House tour!

I just realized while thinking of what to post today that I haven’t made a proper house tour since I started this blog. So here’s my attempt at showing you some of the rooms in our townhouse. The bedrooms are pretty small since the lot area is only around 53 square meters, but we do have four floors including four bedrooms, a den, kitchen, dirty kitchen, combined dining and living room, three bathrooms, maid’s room, and a roofdeck.

Here goes: Welcome to our home!

Let’s go through it floor by floor, shall we?

{All photos that follow are by me, unless otherwise indicated.}

Each of the rooms in our house have already gone through so many style permutations even while we’ve only lived here for a little over two years. Most of our furniture are stuff we’ve had since before my husband and I got married, and others you will see in the photos that follow have already been sold off or given away. But this is basically what our home looks.

On the first floor, you will find our combined living and dining room:

You might remember our dining shelves which I had made out of wooden crates from this post, and the white console which I improved on with “faux mirrors” (hihihi) from this post. I am having a wooden wine rack made by design studio Morfosis (though I have yet to deposit my payment oops!) so that we could finally get our wine bottles off the floor.

These photos were also taken while I was still pregnant with the babycat, so there is an obvious disparity with the amount of stuff that you see here and in the actual rooms today. Now we have some toys, her play car, stroller, and my husband’s bike all squeezed into this small space.

You’ll also find our Nana’s (my husband’s yaya since birth—yes we’re incredibly lucky to have her! She’s already in her late 50s but still very much active and sprightly, sometimes even more than me!) bedroom on this floor, as well as a toilet and bathroom, and the kitchen and dirty kitchen. I don’t have photos of our kitchen yet, as I have yet to organize it. That’s one item on my never-ending to-do list.

Now on to the second floor!

This is still more or less how it looks today, although I’ve already put up a gallery wall above the sofa, which I posted on Instagram a few weeks back.

The sectional was bought from a furniture store (forgot the name!) in Robinsons Forum. What I love about it is that it has storage underneath (under the lounge sofa part), and also converts into a bed (it has a pullout trundle), which makes it the perfect spot to hang on movie nights with the hubby.

I didn’t take a photo of the wall with the TV and record player, because that is still such a mess. I plan to have a sideboard custom-made for it, but haven’t had the time to find a contractor or supplier for it yet.

When we moved in, all the walls were painted with Davies Antique White, while all the ceilings were painted in flat white. For our bedroom, I wanted a calm, serene feel, so I had the ceiling painted a very soft powder blue (I’d forgotten the paint color, but it is also from Davies). I chose to limit the blue to the ceiling, to imitate the sky, and decided to leave the walls as they were because I knew I’d eventually get tired of too much blue. So far, I’m happy with our sky blue ceiling.

Our bed is something we’d had from our very first apartment, which we bought from Mobler along Wilson Street in Greenhills. It’s the Leirvik bed from Ikea. The bedside lamps are also from Ikea, which I had a friend bring home from Ikea in Singapore. You’ll find out that I am slightly Ikea-obsessed, and I follow several Ikea resellers on Instagram (@creative_moms, @momsdepotph, @furnituresourcephils, @ikeagoodsph, and @ikeashopmanila).

Our night tables were a steal at P2500 each from this Japanese discount store called Kenko. My full-length mirror is also an accessories cabinet which holds all my jewelry. The director’s chairs—from DIY Handyman—at the foot of the bed have now been replaced with the babycat’s junior bed.

And if you recall, I published this photo from last Monday’s post, showing our custom-built cabinets and vanity/TV wall.

We had to put a plywood wall before hanging up the TV rack, because that wall is actually made of gypsum (drywall) and would not have been sturdy enough to hold the weight of the TV. It’s also not clear in the photo (obviously just taken with my iPhone), but I had the closets painted glossy white, while the TV wall is painted in the same color as our ceiling.

Now on to the third floor. This is the floor with the most number of rooms—the babycat’s nursery, toilet and bath, my home office/library, and my husband’s music room.

And last, but not the least, the fourth floor—our roofdeck:

There you have it—my first ever house tour. LOL “first ever”—just channeling that we will have a second one someday in the future, like in my future Cornwall cottage 😉 Doesn’t hurt to dream, right?