I know it’s been more than a year (!) since we shifted in, but oh well, if you’re still interested. Here are the before and after pics :)
The corridor leading into the house; we knocked down the walls to the kitchen, and built (Ikea) shoe racks on the corridor wall. We put a matching side table cum sofa set by the shoe rack – meant for us to sit down and put our shoes on, but it’s perpetually so filled with stuff that we rarely ever get to sit on it.
The living room – we wanted something clean, white, bright, empty, spacious. In fact, we so badly wanted every single thing white that we got the contractor to paint the window grills and edges white :D We also did some canvas prints of our wedding pictures and put them around the house, so that it feels more like home.
The dining area – one of our main criteria while house hunting was that the flat had an unblocked view. & so we have a lovely “greenery view” of Telok Blangah Park. (& yes, we have totally white furniture too – from tables to sofas to chairs.) Mr is also a firm believer of having mirrors to “brighten and widen” up the area, so we have a long mirror length-wise in our dining area, and a vertical one at the entrance to our house (to quote Mr: just like in the hotels).
To the right of the dining area is what we call the “glass room”. A bedroom that we converted into a living area separated from the rest of the house by a glass panel “wall” (as you can see in the above picture). It was meant to be a movie sorta room, but we never really got down to equipping the room with movie stuff, and as you can see, K’s toys have over taken the place. We’ve done a “picture wall” on one side of the room, with a mini canvas print of each holiday we’ve gone on thus far.
We also converted the kitchen in line with our love for all things white, and we pretty much made it into a non-cooking zone :D (To our parents’ horror, the walls aren’t even tiled.)
The common toilet – that is pretty much under utilised as well. The toilet is really minuscule, so we tried to make everything on a small scale as well – from the sink to the built in cabinets (there’s one behind the mirror!), and glass (like the glass divider for the shower area instead of a fully-enclosed shower cubicle) to brighten the space.
We converted two rooms to form our master bedroom (the HDB rooms are really small!!) and got parquet and wallpaper in. The bedroom is drastically different from the rest of the house; we call it our cave. It has super heavy duty blackout windows and curtains, so it’s pitch black even when the sun has well risen. :) We also went for charcoal grey hues instead of the sparkling white you see through the rest of the place.
We knocked down the in-built shelves and installed a L-shaped window seat (& hidden cabinets beneath), which we love, but hardly ever have time to use! One of the parts we like best about our bedroom is the night lights (complete with light switches right by your bedside) – a dim one in the toilet, and one under a platform we created under the window seat.
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Most visitors are intrigued by our master bathroom because we don’t have doors :) We also managed to squeeze in both a bath tub and a shower area (rain shower + handheld) by converting some of a corridor space to a sink area. Once again, lots of glass, lots of mirrors, lots of hidden storage :)
And finally, the last part of the house – a semi walk-in closet, semi study. We were, and still are, undecided :) One side of the wall is lined with built-in closets with tinted mirrors so it makes a changing area of sorts, while the other sits a study table.
P.S. The pictures don’t really do the house much justice. Will probably take better ones and do a complete post on our place when there’s more time.
P.P.S. I hope you don’t need any telling which is the “before” and which is the “after”!!! :D
P.P.P.S. I took some of the pictures with the midday sun really coming down harsh, so pardon the poor colours :(
