Home Living | Towards an Industrial Chic Home

About 2 years ago {GOSH can't believe how time just flew by!} I talked about having a kitchen makeover using white and natural woodwork for a Zakka feel. Unfortunately the interior designer {ID} we wanted to work with was such a flake and disappeared without a word after our initial discussions ゜(｀Д´)゜ It was pretty frustrating but thank goodness he left before work even began!!

Anyway life got kind of busy and we left it as that and didn't bother to find another ID.

Just before we left for our recent Japan trip, the boy and I got talking about home reno again though. We decided that we probably won't be moving out of our current home in the near future {love the convenient location & amenities} so we might as well invest in renovating it to meet our current needs and make it a more comfortable stay for the next few years. After all, it has been 7+ years since we moved in and it could do with a little sprucing up. Or maybe a lot haha.

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The boy and I are on the same page and want something industrial chic and kind of minimalistic. I say "kind of" because if you have ever been to our home, you'll know that we are anything but :P So the key takeaway for my brother-in-law {BIL} is basically "storage, storage and more storage". As much hidden storage as possible. He has his own architecture / interior design firm so we will be working with him on this. My BIL is a very dependable and meticulous guy, so I know we can trust him with our home renovation project.

I'm very excited for it {not so much for the packing up though!!} and have a whole Pinterest board of ideas!!

I even made a Powerpoint presentation for my BIL to make sure that he understood what we had in mind (*^▽^*)

There will definitely be rearranging of our rooms and living spaces. I think what's most exciting for the boy {ok fine, me too!} is that we will be building our own home gym!! ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ

Woohoo! Not like a super big one.. but one big enough for us to hold our Air dyne, a bench, our dumb-bells, a wall squat rack, chin-up bar etc. A place that we can work out together at home with Lil Pumpkin. She can practice her gymnastics moves there too hopefully. 

We will probably be changing most of our furniture and Lil Pumpkin's Princess bed with slide will probably have to go. Not too sure yet. If anybody is interested in it {or any of our other furniture} do holler out. We can work something out haha ( ◞･౪･)

Fingers crossed that we'll start our home renovation project next month and have it all done by end November / early December so that we can celebrate Christmas there!! I'll be updating this project on the blog when it happens so keep a look out for it xox

Any home reno tips for us?

Where's your fave places to shop for furniture, lights, tiles etc.?

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