a closer look at the guest room and TV console.
by mayjin
There wasn’t much done since the last post, but I’ve allowed myself a more frequent “visit” to the new place since it’s the Chinese New Year holidays, which lends the excuse that I’m probably less likely to feel stressed during this time of the year. :P
Anyways, these pictures may (not) make much sense to some of you, especially if you’ve not seen the floor plan before this.
The corridor to the two bedrooms.
The door on the left leads to my room, and the door in front (at the end of the corridor) leads to the guest room.
Wen’s got a unit in the same block, and in his unit, that room at the end of the corridor would be his.
The wardrobe, mini bookshelf and desk is in. :)
Door on the left leads to the toilet, on the right is back out the corridor.
Here’s what I’ve done to that room at the end of the corridor, which is also our guest room/ home office.
1) I’ve moved the door frame of this room to the corridor. It was initially just slightly further down from the door to my room, and on the same wall. The corridor was dark and narrow, and I wanted to “enlarge” the last room. I got the effect I was looking for.
2) I’ve re-tiled a section of the floor tiles because our developer did a poor job at it- the floor was uneven and a pool of water would gather around the W/C. We tried to get the developer to redo it, but they said any pool that does not exceed 3mm is okay. sigh. Oh well, I’ve learned how to use money to solve problems and save time.
3) Referring to the first picture, the door would open to a full-height bookshelf with clear glass doors. It doesn’t stop there. I want to stick wallpaper at the back of the bookshelves to achieve this effect…
This wallpaper is really nice, but it works best if I have a large shelf, so it doesn’t look like a lot of pattern squashed into a small area. Also works better if the items displayed on the shelf are in a monochromatic tone (like what they’ve done in the picture), so they don’t add confusion to the complexity of the background. So I think la.
Seeing that I would be displaying books of different cover colours and sizes, I would like something simple like the one pictured above. I reckon it would work better if my background is plain and simple. But of course, I would stay very far away from colours like that! :P
That aside, big bro says the colour of my varnish is odd.
This is the console in natural evening light. It was about 6pm.
A close-up shot under natural evening/day-light.
Maybe its a tinge on the redwood kind of colour. Hmm… Do you think it looks strange?
