Where to buy garden statues

[MLS]

I'd like to buy an outdoor statue and from my (limited) search I haven't found anything I like. Call me tasteless, but those ubiquitous gaudy giant giraffes and cockerels don't quite fit in with my vision of creating a lush little patch of tranquility. From the search function here I saw a garden centre on the pala u road was mentioned a couple of years or so back - is that still going, and if so could someone give me directions on how to find it (I'm crap at navigation)? Or can anyone recommend somewhere else in the area selling large stone statues or decent, weathered-looking cast concrete ones?

Also, an important question: although I think a (raised) Buddha statue or a pair of temple guardians would look beautiful I am mindful that to Thais a farang displaying such items purely as garden adornments could be seen as disrespectful? I should appreciate it if anyone can advise me of sensitivities.

Many thanks if you can help

[Big Boy]

There's a place on the right going North out of Hua Hin very close to Soi 9/1. Quite a big selection there.

[Lung Per]

Please let me know if you happen to come across statuettes of Snowwhite and the Seven Dwarfs, or as the politically correct expression is, the seven height-impared people.

[jimmy40]

Just near kims kitchen on the opposite side of the road is a garden type centre I bought a nice concrete painted one there. Incase you are new kims is on the way to the railway station, so with the rail station on your right side keep heading towards soi 88. Garden shop will then be on your right and kims on the left

[Big Boy]

Spotted a place with some nice ornaments on sale a couple of hundred yards past Soi 91 on your left going South this morning. They looked really nice as I drove past.

[Nereus]

Not be knowing about sensitivities, but watch out for these little buggers, they be stealing things.

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[Lung Per]

Not be knowing about sensitivities, but watch out for these little buggers, they be stealing things.

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Yeah, I`ve seen them before. They travelled all the way from Germany or Austria.....Nasty buggers they are. If you dont feed them bockwurst und beer they will yodl right into your face.

[oakdale160]

to be PC its not height impaired. Its. Height challenged

[MLS]

Haha! Many thanks for the practical and the pesky replies. Armed with above advice I hope to find something next time I'm back in HH.
P.S. Disturbingly, last year the UK's Chelsea Flower Show lifted its 100-year ban on garden gnomes. Never have liked those creepy little f'ers...

[PeteC]

Some on this thread and in general don't have an avatar yet. A Gnome may be a reasonable choice? : Frank H is a sock puppet so what the heck.