Add-On

We decided to allocate more storage at our kitchen. For better arrangement, we have to get something which look simple and rigid. After exploring few places, we finally found the suitable one from IKEA. The design, color and material match our kitchen very well :) Happy! My oven can put on the 'top' shelve! Yay~



Our house warming less than 1 month time... Hubby still trying very hard to organize his 'precious' toys :P

Here is another task for us, part of our sanctuary home decoration. This 妹头 puzzle we bought from Japan, Ghibli Museum. We both love Totoro very much, thus bought few puzzles for our home. Have to Ganbatte to assemble all the puzzles! ^_^



We still dilemma for our common bed room wardrobe. Should we custom made or buy from furniture shop? Has been looking around, but yet find our ideal design. Sigh.. Has contacted our ID Mr.K to quote us the custom made wardrobe. Finger cross~

Still have 1 more task need to be settle by Mr.K, our common bathroom - toiletries holder. Told by Mr.K, the white granite we are waiting for, still not reach yet. And the shipment may need to wait for another 1 year! Goodness sake! Thus, we asked him to give us alternative choice, where he suggested to install glass shield top. Initially he told about install black granite, however it does not match our common tiles at all :-( So, now still waiting for him to MMS me the photo of the glass shield... gotta PM him again!

The Scent of Mt Sapola

Yesterday went to Tampines Mall to get our home fragrance. I intend to buy it ever since I passed by this shop. Fall in love to the scent whenever I pass by the shop!

Thanks to Singapore Sales, they have the 'promotion' now where purchase above certain value you could get rebate voucher.

We bought 3 bottles of Ginger-Lemongrass diffuser, indulge so much to this smell! Make me feel so relax and refresh... it gives me the SPA feeling. Hubby love it too.

The benefit of diffuser is their long-lasting fragrance that endures up to 8 months. Compare to oil essence burner, it's only last about 2 hours during the candle burn. Every diffuser come with the natural reed sticks. The brand's new Velvet series of diffusers features gorgeous velvet casings, stylish aluminum caps, it doubles up the home decor, plus together with the high quality of botanical oils, heaven!



We bought above $300, thus we receive $100 rebate voucher. Wee~~ But the voucher only valid till end of July 2010! So, hubby suggested me to get more things by using the voucher. Ended up I bought their SPA products - scrub. Love the smell~~

Detox(Ginger-Lemongrass)
Invigoration(Ginger)
Sweet Dream(Lavendar)



Mt Sapola have branches at Mandarin Gallery Hotel, Tanglin Mall and Tampines Mall. They do have SPA center as well at Mandarin Gallery.


http://www.mountsapola.com

Dining Table

Finally ordered our dining table after considered more than 2 months :P What else that doubting us? The price of course! Been trying to look around for others but still couldn't find anything that catch our eyes. Thus, end up we decided to get the initial desire dining table that we like it very much, quite heart pain though because no discount given at all :( But we both love the design very much and most importantly it blend in our house design. And the 4 corners are slightly round shape instead of sharp, good for safety purposes :)

Sigh, we have to wait for 1 month for the delivery. Due to the dining table need to be order and custom made base on our color request. Arrgh, gotta wait again. Glad that our house warming arrange in month of September :P

This is the original color of the dining table. It comes with 4 chairs, we did not add 2 more chairs as hubby said it will look cramped. We changed the tempered glass top to different color, so does the table legs. This is the reason why we need to wait for another 1 month :S



The dining table that we bought is from Furniture Mall - Winter International. This was the place that we bought our sofa too! ^_^

Greenish Plant

We intend to 'green up' our house by getting plants. Yeah, and we finally bought it!

We went to Chye Heng Orchid Garden located at New Upper Changi Road, where most nearby to our place. Saw lots and different kind of plants. Fall in love to some flowers plant, but too bad most of the plant needed more space, like landed property would be perfect! Flowers plant do need a lot of sunlight to make it grow naturally and blossom. Thus, no chance...*sob sob*

After asked around and stayed there for more than 1.5 hours, we decided to get 铁树. This type of tree is suitable for indoor and outdoor, even minimalist of sunlight. Our front door is bright, but sun light still couldn't shine through the plant. So, we would not worry of having a hard time taking care of the plant :)

The plant was delivered on Saturday, since we are not at home during weekday.

Hubby spotted the staffs reached our downstair while loading down the plants!


This is our 铁树 in front of our house :) It brings up the greenery and does help to 'cover' up our main door, avoiding people seeing through our house if we open the door. Brings 'privacy'!


We bought 2 铁树, one is for the outdoor where grow by soil. While the other one is hydroponic plant, it is the art of growing plants without soil, which is mainly for indoor display. Both trees easy to maintain and only need to replenish the water once a week, and twice a week for hydroponic.

Will take our hydroponic 铁树 photo when free ^_^

We still wanted to get more small plant from IKEA. We both love greenery, it makes our home so much natural and good for our eye sight as well. Yay~ More greenery!

Enhancement by Us

Here are the enhancement work done by us. Of course, we spent more - but it brings more comfort and nicer interior for our sanctuary home :)

Kitchen clothes hanger area

We change the traditional bamboo pole clothes hanger to Easy Hanger. Where you can pull down the hanger and get house work done easily and safely. Without worrying the pole may falls down anytime and need not to stretch my neck. It's really useful especially if I got pregnant :) And it enhance the appearance of our kitchen area ^_^

Main Door Gate

We change the main door gate from 3/4 split aluminium door to single wrought iron door. We customized this from SpecMetal which provide good quality wrought iron material, trendy style and better security lock set. The single door allows for bigger clearance entry through the gate and the simple design looks more trendy compare to the aluminium door.

Windows Solar Film

Previous owner has this 'plastic' printed film on windows, where the films started to crack and peel off. We did not change the windows and grill due to still in good condition. Thus we decided to change the solar film for whole house, where it looks cleaner. We choose a better quality material film to reduce UV ray, glareness heat that get in our house. We engaged Miracool Glass Shield, recommended by one of our good friend.

Store Room Storage

Previous owner has this 3 partition board installed in store room. Due to the store room extremely pathetic small, we have to plan a smarter way to fit in our stuffs! Thus, we customized 2 racks from YKToh. It's a bit costly, but the rack material and measurement are fit to the store room size. And each rack have 5 section, where you can adjust according to your needs. Each side has a 'ear' where you can clip on the side hole. It fit nicely and firm. And have stronger and better support to hold heavy stuffs. It look more spacey and we can easily get in and grab our stuffs conveniently.

Electrical Point

We changed all the socket and reallocate few power point. The original socket given by our electrician was the usual brand that use in most contractor - MK. The electrician couldn't minus off the cost of the switches even though we not using it. But we still decides to get our own since we trust the brand - more durable and the design look sleek. We switch all the sockets to LEGRAND.

More updates are coming up for the enhancement part :)

Enhancement by ID

Here are the few little things that done by our ID - Mr.K, to enhance our house appearance :)

Our Master Bedroom air con trunking

Initially, Mr.K told us nothing much can be done for the ugly air con trunking. I was pretty sad about this. However, there's 1 day when we got in and, wow! The trunking along the upper corner has boxed up neatly, it look like false ceiling instead of a trunk! The most important part is, there's no problem for air con maintenance in future. Everything can be disassemble nicely and easily. Well done Mr.K! We are very satisfied on this.

Kitchen Piping

Initial plan from Mr.K was 1 straight line cabinet, instead of L shape box up. The idea was good, but it blocks up the light from getting through kitchen area. Thus we rejected.

This L shape box was an idea from hubby, and after further discussion with Mr.K - the result was really good! It brings out the stream line of the kitchen cabinet, and allowing the sun light to shine up our kitchen!

Study cum Fun Room Piping

There's piping from the common bathroom pass through -> study room -> living hall -> master bathroom. Living hall has no issue as it has boxed up. The ugly part is in study room where you can spot the 2 ugly piping below the ceiling. When I informed Mr.K, he told me to relax! He will not handle such house condition to me :P Thus I trust him. YES! My trust on him is good! He boxed up the piping for me, and see the result now! ^_^

Though looks like minor things on here, but if Mr.K doesn't take the initiative to plan all this, we will ended up scream like mad, especially me! :P He's a very responsible ID I should say. And he will keep his promise! That's the most important attitude for an ID.

Well done Mr.K~

27.06.2010 - Hubby Collection

My Precious Moment collection has 80% displayed, still left about 20% to go :P Hubby is my interior designer :P

Meanwhile, hubby slowly bring out his 'precious' collections where had been saved in the boxes for so many years! Finally! He proudly showed out all his collections ^_^

I believe a lot of people wouldn't know what is Be@rbrick. Let's see the introduction below :)

* This is only 20% of his collection, still have more to come ^_^

Be@rbrick Kingdom 400%

What is Be@rbrick

Be@rbrick is a collectible toy designed and produced by MediCom Toy Incorporated. The name is derived from the fact that the figure is a cartoon-style representation of a bear, and that it is a variation of MediCom's Kubrick design. The at sign in the place of the letter a is a visual device that is a part of the Be@rbrick brand, and as such, a trademark of MediCom Toy.

The Be@rbrick figure is an anthropo-morphized bear with an extremely simplified form and a pot belly. Each plastic figure features nine parts (widely referred to as tools in the toy industry): head, torso, hips, arms, hands, and legs.

These nine tools allow eight points of articulation: swivel head, swivel waist, ball joint arms, swivel wrists, and ball joint legs. Be@rbricks differ from their predecessor Kubricks, in that each series includes 18 figures in 10 different themes, which are constant from series to series:

Basic
A solid-color figure with a letter in a second color on its chest; when all nine figures are placed in a row, they spell the word Be@rbrick.

Jelly Bean
A solid-color figure molded in translucent plastic.

Pattern
A figure with a patterned deco that may range from polka dots to patterns designed by artists and designers such as Charles Eames.

Flag
A figure painted as a nation's flag.

Horror
A figure with a theme based upon a well-known horror film, or other source in the horror genre.

SF (an abbreviation of science fiction)
A figure with a theme based upon a science fiction source, often a film.

Cute
A figure which visually represents the concept of cuteness.

Animal
A figure which depicts an actual animal.

Artist
Two figures, each designed by a visual artist.

The standard size is six centimeters high, although there are also 24-centimeter figures called 400% Be@rbricks, and 60-centimeter figures called 1000% Be@rbricks.

Many contemporary artists and designers from Asia, Australia, Europe, and North America have designed figures. Designing a Be@rbrick figure means creating a design scheme, or deco, for the standard mold. Contributors range from visual artists such as H. R. Giger to illustrators such as Pushead, graffiti artists such as Stash, and fashion designers including Karl Lagerfeld and Vivienne Westwood.

As a result of their limited production, and the participation of artists, Be@rbricks are generally considered designer toys.

13.06.2010 - Wifey Collection

Hubby finally bring out all our Precious Moment collection. Now is time to organize all - DISPLAY!

06.06.2010 - Peek A Poo

Ever since we moved in, about 2 months. We have no chance to snap photo of our house yet. Due to still have many stuffs laying everywhere, especially our living hall and study/game room. Hubby still trying his best to rush for the 'completion' project LOL~

Here, have a quick peep of our humble house. More to come by end of this month! *finger cross*

Finally bought our new house number plates. Hubby went to Queensway mall to customize this, love the simple design :)

* The 'before' was drew by hubby, haha........... ugly but cute!

Here is the BESTA book shelf bought from IKEA, we spent $50 just to deliver all back home and assemble ourselves. Hubby purposely choose BESTA due to the narrow compartment where can nicely fit and display all his comics & magazine collections. The comics saw here, just half of it, more to add *tsk tsk*


Part of our shoes cabinet. Still have upper level and another side compartment where at our main door entrance. Yeah, most are my shoes :P


Our Master Bathroom, we both love the cosy feel very much. Our ID, Mr.K did a fabulous job!









More photos to come, soon.............. ^_^

22.05.2010 - 6th Dating Anniversary

We celebrated our 6th years dating anniversary in Singapore this year, in our sanctuary home!

Though without a proper dining table yet, we still manage to setup a simple romantic dinner ^_^ Of course, the chef is Me :P

Our modern concept kitchen


Table setup by hubby


Here is my creations:-

Salad


Soup of the day - Potato & tomato soup


Main Dish - Australia Rib Eye & Chicken Meat Ball Spaghetti


Dessert - Tiramisu


We have been waiting for this moment long long time.... where celebrate our special occasion in our 'home'. Finally, our dream come true :)





A gift from hubby *sweet sweet*


Though it's quite tiring by preparing all the menu, but is worth it!

No where can be so MUCH better than our sanctuary home sweet home ^_^