#mmlittleResort家 - Our First Home As Husband and Wife
It feels wonderful to finally go back to the first home Meyer and I built when we were just married. It has been 11 years!
Our next tenants are moving in soon and we took the chance while cleaning up the place to bring Ewan and Faye up for a look. We moved out before they were born so it's great time to bring home some memories of this place with them before we see it again 2 years later.
Being there brought back many memories and because our previous tenants hadn't trash the place up, it felt as if we haven't quite left the place [minus our photographs on the walls]. I had the urge to move back for the space and for the children to get an opportunity to grow up in public housing [Read: My Children, They Are Privileged]
It costs S$350,000 for 117sqm in 2007 just before the price hike in housing. I wonder how much the children's first homes would cost 20 years later.
We agreed on a resort themed home because it makes us feel relaxed as if we were back in Bali. We had a tree customised for the wall that runs from the living to dining room. It’s amazing that after a decade, it still sticks! Many had asked if we painted it ourselves but it is actually a wall decal. We considered putting a girl on a swing on one of the branches. But later decided that it could look creepy in the middle of the night when we stumble out of our room to get water from the kitchen. It was quickly eliminated from the design. Besides, having real children sitting right next to it looks a lot better!
The dining room is simple today but it look a lot more rustic in 2007 when we had a more resort-looking table. Our humidity is so high here, it cracked the wood like earthquake fault lines. This current piece was brought over from my parent's old place for the tenant's use.
No way today's homes will be designed with such lux-sized kitchens. We tore down the whole kitchen down and opened it up for space using wooden beams to separate the rooms up. It was one of the best decisions we've made! Anyways, we do not do heavy cooking. Open concepts are great for The Yangs!
Most of our furniture were from the now defunct Barang Barang. Do you remember that resort-themed shop? They’ve got everything we needed to put this home together! The daybed is just perfect to round up that woody woody look. We added storage boxes as coffee tables to stow away erm more junk, found a freelance artist in Singapore to paint a picture of a Buddha's hand [so much cheaper than buying the original] that hung above our daybed, splashed ornaments all over the home and made sure we kept all colours earthy with a wooden bladed ceiling fan no less.
We levelled up our balcony too with wood to extend floor space. That's how we preferred it to be. It was a space for lounging. And a space for botany and oh! I remember we were rearing fish and tortoises too. Not just fake ones, real ones! These ornamental turtles were wall decor which we placed right above our headboard in the master bedroom. Swimming away above us, a bale of turtles.
Everything including the toilets were decorated to fit into the theme which we were proud of. The paint jobs to blend the sewage pipings into the wall tiles and the print-in-wooden-frames to complement the style.
It was with great pleasure that the commencement of my photography journey was rewarded with the First Prize win in an Olympus Pen Art Filters competition that Meyer convinced me to participate in. I photographed our home. After that, I couldn't give up on phtogrography.
Our entrance is one of my favourite sight to come home to back then. When we bought this unit, it was already 30-odd year old Old. We kept the original wooden door from the previous owner and added a gate to it. Story 4 wasn’t my ideal level to live on but the price was right and the space was perfect. Throw in a bench for putting on and removing shoes, add some wall ornaments carved out of stone [I still remember my father-in-law meticulously measured and drilled in those nails for us] and change the switches to something more up to date. Those wiring cases that weren’t hidden are trademarks of HDBs which I will never want to conceal.
There were some furniture we were not willing to let go from The Peak and we brought them over to #mmlittleResort家. They actually look quite in place! Well, at least its free storage space to house these pieces until we know what to do with them. Thankful for tenants who moved in liking our furniture rather than having us move everything out. I would have been heart-broken.
This is one of the biggest thing that ever happened to us in our marriage [minus the marriage itself] in 2007. May not mean much to Mr Yang because he is a Car kind of person but it means the world to me [because I'm a Home kind of person].
After moving three homes from #mmlittleResort家, I realise I may have a knack for interior designing!
Our next tenants are moving in soon and we took the chance while cleaning up the place to bring Ewan and Faye up for a look. We moved out before they were born so it's great time to bring home some memories of this place with them before we see it again 2 years later.
Being there brought back many memories and because our previous tenants hadn't trash the place up, it felt as if we haven't quite left the place [minus our photographs on the walls]. I had the urge to move back for the space and for the children to get an opportunity to grow up in public housing [Read: My Children, They Are Privileged]
It costs S$350,000 for 117sqm in 2007 just before the price hike in housing. I wonder how much the children's first homes would cost 20 years later.
We agreed on a resort themed home because it makes us feel relaxed as if we were back in Bali. We had a tree customised for the wall that runs from the living to dining room. It’s amazing that after a decade, it still sticks! Many had asked if we painted it ourselves but it is actually a wall decal. We considered putting a girl on a swing on one of the branches. But later decided that it could look creepy in the middle of the night when we stumble out of our room to get water from the kitchen. It was quickly eliminated from the design. Besides, having real children sitting right next to it looks a lot better!
The dining room is simple today but it look a lot more rustic in 2007 when we had a more resort-looking table. Our humidity is so high here, it cracked the wood like earthquake fault lines. This current piece was brought over from my parent's old place for the tenant's use.
No way today's homes will be designed with such lux-sized kitchens. We tore down the whole kitchen down and opened it up for space using wooden beams to separate the rooms up. It was one of the best decisions we've made! Anyways, we do not do heavy cooking. Open concepts are great for The Yangs!
Most of our furniture were from the now defunct Barang Barang. Do you remember that resort-themed shop? They’ve got everything we needed to put this home together! The daybed is just perfect to round up that woody woody look. We added storage boxes as coffee tables to stow away erm more junk, found a freelance artist in Singapore to paint a picture of a Buddha's hand [so much cheaper than buying the original] that hung above our daybed, splashed ornaments all over the home and made sure we kept all colours earthy with a wooden bladed ceiling fan no less.
We levelled up our balcony too with wood to extend floor space. That's how we preferred it to be. It was a space for lounging. And a space for botany and oh! I remember we were rearing fish and tortoises too. Not just fake ones, real ones! These ornamental turtles were wall decor which we placed right above our headboard in the master bedroom. Swimming away above us, a bale of turtles.
Everything including the toilets were decorated to fit into the theme which we were proud of. The paint jobs to blend the sewage pipings into the wall tiles and the print-in-wooden-frames to complement the style.
It was with great pleasure that the commencement of my photography journey was rewarded with the First Prize win in an Olympus Pen Art Filters competition that Meyer convinced me to participate in. I photographed our home. After that, I couldn't give up on phtogrography.
Our entrance is one of my favourite sight to come home to back then. When we bought this unit, it was already 30-odd year old Old. We kept the original wooden door from the previous owner and added a gate to it. Story 4 wasn’t my ideal level to live on but the price was right and the space was perfect. Throw in a bench for putting on and removing shoes, add some wall ornaments carved out of stone [I still remember my father-in-law meticulously measured and drilled in those nails for us] and change the switches to something more up to date. Those wiring cases that weren’t hidden are trademarks of HDBs which I will never want to conceal.
There were some furniture we were not willing to let go from The Peak and we brought them over to #mmlittleResort家. They actually look quite in place! Well, at least its free storage space to house these pieces until we know what to do with them. Thankful for tenants who moved in liking our furniture rather than having us move everything out. I would have been heart-broken.
This is one of the biggest thing that ever happened to us in our marriage [minus the marriage itself] in 2007. May not mean much to Mr Yang because he is a Car kind of person but it means the world to me [because I'm a Home kind of person].
After moving three homes from #mmlittleResort家, I realise I may have a knack for interior designing!
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