Design Neu

25/08/2026

24/08/2026

Our clients didn't name their home after a style. They named it Embernook.

Ember — because this family has kept a fire for three generations. Grandparents, uncles, mum: hawkers, all of them. So the kitchen isn't a showpiece. It's a working hawker's kitchen — open steel shelving, heavy pots within reach, Peranakan tiles underfoot melting into terrazzo.

Nook — because home had to be a safe corner. One of our homeowners is autistic with ADHD, and experiences the world at full volume. So every surface is matte, so no glare shouts. The palette stays at a quiet baseline — the blue of the old Kallang Basin pool (painted right onto the bathroom pipe), the green of the park connectors, warm wood — with sparks of orange, red and yellow that get to sing without shouting.

And the three aging dogs? R11 floor tiles grip their paws. The tile colour hides their fur. The furniture sits high enough to make cool, low dens beneath.

Loud colours. Quiet house. Nothing curated for trends — everything shaped by life.

EMBERNOOK — our design concept for Geylang Bahru. Some fires are for show. This one keeps a family warm.

02/08/2026

The White Peacock - It stands in the living area niche surrounded by their photographs — pride, beauty, heritage in one bird. The reconstruction lets the house wear it, a classical display fanned out in pure white, from the ribbed vault spreading over the dining room to balustrades and arches repeating at every scale, with a single red flash at the gate.

Beneath the display, the nest: five rooms grown around five lives, a chapel of their own, portraits climbing the staircase faster than they can be framed. All of it standing on the original columns — retained, reinforced, and raised a full storey taller.

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26/07/2026

In our last post, this home lived in a permanent golden hour.

We left something out.

The bedrooms refused to join.

Past the bedroom doors, the bronze stops. The palette flips — white marble, soft brass, boucle. Materials that hold the day's first light instead of its last. Because nobody wants to fall asleep at dusk and wake up in it too.

And the children's rooms go one step further: platform beds that step down in waves, where every step is a drawer. Porthole windows cut for peeking. A desk that will outlast the toys beside it. Rooms designed for age six — and age sixteen.

One half of the home set to evening. The other half set to morning.

FIRST LIGHT — the companion concept to Bronze Hour, at Midtown Modern.

24/07/2026

There's one hour of light photographers plan their entire day around. The last warm hour — when everything glows, and the city finally softens.

The homeowners didn't want a home that looks good at that hour.

They wanted a home that lives in it. Permanently.

So every material was tuned to one temperature: burnished bronze that holds light instead of reflecting it. Smoked timber lines running overhead. Marble veined in rust and sienna. Cove lighting set to amber — never white.

Outside those windows, the city changes by the minute.

Inside, it is always the hour worth coming home to.

BRONZE HOUR — our design concept for Midtown Modern. A peaceful home, in the middle of the city.

24/07/2026

We’re building a team of designers who are humble, driven, and willing to learn. Skills can be trained. Attitude is a choice.

18/07/2026

Photographers chase the golden hour; this home was designed to live in its own. A palette of burnished bronze, leather-look panels, smoked timber, and amber cove light holds the whole apartment at that exact temperature — the warm, low-angle glow of a city evening — permanently. Marble veined in rust and sienna carries the same hour into the stone. Outside, the day changes; inside, it is always the hour worth staying home for.

17/07/2026

05/07/2026

Even straight lines need a place to curve.

A softer wall. A little daylight. The week, finally slowing down.

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