colour combinations for weddings and home interiors: part I

Nowadays, colour matching is hardly conventional anymore. Whenever I think of two (or more) colours that make an unlikely pair, I google colour combinations and I get blown away by the images I see. Best part is, almost always the colour combination in question makes perfect inspiration boards for weddings and home interiors! I thought doing up a series of unique colour combinations may inspire your decor planning!

Forest Green and Nude

Green is my favourite colour, especially darker shades of it. However, for a deep, rich shade such as Forest Green, I thought the only way to ‘lighten’ it is for the colour to be matched with Nude. I love this colour combination a lot! In fact, Raihan and his girls went for a Forest Green theme for Eid last year, and we matched our lace with Nude and Gold lining!

Now take a look at how incredible this combination works for weddings and your home!

Wedding

Home Interior

Look out for Part II!

Photo credits: Click on the pictures to see original source.

bridezillas

Eversince Raihan and I got married, if we happen to be home on Sunday evenings, we make sure we never miss watching the television programme, Bridezillas. Those who subscribe to Mio TV will probably be familiar with this hilariously entertaining show on WE TV Channel, some of about the rudest, most vile brides-to-be are featured in the process of planning their wedding. They are ridiculously selfish, manipulative, immature, loud and sometimes violent; which makes great entertainment for those sitting in front of the TV eating homemade pizzas.

Watch these to get a clue about how terrible these women can be:

Oooohhh so bitchy! Seriously, I get embarrassed for these women, but hahahaha, they’re so funny!

I hope none of you go to this extent when planning your wedding! But if you do, make sure it’s caught on video and share it on Youtube!

buy vintage!

So by now I’m sure you are familiar with the decor of my home. It is old school themed, where items that ignite nostalgia can be found, or so I’d like to think! It may surprise you that Raihan was the one who came up with the idea. Back then, before we received our keys, he casually mentioned that a home that looks like it’s stuck in the 70s will be really awesome – and the idea just grew from there!

I mentioned earlier that we are lucky to have inherited some items from family members who fortunately kept some furniture and furnishings from the groovy era. But some other items, we bought!

And for you to find some of these beauties yourself, I’d like to share some ‘lobang’s with you today:

1. Let’s start off with This Blog . It shares 20 (and more!) places for you to buy mid-modern/retro/vintage furniture in Singapore!  

2. To add to it, check out Rumah Kita. Also View Point Trading and Collectibles at China Square. There is also a warehouse at Jalan Senang which is a treasure trove of vintage finds!

3. Many smaller dealers have gone to Facebook to showcase (and sell) their ware, including Jennifer’s Vintage and Antique, Asher’s Vintage Market and Oddyssey Odds and Whatnots.

4. The pool of collectors who are willing to sell items are also around, so do look out for them. Currently, a dear friend of mine is an avid collector/dealer, so check him out here!

5. One man’s trash is another man’s treasure! How true! So always scour Ebay cos you’ll never guess what great finds you’d find!

6. For rattan furniture, we went to Chun Mee Lee Rattan Furniture. They have ready-made rattan sofa sets, or you can order your choice from an album dating back from the 70s!

All the best with your quest for vintage. The only wish I have is for you to share with me photos of your vintage finds!

nooks and crannies

Well hello! It’s been a long time since I have graced this blog with words! In fact I miss writing here, but writing has been a HUGE part of work of late, which does not do well for writing as a hobby when I come home.

Speaking of home, I find myself very fond of the home that Raihan and I have built for ourselves. It’s like finally, there is a place where my marriage belongs now. There is a place where I can identify my marriage life with, a place meant specially for Raihan and I to grow together.

It has been very exhausting to upkeep the home, but I am quite proud that we have stuck to the weekend routine of completely cleaning the home – which means laundry, sweeping, mopping, and cleaning Toffee’s cage. (For the uninformed, I announced via Twitter that our pet bunny has finally moved in with us!)

Alhamdulillah, I am so so so proud to have had hosted many guests at our home! I enjoy hosting guests, and enjoy it even more when guests proclaim the fun they have here. I am also happy when they comment on the look and furninshings in our home! I dare say that everybody who comes here falls in love with the old school furniture, and never fail to ask where they can buy these vintage pieces as well. I am more than happy to share – hopefully in the next blog post!

Today, just because I am darn proud of the house we made, I shall share more details of the stuff we have in our home!

Some of our furniture pieces were given and some were bought. Spot the genuine vintage pieces from the remakes!

a virtual peek

So tonight’s the third night we will be spending at our new residence. The few days of leave I took has proven to be very useful thus far in managing the new home, ie. cleaning, receiving more delivery of items and what I did not expect – hosting! Raihan and I have been utterly fortunate in hosting guests non-stop since we began our move last Saturday. Alhamdulillah, if this is a trend that continues, I will be grateful. Because like I mentioned before, the last thing I want to feel in this new home is isolation!

My mother and Raihan’s grandmother have been feeding us well. Though I have a fully-functional kitchen (complete with cooking utensils, ingredients and skills), the family matrons have took it upon themselves to ensure that our home is never empty of their food. Hahaha! The fridge is now filled with food of variety, and indeed I’m stating all these just to show how spoilt we are. *beams*

I have some photos to show:

I have a whistling kettle! Hehehe, everytime it whistles it panics the crap out of me. So, do you think I managed to capture what was in my inspiration boards?

Goodnight now! You know what being just beside a bus interchange does to me? The hum of buses kinda lulls me to sleep!

move-in weekend

HI all! Renovation’s complete – short for a few touch-ups in some nooks and crannies. So we are making use of this long, glorious CNY weekend to move in!

Furniture and appliances have been delivered, and so the past two days have been a mad rush to clean the house and to arrange items. You know, with purchase after purchase, I thought that we have nailed it and the home is complete complete… But at this point of time, it still looks awfully bare. I guess we have to literally live with the emptiness for now, and slowly add more articles!

I am stupendously touched by the help we have received so far from family and friends for the move in. They have been so kind. I have to admit that I was feeling anxious about moving in, afraid that I will be left isolated at the north-eastern-most tip of Singapore, but I know loved ones will always come by to fill our home with even more joy than we expect, insyaAllah.

I don’t have pictures to share of our most recent progress. But what I can share today are wall colours!

Might be interesting to compare these photos to these!

wall colours

In my home inspiration boards that I showed previously, I also showed the colours that I want painted in each living space. So when I received the paint catalogue, I realised that the colours I envisioned were not necessarily available as paint colours. So Raihan and I chose the shades of blue closest to what we wanted:

For the dusty blue we wanted in the living room and dining room, we chose Mistral. Mistral will also be featured as the ceiling colour of our kitchen and bathrooms, as well as service yard.

  

For Raihan’s study room, he chose this joyful colour, Blue Topaz:

For the spare room, I chose a cool, calming blue – Marina Blue:

And for the main bedroom, we wanted a darker shade, so we opted for Breeze:

To replace the white walls, Raihan wanted something warmer, so he chose Pearl Shell:

And just to have brown accents to match our furniture and room doors, we chose a gloss paint to colour the doorways in Rosewood:

Coincidentally, a retro-themed home was featured in the paint catalogue! Makes me wonder if our home will look similar to it:

(Photo credit: All photos from ICI Dulux Singapore 2012 Colour Catalogue)

We can only wait and see!