Niche living in Hong Kong
An architect made a breakthrough of squeezing more than a thousand rooms into a 344-sq-ft apartment. This innovative concept was created and designed by Gary Chang who had once lived in a near-limitless small space for over 30 years.Mr. Chang has a successful interior design and architectural...
Continue Reading • 2 Jun 2010
HK architect's innovative solution for space crunch
After living in the same boxy, 32-sq-m dwelling for three decades, Hong Kong architect Gary Chang came up with a science fiction-like 'domestic transformer', as an innovative solution to the increasingly repressed lives of many urban residents.“The idea is everything is moving. This is my...
Continue Reading • 9 Feb 2010
Think simple, live big
Sometimes the best solutions to the most pressing and most complicated problems are just very simple and straightforward ideas. For instance, one of the best ways to save your well-earned dollar is not see it. That’s a simple notion to understand. If you get the overpowering urge to buy...
Continue Reading • 24 Dec 2009
A good time to install security alarm
Investing in a dream house is something that several people will do, but not many of them will consider investing in the security of their property.Since the deteriorating economic atmosphere may promote more crimes, it may perhaps be a good timing to give this issue some consideration.The...
Continue Reading • 18 Nov 2009
Indoor Plants for High Homes
Living in a high place with no direct sunlight becomes problematic when it comes to growing plants. Here, some high-dwellers and plant experts provide tips on how to go green in such place.Relations manager with an Italian luxury brands and owner of an expensive four-bedroom condominium apartment...
Continue Reading • 22 Oct 2009
Renewing the Lost Glory
Many people who knew Madam Lyn Lee and her husband are scratching their backs after the couple shelled out $500,000 to renovate a 1920s pre-war shophouse. Some are even considering this as insanity to buy the rundown 1,300 square feet corner unit eight years ago near Tembeling Road with a market...
Continue Reading • 22 Oct 2009
The passion for success
Chances do come once in a lifetime and the chance for Lim Wee Lim came when he was 24 years old. When this chance came, he embraced it gladly, and then it flourished into something good. That something good is now known as the Kitchen Culture. Now at 42 years old, Mr. Lim is now Kitchen...
Continue Reading • 21 Oct 2009
Home & Décor June Issue out now
If you wish to update your garden’s wall with the most modern fad and the materials you will need for the make over, get a copy of Home and Décor’s June issue, available at bookstores only $5. This issue provides a free Designer Showcase booklet, a bumper issue consisting of...
Continue Reading • 12 Oct 2009