Our Ideal House (Our theme and colours)

The feeling, the thoughts, the Experience, and the Enjoyment!!!

Renovation is full of excitement, fun and anticipation from the time when you begin to fantasize about it, and eventually the design becomes a drawing, and finally the actual product! Your Ideal House!

An ideal house is not the most beautiful house or the most classy house but it is the house that you really want.

Your house may look plain or impractical to other people, but as long as it is what you had always wanted, then it is your ideal house.

And of course it is tiring as you have to monitor the process, frustration when things are behind schedule, disappointment when things do not turn out as nice as you had wanted, and even anger when you see that your parquet flooring has been damaged by your carpenter.

Our theme

We didn't really have a theme initially. We know there were comtemporary, elegance, zen, oriental themes etc. But none of them really suit us. Well, hubby and I are not really sophisticated people and don't really wish to spend alot of money on the renovation. But yet, we wanted to have something special and unique about our house - something really makes the house feels like our love nest.

Pooh Bear looking so cute and happy!

We have a Winnie the Pooh Bear at home. It is cute and it always look so happy. Both of us love this Pooh bear very much. Overtime this Pooh has became part of our family. Meanwhile, Hubby found on facebook a 3D design of a living room with feature wall being Winnie the Pooh Head and the furniture colour theme of red and white. I find the idea very unique as most feature walls are usually rectangular in shape. So we started from this concept of having Winnie the pooh's head as our feature wall.

With Winnie the Pooh feature wall as the main focus of the living room, the rest of the furniture including colour of the wall must complement it. By using Floorplanner.com, I changed the feature wall to yellow and the rest of the furniture to red and white. Hubby then suggested green for the wall colour.

With these, my ID then drew out a 3D design of our living room.

Designs for the rest of the house

Our ID showed us some picture of the kitchen and we decided to take one of the "standard template" as our design for the kitchen.

The first design was supposed to be more modern. But I don't really like it. I prefer more cozy kind and I suggested purple.

The first design

My preferred design

Some of my friends and relatives said they also had the same purple colour scheme for their master bedroom. Perhaps it is the more cozy and romantic colour? I think I made the right choice.