How To Get Home Renovation Done Within 38k Budget?

November 3, 2018November 5, 2018 reddotzidLeave a comment

In a ever increasing inflation impacts on construction workers and material costs, home owners always lack of sufficient renovation savings needed for their new home renovation.

With limited budget, how can we make a good choice on expending at the right renovation items that will make a comfortable home?

Tips For Getting Home Renovation Done

Throughout our tremendous design experience with our customers who came with different demands, here are our tips for home owners who wish for getting things done with minimum costs.

1. Identify Essential Items

First and foremost, home owners need to wisely allocate their available costs onto the essential and feel good items such as nice dining table set, comfortable sofa, soft beddings, multi functional kitchen cabinet, adequate storage space, a few designer lighting and cooling air condition that is important for Malaysian in particular.

Do thorough searching and comparisons to different qualities and costs of each items on the market, create a simple excel sheet to records and get the estimated total costs on these important items.

2. Ready Made Furniture

Since the budget are limited, it is good choice to opt for ready made furniture instead of build ins cabinets, IKEA, Muji and some online shopping websites are good sources for valuable home furniture.

One thing needed to take note are the size and material of these furniture should able to fit in our home space and colour scheme.

3. Simplify Colour Scheme

Speaking about colour scheme, we suggest cleverly limiting overall colours to 3 main colours on each room. Mono and earth tone materials or colours like black, white, grey and brown can blend into the design scheme effortlessly.

For more clues on how to blend in a good colour scheme for your house, read this Freshome article about 3 Most Important Interior Design Colour Scheme Rules.

Take note especially the rule of 10/30/60 for selecting the right accent, secondary and main colours.

4. Embrace Expose Ceiling

Plaster ceiling is one of the first thing come across our mind when thinking about home renovation. While it is nice to have them with conceal light cove, yet they will also take away a large sum of our limited costs.

Thus, why don’t we think differently to find ways on appreciate the bare natural beauty of existing ceiling slabs and beam structures and adapt our home design with them?

Made good use of track lightings and pendant lights on different areas, you will be surprised how minimum cost you can achieve the desired living ambiance.

Japanese Restaurant Front Entrance Design Malaysia

Japanese Restaurant Design Made Different

October 18, 2018October 17, 2018 reddotzidLeave a comment

We have invited to provide design solutions for a Duo Entry Izakaya Japanese Restaurant at USJ Mall Subang Jaya.

There is a outdoor dining platform that connects to restaurant’s main entrance. We cater a dedicated stand alone sake bar kiosk that serves Japanese sake and drinks during night hours.

Pendant lights are placed on top of every dining tables to create intimate light zonings for each group of dinners when the sun falls.

Yakitori bar counter are located right at the footstep when entering the restaurant interior.

Dark grey steel framings with mixture of raw brown and cement like timber panels has been carried through this area from exterior platform.

A well organized grid lines of LED conceal light strips and tracking lightings are carefully installed along the walkways and also feature walls to highlight various dining spaces around the restaurant.

VIP dining space is defined with a dedicated wine display steel shelve framing that double as divider partition.

Different selection of long dining table, arm chairs and glass pendant fixtures makes VIP space truly special.

A contrast dark blue Japanese hangover curtain been placed on the texture plastering on surrounding walls further impress the royal dinners.

White oak timber vinyl floor is chosen for VIP dining area as oppose to light grey timber floor on the rest of areas for visually identification.

Airbnb Home Design Guidelines

September 27, 2018November 3, 2018 reddotzidLeave a comment

Let’s take a deep look into Malaysian Airbnb Home Design thingy, don’t we?

What is the comfortable investment cost ones should put on their first
batch of design and renovation expenses?

Rationally it should be around 30k for a 900 sqft unit. The Ideas behind is we can break even in less than 2 years if execute properly.

Not forget Airbnb home owner still need to set aside some funds for normal day operation, upgrading and maintenance costs.

Here are our suggestions for getting professional Airbnb home design done within the budget range:

1. Minimize Plaster Ceiling Covering Ratio

Plaster ceiling is popular among home owners while thinking of renovation. Yet with a mind on budget, It is wise not to fully cover the whole unit with plaster ceiling.

There are some extra benefits for not having plaster ceiling. As It will lower down ceiling height that will make the space feel small.

Secondly, expose ceiling is getting design trend currently especially for hospitality leisure home. It has more visualy attractions.

2. Make Use of Track Lightings

So how can we do with general lighting if without plaster ceiling? No place for standard LED downlight?

First rule of thumb is to make full use of existing natural sunlights. Try consider double layer window curtains of silk screen and night curtains. This will brighten up the interior spaces with minimum efforts.

Then, we can explore the beauty of trendy track spot lightings. when properly organized and blend into the overall design colour scheme, Track lightings can create a wow appealing lighting effects together with the natural light source.