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home interior design!

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Excited and pre-occupied seems like an understatement to how we are these days. But we ain’t complaining of course, we’re loving every minute of it!! “Ichi go ichi e” as one of our favorite mentor and one of our ninong Nagano-san, told us. Make the most out of every moment, do your best with what is at hand because you only pass by this moment once. =)

So on top of beating deadlines, dealing with office drama and finding our way in this engineering maze, Hubbie and I have to process some very important paperwork, prepare for our perfect and beautiful wedding and prepare for ourselves a beautiful home as well. Hence, in between obtaining important documents and researching for good wedding detail ideas, we need to keep an eye open as well on home decor ideas. Got started yesterday. And i sure am loving every minute of it.

Three essential tips on home interior designing that i’ve learned so far:

  1. keep a single theme
  2. for small condos, invest on vertical decors and furnishings that adds to the illusion of length
  3. for small condos, keep light and pastel colors on your furnishings and decors to help add to the illusion of space

I know mirrors do add to the illusion of space, but i’m not too keen on keeping a big one – yes, i’d just get scared with it at midnights.

This one would be great in our tatami-floored living room, in front of the kutatsu, hehe! But it’s at 30,000pesos!! So it probably would remain as just an “idea”.

The cheery brown wood version of this lamp would be perfect on the corner of our living room

Hubbie and I both agree we’ve got to have live green (and flowering if possible!) plants inside our house. This wooden stand with multiple levels having plants and picture frames with our photos alternately decorating its shelves would be lovely on the corner of our dining room.

Plants and a candle atop its rocky ceramic holder would be great on our toilet. We still don’t know what to do with that weird condensate piping though……suggestions are very much welcome.

You got to make the most out of the space you have in your condo hence a couch with drawers underneath would be very efficient.

My dream house in mind has got bay windows in it. Our condo now do have a pseudo-bay window albeit it can’t fit our butts in it. But it has got enough space for a lampshade and a vase of flower hence i’m thankful with it already. Plus, with the lampshade up there, we can have more space on the floor for some other what-nots.

So, till the next home decor ideas hopping! Hopefully my next post is all about entourage flowers. =)

I almost didn’t make it to my wedding

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wifey’s tale.

I am a highly independent person. If I can make it on my own, if I can do it on my own without anyone’s help, I’d do it just so nobody would be bothered.

But, as the cliche goes, no man is an island. Time and again, you’d call on family and friends for you to be able to survive.

Hence, Hubbie and I are really thankful for Kat and Rey who rushed me just in time to Asian Hospital. If not for them, I wouldn’t have seen the next daylight, much less be able to have my dream church wedding. To think it was just because of the half-cooked ham. Me and my uber-sensitive stomach. >_<

Anyways, dehydration is one serious case that has to be attended to, and fast.

To Kat and Rey, we owe you one. And thanks to Ate Mel and Kuya John who visited me in the hospital.

And oh, live, love, laugh each day of your life. For everyday is a gift.

Here’s my MOH, by my room’s bay window, keeping me company for the day.

By the way, I would love to have a bay window in our home! Bay windows make such a lovely corner!!

screen-captured from www.instructables.com

doing it the right way

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Weddings ain’t cheap. It comes with a hefty deduction on your savings. Hence, soon-to-weds make a real effort to think of creative ways to make their wedding beautiful yet not that pricey.

In all my dealings with our suppliers, I get really happy when I get to negotiate a discount from the usual package. Because it would mean we can have a budget for the additional items that we haven’t foreseen that may come up later during the detailed design phase (yeah, talk about EPC business, hahaha!).

Hence a certain encounter I had last week brought us to a really tricky situation. We would be able to save from the VAT if we will not ask for the official receipt. And with VAT, we’re talking about more than 20,000pesos here. I can do a lot with additional 20,000pesos. I can have 2 lechon with that. Or one additional dessert. Or pay our musician/strings ensemble. Or pay our hair & make-up. Or pay the entourage flowers. Or have a mobile bar. Or pay a one-way ticket to Japan. Or book the hotels for the entourage.

But not paying the VAT would be tantamount to tax evasion. As an employee, I’ve been paying enough tax as it is since it is immediately deducted from my salary. And well, knowing that a major portion of my salary only goes to greedy politicians really aches me and can be motivation enough not to pay for the VAT.

But the Philippines needs some change. And we can contribute to that change by starting the change ourselves.

It has been a difficult decision. It’s easier to be selfish and just think of the amount we will be able to save. But we want to do it the right way hence we decided to pay for the VAT, even if it costs us. Something will just have to be given up (the mobile bar, for instance). As Hubbie pointed out, it is important that we start our new life as husband & wife in the right way, in the just and correct path.

And I can only hope that all couples, when presented the same situation, would also take the same course. Our country needs our help guys.

Hachinohe

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The FEED Phase of this project found us seatmates in 34th Floor South Wing of Queens A. If not for that, it would have taken longer for us to find each other. I say “longer” because I believe that eventually, we will still find each other. But then again, I think, that that time when furtuitous events led us to being projectmates and seatmates has been the perfect time that we have been praying for.

http://www.jgc.co.jp/en/01newsinfo/2010/release/20101021.html

EPC is now underway for this plant. Hope it’ll be a very productive phase this time, as it has been in the previous phase.

Moving in

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Hubby has just moved in to our new place! Piles and piles of boxes for now; with a box or two somewhere for my books and coats that I brought with me last month.
When we were house-hunting a month ago, we looked for a sunny place. And indeed we got one! Both the living room and dining area have access to the veranda which faces the east. The sun also comes streaming in on our bedroom window. Lovely. The library on the other hand faces the west and it might be lovely in the afternoons. (I think, haha. we didn’t get to see it during sunset) Although probably it might not be as sunny as the other rooms which is just as good since it would house all our books.

bedroom!

library!

living room!

dining area!; and beyond the counter, kitchen!

Kudos Hubby, good work! =)