lived in than new.