new bedroom wall decors
circa 2007
this was how one of the rooms looked like when the house was turned over to me. although, this is NOT EXACTLY mine, but that of the model unit. haha, i got cheapskate housing, thus, this room is the same for every homeowner who got the same unit.
circa 2008
i didn't move in to my pet house immediately after it was finished. moron me thought only of the monthly amortization when john first talked about this subdivision project in mactan. boy, was i in for a big surprise when all the other expenses came knocking hard on my front door - there were move-in fees, fees for electricity and water - not to mention light fixtures, furniture and whatnots. so yeah, with nothing but the mullah that comes twice in a month, i had to wait for months before i could truly settle in. funny, i couldn't even afford to buy decent bed sheets. the really, really nice ones will cost you around 3k pesos and more. of course, there are those you'll be lucky enough to get on sale for at least php350 - they're the super, super thin kind, though [but who's complaining when you don't have the budget, haha]. so because bed sheets are expensive, i resorted to using my trusted sleeping bag, which was what i used before i bought the bed frame and mattress, for bed cover.
circa 2011
hehe, cost in turning your house into something livable and at least pleasant to look at is really, really HIGH. that's why even after almost three years - i've done nothing much to improve this room. last week, i made AN EFFORT to at least put something nice to my little blue room. i've always wanted to have nude paintings in my house - but the cheapskate me is not willing to part 3k++ just to get myself a small nude painting.
see, i always think of plane tickets and hotel rooms whenever i consider buying something. if things will cost me the price of a plane ticket or a hotel room, i - more often than not - will choose to buy the plane ticket. so there. but since i still want something "somewhat nude" [allowing a little consideration for my conservative mother who drops in from time to time for a visit] in my room, i opted to hit google image search. picked those that caught my fancy - hit the "print screen" button, pasted to ms paint, saved as jpeg and voila - my little artwork [drat, i forgot to save the artists' names, but all credit is due you whoever you guys are]. then, i brought the jpegs to a photo print shop and ordered a 10 x 14 print. at picture city in ayala, cost per print is php120. next stop was metro ayala's home section and bought equally cheap frames at php349 each.
figuring out where to put my two wall frames
preparing the materials
photo envelopes. i got them for 2,500 won during a visit to seoul in 2010
details, details, details
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p.s. after finishing this little project, i got so hungry that i decided to cook some asparagus for dinner. a few minutes into chopping onions, garlic, tomatoes, asparagus, ju called to inform me that our boss wanted to have a dinner meeting in an hour. i ended up cooking the dish the next day and enjoyed an almost fish+vege dinner over at red kimono, ayala [of course, i had a grumbling stomach during the entire meeting as i only had oat meal that day for brunch. at least the meeting didn't last too long and we all headed to rk for dinner]
this was how one of the rooms looked like when the house was turned over to me. although, this is NOT EXACTLY mine, but that of the model unit. haha, i got cheapskate housing, thus, this room is the same for every homeowner who got the same unit.circa 2008
i didn't move in to my pet house immediately after it was finished. moron me thought only of the monthly amortization when john first talked about this subdivision project in mactan. boy, was i in for a big surprise when all the other expenses came knocking hard on my front door - there were move-in fees, fees for electricity and water - not to mention light fixtures, furniture and whatnots. so yeah, with nothing but the mullah that comes twice in a month, i had to wait for months before i could truly settle in. funny, i couldn't even afford to buy decent bed sheets. the really, really nice ones will cost you around 3k pesos and more. of course, there are those you'll be lucky enough to get on sale for at least php350 - they're the super, super thin kind, though [but who's complaining when you don't have the budget, haha]. so because bed sheets are expensive, i resorted to using my trusted sleeping bag, which was what i used before i bought the bed frame and mattress, for bed cover. circa 2011
hehe, cost in turning your house into something livable and at least pleasant to look at is really, really HIGH. that's why even after almost three years - i've done nothing much to improve this room. last week, i made AN EFFORT to at least put something nice to my little blue room. i've always wanted to have nude paintings in my house - but the cheapskate me is not willing to part 3k++ just to get myself a small nude painting.
see, i always think of plane tickets and hotel rooms whenever i consider buying something. if things will cost me the price of a plane ticket or a hotel room, i - more often than not - will choose to buy the plane ticket. so there. but since i still want something "somewhat nude" [allowing a little consideration for my conservative mother who drops in from time to time for a visit] in my room, i opted to hit google image search. picked those that caught my fancy - hit the "print screen" button, pasted to ms paint, saved as jpeg and voila - my little artwork [drat, i forgot to save the artists' names, but all credit is due you whoever you guys are]. then, i brought the jpegs to a photo print shop and ordered a 10 x 14 print. at picture city in ayala, cost per print is php120. next stop was metro ayala's home section and bought equally cheap frames at php349 each.
figuring out where to put my two wall frames
preparing the materials
photo envelopes. i got them for 2,500 won during a visit to seoul in 2010
details, details, details
================
p.s. after finishing this little project, i got so hungry that i decided to cook some asparagus for dinner. a few minutes into chopping onions, garlic, tomatoes, asparagus, ju called to inform me that our boss wanted to have a dinner meeting in an hour. i ended up cooking the dish the next day and enjoyed an almost fish+vege dinner over at red kimono, ayala [of course, i had a grumbling stomach during the entire meeting as i only had oat meal that day for brunch. at least the meeting didn't last too long and we all headed to rk for dinner]
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