How To Begin Creating Basic Floral Arrangements At Home

Florist Yi Lian Ng shares her thoughts on this year’s trendy blooms and how to begin creating basic floral arrangements at home.

Safe & Sound

What you need to note before buying a security camera.

Playful Balance

This compact yet playful 700 sq ft BTO HDB flat near Lavender does a great job bringing together its owners’ past while expressing their hopes and dreams for the future. ASIH JENIE takes a tour.

Omnichannel Service

Livspace’s Ravindran Shanmugam talks about disrupting the home renovation market, offering predictability in an infamously unpredictable sector and Ikea’s first planning studio in the world.

The Peri Hotel Khao Yai

One of the Standard International hotel group’s latest venture in Thailand offers accommodation and simple pleasures inspired by a movie.

Hashida Singapore

Back with a new cuisine philosophy, Kenjiro Hashida continues to turn the spotlight on fine dining his way at a new restaurant.

Layered With Love

Artist Cherin Sim talks about the art of marquage and how she transforms leather goods with her intricate work.

In Harmony With Nature

This 8,000 sq ft private wellness retreat in Armonk, New York, incorporates passive house principles and modern comforts while preserving the original mid-century design language. MELODY BAY discovers more.

Ageing In Place, Ageing With Grace

The only Singaporean footballer to have played at the Olympics, Chia Boon Leong and his wife are enjoying their silver years in a new home that was lovingly put together by their son TJ Chia. Lynn Tan pays the family a visit in their elder-friendly home.

DEVI RATN

Inspired by the world’s largest sundial, this newly refurbished boutique hotel in Jaipur is a delectable slice of the Pink City’s breathtaking splendour.

Full Circle

Dubbed as a back-to-basic retirement home by its owner-designer, this flat in Tampines is anything but. Asih Jenie takes a tour.

Coastal Haven

This oceanside Florida retreat, a vacation home for its owners, exudes both coastal charm and regality. MELODY BAY finds out more.

Soundproofing And Proper Acoustic Treatment

Soundproofing and proper acoustic treatment are essential for living and working at home. Here’s our guide on how to do them right.

Sep Verboom, The Socially And Environmentally Conscious Belgian Creative

Collaboration, community and craft are the keywords in the design philosophy of Sep Verboom, the socially and environmentally conscious Belgian creative who has made a career out of reassessing the task of a designer. Writer Y-Jean Mun-Delsalle digs deeper into his progressive design philosophy, collaborations with artisan communities around the world, sustainably-driven intiatives and the importance of rethinking the role of a designer – not as a mere form giver but as a connector of existing expertises in indigenous communities.

Industrial Chic

Masculine material palette meets playful details in this handsome four-room resale HDB flat in Sengkang. Asih Jenie susses out the details from both the owner and the designer.

Peace Of Mind

Feng shui master Joey Yap shares eight practical tips on how to improve and maintain good qi in the bedroom.

2021's Hottest Hues

Brave, gentle, urbane, smooth, illuminating – these are just some of the words that describethe shades predicted to be popular in 2021 by leading global authorities on colours. Also, the one thing all seem to agree on is that one should choose colours that are soothing and grounding to create a sanctuary at home.

Nestled In Nature

Just to be close to the outdoors, this couple took the plunge and bought a home next to a nature reserve. Rossara Jamil takes a tour.

The Joy Of Making

Through her curious apparatus named Mass Production of Happiness, multidisciplinary designer Yingxuan Teo invites us to discover the hands-on experience of creating soap at home and rethink how we consume it.

BLUE LAGOON

Combining geology and design as well as serenity and majesty, The Retreat at Blue Lagoon Iceland is a unique concept with well-being and hospitality at its heart.

Rediscovering Rattan

Multidisciplinary designer Priscilla Ong Shunmugam talks about putting South-east Asians at the forefront of her brand’s inaugural furniture offering.

Such Great Heights

Located on the 50th floor of the tallest building in Singapore, this bachelor pad sports a disciplined monochromatic palette curated by its ophthalmologist owner’s keen eye for design.

The Art Of Letting Go

The Singaporean Dream of home upgrading comes with a great responsibility of disposing of your items correctly, sustainably, and preferably profitably. Here are ways to do it.

Crafting Wellness

Jason Lee, the founder of SIX, talks about the artisanal Singapore fragrance brand’s social mission, championing mental wellness through fragrance and crafting personalised ambient scents.

Making Room For Family

By reconfiguring some areas, more space was created for the three-generation family that lives here. LYNN TAN finds out how the homeowners got the interior they wanted, thanks to a designer who understood their style and needs.

SMART MOVES

Optimise your study with these productivity tips and expert feng shui advice.

LAKESIDE LUXURY

This contemporary summer retreat in a small remote town close to Ontario, Canada, is an architectural statement that melds elegant design, technology and sustainability with a natural setting. MICHELLE LEE delves into its design strategies.

ON THE GO

Tom Dixon just can’t sit still. The award-winning, self-taught maverick British designer-businessman is easily bored and always searching for his next new project. “My observation is that in the modern world, a brand is no longer a fixed, enclosed unit,” he says. Writer Y-JEAN MUN-DELSALLE finds out what keeps him experimenting and how he thinks the furniture industry has – or has not – evolved.

IN CONVERSATION WITH NATURE

This inter-terrace home’s external appearance belies its spacious and airy interior with everything a three-generation family needs. MELODY BAY finds out more.

LABOUR OF LOVE

This pre-war Tiong Bahru walk-up combines industrial edge with speakeasy and heritage elements. MELODY BAY does a walk-through.