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The Crafty Ways IKEA Gets You To Buy More Stuff: Here’s Why Singaporeans Are Addicted

Did you know that IKEA is currently the most valuable furniture brand in the world?  (It’s valued at over $21 billion USD).  It also employs over 220,000 people around the world and sells over a billion meatballs per year. Yes,…

• 6 Apr 2022
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6 Aesthetic Cafe Features To Steal To Elevate Your Home Dining Experience

Who doesn’t like to enjoy a nice cup of coffee, while relaxing beneath a canopy of foliage and flora? It’s probably the number one guilty pleasure of many Singaporeans today – paying over the top for coffee in an aesthetic…

• 16 Feb 2022
• 7 min read
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5 Best Spots To Find Vintage Furniture In Singapore For Unique, One-In-A-Kind Pieces

One of the unintended effects of the pandemic was just how much time people spent at home. So it’s no surprise that people splurged to redecorate their homes (according to a report, to a tune of 527 billion dollars in…

• 24 Jan 2022
• 9 min read
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5 Best Natural Stones Suited For Singapore, According To Experts (Pros And Cons)

Have you ever been to someone’s home, only to find that the space just doesn’t feel as luxurious in person?  The way the drawers close, the way the floor feels as you walk across it barefooted. Even the kitchen countertops…

• 29 Nov 2021
• 7 min read
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10 Creative IKEA Hacks To Uniquely Transform Your Furniture (Ranked By Difficulty)

If you didn’t know already, Ikea is the biggest home furniture retailer in the world. Its revenue in 2020 was $44 billion dollars, and it’s in 52 countries employing 217,000 people. We all love Ikea for its affordable pieces, timeless…

• 29 Jun 2021
• 9 min read
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10 Entryway Items For A Stylish Welcome Home

With the size of units in Singapore shrinking as time goes by, having an entryway into the home is becoming increasingly less common as well. Many of the new launch units will have done away with an entryway completely, with…

• 27 Jul 2020
• 6 min read
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10 Kitchen Accessories For A Stylish Kitchen

If we had to settle on a positive that has come out of the Coronavirus situation, a clear winner would be the additional time that we all now have on our hands. By working from home and cutting out all…

• 21 Jul 2020
• 5 min read
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10 Bathroom Accessories That Will Spruce Up Your Bathroom

For most people, the bathroom is an often neglected area in the house – and it’s easy to see why. It’s small and hidden, plus how many times do you possibly need to use the bathroom in a day? It…

• 13 Jul 2020
• 6 min read
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10 Home Office Upgrades You Need To Work From Home

It goes without saying that there isn’t a single person that would have wished for a pandemic such as this to happen. But if (and a big one at that) we had to eke out a silver lining to the…

• 30 Jun 2020
• 8 min read
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10 Unique Dinnerware Pieces For Your Next Dinner Party

Depending on whether you’re an introvert or extrovert, you’d either describe your time home in the last few weeks as a “wonderful experience” or one akin to being “cooped up in a cage”. Well, whether you’ve enjoyed it or not,…

• 30 Jun 2020
• 7 min read
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The ART Of Framing

Some people have described art frames to be as important as the art itself. In fact, as put so eloquently by Emma Crichton-Miller of Christie’s, “Frames are the Cinderellas of the art world; they do a tremendous amount of work.”…

• 14 May 2020
• 3 min read
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How To Elevate Your Home With Art

If you are thinking of ways to decorate your home, art has always been a fantastic way to showcase your personal style or even to transform a place with plain decor to one with some pizzazz. But the biggest mistake…

• 15 Apr 2020
• 4 min read
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7 Indoor Plants to Keep Your Apartment Feeling Fresh

The level of haze blanketing Singapore at the moment has hit the unhealthy range of more than 101 PSI. It certainly makes us long for those good old days with clear skies and fresh air. Living in Singapore, having access…

• 19 Sep 2019
• 3 min read
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5 Best (Affordable) Smart Home Devices in Singapore

It seems like nowadays everything can be connected to the Internet, with the word smart being attached to just about anything. Smart TV, smart refrigerator, and even smart washing machine are just some of the many devices that have had…

• 17 Sep 2019
• 5 min read
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IKEA Singapore Alexandra – Tips to pick the best quality furniture

Going on a trip to IKEA Singapore Alexandra? If you are going on a weekend, be prepared to jostle with the crowd.

• 3 Mar 2019
• 3 min read
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