Layered Living
SquareRooms|September 2020
Airy and spacious, this condominium unit puts a spotlight on the home’s carefully curated furniture using a neutral colour palette.
YAIZA CANOPOLI
Layered Living

At a glance

Space CONDOMINIUM

Location PANDAN VALLEY

Home to THREE ADULTS AND TWO KIDS

Reno period 12 WEEKS

Raymond Quah is not just any homeowner—he’s also the head of Pomelo, his very own furniture shop on Outram Road. As such, furniture was always going to be at the heart of his home renovation. Ahead, he tells us how the designers from Artistroom executed his functional, down-to-earth vision, always keeping his love for furniture at the centre of it all.

Living area

Designed to highlight the homeowners’ beloved furniture items and art pieces, the living room functions as a blank canvas. Toned-down carpentry with a stained plywood finish lines the walls of this space, overlaid with terrazzo made from renovation leftovers.

What made you want to go for this house when you first bought it?

We bought the place to be close to our kids’ school. It’s the ultimate Singaporean parent cliché, but we previously lived in the East and driving across the island and back every day was just impractical and exhausting. We chose Pandan Valley because the units there are generally much larger. Being an old development from 1978, Pandan Valley is also priced significantly lower than anything else in the surrounding area. We could have gotten a much newer place with shinier facilities for the same price, but it would have been half the size.

TV room

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