Things to Fix in the House - Part 2

2 months ago, in my previous post, I mentioned that certain things in the house are becoming an eye sore and we (or rather, I) have decided to do something about them. These are the following:

1) Spoilt Rubber Sealing Strips on glass doors
2) Bedside table lamp that we have used no more than 5 times
3) The big canvas photo of us in the study that has become yellowish over time
4) Window grilles in the house to prevent our future kid from falling down (choy!)

So far, we have replaced the rubber sealing strips on the glass doors, so #1 is solved.

I sold off the the bedside table lamp on eBay, so #2 is solved too.

We are left with #3 and #4, the more expensive "problems" that we have to take care of.

Previously, I mentioned that I have found a custom frame maker, so all we need to do is to decide which photo to use, print it out and bring it to the frame maker for mounting. We have been procrastinating cos we haven't really sat down to discuss what kind of photo we should use. As it ain't gonna be cheap, we have to consider our options carefully.

I finally know what to do with that wall after dumping the big canvas photo!!! You see, I have always thought our home lack display shelves for photos. When we were doing our reno, we didn't want too many display corners cos "more things = more cleaning". LOL. Our passageway to the bedrooms is like a photo gallery, with 6 pics there, but yet there is none in the living room. In the study, there is only 1 big canvas photo, a portrait of us in grad gown below it on the table, an 8R ROM photo on the shelf on the left side of the room, and another glass photo frame beside the wall cabinet that we customised from Tokyo Disneyland.





These are not "colourful" enough, I feel. And I finally know what we can do!! Instead of printing out another big photo and going through all the hassle of photo editing (we designed the current one ourselves) and finding a supplier to print out such a big piece of photo, why not do wall decals instead??? Had thought of installing wall paper, but that would be expensive.

So I came to know of Wink Play through Tai Tai and browsed through their website and thereafter many other wall decal websites too and decided to install wall decals, wahahhahahaa! All it took was 2 days for me to read up all I need to know about installing big wall decals, browse through other websites, and Kitty to do a mock-up of something we thought would look nice (it did not suit the colour of the wall though so forget about it), and I placed the order already!!!

The idea is to have wall decals to cover the left side of the wall and have them stretch to almost the middle portion of the wall, then we'll hang multiple photo frames, one of which is a smaller version of the current pic (don't waste it mah). In the future, we may even add words (if suitable for the overall look) to the wall, haha! Since the frames will hang on the wall without any shelf, there is minimal cleaning to be done, haha!

I will post pics on the progress. Now awaiting Wink Play to do the layout for confirmation!

Lastly.... #4 will have to wait. Expensive manz. Wahahahahhahaa!