Posts from — January 2009

Time to get creative. You don’t always have to put photos in your frames. Here are several ideas from overseas designers:

The Factory Planter, via Gnr8

Count on Gnr8 to produce excellent novel decor items. The factory planter comes in a set of 3 but at the steep price of USD79. I’m thinking i could use the ribba frame from IKEA (RM19.90), modify the base to fit soil and then grow wheatgrass from it.

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Even though not widely used in Malaysian homes, wallpaper can truly add a tasteful flavour to any home. Most people shriek when it comes to wallpaper vs paint because of the sheer costs involved if one were to use wallpaper over paint. Truth is, you don’t have to plaster your entire room, or home, with wallpaper.

Imagine yourself with a piece of wall in your home in which you want to turn into a feature wall. What could you do with it?

1. Paint it a different colour from the rest of the area and add some accents

2. Use some of the exciting modern contemporary tiles available out there

3. Texturize your wall by employing a skilled craftsman

4. Use wallpaper

5. Stick on vinyl decals (which I have exciting news on decals to share with you folks soon. Something truly local.)

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Most of us use tiles for bathroom walls. The benefits are obvious- easy to clean, quite heat resistant, low maintenance, plenty of available choices out there. The downside is that mildew and fungus growth can develop in between tiles. Many countries in Europe and America are using tile-less method for bathroom walls these days such as – waterproof paint, waxed concrete and even glass painted on the underside and stuck against the walls.

Here’s another example of an alternative to tiles:

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