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Showing posts with label Home decor. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Home decor. Show all posts

Home Sweet Home At Last....

Cold rainy night.....................
Cold Wet day.............


A place call home.......


My new condo has been ready for almost a year and it is only last Sunday we decided to move in after much persuasion from me to be exact. Son#1 seems to be reluctant to move his butt from the older apartment which is smaller and further away from his work place. He finally move in on Tuesday after seeing he is the only one left, with no food on the table when he is home or is it the creepy feeling of being home alone.

It takes 3 days of moving boxes of household things to get almost everything settle down. One of my new kitchen sink twin taps broke down but luckily the other one was usable. To add to the misery, after 2 days of cooking on the new Fujihome induction stove, it broke down too half way through my soup dishes. Luckily I had move over my old microwave oven to continue the cooking or else I have to hope over across the road to e-gate to have some expensive dinner @ Subway, Secret Recipe, Hongkie, Tao buffet, Old Town Cafe or anything that needs me to part with my money instead of homecook food. Still waiting for the technician to repair my stove why typing here.

My stomach is groaning for food and I am so lazy to eat out in this cold rainy day. I was caught in the rain too while out shopping in Tesco supermarket yesterday. How to walk home in the rain while having trolley full of groceries. Hope it will be sunny again to dry away all my wet laundry hanging for days with no space for more.



Renovation Frenzy.......


For the last few days my new condo was being swarm by a group of 7 skilled workers putting up kitchen cabinets, cupboards, bedroom furnitures for my new place. My interior designer from Ipoh came with lorry loads of furnishing to fix up everything. Til yesterday the renovations were almost 80 percent complete. Hope I would be able to move in by end of this month.

A peep into my kitchen minus the hood, hob, sink, tabletop and fridge.


My new Teka oven has been fixed.........

A big cupboard minus the sliding door........


Mirrored wall and display cabinet for my dining hall.

A built up wood platform with matching cupboard for one of the rooms.The hollow edge will be fill with drawers for more storage space.



A cozy window ledge sitting built in for reading and looking out to the sea and Penang bridge. The cushion have not been fix yet.

My Kitchen Layout....



Planning a kitchen is both exciting and stressful as this is the place where I would call the heart of my home. As I would be spending most of my time here when I do my daily meals. For someone who loves to cook, a practical kitchen is of upmost importance. So a friend of mine who owns Apple Interior Design helps me come up with this simple and lovely layout recently. The build up cabinets from floor to ceiling makes up for more storage space for my small space. There will be special pull out basket storage in the cabinets for my pots and pans.
I have yet to choose the colours for my cabinets. I intend to have a marble or granite table top for easy cleaning. Still having mix feelings of what fridge to buy...a side by side one or just the normal split fridge. I will be fixing an induction cooker top instead of the gas cooker for the reasons that it is easy to clean and gives me more storage space with the absence of the gas tank. I have another halogen cooker which I am now using which is so practical and cost savings too. So I just can place it on top of the ceramic top when I need to use other utensils like Corning ware as induction cooking uses only specially made iron cast and compatible 18/10 stainless steel wares.
Hope my dream kitchen will be realise sooonnnnn.......!

New Condo Makeover Is So Mind Boggling....


These few days times flies like a flicker of an eye. Wish there is more than 24 hours in a day. I have a lot of things on my mind right now as recently I was shown the layout plans for my new condominium by my interior designer. There are so many things to be done even for a small condo. I have to see what are the things I needed in every room especially the kitchen. I have yet to find the right colour for my kitchen cabinets, the right sink , the right oven , hood, fridge, stove and so on....not to mention the paintings and looking for the right colour for all the other rooms, the designs for my wardrobe and etc..etc..etc...

So today, I bought myself a book called " key to your home " from Borders to check out for new ideas to this mind boggling task.......

Of hobs and hoods ...........


Colour charting ...........

Kitchen ideas.........



Wardrobes designs...............

Flooring ideas.......


Bedroom ideas...........


Lighting ideas..........

Have yet to read through all these and hope to get some ideas in the next 2 weeks.....

Note: My main blog Rainbows is a year old today ...so hop over to see what I have for food these days.....
 

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