Inspirations: The Brookvale Park apartment
I was charmed by the renovation of Tristan Tan & Juliana Chan’s Brookvale Park apartment, with it’s high ceiling, floor to ceiling bookshelf, careful use of neutral colors and natural materials...
View ArticleInspirations: The Don Draper apartment
If you are a true blue ‘Mad Men’ fan or just a Midcentury Modern design fan, I am guessing that Don Draper’s new Manhattan home in Apartment 17-B would interest you. Set in June 1966, the apartment is...
View ArticleInspirations: The Cambridge Road Inter-Terrace
The earlier ‘Inspirations‘ posts were very well received (judging by the number of ‘clicks’), so I am going to continue the ‘Inspirations‘ series with the Cambridge Road inter-terrace house of Aun Koh...
View ArticleInspirations: Some renovations from the H&D site
Thought I’ll take the chance to ‘bookmark’ a few renovations that caught my eye on the Home & Decor website. Unfortunately H&D doesn’t include all the homes that they’ve ever featured or have...
View ArticleInspirations: Bookshelves
Just felt like sharing bookshelf inspirations. I was actually quite stunned when I realized that some people don’t buy books. As in like they never read (magazines don’t count) books ever, so no need...
View ArticleInspirations: Industrial themed apartments
It makes sense that the industrial theme is so popular amongst Singaporeans – just have a look at this HDB renovation ‘guideline’: “Embedding of wiring (house in metal/high impact PVC conduit) in RC...
View ArticleInspirations: Diamonds are a girl’s best friend
A kiss on the hand may be quite continental But diamonds are a girl’s best friend A kiss may be grand… but it won’t pay the rental on your humble flat Or help you at the automat Men grow cold as girls...
View ArticleInspirations: Off-grid living – The Mirai Nihon Project
I really like the concept of living off the grid – probably a result of too many post-apocalyptic movies and books. But in land scarce Singapore, I don’t see how it can be achieved tho. Perhaps if...
View ArticleStylish bike racks for display?
So what if I can’t ride a bicycle? I can still enjoy nice bike racks right? =P I have a preference for wall hung racks (since space is a luxury in Singapore) as you can probably tell from the list...
View ArticleWhy not decorate your windows for Christmas?
UPDATE: Click to see my my Christmas 2012 window display here. I don’t think it’s the norm for most Singaporean families to decorate windows/doors for Christmas and I have a few theories why that is...
View ArticleWeekend indulgences: Watching Grand Designs UK
It’s kinda become a favourite weekend activity of ours i.e. watching episodes of Grand Designs together. Grand Designs is a British television series presented Kevin McCloud that features various...
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