Interior painting for our house

It has been 5 years now since we moved into our house, due to budget constraint, we only afford to do some refurbishment and painting before moving in, it was not a renovation but simply touched up on the falling ceiling and gave the dirty and peeling off walls some painting.

We have been wanting to give a new look to our house, needed a change of feng shui to enhance the good luck chi coming into our home.  At the moment, most of the interior walls are painted white except our bedrooms are pink.  It was my idea to have white walls during that time because my eye sights are poor, white tends to brighten up the house easier especially during the night.  The paint somehow faded over the years, It is time to repaint our house.

The first thing we ask ourselves is what color should we choose this time for a fresh new look.  There are four of us in the house, each one of us has different preference...blue, purple, beige, brown or combination of few colors ??   We ended up arguing, thus, the project is still on hold.  How I wish we could hire a professional painter like hingham painters to take care of the project, from initial planning, giving us the advise on the colors, the budget, time frame of completion, and guarantee of quality work done.  One thing I dislike about refurbishment is the cleaning up the mess after that.  We have to move the furniture and fittings to make way for the painting, the mobilization itself will tend to cause damage to our furniture, we have to take all these into account if we were to do the project ourselves, which we do not have the expertise to handle all these..the best solution would be to hire a professional painter to take care of this for us. 

Home Aquarium

Introducing our aquarium at home.  It is a home for only 3 fish at the moment.  Not any of those expensive breed.  I like gold fish but they are difficult to take care.  My better half likes arowanas but they are usually expensive and requires proper care. So ended up buying a breed that is easy to take care (I will need to ask my better half again what type of fish this is :)))

 

After a few months, I "noticed" that the fish have grown up a bit.  Feeding the fish is not one of my routine at home therefore I hardly put notice on them.  I told my better half that if he wants to have an aquarium he better cares for it.  We are very grateful that our little girl helps her daddy to feed the fish from time to time.

 

According to Feng Shui, placing an aquarium at the right place at home will bring good chi and good luck, so far none yet, probably our aquarium is not placed at the auspicious location in the house.  Any advice from Feng Shui savvy ?? :DD  

Home Lighting

We have moved in to our new home for about 2 months now, we are still unpacking our stuff which have been placed in the store room and other corners of our house. Those are the stuff which are not urgently needed so we could take our sweet time to take them out from the boxes.

Most of the room lighting installation are in place now that we could noticed we need some floor lamps to brighten up certain corner of the house. A lamp light will make a room looks cozy, make us more relax and at ease after a hard day work. Unlike table lamp, a floor lamp does not need a table, it can just stand on its own wherever we want it to be, it is highly portable.

I would prefer to have a Victorian style table lamp on the bed side tables and desk lamps with suitable lighting would be best for our girls' study tables. These are the lamps in our wish lists since we do not have any of them at the moment.

There are many designs and some are very stylish, whichever we choose they will have to match our existing home furniture.

Princesses Room deco

We walked around Complex Karamunsing furniture section last night, we saw this princesses room setting, girls would love to have these furniture in their room. All pink in colour. with princesses images every where. Just by walking pass this shop, we noticed that there are many decorative collections and furniture for the house. We did not step inside the shop, we were actually looking for a light shop and it was closed for night.

Cheap Cheap Home & Living magazines

If you do not mind owning some backdated issues of magazines, go to 2nd hand shops. There you could find cheap cheap magazines priced as low as RM1.00 per copy. These magazines are still in very good conditions.

To get some ideas of home improvement for our new home, Clet bought more than 10 copies of these magazines from one of the 2nd hand shop here. I used to buy home & living magazines many years back, some of them are more than RM10.00 a copy. Though we wouldn't be able to follow any of the designs for our house at the moment but I enjoy reading them and have gather some ideas on how we want our home design to be like in the future renovation, particularly the design and layout of the kitchen!

GO GREEN, NO ALLERGIES AND SAVE THE ENVIRONMENT WITH SILK PLANTS & TREES

We love to have indoor plants and flower arrangements in our home. We used to have some indoor plants and flower arrangements as part of the decorations to enhance our wooden furniture in the living room and a pot of plant in the washroom. However, eversince we had our first daughter five years ago, we removed all of them to protect her from allergies problems caused by the plants and flowers in the house. By doing so it also save us time in maintaning those plants especially when I have my own baby to look after.

But How to Get a Green Thumb? By using silk trees, flowers and plants would be the obsolute solution for going green, solve the allergies problem and save the environment at the same time. Believe it or not? The silk plants look exactly like real!! I particularly like this silk bonsai plant, it would be perfect for putting at the side table with my feng shui figurines, that would sure bring luck to our home.

A silk bonsai plant, it looks really real..