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Entryway: Blending Retro Glass Bricks with Modern Contemporary Design
HomeOur Japandi entryway that greets you as you enter~
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Our Japandi entryway that greets you as you enter~
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- Japandi
- HDB (BTO)
- ~1,200 sqft
- 3 br
- Couple Living
This week, let us bring you through our entryway! For those curious, our laminate of choice is loft birch from Panaplast and our limewash paint is Sesame (LW06) from Vasari. At the entryway, we have a row of carpentry built for storage which we will run through as we go along this post. To save some cost on renovation, we retained all of the tiles and door that came with the HDB when we collected our keys. We engaged Riche Stone to help conceal the grout lines with marble gum grouting. We enjoyed their service as they are very responsive to your queries and provides updates on the progress throughout the service, so that we do not need to take time off to watch them work. Our digital lock is from Eazea, so far we are happy with the lock for safeguarding our place whenever we are not at home. We are also able to view the corridor anytime from our phone app and it will alert you whenever someone is near your door. When we thought about the electrical works at the entryway, we had to consider the logic as we enter or exit the house. For example, when we unlocked the doors, we want to be able to switch on lights within arms reach from the door as we return from outdoors. Similarly, we want to be able to switch off all of the lights when we exit the house without having to walk back into the house. We bought 4 gang 2way switch to be placed at this specific location to meet our logic. 
Most new homeowners will conceal their DB box and we are also one of them. Here's how our DB box looks like after concealing. We place our modem here, along with some items we think we might access frequently, such as batteries. Below the DB box, we requested our ID to install shelves so that it can serve as our shoe rack. Honestly speaking, the depth of the carpentry is quite deep.... so deep that we can place the shoes in 2 rows! Right next to the shoe rack is a full height storage. We requested from our ID a storage compartment where we can store our handheld vacuum (and other vacuum accessories) and charge it, therefore, the height of the shelves are arranged as such, shown in the picture. Not a bad idea when you want to stow away the vacuum in a place that's not the storeroom. We frequently access the handheld vacuum and this is a great location to store it. The remaining part of the carpentry is a glass display cabinet, an arched settee for wearing shoes (with storage below) and carpentries with an open niche for display of photos and knick knacks We thought that having an arched settee would be great when we looked at the 3D renders. Indeed it is a beautiful piece of carpentry to have in the house. However, if you ask us how many times we actually sat down to wear shoes, we can count with our fingers. Instead what ended up of the arched settee is that it became a place where guest will leave their bags so that it is not lying around the house when they visit. Haha... guess it still serve some sort of a purpose? 
Our open niche features our favourite studio ghibli clock (currently with Kiki's delivery service magnets) and some knick knacks we collected as we go travelling or spend money on blind boxes. Do you like our honeycomb CNY lantern decor? We got it from taobao! It took almost a month to reach us due to the festive period but no regrets! We will keep it for 2026 CNY haha 
Here's another view of the carpentry when the doors are opened. We have a lot of carpentry for 2 person that we have yet to fill it up but we rather have a bit more storage than to have insufficient storage. As a couple, both of us place great emphasis on tidiness and therefore, storage is a must. For couples with similar mindsets, do strike a balance in terms of the amount of storage you want to have, as excessive storage is costly (carpentries are expensive) and eats up a lot of space in the house and might make the space look smaller. Another thing to note is that curve carpentry doors comes with additional cost as they are hard to fabricate. These 2 doors in the picture are amongst the last carpentry doors to be installed, taking almost 1 month to be fabricated. That's it for our entryway! Hope our design will provide inspiration to some of you guys who are looking to renovate your space in the near future!
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