They're building a store on the left heading North, about opposite the Royal Palace give or take, near that funny rusty metal tourist attraction building. If anyone's been to the one near Samut Sakhon or the massive one in Bangkok, they have the best and most extensive range (from inexpensive to top end) of the following I've ever seen under one roof:
Tiles, sanitaryware, fancy baths/showers, lighting, kitchens, appliances, living room features (although not furniture I don't think), worksurfaces, plumbing, garden equipment, tools, dor/window hardware etc.
They usually have excellent display set-up's giving ideas that most of us could never dream up.
Couldn't find the 'Engrish' button on their website, but some of it's in English and can still navigate round it: http://www.boonthavorn.com/
SJ
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Yes, SJ, when we were building our house (before HomePro existed here) we made no less than a hundred trips to the Boon Thavorn and the HomePro just south of Bangkok. We found that Boon Tavorn had better quality fixtures for the bathroom and kitchen as well as better service.
Happy to see one opening here even if it is too late for me!
Happy to see one opening here even if it is too late for me!
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Some of those kitchens look good quality, wonder about the prices.
Still not sure what the 360o concrete kitchen is all about!
I wish they had one of these stores in HH back in 2000, would have saved us a lot of trouble getting decent stuff from abroad back then.
Still not sure what the 360o concrete kitchen is all about!
I wish they had one of these stores in HH back in 2000, would have saved us a lot of trouble getting decent stuff from abroad back then.
I've lost my mind and I am making no effort to find it.
I'll 2nd, 3rd and 4th that. When we were completing our place in 2007 we used the one in Pattaya frequently. They have the most extensive range of ovens (built in and standing) and water heaters I've ever seen here. Pete
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That reminds me that trying to find proper replacement lampshades anywhere in the provinces outside Bangkok is reminiscent of Dr. Livingstone's search for the source of the Nile!Winkie wrote:The best place I've found for lighting fixtures in BKK is a place called Lamptitude. Its next to Boontavorn Bang Na (and I'm quite sure owned by Boontavorn too).
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What, my lampshades or the Nile?T.I.G.R. wrote:Which begs the question, where exactly is it?
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If you are referring to Boonthavorm and Lamptitude in Bang Na.... They are on Bang Na-Trad Road (I guess around km 7).
If coming from Hua Hin, stay o tnhe new Kanchanpisek road, past Sukhumvit, past Srinakarin and Thepurak, get off at the Bang Na ext and follow sing to Chonburi. It will be on your left side in about 500m. Very easy to find
And both places are a really refreshing change, good selection of quality products, and staff very good.
If coming from Hua Hin, stay o tnhe new Kanchanpisek road, past Sukhumvit, past Srinakarin and Thepurak, get off at the Bang Na ext and follow sing to Chonburi. It will be on your left side in about 500m. Very easy to find
And both places are a really refreshing change, good selection of quality products, and staff very good.
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There is a much closer BootThavorn (in one of those Samuts; Sonkram or Sakhorn, I can never keep them straight!) just south of Bangkok on highway 35 only about an hour and forty minutes from here. It is before the HomePro on the other side but to get to it you have to know where to leave the main highway to get to the outer road. There is a small sign about a kilometer before BoonThavorn but it is only in Thai so I would never have been able to get to it if it wasn't for my wife riding shotgun.
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Yeah as Don says, it's Samut Sakhorn, past Samut Sonkram, see Google maps below.
They have a massive branch in Bangkok, not exactly sure if it's the one Winkie has given directions to, but it's the size of Samut Sakhorn, but with 4 or 5 floors, amazing place. If I remember rightly, you go down Sukhumvit (coming from Nana way), to the Asoke BTS station/Asoke Road, turn left there, go down the Ratchdapisek Road, past the massive Fortune Hotel/complex, then it's further down on the left ???
Samut Sakhorn ....
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They have a massive branch in Bangkok, not exactly sure if it's the one Winkie has given directions to, but it's the size of Samut Sakhorn, but with 4 or 5 floors, amazing place. If I remember rightly, you go down Sukhumvit (coming from Nana way), to the Asoke BTS station/Asoke Road, turn left there, go down the Ratchdapisek Road, past the massive Fortune Hotel/complex, then it's further down on the left ???
Samut Sakhorn ....
SJ
Re: Boonthavorn coming to Hua Hin
The new Boonthavorn is open now, and it seems to be a specialist tiling centre, there's a mass of land behind it getting machined around so not sure if there's other sections going up like in their huge Bangkok stores. There's some sanitaryware kicking about, more in catalogues, but the overwhelming theme is tile fest.
They got some smart tiles in there though, they seem to have gone for the ranges you generally won't find in the other stores in town, such as natural, rustic, stone, sandstone, granite, mosaic, glass mosaic, metallic mosaic etc. Plus all that duragres retro carry on. And big tiles, like 1.2m x 0.6m!!
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They got some smart tiles in there though, they seem to have gone for the ranges you generally won't find in the other stores in town, such as natural, rustic, stone, sandstone, granite, mosaic, glass mosaic, metallic mosaic etc. Plus all that duragres retro carry on. And big tiles, like 1.2m x 0.6m!!
SJ