Post No. 2 - The Process

I wanted to do all these on paper (sketch book), but it seems very old school and too lazy to start, so blog seem easier. heehee...  :) This is to track how did we end up with our house design and end product.....Enjoy!

My wife and i started seeking for ideas for our house after we got married in 2011 April. We went thru about 20 plus magazine and books, website, forum and some showroom. We have (as usual) many ideas, but $$$ was always an issue. We wanted our house to look different, but not weird, look nice but to expensive. The thing is spending alot of money don't always means the house is going to cozy or complete, a nice house is also not equal to a warm home......once i heard a pastor saying during a friends wedding, when i was half asleep, he said, the couple have a wonderful house, a house to die for, but it will take the couple to make it a home. How truth..... :) Simplicity is a bliss..... that is our concept. Keep it simple, keep it practical and keep it "Us"......a house with a personal touch.

I started with what kind of kitchen i would like, Coz i like to eat, so example, Red cabinet with black solid top. So this was the first idea of our kitchen














Something like that lah, red and black combi, and not lights below

My Wife was at the moment more into furniture like sofa, dinning table, sometime lamps.....etc, not so focus.....coz to her its still a long way from getting keys. So below are her findings:

And many more......



The places we went to look for furniture are as listed : OM (liang court, Joo Seng and IMM), Lifestory, Nova, Cellini, Park Mall, Lush-Lush, Harvey Norman, Courts, Furniture Mall@beach road and Toh Guan, Trade hub 21, Defu Lane 1-9, All shop under the furniture club (CALIA ITALIA , F C HOMES....etc) Logans, IFC at Sungei Kadut.......and many many more

 As for me i was into electronic stuff like : 

 

 






And many more.....








To me the process is more important then the end product, coz its the only few big project we could do together. A part from the wedding, this would be the next big thing, with regards to money spent. The process of listening, understanding, arguing, convincing, compromise, learning more about my wife and more about myself. The key for us is to enjoy the process and do what is within our budget.Anyway for our "little pigeon box" house, doing more might make the house look even smaller.

Being to like writting.... :) next The Concept.....hahaha