budget shades
Xmas over... time to change up the looks again. really needed some curtain. Didn't account for the 23.5 degree tilt of the Earth which meant some serious sun ray through the balcony window during year...
View ArticleBike & Work Rm Part II. Hack!
Recessed area beneath windows fully utilized. Checked and Done.Have been pondering long and hard on the actual work area. Realized by now, a few months after moving in, some Mad Max workshop adorned...
View ArticleWires no more.
In a never ending quest to keep clutters to an absolute minimum but still practical... I came across this wire management box on my now daily mandatory reading of rss feeds on designs/ hacks...2 pin...
View Article$0.00 Little Corner
With a 6 hr flight early tomorrow morning I wasn't really in the mood to break out the tools for any messier hacks today. The miniscule service yard has been another area that kept me wondering how...
View ArticlePanorama
Ok I'm slow. I just discovered the panoramic function on my Samsung S3 phonecam only yesterday.Finally able to take a clear shot of the "open concept" area of the house.... Jan 2014Just realized that...
View ArticleA little bit of all...
I like a lot of things but concede that I never know any of them well. At least not as an expert in various arts and cultures that keeps me daydreaming (and drooling). But tell me, how many who have...
View ArticleFull Circle.
Never been much of a connoisseur or into restoring vintage. But reading a local blog yesterday, http://long-longtime.blogspot.sg/, really brought back some memories... If like me, you grew up on this...
View ArticleBike & Work Rm Part III...Almost
2 handmade wooden boxes housing the most often used pieces when breaking out the "mother-of-toolbox" is not requiredPeople are fond of saying how all the hardwork is paid off when you can finally look...
View ArticleTweet Tweet
No, I'm still not on Twitter. Just never caught on to it. Something else I have always hope to see happen... yea some spots in a house where birds can fly in free and easy. Maybe nest in it too. No...
View ArticleDe-Wired
Things were getting along fine and I have gotten used to the looks of most things around the place.Well that's except for those few dangling strands peeking out behind the TV bench,despite most of it...
View ArticleEating with the eyes
Like so many other things, its all about visual aesthetics. Dinnerware aren't cheap. Well, what's cheap in Singapore huh? Besides a lot of these expensive ones are too ornate and gaudy. Shopping and...
View ArticleLeafy Introduction
Having settled in nicely, thoughts turned back to the long-discussed but never materialized Taiwan trip the Missus had been harping all these years. Before it became another NATO (No Action Talk Only)...
View Article10 Don'ts when designing the interior
Just caught the Freshome article this evening. in retrospect that's really all the 10 things that we have not been doing....Maybe I should consider changing career to go into interior designing. HmmmOk...
View ArticleAirplants
A day out at the farming area and my old workplace today... and we bagged a couple of greens for the house now. Always wanted to try out air plants but has ten thousand excuses to get out to the...
View ArticleThings wood
In terms of decor I guess we are both simply budget wood-freaks.. Saw on FB today, some local company was selling old wooden military ammo boxes-- starting at SGD$129!! Too rich for me taste.Slowly...
View ArticleGrowing...
Time to manipulate some chlorophyll into the fingers... Ok, let's see how well the Romaine lettuce resurrect in a few week's timeNow on to some how to make-your-own...
View ArticleMore Tuskies
This year's pick from Chiang Mai biking vacation...At 600 Baht for all 3 pieces... that's a pretty cheap way to fill up an otherwise bare column and add a little contrast to the living room.Now just...
View ArticleCreepie Crawlies
The apartment is just about perfect for us... we can safely say that as things still felt a lot like the first week we move in. The sense of excitement and still feeling smug in the warmth simplicity...
View ArticlePlease Don't Slam The Door
Please Don't Slam the Door, 1993 Jacek YerkaTaking it slow as we didn't want to clutter up the house, it took awhile to get used to not buying on impulse. Kinda helps with the high cost of of just...
View ArticleZaisu
The Transformer @ work againModular, Multi Purpose + various configuration options... that has been a mainstay of everything around the place including furniture/ accessorizing ideas. Simply put 1220...
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