frigginfuchsia

Fencer, are you staying in blk 157?

Hi.. it's been a while since I've posted... been a tad under the weather.. here're are some updates, will try to post more later. *pls ignore the note "keeping these" Instead of a brick wall which we lurve too.. we decided to try something a little more raw.... some details...

hehee.. am glad you like it....

look like the scandi. style lovers have another passion - guitars.. hehee.. you guys play anywhere?

hehee... hey! was wondering just how the husband should stores his guitars.. and yeah la.. instead of looking at the decor.. we ended up looking at yr guitars... his like ya, Taylor and Gibson fan ;p His quitars are more impt than me!

looking great!!! gotta lurve the common toilet!!!!

Hi Adi!!! Happy weekend! We chose a darker coloured toilet too... the colour ranges from really dark gray to mid colour grey - total of three shades. So far it looks really nice.. so am sure you'll like it too!!! Hope yr reno will start soon! Will be looking forward to yr reno pixs! ta..

Glad to be of help...& great to know you enjoyed yrself there we're hoping to get our dining table from them.... but like you, we've an exisiting dining table which is still in great condition. Am hoping to sell off my current dining table to get their's ;p

can't wait to see the table it'll be illuminating

Here are the completed pictures of my home!!!! . . . . . . . . . OKOK... its not... we finally paid a visit to Forar I think I drooled as much as the owner's 6 mth old earlier!

another mini update from yest.... I lurve our tilers, they put so much effort in the work they do. The areas I see their pride in is how they preplan where the tiles will sit, to make sure tiles are centralised properly and not abrupt and unbalanced in each end. (not sure if am explaining this right. I know it's typical for most tilers to do so but am gratful to not get those who dun preplan and precalculate before begining.

Hi JumpStreet! no probs... gotta help each other! Yeah.. I lurve the stuff from Forar... do contact them for their pieces, u'll be pleasantly suprise with their pricing and service. and YES most importantly.... they are in sg

Hi Patsy, Am using a a Finishing Sander (technically its for finishing of sanding work but it's working great for me). Its under the brand name Maktec by Makita. it's a God-send! do sand by good dust masks & protective eye wear... they will only prob cost ya a total of $4 bucks for the protective gear. have an apron on.. and work in a nice ventilated space due to dust. Also, stand by a edge file if needed for the edges.

Bkk is damm cool to visit... hopefull we can go there in July after the reno.... I was last with Mccann's digital arm in Beijing before I returned in 09. Was mainly doing online and new media stuff(new then). As for reviewing food.. no la... I wish... I keep food looking good for shoots eg. keeping raw meat 'fresh' for a few hrs.. the typical unmeltable ice-cream .. ensuring food looks good thru the photographer's lens & can tahan all the lights... etc.. I agree with yr gf's and yr views on what looks good as a showroom/show flat, may not be livable...lighting is very impt. Besides our raw bulbs/lights - well'll be using mirrored bulbs to refract the light and to ensure the light is reflected and bounced) we also have some down lights and reflected light for a bit of mood lighting. We had thot of having cement screeded walls but have gone against that incase our friends offered to paint our walls... - kidding

nope nope... frigginfuchsia ain't my name but my real name is as wierd. Reading your reply below, I presume you are gravitating more to asian made furniture with Danish touches? It's been a while since I've gone up to Bkk... we hope to go up soon... but I last remembered, that they carry mainly replicas. A number of European furniture stores sent them the original vintage furniture to replicate. I remember goin to one of those furniture warehouse and was in vintage euphoria feeling and touching original pieces.. the plastic... the make... ahhh the wonderful curves... *droool****** By the way, I was surprised to know that there used to be a teak wood furniture maker here in sg that used to make scandinavian design furniture for a US company. Unfortunately they've shut their doors in 2006, yeah they were know as Dscan. I found that out only recently when I was inspecting my old dining chairs in search for a matching dining table. I was previously a creative in adveritisng... ATL (that made me anal abt details) & then digital and now.. am a commercial foodstylist (also a job that needs to pay attention to details) hahahahaha.... Are you a creative or suit? As for the inlaws/parents issue... yeah.. we're on the same boat. My husband was originally a Sarawakian.. and his parents still have their Kampong home. We're thinking how his parents will proberly think we're nuts making our new place 'old'. (even our electrical switches will be the old black plastic nipple style switches) above that, we'll be infusing it with the industrial style... they might help offer to plaster raw walls thinking we need help with it.. hahahahhaha!

Hi Timothy (am assuming that's yr name? ), thanks for stopping by! Ahhhh... no no... nothing to respect abt me doing my own refurbishing... I happen to be a gal who likes working with tools, I always tease my husband that he's half married to a guy. Seriously with the electric grinder, it was 1/2 the effort to get it done, the hot weather was more of a pain for me. And yeah, I've noticed you're a Scandi. style lover too! Nice to have you and Jumpstreet to chit chat with.. and Aidiaem for her link references! Anyway, bk to yr questions to where we've sourced our items from. Do check out: http://www.forarvintage.com/ (I've yet to shop with them, as they did not have the sideboard I was looking for, for our telly. I've contacted them for some prod info. & Lester (one of the owners) was very prompt to reply, very informative and am now stalking their website for items I MIGHT NOT need.. (am trying hard to control myself) I strongly recommend Forar if you're into Authentic Danish/Scandi. styled items as many of the preloved items in SG are more 'localised' in terms of design. - am a tad anal abt design aesthetics due to my past career) For lovely refurbished items and a nice cuppa : http://restoreliving.blogspot.com/ For inspiration though it's a little too ex for me - all repros http://athousandtales.com/ and last but not least, everyone's gotta loveeeee....Lorgans http://lorgans.com/main.php?f=0 or head on to : http://www.jetstar.com/sg/en/home grab a flight to Melbourne, scour their weekend markets! I used to enjoy weekends at different markets there seeking timeless items. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- To date, we've not shopped much except for the sofa, TV side boards, bedside tables & bar stools... we'll be bringing my 20 year old Dscan dining chairs along with me (it was a gift years ago & still beautiful), my also approx 15 year old dining teak table, keeping our pine bed till prob next yr when we're slightly above the **** reno debt ;p For other pieces, we've decided to grow with our home...move in.. feel the the apt's personality with our lifestyle and slowly get pieces.... Hope I managed to help!

aww thanks... most of the pixs are taken by my husband.. Yeah... Am on freelance so m fortunate to have a bit of time in between my styling jobs and I enjoy doin all these refurbishing stuff besides being too cheap to get pple to do it for me. Its really a lot easier with the electric grinder but the dust is terrible... have to use a mask and protective eyewear if u'd like to do yr own yar?!

Mini slow update: 31st May I've finally started on my refurbishing proj on my dark stained 1940s, 1950s bedside table. Thank goodness for the most romantic gift ever lol... a hand-held grinder ;p Would have gone cuckoo without it...

chk yr mailbox yar and ohhhh lurve the Established & Sons Heidi stools ! Ps.. I forgot to reply ya in yr last post that the photos of my previous place is in my old com.... a tad inaccesible now.. but seriously.. it was a cookie cutter hse.. boring...

heheee.. i get what u mean by "The Wall" we had wanted that too.... anyway... HACK to being erm... different... becoz after looking at so many diff textured walls in diff homes... if we still like it... we like it yeah? Our band of malaysian brothers has been briefed by our ID to use an AK47 on our 'rough' wall....still unsure how it'll turn out... but I guess that's what praying is for Ps. lurve yr reno so far!

Welcome! Happy Reno Journey... we're now in the midst of ours and it's scandinavian vintage & industrial guess we're kinda on the same route and it'll be lovely to see how pple with similar themes interpret it !

Hi Adidaem, am looking forward to working on our bedside tables soon, the husband just bought me an electric sander to make my life easier As for yr question, the barstools we got are the erick buch style barstools. you can find a pix ref in the link i've posted. http://4bars.com.au/web/2011/02/27/erik-buch-bar-stool/ hope yr reno to goin well!

hi hi... sorry for my late reply... Yes our cabinet doors will be as u mentioned above

Here's a pix of an upcoming DIY I need to complete... good luck to me sanding these little babies!

27 pages? woah.... so far my husband and I have been rather focused (shockingly) but u are right.. we'll see how far we stray ;p