5 Condo Hacks To Living in Luxury

People mistaken luxury for expensive tastes. However, luxury is all about comfort and quality combined with pleasing architecture or design. An example of luxury is the expanse of Bonifacio Global City. Almost everything you need for a great urban lifestyle is within a distance of condominiums and communities.

If your condo is in the area of BGC, it's only ideal to pattern its design to the aura of the city. Here are some ways to hack your condo and enjoy the feel of the modern lifestyle.

1. Fill an empty space.

To be more specific, fill an empty wall. Start by painting a fresh coat of white on plain walls. White walls are easier to work with in terms of design. They are friendly to various colors and prints. A clear wall is also similar to a blank canvas. It allows you to install shelves, cupboards, artwork and other kinds of wall hangings.

You can make a gallery wall in the living room by using different sizes of frames for family photos and mementos. You can hang sculptures, mirrors and other pieces of art to create a salon-like arrangement for promising hallways and bare center.

2. Make use of surfaces. 

A luxurious condo caters to refined tastes and simplicity. It makes use of the less-is-more approach and avoid clutter and over accessorizing the areas of the home. To achieve a simple look, keep the items with the highest value. These items and pieces of furniture may have sentimental value or string of positive memories attached to them.

You can place small items on coffee tables, desks, and countertops. If you don’t have a lot of items to display, you make the surface of the table the center of attention. A pastel marble coffee table, a glass top dining table or a sleek matted wooden desk are enough to serve as centerpieces.

3. Prioritize the sitting area.

After the kitchen, the busiest area in the house is the living room. The TV is usually in the living room. Other than that, people come in the foyer to socialize or relax. If you plan on spending a sum of money on decorating, you better spend it on the couch.

Most of the activities in the area will involve sitting on the sofa. Hence, it pays to make it a comfortable experience. Moreover, the couch is the most prominent piece of furniture in the room. It’s best to choose a sofa made of materials that last such as linen, wool, and velvet.

4. Identify the colors you want to include in your home.

The ultimate cheat to making a luxurious casa is in the colors of the elements of design. Tasteful and well-decorated homes are color coordinated. It follows a palette or a set of colors that run throughout the indoors of the house. 

Light colors are perfect for smaller spaces such as condos and lofts. Pastel hues and soft, muted tones allow light to enter the area. It also helps it appear larger than it is. Integrating a contrasting color or a slightly darker shade enables you to create an exciting palette you can use in the different area of your home.

5. Install additional light fixtures.

Natural light can be limited because of a tree, building or structure next door. It can also be due to wrong window placement. These factors can your home appear darker due to the lack of light. Enhancing the shadows and dark areas shrinks the appearance of your home.

Fortunately, these details can be fixed. Having proper ambient and task light fixtures provides instant design while increasing the brightness of the area. Each room can have a combination of both - several lamps and an intense hanging light. 

These hacks are simple and easy to integrate. They also won't cost you a lot. Though living in a business district like BGC can be expensive, the ways to make a luxurious condo is cheap and modest.

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10 Ways to Decorate Your Living Room Creatively

10 Ways to Decorate Your Living Room Creatively

In your home, if there is a room that needs to be appreciated- that’s your living room.

It’s a place where in most cases, special occasions were celebrated and important gatherings of your love ones. So why not to find ways designing it?

Every one of us is dreaming to take a deeper nap in a most relaxing place where we can relieve all of our stress at work. Perhaps, there are lots of places where you can take rest but there’s no need to go to hotel just to experience comforting living room, even you, can have that at home where you can also have at least pick up a little hint of designs into any condos in Cebu but much better if you will have it in your own.

How to start decorating it in creative manners? Just throw away the queries that burden you and start out being unique with your own living room.

Your living room can give a warm welcome with its style and decor. You can always start off getting ideas for sofas, tables, window treatments, and more but don’t forget into more living room decorating ideas and inspiration by watching  amazing living room make overs so that you will be guided into restoring your ideas for you to make over your “family room”.

Below are the ways that will give you a little bit ideas on how to decorate your family room inventively:

1. Blend Stylishness and Comfort

There’s one thing to remember when designing your living room and that is, you have to be comfortable in the room and like the style since you will most likely be spending a lot of your time in the room together with you family. It’s better to have a cool living with enough light and dark curtains that can add calmness to your living area.

     

2. Use Unexpected Materials

You can add materials that can add in to the style of your living room. May be by putting a plate of fruits or putting 2-3 books and magazines on the table will do, so it won’t look boring at all. There are some living rooms where they designed their sofa with a different shape of colourful pillows and in that way it can add in beauty.

  

3. Decorate Naturally

 It’s not a necessary approach if you are going to design your living area into a stuffy one. Even simple designs will do in line with a perfect combination of colours and catchy designs on walls. By designing it innately, you can achieve simple yet catchy view in your living area.

 

 

4. Look for Inspiration in Unexpected Places

There are living areas that has attractive designs by the use of the things that inspired them. It’s like showing their interest at home by displaying frames with a photo of their favorite places, for their sofa that is also inspired by their favorite colors and etc. but more than that, some have different approach too.

 

5. Add Interest with Decorative Trim

The designer of this room added trim to the bottom of a basic sofa to dress it up and used a mix of custom pillows to pull colors from around the room. Combining different colors from your sofa to the other things in your living area is more attractive to view.

 

6. Hold onto Inspiring Samples

Keep a file of your favourite samples and inspirational images even if you can’t afford a makeover yet, or haven’t found the home of your dreams. You can always look into any home decorations magazine or at least upload some pictures of your ideal living room then you can have it as a basis of you own designs- Just have a unique and  at the same time a stunning one.

 

7. Decorate with Memories

Make your living room unique and nostalgic by using by displaying your family pictures and anything so important to you-much better than any other at least you are displaying good memories of your love ones.

 

  

8. Display Your Collection to Advantage

 If you have a lot of collections, always keep on displaying amazing things that overwhelm the space. Collect great paintings that will add in beauty into your room.

It’s more attractive and simply artistic.

9. Achieve Balance

Asymmetrical arrangements can be intimidating, but formal symmetry is easy to pull off and adds a calm balance to a room. The simple arrangement above this fireplace is clean and elegant.

10. Splash on the Color

Splattering a feminine color is one way to achieve a modernized view to your living room. Plus combining it with colorful stuffs and furniture, you can really view a calm and peaceful place out of this simple color.

 

What Kind of House Type Fits for You and Your Family?

Buying a home is one of the most critical decisions one has to make especially when comfort and safety are two of the top priorities to consider in to. It also depends on how big of a family you are, or if you are only living on your own. Actually, there are a lot of options to choose from given that real estate ventures are currently sprouting here in the Philippines. Some of them are Rockwell condominiums and Ayala condos, to name a few. It is important to know what you want and see if the options you have can suffice to your needs.

Choosing the kinds of house types is very much essential because it will give you an idea of how you are going to arrange your home, not mentioning the number of people who will be living in.

In order for you to eliminate confusion, here are the following common types of houses for you to check on and see how things will go well for you:

Bungalow

This type of house is classically defined as a one-story building. Normally, a bungalow type of house is often associated to the working class people or to couples who are still starting out a new home. Also, this type of house is associated with small square footage, thus making it quite small. Though there are also bungalow houses available that are larger, thus making them as newer bungalows. Generally, it does not have a basement and goes on cheaper and affordable.

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Single Detached

A type of house that is literally not attached to any building or another house and stands on its own. It is structurally separated from neighboring houses and is often surrounded by an open land. A bungalow or a cottage can be termed as a single detached house as long as it is not connected to another property through the same wall or tenement. This house is often good for a family because you can have the place for yourselves and you can even add a carport too!

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Duplex

Often comes in the form of a two-story house where a common wall separates two areas. A duplex is a two-fold apartment or condominium where there are separate entrances for the dwelling units. This type of house can also be referred to as a semi-detached home. You can also add a carport by the side to keep your automobiles on safety.

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Townhouse

A townhouse refers to modern type of homes that are intentionally attached side by side in a row, thus sharing a common wall. This type of house is often located in the same area and has the same architectural design and appearance. Also called as row house, these houses are usually priced less than that of the single detached households located in closed subdivisions. Most often than not, you will be in contact with the neighborhood that you are in because the houses are sharing a common wall that more likely separates them.

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Condominium

This is often a series of large rooms/units located in one building with amenities and facilities provided by the developer itself. Often they go as ready-for-occupancy, some often come as bare units for your own styling and designing. Condominium units are often located on high-end areas such as that of the Rockwell condominiums in Makati. These often go quite expensive perhaps because of the overlooking location and the ease of access the residents are going to deal with. With well-landscaped views and architectural structure, condominiums are obviously for those with high-end lifestyles.

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Knowing these different types, you may have an idea of what house you have in mind. Depending on your preferences and the comfort that works for you, then the abovementioned house types might be a great help for you.

If you have any more suggestions, the comment section is open for your ideas!