My colleague, OT, recently shared a very useful article from Popularmechanics on 5 Pro Painting Tips Every Amateur Should Know. Click here or the image below to read the article.

Getting someone to paint your home can be extremely costly so this is definitely a useful article for those of you who intend to get your [...]

Polypropylene pendant lights are very popular in contemporary modern day homes. Unfortunately, for anything designer, you’d have to fork out a handsome amount of money to procure it. Despite most local lighting stores constantly putting up banners that sale ‘SALE! Discount up to 70%‘, pendant lights usually cost several hundred dollars even after discount.

Really, these [...]

Shoji lamps are basically light boxes which house the bulb(s) in an encasement made of bamboo and rice paper coverings. The rice paper diffuses the light hence throws a calm/serene lighting effect on its surroundings. Some Shoji lamps can get extremely pricey as they are carefully hand constructed with intricate bamboo designs and high quality [...]

Quite a few people have asked me about contractors and how to get a good one. Here a some tips I’ve compiled which hopefully will provide you with a bit of a heads up looking for a contractor and handling him afterwards.
1. I am not a licensed contractor. License? What license? Who’s a licensed contractor [...]

Welcome to part2 of the Lampshade Makeover series. If you missed part 1, click here to read the article. Moving along, we’re going to higher difficulty makeovers now.
The first one comes from the creative and environmental friendly crafting blog, NU2U - displaying steps on how to create silhouettes in your lampshade using transparencies. Click here [...]

Let’s face it. Lampshades aren’t cheap. And most of us are unwilling to fork out the money to buy something that looks like it costs nothing to make. This got me thinking on how we could save money when our lampshades look old, drab and weary one day. Naturally, I scoured the net… and found [...]

Many of us dread the effort required in moving house, especially if you’re moving from your old place to a new one and not just moving out into your own place. I was fortunate to have experience the latter but I do remember moving with my family when I was six, from our small little [...]

Love to indulge yourself in a longbath every so often? For mood- add music, dim lighting, some candles, perhaps even a glass of wine or champagne (bordering on overindulgence, i know!). For effect- bath bombs!
Bath bomb? What’s a bath bomb? Sounds ‘bahaya’ - I can only associate it with the toilet bombs during my high [...]

Yes, you heard right. I said Twig.
The Twig bench and cube by PINCH is really a homogeneous product. It can either be used as a bench or a great looking coffee table. Wood strip/chips/circles are gaining popularity as components for modern contemporary furniture.

Click here to view the details of PINCH’s Twig bench and cube.
The twig [...]

Tired of boring plain walls? Renting but itching to do something with the walls to liven up your place? The easy answer to this would be to use wall decals. Some of you would remember playing Need For Speed: Underground. One of the mods you were allowed on your ride was to add vinyl patterns [...]