SUNDAY AT DAVID AND REAH'S HOME 

I am a construction professional living in the Philippines and this house is by far the best build I have seen in this country. The design is excellent and the quality of the work is outstanding. The contractors who executed the work were top class which is rare in the Philippines, was the work done by sub-contractors or a turnkey building company? Camera work was very professional and the drone footage was tip top.

As someone else said, this is one of the best buildings I have seen in the Philippines. Most contractors are not going to be able to match this level of quality. It's beautifully laid out as well. The covered terrace is a must as well. Great job.

That house looks absolutely amazing. Imagine growing up in a property like that!

What I love about this house is the tiles used in the bathrooms. They look simple (just by watching the video though it might be different in actual because you can feel the texture by touching it) yet the combination of colors and texture makes it look appealing to me.

I like the house of David especially those materials they installed. David must be an architect, the design of the house is excellent! That kind of house might be available in Hampton, Long Island.

O. M. G. That's the most amaaaaaazing house!! But tbh .. I could live like that in any Western country, but I couldn't live like that in the Philippines ... I know the P'pines far too well, and I know I just wouldn't feel right amongst all that luxury and space .. 6 bathrooms! .. knowing that there's poor familes of 10 living in such squalor in just one room all around me. The contrast between the poorest and the wealthiest in the Philippines really hit me hard ... I returned home after 6 months with an empty suitcase and an empty bank account because I gave it all away..and I've been back several more times, just to give. I can't bear to see people with absolutely nothing!

Damn that’s a lot of hardwork, sweat & money to build a house like this, kinda very inspiring and motivation for people to strive for excellence in life 👏🏻

I can't believe all the nay sayers. Wait a minute. Yes I can. Seems no matter what you do or what you achieve people come out of the woodwork to rain on your parade and project their values on your achievement. Well here's what I think. I'm absolutely proud of James and of the owners of this magnificent home and as a retired USAF vet married to a Filipina and owner of a hand full of rental houses and a grand home myself that we get the privilege to pay over 10k a year for in RE taxes - just to live in, I'm absolutely fed up with all of this struggle to maintain a decent life here in the states. Over the next two years we're downsizing and selling off everything and we will be relocating to the PI. Once there we will find the locale we want and will undertake to build the great home we want, similar to those James has been showing. Planning to use similar techniques as James did in Villa Feliz and will no doubt be bending his generous ear for too many pieces of advice to name. I say to this magnificent home, bravo X 10 - he, and James too, owe no apologies to anyone and frankly it really irritates me to have to sit and read comments from bleeding hearts who apparently think that we should all be ashamed of any success we have struggled to achieve. We should, apparently all go sit in a hovel somewhere and give away everything to poor people - poor people the government is responsible to help but are not helping, and who often could take themselves by their own bootstraps and make something happen for themselves. No offense to anyone here but thats how I see it. Bravo to you James. I'm everso proud of your efforts and your hard won successes. And to the owner/builder of this magnificent estate, please let me know where I can obtain a copy of the house plans and who the architect/builder was. And thank you James, from both me and my wife, Heidi, for helping all of us to learn what we need to know.

That is really kind of David and Reah to show their home, its beautiful and stunning

James, great and good clarity of video. Thanks both you and David for showcasing his house on your vlog. I admire his straight forward, straight line design. Color and interior design is great too.

I know this was 4 years ago but this is a great video and house tour. This gives me a lot of ideas. Thanks

Thank you and David and Rhea for sharing! I hope the house finds a buyer who really enjoys this house as a home! For me "the home" is where your heart belongs and the greatest thing you showed was the talks before going to David`s and Rheas absolute gorgeous house about Tess and Michelle and the whole neighborhood! There in the Master bedroom hallway, I think you said it the most important of your PI Dream "A shower and make a cup of coffee to have in the balcony.." Yess! Getting closer day by day! ...and as said, congratulations for a limit first 2031 subscribers! 2031!! :)

Boy o Boy. David really sets the bar ! That is one beautiful house....thank you for the pictures.

congrats on the 2,000+ subscribers. At this rate you should be at 10,000+ by the end of the build...........your doing a great job!!!!

Wow! What a great episode! My wife and I plan on building a container home with all the simple features. Folks like yourself and David is an inspiration for us to build a functional/simple but yet elegant home. Thank you!

The design of the homes looks like a typical California designs, the landscape was absolutely trimmed and we'll groomed as well. Very inspiring outlook.

James - You did a great job on the vlog and the drone shots of David and Rhea's house. You really know how to vlog right. Your subs are really increasing. That's because your really good communicating and presentation of content. Keep up the great work.

I took a little peep of your video and I ended up looking at it all through and through just because I like how you speak and present. You look and sound congenial but not boring. Thanks man for the work.

When you're a builder sometimes you can't stay put , I bet he will built a totally different house. more power to David maybe that's what keeps him going.

Very beautiful house, thank you for all this hard work. This is a very rich fam. God bless.

love the open flow concept of the whole house, definitely an energy saving design. my fave part is the rooftop it'd be nice to be in the lounger and stargazing at night!

what an absolute stunning and beautiful home, its ginormous !! so modern, its a little british castle away from the homeland...well impressed

Hiya James. Wow David house very beautiful and lovely dog too. I love the wood ceiling and very nice view ☺️👍

Excellent vlog. The owner must have spent a fortune. Very beautiful house. Thanks....

Wow, great episode of MPD Cribs! :P What a great home David has there, we could really live in style there. But wayyyy out of our budget. Thanks for the video and congrats on 2000 subs, take care James.

Thank you for sharing your house, Great camera thank you also. l love the house. l got to show this to my wife xoxoxoxo

Great home and such nice details. I have learned the downside of such a big house, I have one now with rooms that I never enter. I would enjoy that house style with about 3,000 - 3,500 square feet, but I would not want to give up that 3 car garage! Good luck to you both from North Carolina.

Wow what a mansion, beautiful place, the interior showing are awesome. The aerial views are nice, great place..thanks

Wow, what an awesome house! I love the style and the chosen materials, fantastic!

The simplicity is very impressive. Only an architect can have the imagination to design and build an extra ordinary building as such. Utilizing light gray color in different shades of the interior is very refreshing. Very nice.

We recently finished our home, which by Filipino standards is quite nice and comfortable. But David and Reah's home makes ours look like sub-standard housing. lol Great job on this house!

wow, what a beautiful home. i love the master bedroom the most. thanks for showing us...

That is a magnificent house! Way more than I will ever need or most likely could afford. That master bedroom alone would be enough for me to live in comfortably. Great video however and really enjoyed seeing David's place. You can just see the attention to detail that was involved while building it.

Hi James David and Reah's home has an excellent taste and value, with all the updates and specialty their choice of the tiles and modern fixtures thru out the whole house. The idea of accommodating the down spots inside the corners of the walls is very smart and it's good in keeping the integrity of the structure and strength of the Columns. Did notice that they have some solar panels on the rooftop, as another backup in case of brownout or just for the water heater system? Also the location next to a golf course can be a nuisance sometimes with the expectation of some errant balls... It all depends upon the individuals (Different strokes for a different folks). One cannot help but like the design of your villa feliz, it's unique, simple but elegant at the same time, hope you will enjoy it with your family for years to come. Good luck to you and to David and Reah, and by the way you deserve a Junior Pilot Wings Pin! Regards to the lovely Ness. I and the majority of your loyal viewers demand the release of your karaoke recording.

Wow great drone footage, now you can add the title of "Cinematographer" to your list of professions and things you are good at congrats, getting better every day. Man that is an awesome house! David did a great job building it.

Wow! Beautiful home. Salamat David for sharing.

I love the design of the house. Very modern. Thank you for sharing..

I am a retired American Systems Integration Engineer and have worked on many Smart Homes in the USA and this house. Is an excellent house from the Philippines. Not Smart but beautiful and well built. I now live in the Philippines.

So beautiful house, I'm just day dreaming here & wishing that someday I can have this kind of house too, anyway thank you so much for sharing

Big Shout out to David & Reah, you 2 have a BEAUTIFUL home. Thank You Kuya James for the time, effort, and work you always invest in your videos.

Fantastic video and fantastic home. It's given me so many ideas when the time comes to build my own home over there. This is your first video that I've watched and I have just subscribed as well. I look forward to viewing all your videos as this one was very well presented. Thank you so much for sharing.

This is my 2nd time watching this, first was 5 years ago.. gorgeous house. And I'm curious has it been sold?

This is more our style. It is far from the Mediterranean style that most subdivisions builds for expats. Are the furnitures included?

I wanted to build a home the your friends. I was cautioned not to for two reasons. One, in our province, we would have shown wealth. My wife wanted to project us as average people. She did not want to display our wealth. Secondly, if we were ever to sell our home, in our area, such a home would never sell. There would be a rare client for our home if we ever wanted to sell the home. We built our home on land my wife owned, spending about $15,000. We added another $15,000 in upgrades over the years. Today the home would cost about $30,000 to build plus the upgrades. We have the home entirely air conditioned other than the bathrooms. We have ceiling fans, wall fans, glass Scott's in the bathrooms to separate the shower from the commodes. We have added an outdoor laundry area, a dirty kitchen, filled in the land, added cupboards and in general made the home far more westernized. The original home was completed in 2003. We do,a few upgrades each year.

James Very professional looking drone foitage so soon after getting it well done David has built a beautiful home

WOW!! Modern Design. Here in Calif. would be a couple of Million. 18 more Months Until I Retire. Mexico and PH, here I Come. Salamat Kuya James, keep Living Your Dream.

Beautiful home... makes me wish I was there!

Wonderful home design, thanks for showing and explaining some of the unique features included for hiding plumbing in walls.

Well planned and built house.. beautiful strong Castle! just missing the draw bridge!

Wow! I’m not moved to comment on here but wow! Very beautiful castle. Truly impressed!

Absolutely awesome A architecture of the whole house,amazing room designs.

Why not make the roof usable and put trees and plants up there and seats/benches and some rails up so you can really get an even better view? You could have parties up there and watch the stars. That house is pretty dang nice though.

thanks for showing this vlog, is a very beautiful house.

Hi,James I am subscriber 2020 from Canada.I have been watching your videos for almost 2 months.Thanks for posting your informative and interesting videos.Good luck and God bless

Thats some big ass house. More to clean and maintain. Im good with a 10x20 room.hahahaha

Beautiful house welcoming fence automatically opened and 3 car garage nice 👍 I would like to see more the roof top. The railing from his bedroom view look under the safety code too low I think it should be 4 feet. . Another thing I would like to see is an elevator. Overall the house is spectacular.

i automatically thought of stealth when i saw the thumbnail. my kind of paint!

For me ... by far the best segment of featured house's you've done... So peaceful and feel so relaxed watching it.. won't be able to own a house like this in my life time... Nevertheless... The video made me feel I was there... Thanks so much

That's one monster house! Very Nice!

Hi did Daid get his spacing cabinets and modular closets from Wilcon as well? Love the designs I'm a draftsman retired here in Iloilo and love seeing designs here in the Philippines. Thanks for sharing truly enjoyed it.

Flat roofs are great for Arizona where there is little rain but they can be trouble in places with monsoon downpours.

Well-dsigned and thought-out. Bravo !

Wow!!! Dave sure has some Excellent taste , Love the house literally everything, Plan on building mine someday in PHILIPPINES sure I can used a some ideas from this vedio. Great vedio good job👍

Nice house. Inherited 5 hectares in the country side from grandmother planing to build a house between 550 to 800 sqm for around a 10-15 million pesos budget. Just waiting for pandemic to cool down so I could go back.

OMG that is my dream house and every thing in the house i would do for a house , the tiles to the bathroom and bedroom designs .the kitchen was the right size and the master bedroom was beautiful and master Cr .

Great job droning!! Do one of the early episodes talk about your history? Ex military, etc. I was stationed in the PI for seven years and have been married to my Filipina bride for 37 years.

Hi, from LA, CA. I just watched this awesome vid. ❤️the house, details, fixtures & the spaces. Ty for sharing this beautiful house. BTW, I just subscribed to your Channel. Keep up the good work.👍🏽Lulu

thank you sir, I will keep watching your video 👍

Nice house but by looking at the neighbourhood, this is an exclusively gated and secured Community where developers sometimes set a minimum home prices say for ten million pesos, which is not within the reach of average Filipinos. Not surprising the community is made up of rich locals, businessmen and definitely politicians. Great video James and the house is very impressive. Love the details on the construction.

This a interesting vlog. Lots of ideas and thoughts. One aspect is the time and effort used to design the internal and external parts. The garden looks like the gardener has put in some nice screening plants. I heard the house size was 550sq/feet, but wasn't clear about the plot size. I'm not a big fan of flat roof houses or extensions. Just because they have issues with leaks years later if it's not expensively maintained IMO. It did kinda remind me of a fire station from the front, with the garage doors. Thanks for allowing us to look around and the nifty drone work. Salamat

Beautiful video James..we have the Mavic pro drone and we don't use it much...your videos may get me motivated...if we wanted to share pics or videos with you, how can we do it?

New subscriber here from Alaska USA. That”s an absolute stunning well designed and planned. It’s so beautiful inside out. Love the house literally everything, fantastic home and everything is excellent. Great video and thank you for sharing !

Very beautiful house. You mentioned he's moving to UK, are they taking the dogs with them? Kind of worry about what would happen to them as they got used to living with the family in a big house. Hope they'll take the dogs with them. If I won a million dollars in the lottery, I will consider buying this place for sure. :) In my dreams, I guess for now.

Wow very nice

nice house! a lot of nice big house in batangas specially punta fuego.

Saw this house posted on philrealtyglobal and I must say this looks to be "top of the line." Great house, hopefully it sells soon?

Beautiful house I'd be it if I was planning on moving to the Philippines long term I think I could fix a couple jaguar in that garage for sure LoL

thats a great house..inspiring to watch your masterpiece..hope you enjoying living in a hot country ..

What are the estimated cost of these homes.

hi there! my name is Julie from Missouri. married for 7yrs now and still going strong. thank you very much for sharing this video. if I was any younger and a billionaire, I would be interested in this house. but by the time my husband and I retire, we are going to be OLD. old that I will probably bring my own motor whatever to get around the house. I just need to go to work, but I'm definitely going to subscribe :)

New subscriber here. Nicely and thoughtfully edited video. That house rocks---well designed and planned. David did a cracking job with that house. It will cost more than $1M to have that kind of place in the East Coast. Love the fixtures. Did you mention the Wilcon in Alabang? That is just a stone's throw from my Mom's house.

That was a great video, very nice of the gentleman to show us his most beautiful home. Is yours going to be as huge? The wife and I were planning on just planning on buying one already built, but I think buying land and building one seems to be the way we are headed. How soon did you start planing to build your home? Was the process hard?

That house it’s so beautiful.

Beautiful home, wonder how much this is?

I live in Mexico city that house would not look out of place here great video James thank David what a beautiful house.

...I would have liked to hear more about the construction process i,e. Is it Precast Concrete etc?...was it a Cost Efficient Process compared to traditional Construction Process etc. Is it Typhoon Proof & Wind Rated?

This is very nice house you can't feel that you are in Philippines very modern design i like it how is wrth

Now that's one beautiful home! This house should sell easily for $500K especially when you go looking at the cramped condo's at the same price range.....................and with a golf course just out back just makes this place a bargain find!

Why should he suffer because other are? How do you know that he isn't helping his neighbors?

Great video early in exploring this country. Medical is very important to us as wife has chronic conditions but living in DFW now.

Another Great video! another 👍🏽. Nice home! I know Dave and Reah is selling this home, is there a website where this house is being showcased? Oh almost forgot, congrats on your Phantom. Another 👍🏽 for the drone.

Yr house looks amazing and l love it

Why is he moving after all the time effort and money that he has invested in getting this house so perfect. Something fairly drastic it would seem. It just makes me worry a little.

Very nice house.Congrats to the owner and thanks for sharing.

First like, then watch, cannot go wrong here

Now that’s a beautiful house!!!

Mmmm...battleship gray. My favorite! lol.

I was middle class in my home country but in the Philippines I could live well above that easily. I chose not to not out of a sense of guilt but one of gratitude. Doni have a nice home with air conditioning throughout, yes I do. Do I have 6,000 sq ft? no I do not because I don’t NEED that much space. I chose to have a home big enough for my Filipina, daughter an office space/den, and a couple of extra guest rooms for when family visit. I could have had a massive swimming pool, but chose a more modest one and use the money saved to donate towards the building of a community pool. I’m hoping that it will be run by donations so that admission for all children will be free. I also used money saved from having a smaller home to build a number of modest homes. They are positioned so that they share a large common courtyard behind them where the children can play and there is space for a large garden and some chickens to eat the bugs and provide eggs. Several of my wife’s family members were unemployed or underemployed. I helped each of them get started in a business except one who chose to work for me. Now they each have employees of their own and pay good wages. So I chose to live a more modest yet still comfortable lifestyle so that I could be part of our local community and help others to succeed. I did not simply hand out money like a charity either. I prefer to buy a rod and some tackle and teach a man to fish rather than buy him fish making him ever dependent upon me for his sustenance. All of my finances and assets are in a trust so that when I am gone it will pay out a monthly income to my wife and then the children and then grandchildren in perpetuity for generations to come. This way no single person can simply be wasteful and spend it all. This is the legacy I will leave plus my last name will go on forever in this small area of the Philippines. Cheers

This is my kind of modern house. The house is around 500sqm, how about the lot? Is $150,000US in the ballpark for the house?

The nicest house I ,ever seen .I was a floor finishing contractor in Ontario Canada ,but this house is state of the art .So how much that cost to buy it? Now I live in Malta ,we don't have houses like that,here.Thanks for sharing.