Rosy Vintage Home

A Kitchen's Story

2012-01-26T00:27:00.001+08:00

Bon Appétit

Cooking is Love made visible

Love bakes good cakes and brews good stews!

A touch and mix of cottage, country style kitchen with a little chimney. We especially like the two frosted cabinet, great for keeping spices for our favorite spaghetti on one side. And the other for teapot set collection and wine glasses!

Close-up on kitchen top. To the left of stove are some space for food serving phase, basically we designed our kitchen with a right-to-left concept -breaking down kitchen space into 4 major area:

1. Food preparation area -This is where food are thawed, garlic/ vegetables are chopped, marinating occurs

2. Cooking area -As name suggest itself, where food goes over the fire!

3. Food Serving area -Here is where food gets onto the plate right off the pan and finished off with some basil leaves prior to leaving for the dinning table! Aroma of basil leaves....ahhhhhhh yummy!!!!

4. As you've wondered, the fourth major area is the Washing area

A closeup design of our cottage, country style chimney. Keeping design and practicability in check, it would be nice to have more elaborated design chimney but we figured it would be a pain to maintain particularly after some big frying receipt hence we were agreeable on this

Country cottage style design knobs on kitchen cabinets

Handles and more of those cottage country style design please!!!!

Another view of our Kitchen -Where our Love language is prepared.

View from this perspective, you will be able to see how the kitchen is being divided into our 4 main sections. The space with a plant is the food preparation area -big enough to place one whole chicken, a bowl of spaghetti for serving size of 4, a plate with chopped garlic, bacon streaks, tomato and still leaving some space for plants!

Dream fulfillment -Part II

2012-01-09T22:33:00.000+08:00

The Living Area Story

(Part II)

A continuation of where we last left off and promises of more pictures.

Spent a weekend clearing up Christmas tree and brought some new decorative for our home!!!

Sleeping Angel(s)

A Cupid deep thoughts...

There are other angels around the place which will be revealed as post but coming up next -The Kitchen Story!

Dream fulfillment

2012-01-08T10:19:00.000+08:00

As page suggest itself, this post will be updated with photos of a wonderful dream, just as how this quote puts across...

"The secret of achievement is to hold a picture of a successful outcome in the mind -Henry David Thoreau"

Enjoy the following snippets

A close-up of lighting

Its Christmas! Here's our Christmas Tree!!!

More pictures to come on Living Area. Next up will be The Kitchen Story too!

Lastly to all readers, here is a quote worth mentioning...

" Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it…Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it -Goethe"

Putting it together

2011-11-26T17:55:00.000+08:00

Like puzzle pieces, Life takes on a new dimension when one attempt to slowly piece the pieces together. Just like impatient children, we waited with great anticipation while our Utopia starts forming the shape of our dreams.

*It's never too late to dream dreams*

Here we are.. at the most anticipated moment of our lives. :)

A Dream's Evolution...

2011-09-04T13:58:00.001+08:00

***Next update with new photos on Sept 10th, 2011***

Evolution of A Dream

"Dreams are a communication of body, mind and spirit in a symbolic communicative environmental state of being. Dreams are so compelling, and they often seem so weird and strange..."

With structures now pretty much in place it is time to place bit and pieces of things together. Allow the photos to do the talking -sit back and Enjoy!

Living Area

A place to relax with your Loved Ones. Feel the breeze and birds singing from afar!

-From this...

...To this!

Creating space segregating dinning and living -with some help from pillars and curves!

View from Dining

A different colour and different feel :)

Close-up view of two baby Angels

Did not really liked low entrance opening and now we have higher pillars and entrance!

As a result, we need to find a new home for lovely twin Angels to be just beside the entrance.

Created beads like design around the perimeters -looks neat!

TV Console

And to the stuffs we brought thus far!

A Brandt for our Oven!

Chimney Hood

Basin Tap

The Sink!

The Kitchen

"A place where all beautiful savoring taste-bud delicacy are made... "

Washing/ Preparation Area

Hot/ Cooking Area

That's all for this week's structural built out. Come next week, will be 80% completion and expecting the pre-final touches to be done such as chandeliers and all other accessories!

Architecture a Dream...Part II

2011-09-03T11:45:00.029+08:00

Painting an Architectural Dream

Bedroom 2

Shades of Pink...

This will be center piece art that will be up in the ceiling :)
Seems it needs a little cleaning...

Bedroom 3

Shades of Green and Pink...unfortunately, these shades are too dark and have requested painters to do a lighter shade for both colours.

Lime green and baby pink should be the end product...

Will post pictures of the lighter shades when it is done

That's about all the painting works that are required for this place, the rest of wall work will be done at a much later stage :)

Next will be structural phase where all bit and pieces starts to take shape! That is when we see our Dreams to start evolving from a Thought into Reality...I'm getting excited! :)

***We will have another round of updates with Before and After pictures due at 11.30pm GMT+8 on September 3rd so stick around! :)

Architecture a Dream...

2011-09-02T22:51:00.001+08:00

Building a Concept

Living Area

Dinning view

Redesigning Bedroom 1

Conti...

More sets to be upload tomorrow... :)

Life begins with a dream, hope and little star dusts

2011-07-27T13:29:00.000+08:00

Once upon a time, someone told me about a lovely castle-like house which sits on a higher ground. How suitable it would be for a Princess to grace this lovely home. ^_^

Started with a dream

Followed by some action plan

Decided on the theme which is able to instill Love, Peace, Security and Joy.

I love books and will need a big bookshelf to keep them

Yellow colored walls does bring a sunny happy ambiance to any home. ^^

I kind of like the structure of the walls of the picture.

Project Utopia Phase 1 - Day 12 (Electrical Points Installation)

2011-07-26T20:19:00.000+08:00

"Every Act of Creation is First an Act of Destruction"

Our Foyer

Our Living/ Hall

Our Dining

Our Passage Way to the bedrooms

Our Bedroom

Project Utopia Phase 1 - Destruction

2011-07-22T14:48:00.001+08:00

"I welcome you to a Private Journey in the making. In this journey you are to embark and witness first-hand accounts of a change that will change 3 Lives..."

This project is one of the most exciting ones in life. This is the 5th day of the renovation to our lovely home in Singapore. Mainly the destruction phase..

Here's an overview of our Utopia.

Kitchen

Kitchen - The stove area

Kitchen - The mini counter

Kitchen - The sink area.

Back Yard

Backyard - The Utility Room

Living and Dining

Study Room

Master BedRoom

Passage Way

Little Missy's Room

Common Bathroom

More updates coming up with Phase 2... :-)

Vintage Furnishings

2011-07-21T21:35:00.007+08:00

Here are some vintage Victorian furnishings which I dearly loved and admired.

The Royal Bath

Master Bedroom

Royal Princess's Room

The Royal Kitchen