Inside A Marketing Duo's Playful Apartment Filled With Colorful Accents | Singapore

We wanted our home to have this vibe of coziness and familiarity. Somewhere to relax and sleep on the sofa if you don't want to go to the bedroom. We also wanted it to be suitable for hosting where common spaces are all connected and open. Hi, I'm Marvin and I'm Joy. We both work in the marketing industry. This is a 4-room BTO in Kallang. It's approximately 93 square meters and we've been staying here for 6 months. We chose a mix of eclectic and whatever fits our vibes the most. So it's mostly wojak or chapalan kind of style. Our home colour palette involves a lot of woody and white tones with small splashes of colour all around the home. And to keep the layout flexible, we kept things modular and dual-purpose for flexibility. To add more contrast to our home, we used dark wood vinyl tiles throughout the house to complement our brighter walls and furniture. So coming in, the entryway opens up to the living room. The first thing you'll notice are the square-shaped stone tiles that are inspired from our parents' homes. This helps to demarcate the outside and inside areas. So if we are wet, we can just get the water to drip onto the stone instead of the vinyl so it doesn't ruin it. We've created a walnut laminate niche by the side of the entryway to act as storage for our daily use items. We've also covered up the bomb shelter with full-length carpentry to hide the shoes and make the area look more presentable when people visit our home. Our living room is quite big as we knocked down the common bedroom to expand the living room and bring in more light into the space. This is where you can see the chapalang or rojak style that comes into place. It mostly follows the eclectic style but you can see some minor details like our beautiful soy sauce lamp, our tile coffee table. We kept the living room as loose furnishings to make it more flexible for when we have guests around. Our sofa is also multifunctional. It can store items like Joy's never-ending soft toy collection. Something special to us is this glass coffee table customised with this tile base that was designed by us. We wanted to mimic the tiles that you see in HDB void decks and give off this retro vibe that we wanted to bring into our house. We also have a vinyl record corner where we hide all our vinyl records. We love to listen to rock, pop and jazz genres especially when we have guests over or after a stressful workday. Since Marvin loves gaming, we have a dedicated red trolley rack that can be moved around to hold his game consoles. We went with vertical blinds to soften the light coming into the house. In the afternoon, the blinds shake the light which gives our home a lot more interesting details and at night, it becomes a lot more scenic. We kept the dining and living area close together to keep the conversations flowing when we have people over. Joy also has a larger family so we needed a larger space to host. We chose a wooden dining table with a curved anti-stain and anti-fingerprint sintered stone tabletop for easier cleaning after a meal. The table legs also blend well with our vinyl flooring which also goes well with our dining chairs. Our shelf mostly holds items from our travels a lot of small trinkets and art from local illustrators. So for example, some interesting things on our shelf include a 360-degree book of Mount Fuji, postcards from our friends all around the world, a collection of Archie comics and the IKEA Testament's lamp. The shelf holds a lot of memories for us and almost every item on the shelf has a story to tell. Have you ever watched tiny home tours in Hong Kong and ever wondered why can't we maximize space like that in Singapore? Well, if you have, here's one of the more interesting new launches, TMW Maxwell. This development is doing things completely different with its innovative flip or switch units that are designed to maximize space use. From a dual-purpose Murphy bed frame or sofa setup to an outdoor dining table and a flip down ironing board, every fixture has been designed specifically to fit the constraints of small space city living. For me though, the modern hotel-like branding also stands out. There's a rooftop pool, a modern gym that has special lighting, vertically landscaped gardens on each level and lively entertainment spaces all nestled within the vibrant Duxton area that's seamlessly integrated with the commercial spaces. For more information, feel free to click the link in the description box below for editorial and video coverage of TMW Maxwell. Our kitchen is slightly larger as we extended it out to flow with the DB box and shelf. Instead of the woody browns and whites in our colour palette, we went for a little green to add a little more colour as accents for the house. We can also watch TV while we cook and have enough space for both of us to move around. We're both a bit clumsy and bump into things a lot but we wanted consistency in curves so we curved the kitchen island to maintain the visual language. The kitchen island has a quartz countertop and we like the pattern of it so we made it consistent with the kitchen backsplash. All the cabinets at the bottom have circular handle details with extra layers to make it easier to retrieve things. We extended an open shelving to display our unique cup collection and this is now our dedicated alcohol shelf. Marvin loves coffee and specifically making his own coffee so we have a corner for him with a sign customised to say Marvin's Kopi Productions. We wanted a separation between both spaces so we curved the partition to separate the living area and bedrooms. For our common bathroom, we went with textured stone tiles to give it a raw, unfinished look. We used minimal colours in the bathroom as we wanted to give it a relaxing vibe. The countertops are also made from quartz which is the same material used for the kitchen countertop. For the bedroom, we wanted to create a cosy environment so we went with minimal furnishings. Our bedroom is mostly for sleep as we do most of our activities in the living area. We went with blackout blinds to prevent light from coming in. We built a counter to separate the wardrobe and our bed so each thing has its own rightful place. Under the counter, there are drawers to store more clothes and personal items. The counter is also a good space for folding our laundry. Our wardrobe reuses the same consistent circular handle details that we used in our kitchen and we went with a white laminate for some contrast and consistency with the rest of our house. Our master bathroom uses the same tiles as a common bathroom but we added more things to it to make it more personal. We've added a shelf to display artwork and green tiles which is the same as our island. We wanted to make it look different from the common bathroom and make it much more practical for us to use. A home should feel familiar and reflect what you love and what is personal to you but at the same time evoke a sense of excitement whenever you return home from a long day at work. Because of how much we love our home, it's habit for us to come home earlier compared to before. Our home will never stay the same. It's always ever-changing whenever we get new things or whenever we want to change the layout but I hope that it will always be a place where our friends and family are happy to come and visit.