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Now that I can access our house-warming photos, I would like to share with you what kept us busy in the latter part of 2009.

Most of the furniture we have in the house were the ones that survived Ondoy. I just bought decorative accents, mostly from SM, Regalong Pambahay and Landmark. Most of the rooms also got accent walls. Vic was bored-to-death with the cream-colored interiors from before.

Here are some shots of the refurbished part of the house. This is living room and dining room.


We also played up the lights to create the mood. As you can see, we only used recessed lights. The retailers of Soler were a great help. We got most of our lighting fixtures and bulbs from there. The curtains weren't supposed to be tied back, but we decided to do so just to let the air in.

This is the hallway connecting the old part of the house to the den. There's a sliding door (hidden at this time) to seal off the den in case we'd like to turn on the a/c.


Here is a shot of the den taken from the side of the kitchen.


The glass walls you see are sliding doors leading to this part.


By the way, the only piece of new furniture we had was this custom-made long dining table. It was copied from Crate and Barrel's catalogue.



The only thing that we really spent a bulk of our budget on was the kitchen. We got soft-closing cabinet hardware. We also ensured that we had ample space to keep all our kitchen stuff, bakeware and china organized. I don't have a decent shot of Cathy's kitchen. I will probably share it with you in my future baking session.

I never knew that building a house (or an extension, in our case) could be so much work and stress. It's a good thing that we see ourselves living in this house for a long time. I just hope we won't have a repeat of Ondoy.

Comments

i can relate me.

the backroom's being renovated for my use, and trust me, sakit sa ulo sa gastos and details huhuhuhu
piafacundo said…
it looks so lovely cutty!!! congrats!!
Deepa said…
very elegant cutty! *clap clap clap*

hope to get lots of useful advice from you when we start building our house in a few years (hopefully)...
CathyCE said…
@ EW- It'll all be worth it when you see the result. Parang makakalimutan mo lahat ng cause ng stress.

@ PFK & Deepa - Thanks, thanks! I wish it could look like that forever. Kaya lang with kids around, the pictures you saw didn't even last a day.

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