Hasta La Ideas

Last week I started a small series of posts about Living in Kuala Lumpur…the Good, the Bad and today we do the Beautiful…

Living in Kuala Lumpur is truly a color feast. Not only the colors you see everywhere but also the 'colors' of the many cultures living here… three groups op people make this country, Malaysia so very interesting… the Orang Asli or the Malay, the Chinese and the Indians. Although they live very peaceful and happy together they keep to their own culture, food, habits, religion and festivities. Malaysia probably has the most National Holidays in the world :):) … no complaints here!

One of my favorites part in town is China town. I love buying supplies here for my small ventures, but also for it's Asian feel. I live in an expat part of town which is nice, but has lost some of its authentic colors already…  when Marjon was here we spend a whole afternoon cruising the little streets of China Town and Marjon captured so beautifully. SImple things are inspiring and when you know how to look you see a lot!

I will not bother you with more words, I hope you will just enjoy these images… come and visit me and this special country one day too 🙂 

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All images by Marjon Hoogervorst

Yeahhhh… I have talked about our Singapore apartment before and I have talked about white floors before… and finally after weeks renovation our apartment is finally finished and I am very very happy with the result. Last weekend my husband and I went together to give our favorite space in the world a good clean and we started to decorate a bit. Hopefully soon I will get some profesional photographers to come and help me take nice pictures of the whole apartment. 

Here is a before the renovation picture, the state in which we bought this place… together with architect Jacqueline Yeo from Ply-Studio we came up with ideas to make this apartment much brighter, wider and open. 

I have always loved plywood so we decided on using this material for all the build-in cabinets. The colors black and white go best with my all my thrift shop purchases and vintage finds I believe.

Hope you like the look and feel. Once I have better and shaper images of the place I will tell you more about the lamps, vases, chairs etc. and where I have found them… all very very cheap, yes that is possible :-)…

Images by me, irene

Perhaps you saw my bedroom appear over at the great Bodie&Fou blog yesterday… Karine invited me to be part of her 'A corner of my bedroom' series … and I enjoyed looking at my own bedroom like this!

a short story I had written about our bedroom: "The Master bedroom! That is where my husband and I are currently sleeping…a little over a year ago we moved to a real house after living in apartments all our lives and while searching for this house we saw many 'huge' master-bedrooms, apparently very important here in Asia. For us it feels like having a second living-room and I must say we spend quite some time here…

Sunday mornings, evenings and when the family wants to watch a movie…the only real TV in our house is in our bedroom. I have tried to make it cozy by adding some nostalgia and sentimental accessories…like a patchwork blanket that I made myself from fabrics that my mom gave to me, my photo-album from when I was a baby, some vintage vases and the old telephone from the Netherlands. A picture of me and my sister is hanging above my bedside table and only recently I added the textile fabric wall decal (yes also made them myself). I love my new necklaces from Kristina Klarin and the yellow hanger is there to give some color to the wall. I wish was allowed to paint the floor black or white…."

Thank You Karine for the lovely invitation!

All images made by myself, Irene 🙂

sitting at my mom's garden table in the Netherlands enjoying some tea and cookies…

Our moblie from XandL hanging in our bedroom…

my new ceramic pots from Inkypots I bought over at an art and craft fair here in KL…