6 Modern Industrial Nordic Furniture Flagship Store

I was out hunting a few furniture shops offering modern/industrial and nordic look. Six furniture stores to visit when you have a concept like this in the future. 1. AIR I was at their flagship store and very spacious and many past red dot awards furniture showcase from Plank living. Managed to see a "Camp walnut coffee table" and at $630 only! AIR was having their Storewide 50% sales and it was really well within our pockets as Camp Coffee table is usually at $1000+ and its a steal for now! 2. Space While Space furniture does many designers items and their prices do not come cheap, my eyes lit up when i contacted Ian and he adviced me...

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Matching Netural Colours for my Grey/ Champagne Sofa Theme

I like my cosy home to be in netural color and decided to purchase a Grey/Champagne L Sofa with high back which is more suited for Asian as compared to the european sofa that are low back and I am not a fan of those. The Nippon and Dulux Paint Catalogue did inspire me on a few colors which can give me the cool and netural theme for my living room and blend my grey sofa well. These are just some of the designs I found which suits my thoughts and concept. A few things that I might get to softer the look is a carpet and maybe a floor lamp with warm white lights. My Coffee table is still in the hunt and hopefully I can find one I really like in...

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14 Carpentry Work that you might want to consider for your new home

Everyone of us wants to stay in a furnished house and in order for that to happen, you need to have carpentry work done which includes fabricating your tv console, featured wall to cover bombshelter, customise wardrobe interior design needed and etc... These are the choices of carpentry which i have shortlisted as a need and also those which are optional as well and run through some items on individual items which i have found on the internet to give a better feel and idea of how we can get it done. Need for my renovation 1) Raised Platform Bed 2) Featured Tv Wall Living 3) Bomb Shelter Featured wall 4) Kitchen Cabinet 5) Bartop 6) Wardrobe 7)...

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BTO HDB Opt-In Tiles

If you happen to read this before you have chosen your BTO flat then it will help you decide on whether you want to take up the package offered by HDB using your CPF dollars instead of cash with their "beautiful" tiles offered. When I first got my queue number and chose my unit in 2008, the officer recommended that i take up the HDB tiles and door package with CPF as it will not burden us further on cash when renovation start, something like partially furnished, without hesitation we signed on the dotted line and took up the package and the nightmare began. After I collected  my key in 2011 and visited my home then did i realise the...

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Contractors & Quotation Comparision

I have gone through three interior design events held at Expo since 2010 and normally their sales consultants who entertained me was young and not able to answer many of the questions i have and needs to refer to their seniors who gave me less confidence and worse still, they will ask me to put a down payment of $1000 to plan and design the layout. While they did mention that the money can be refunded but again, the fine prints from ID companies are always "grey". Instead of relying on events, I moved on to Renotalk Forum which was comprehensive in their review of different ID firms who helped them make their home look comfortable to stay and...

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My First HDB in Punggol after 3 Years!

Had a bid in 2008 with my fiancee for a BTO Punggol flat after noticing that we will only make some dough with a BTO than a resale and of course the only down point was the inflexibility of selling it only after 5 years unlike a condo.  A 4-Room flat standard layout at Punggol with 93 square-meter and I do like the overall layout because its not too difficult to come up with a design and theme for my nest. The only regret that I had was to heed the advice of the sales person and use CPF money to lay the ceramic tiles, timber skirting and HDB approved 3 room door. Since the keys are here, whats done is done and I have to make a swift...

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