Project Portfolio · 2026
A record of homes.
Selected residential projects from Modern Lao Homes — across Vientiane Capital, 2018 to present.
Selected residential projects from Modern Lao Homes — across Vientiane Capital, 2018 to present.
2018 — 2026
This volume is a selection. It is not exhaustive — many of our clients ask not to be photographed, and we honour that. What is shown here is the work we have permission to share.
Each project carries its own story — the brief, the site, the choices made along the way. We have kept the captions short. The photographs speak.
For the company narrative, leadership, engineering pedigree, and how we work, see our companion document, Modern Lao Homes — Company Profile 2026.
A two-storey residence built around a generous garden frontage. The architectural language is restrained: a clean roof line, full-height windows to the living space, and a terrace that mediates between the interior and the planting.
The site faces a busy street, so the plan turns inward — a courtyard at the centre of the home, lit by evening light, with the public rooms wrapped around it. The street elevation is composed and reserved; the interior is generous.
One of the houses we return to when explaining our approach — considered massing, generous openings, and a finish standard held from the structural slab through to the final paint coat.
Configured around a double-height living space with full garden access. Pitched red-tile roof, hardwood-frame kitchen, layered pendant lighting throughout.
Photography in progress
ban-sivilai · double-height living
Photography in progress
ban-sivilai · hardwood kitchen
Designed for either an extended family compound or a rental investment with two independent residences. The architectural language is restrained: floor-to-ceiling picture windows, dark hardwood stairs, and a charcoal-and-white kitchen with quartz countertops.
Photography in progress
ban-saphangmo · picture window
Photography in progress
ban-saphangmo · hardwood stairs
Photography in progress
ban-saphangmo · charcoal kitchen
A study in restraint — warm oak flooring, white walls, white cabinetry, and a generous kitchen with cooktop, oven, and integrated ventilation.
Photography in progress
ban-xiengda · entry hallway
Photography in progress
ban-xiengda · kitchen
Photography in progress
ambassador residence · kitchen
A complete kitchen renovation for the Australian Ambassador’s working residence in Vientiane. Custom dark-hardwood cabinetry, white quartz countertops, integrated stainless appliances, and a long peninsula with bar seating. Soft-close drawer hardware throughout.
Photography in progress
ambassador residence · completed kitchen
Photography in progress
ambassador residence · millwork detail
A smaller commission — included to show that the same discipline applies to a deck as to a villa. Timber selection, fixings, junction with the existing wall, and the line where the new work meets the old.
Tile-setting, water-proofing, and shadow gaps. A wet area is the room where the work either lasts or fails — and where finish quality is most visible to a client every day.
A small set of renders from current commissions — included for what they show about how we develop a brief from the first sketch.
Renders are not photographs of finished buildings. They are conversations with our clients — about massing, elevation, the line of a roof, the colour of a stone. We share them early and often, because the cheapest correction is the one made on paper.
| Location | Description | Configuration |
|---|---|---|
| Ban Dongdok | Multi-villa development — four villas | 4 × villas |
| Ban Xanakham | Single-storey family home | 1-storey |
| Ban Phonsaat | Single-storey loft house | 1-storey loft |
| Ban Saphangtong | Two-storey home with swimming pool | 2-storey · 3 BR · pool |
| Ban Ponpapao | Two-storey family home | 2-storey · 5 BR |
| Ban Sokpaluang | Single-storey family home | 1-storey · 4 BR |
| Ban Mai | Single-storey family home | 1-storey · 3 BR |
| Ban Mai (II) | Single-storey compact home | 1-storey · 1 BR |
Photography for these projects is available on request, subject to each client’s permission.
Each home is a hundred small decisions — about a stair tread, a door reveal, a junction between materials.
The studies here are not finished projects. They are fragments — moments where the work itself becomes visible. A balustrade design. A run of joinery. A window that meets a ceiling without a shadow line.
Modern Lao Homes is built on the discipline of these fragments. We notice them. We talk about them with our clients. We document them in the drawings, and we hold our site teams to them.
A Vientiane living room — not vast, not minimal — sized for the rhythm of family life and the heat of an afternoon.
Our most successful homes are not the largest. They are the ones where the proportions are right — where the living space welcomes a guest, where the kitchen welcomes a cook, where the windows welcome the light.
A two-and-a-half-metre ceiling and a four-metre window can do more for a room than a six-metre ceiling and a two-metre window. We learn this with each project.
The approach — often overlooked, frequently the threshold a family crosses more than any other.
We pay particular attention to the spaces our clients walk through but do not stop in. A well-considered approach is not wasted ground; it is the connecting tissue between street and home, and it shapes how the house feels long after the final invoice is paid.
Twenty homes is not a thousand. We are a small firm — and we intend to stay one. The next project on this list could be yours.