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Mr Zach Lim needed his 1,100 sq ft bachelor pad to really feel like a lodge.

To obtain that, the 29-year-aged group supervisor of a tech corporation employed Mr Joey Khu, director of residence-developed Joey Khu Interior Structure.

Mr Khu claims: “My style and design for this household is pretty life-style-pushed since Zach is a bachelor. It also takes into thought that he has relatives and pals above quite frequently, so there must be a lot more open spaces.”

This led to a total reconfiguration of the structure of the 3-bed room condominium condominium in Flora Generate, together with taking away the kitchen partitions and combining the area with the adjacent eating region.

The new format also saw two of the a few bedrooms turned into an extension of the dwelling room and a stroll-in wardrobe.

With the kitchen area partitions eradicated, Mr Khu created an open up-notion kitchen area-cum-dining spot.

In the residing place, household furniture is organized at an angle. Apart from incorporating visual desire, this is also for useful concerns.

Mr Khu suggests: “Inserting the home furniture diagonally enhances the circulation circulation. It also greater enhances the free-standing Tv stand Zach purchased as he did not want a typical designed-in console.”

A bedroom that made use of to be adjacent to the residing place is now element of the living room.

Extending the present bay window to accommodate a substantial daybed turns it into a cosy place in which Mr Lim can browse or chill out.

The original passageway and one more bed room, alongside with the present grasp bedroom and lavatory, ended up reconfigured. They now form part of a learn suite comprising the bed room, walk-in wardrobe, analyze, lavatory and self-importance region.

The examine, which sits in the wander-in wardrobe, was asked for by Mr Lim.

With the aged bathtub taken out and the vainness counter relocated to the wander-in wardrobe, wet spots these kinds of as the bathroom and shower now occupy a lesser footprint.

Mr Khu says: “This frees up additional place in the stroll-in wardrobe for lots of storage cabinets and drawers.”

The household is also embellished with art parts made by Mr Khu himself. In its place of a aspect wall in the residing area, he painted the wall gray as a backdrop for a graphic artwork.

As his do the job can be busy, Mr Lim, who moved in in July 2019, wanted a property he could occur back again to and chill out in. The renovation took 21/2 months and cost amongst $170,000 and $200,000.

“I enjoy getting close friends and spouse and children, as properly as their little ones, more than. The open-system and fluid spaces operate pretty properly and are little one-friendly much too,” he says.

• This write-up 1st appeared in the December 2020 situation of House & Decor, which is published by SPH Journals.

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