Hear no evil, See no evil , Speak no evil

It's the rule that you can't overwhelmed a small wall space with large picture and vice versa. How about a large wall space behind your sofa and you can't find or don't have the budget for a large picture to frame it? Just group a few pictures of the same size either in a row or four pictures together in a four-square to create the illusion of a bigger picture.

Here's what I did. I wanted a theme for my latest project that would meant something to me. So I took some selfies based on the quote "Hear no evil, see no evil, speak no evil". Bought the A3 frames from Kaison, then blew up the pictures from my phone and TADAAA!!

Not exactly artistic type of pictures but my furkids aren't complaining about it and that's it. Another mission accomplished.

The Pussy Willow

The pussy willow is up right in the beautiful dragon motif vase that I bought years ago and Chinese New Year is just around the corner! The only time of the year that I can catch up on my sleep. Just a quick and gentle warning to all my loved ones, don't you ever dare to drag me up early in the morning. You will regret the outburst that you'll be going through if you do.

New Greens in The House

The 'Fault in our stars' inspired decor has to be replaced with a real plant as I was told that it's inauspicious to have a dead tree in house.

A pot of lively green bamboo palm is sitting in this spot now and the running light goes to the Billy bookcase highlighting my super mini bar.

Wishing Out Aloud

It's always good to wish for something aloud. The universe works in its own way to deliver you your wishes when you wanted it bad enough. 

I was wishing for a chaise lounge and a foot stool. Allocated a spot for them as I was trying to work out my budget. I daydreamed with Danielle how I will decorate them in future. 

Then one day Danielle sent me a picture of a stool saying she's giving it away and if I mind hands-me-down stuff. "No! Not at all! I can always reholstered and customized it" that was what I said. The best thing was she's going to help me out with this little DIY work. Nice, I have a foot stool now. Then I bought a piece of strong tweed grey fabric and 4 piece of chromed kitchen cabinet legs. A perfect combination. It was simply beautiful. No sewing required. Just stapling and sealing the edges with some ordinary glue.

Here's my Princess Emmanuelle being the showroom model.

Another pleasant surprise came up soon after. I was at work when Danielle called and sounded so urgent. I wondered what's wrong, she never calls out of a sudden like that. All sorts of things came across my mind during that few seconds. I can't believe it when she said there's a chaise lounge to be given away as well. Wow! Am I dreaming or what? This is really an awesome dream! 

More works were required to give it a new leash of life. The frame was sanded before it was sprayed with silver paint. Boy, it was a mess. The paint fume were all over the place during the process. A lot of cleaning to do afterwards. Then I reholstered it with grey velvet fabric. And as for the bolster, I had to leave it to the professional. The place where I bought all my fabrics provided the sewing service.

This is the most comfortable spot in the house now. I always fell asleep and even slept soundly right in this chaise lounge. Thanks to my buddy. 

Simple and Easy Way for Noise Reduction

It was a plain white canvas where I'm free to dictate how it's going to turn out and I'm so excited.

First of all I'm going to seal up that door. No, just sealing it won't do. I will need to do something to reduce the amount of noise going back and forth through that door. This kind of doors are usually hollow in the middle giving them a lot of empty space for the noise to go in, vibrates and reflected to the other side. This almost guaranteed lack of privacy for both side of the house. 

I got an acoustic chalk for this purpose. Sealing up the surrounding gap of the door. What's that? Acoustic chalk is another type of sealant that remains permanently flexible rather than hardened up like the regular chalk and reflects noises to every direction. This acoustic chalk is able to absorbs noises ( never knew I could be talking about types of sealant chalk).

Then I bought a queen size quilt from IKEA for RM9.90 only (this item is out of production for now) and hang it over the door for further noise absorption. With another layer of foam tape at the gaps with cardboard and I'm done.

Noise reduction works done but it's a total eyesore as can be seen here. I've got one BILLY bookcase up and I need one more to complete it.

 And TAHDA!! Here it is as if the door never existed in the first place