Originally posted on twentyseventhmay:
It’s always good to shop around – browse topical forums, post a question on Facebook, ask everyone else who’s recently done up their place for good contacts. But it all comes up to a point where choices, instead of helping you get the best deal out there, gets you confused. Truth…

Of blogging and shopping

I think blogging is emotionally carthatic… I think it’s cos of the freedom I have in expressing my thoughts and feelings to a company of virtual strangers that I can’t imagine doing in real life to any number of relatives and friends who have known me for years.  Typically emotionally repressed Asian/Singaporean perhaps? Still, it doesn’t quite explain…

Some other local blogs to read

I really enjoyed Plystudio’s blog, so I set about looking for more interior design/architecture type blogs from Singapore and soon realised that it’s not as easy as I’d hope.  Think would have been easier if I’d removed the ‘Singapore’ criteria but hey I like reading stuff I can relate to (or visit locally, if it’s easily accessible).…

Multi-functional spaces

UPDATE: Read about some interesting shoebox apartments featured here. I hate that the apartments in Singapore are getting smaller… it just means that it gets harder to find decently sized places.  And I do think it’ll really help if HDB starts building apartments with higher ceilings… one of those rambling I can’t sleep at 2 am…

When does a house become a home?

Wondering when our new apartment will feel like home? I suppose one way to look at it will be when I stop having to think about where to put things, where things are kept, have fully unpacked and no longer have contractors coming in and out.  Of course you can also run the gamut of answers like homes…