Simply beautiful with wood

Wood is always attractive for people. Its warmth and its  color bring the nature in the houses. 

There is never been an easier or more satisfying way to bring out the character and beauty of unfinished wood. Here is the ways to make your wooden furniture into its best look out.  With using Formby's Decorative Touches Woodcreme Matte Finish.

1. Clean up the wooden surface

2. You can sand, if it is dirty or still rough

3. Simply brush on the thick, no drip formula

4. After a few minutes, buff off for a soft and natural matte finish

5. Clean up is quick and easy with plain soap and water.

Try to have a product from the known brand, so won't be disappointed. Happy trying.

Chinese Alphabet Cushion

Urban lifestyle  means you live far away from your root. Perhaps they live in other city, other state, or other country or even in other continents. Some people love other people's culture, and would to add just a bit this part of culture into their home. Why don't you use cushion to take a part?

Here is cushions cover with Chinese alphabet I found in Indonesia. The seller who understands the meaning of the alphabet told me, that it is a poem, an old old classic poem in China. Talk about a night when the full moon that seen from a window. Sounds calming.

The color is amazing, and the texture of the stuff is wonderful. And it's stylish :)

Urban Look Cushion

The cushions can add the environment into your living room. You have a special sofa, an old one or the modern one. You can put cushions with a cup coffee like I put here.Coffee is an icon of urban life. People start their day with a cup of coffee. Meeting friends or colleagues in coffee shop is common day by day, even in Asia.

This coffee cup cushions below are made from cross stitch. The design is simple. You can do it by yourself, if you don't find something around corner. 

Hmmm, it smells already.

 

 

Cushions on an oldie sofa

Cushion on Black sofa

Black sofa is cool. Especially if you are black fans. And someday or in summer, you would like to make your living room a bit brighter. You still love your sofa, and you don't want or can't remove it, there are some easy ways to solve this problem.

First, pile up the sofa with white cushions.

Second, surround the black sofa with white accessories. 

Your room will change to be a classic and chic living room.:)

Back to Nature

Simple, but perfect for your urban lifestyle.

Renovation old Chinese house with modern taste

We can find Chinese shophouses  all over Singapore. Since more of the half of Singaporeans are Chinese from long, long time ago. Shophouses were originally utilised as places of business downstairs and residences upstairs. Now, most of residence are separated with business area.

While many old shophouses were demolished during a period of urban renewal, now their value has been recognised. Conservation and gentrification is the name of game.

The shophouses  can be renovated according to modern style. Even the paintwork can match the colours. The details can be depicted in old photographs. While there are restrictions, such as the façade should be left like origin, there is also a lot of leeway behind the front door. 

Once the interiors of the old owners is stripped away, the shophouses can be transformed to suit modernist sensibility. Like some shophouses we visited last time in Singapore. The home bears a little evidence of its past, except its façade.

  

Respecting tradition while also embracing contemporary style and luxury was the key factor in the renovation of the an 85-year-old Chinese-style shophouses that evoked warm memories of the childhoods.

Ship joinery Principles

Ship joinery principles are the principles that everything must have multiple purposes to save space.

Low, double-sided storage units can be filled with books  become room dividers separating the bedroom/bathroom and kitchen/living areas.

Buy at action and find pieces on your travels. Pieces from your collection that doesn't fit the apartment or houses may have gone to other houses.  

Live in the house for some years with your old furniture before choosing new pieces. Live with the elements you like and experience the space. Later you can make specific choices of furniture and lighting.