Posts from — March 2009

What happens when a prominent Malaysian family decides that it’s time to upgrade the family home? Here’s what the YTL family did – hire a French design firm, Jouin Manku, spend 45m, and get the following results:

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Anna Thomas’s Bonnie and Clyde triple piece table is a perfect example of a piece of contemporary furniture that you should have at home. It’s simply delightful and unpretentious. Your guests will love this to bits. I’ve seen something similar in one of our local furniture stores but can’t for the life of me remember which store it is (perhaps it could be Haus?!?). I found this whilst stumbling through Padstyle. Read the article here.

Done with tables, onto chairs now…

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How’sHouse has been given a new coat of paint, refurbished – with a new look. The key reason in my decision to change the theme of the site is mainly due to the display issues that were not consistent between IE and Firefox. After installing the Statpress plugin, I found that 70% of my readers were using either IE6 or IE7 and the sidebars did not display well at all in the Microsoft browser with the previous theme.

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Coincidentally, about a week and a half after getting my sample from SomethinUrby.com (read my review and experience of their decal here), Joanne from BlankCanvasDesigns approached me to review their product, hence this post- HowsHouse.com’s second official review of a Malaysian online retail store for wall decals.

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Can you, for a moment, imagine how melamine and tossed salad go hand in hand?

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I guess HowsHouse.com sure is gaining popularity. Recently, I was asked by somethinurby.com – a local online store retailing wall decals – to write a review about their offering. They were nice enough to allow me to select a decal of my choice and ship it to me as a sample for my review. By allowing me to make my choice of decal, it eliminated any form of vendor bias.

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FunOnTheFloor is an excellent site on almost everything about carpets. Many homes here are not as heavily carpeted as homes in temperate countries simply because there we do not need much insulation in our homes. However, everybody knows that a beautiful carpet can transform a house into a tasteful home quite dramatically.

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On March 2 2009, a little baby boy was born into the How family. How’s House now consists of YinLeng, baby Ryan and myself.

May God bless this little child of ours and may he grow up to be a fine and righteous man.

Here’s Ryan waving to fellow How’sHouse readers…