A Simple Mid-Century Modern 4-Rm BTO under $60k
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- Mid-Century Modern
- HDB (BTO)
- ~900 sqft
- 3 br
- Couple Living
Welcome to our humble abode! This is the first view you’ll see when entering our home. We wanted to create a cosy, simple and practical living home and we drew inspirations from mid-century modern styles mixing vintage and modern pieces, injecting pops of colours here and there. 
We decided not too have too much built-ins in our home to allow flexibility to move things around to suit our needs in the future as life evokes, and to have a less “done up” space. This USM modular tv console is one of my favourite piece in the house. It is so sleek and can be reconfigured with other modular pieces in future. The largest poster in our home featuring over 200 Vitra chairs – can’t afford most of them but can afford having them in a poster :) Large posters is a nice way to fill up empty spaces in your home. 
This is where my husband and I chill on to watch a show or take a nap on this dark brown leather reclining sofa and it’s been quite a breeze to maintain after a year. This is my little cosy corner with ambient lighting with a Danish vintage chest of drawer - another favourite furniture! Fun fact about the art: I painted the one on the left when I was in primary school (never thought I’d ever display it in my home) and commissioned the illustration on the right by my Korean friend. 
The dining table is a Danish vintage piece which can be extended both sides for when we host a larger group. We opted for open kitchen so that the house looks and feels larger and less “built in”. 
A mini art gallery to spice up the dining area with pieces from Singapore and collected from our travels. Which is your favourite piece of art? We opted for open kitchen so that the house looks and feels larger. To counter smell and oily floor problem, we invested in a hood that has proven to be really helpful in sucking up the oil and smell. Also, just avoid deep frying at home (it’s bad for your health anyway). If the food smell still lingers, we use the diffuser or scented candles to freshen up the space. We prefer a hob rather than induction cooker, and this has been pretty easy to clean and use. Added fluted glass to the service yard doors to allow natural light while the bottom opaque part of the door covers up the less aesthetic washer and laundry scene behind. 
To balance the very brown side of the kitchen and dining room, we opt for white doors to blend with the walls. We opt out of the BTO doors from the start, so these were add on. Maybe a little too white, so might be a good time to spruce up with a colourful art piece? We had no built-in in the study room. For storage, we got 2 of these Muji wide large shelves to display decor, books, my husband’s lego, my bags, accessories, fragrances, and this also doubles as my vanity corner. Definitely need a day curtain and night block out curtain in master bedroom, and ambient lighting to create a cosy environment for resting. My side of the bed – and yes that is an alarm clock! We started the habit from the start of this year to leave our phones outside of the bedroom and use an alarm clock instead. Little intentional habits to not let our devices be the last thing we use before sleep, and the first we look at when we get up. We also do not have TV in our room so we can truly disconnect. Chose bigger tiles because we wouldn’t want to be spending all our time cleaning grouts after few years living in this space. The carpentry laminates were the same as the kitchen but in a darker shade from Lamitak. 
This was our floor plan after a few iterations of the kitchen and dining space, and didn’t do anything drastic (no major hacking or digging hole in our walls). Reno was about $58k, considering we outsourced our tiles and quarts supplier, I think the reno cost is still a little steep. What do you think? 
The original floor plan from HDB.
- 30 September
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