Hidden in plain sight - can you spot the hidden elements in our home?
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- Free Style
- HDB (BTO)
- ~1,000 sqft
- 2 br
- Couple Living
When renovating, we decided to conceal some areas that we find less atheistically looking! In this pic, there are three hidden elements :) Our ID suggested for us to install concealed drawers to maintain the uniform shaker style cabinet doors look. It's a great idea - we were originally wondering how we can come up with a kitchen carpentry configuration that is functional yet fairly symmetrical. This solved our conundrum! 
The cabinets that we installed are of different heights - small to large. For the most narrow one, we used it for cutlery, which helps to save space since we don't need tall drawers for them anyway. For the largest one, we use it to stack taller items, like pots, ramen bowls etc. One pet peeve we have is ugly switches that clash with home deco. Most people hide their switches at their top hung cabinets but because we don't top cabinets, we had to find another way to conceal them. Look at these bulky looking switches at our kitchen shelf, what an eyesore! We decided to use photoframes with cute postcards from a local artist. Much better! One common question that we receive is whether we have drawers in our kitchen. Yes, we do! In fact, we have quite a number. 
For areas that we have dark-coloured walls, we also changed up the switches to black ones for a more "concealed" look. One in our "balcony" area... ... and another one near our vanity area. Changing up switch boxes will come at additional costs, but we think they are totally worth it. Imagine having the typical white socket here, it would also be an eyesore! The last hidden element is quite a common one. This is the usual DB box that you will find it BTOs. 
In other areas where it's not practical to cover up switches, we tried to colour match the switches and the area around it to "conceal" it as much as possible. For example, in the pantry area, we chose matte black switch and socket to make them less obvious beside the black laminate. Finally, another "concealed" feature is that we added racks in our home DB box, which lets us store some shoes that we commonly wear. Do you guys also have hidden elements in your home? Share them and we can learn from one another! To make it more "concealed", we colour matched the laminate with the paint colour. hat
- 18 August
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