SINGAPORE – The Kareems, enterprise homeowners of their 50s, dwell on this terraced home with their son and daughter, each of their 20s, and Mrs Nasreen Rasheed Kareem’s mom.
They purchased the Telok Kurau property from a developer in 2020, and employed Mr Hans Chua, challenge director at inside design agency Erstudio, to transform it into a house reflecting the household’s personalities, says Mr Abdul Rasheed Kareem.
The home spans 2,500 sq ft in land space and 6,000 sq ft in built-up space. Inside renovations got here to $550,000 and, regardless of the pandemic’s workforce challenges, Mr Chua’s group accomplished the challenge in simply 16 weeks.
As everybody within the house is concerned within the household enterprise, the Kareems needed a stupendous, cosy home the place they might spend time as a household after a protracted day within the workplace.
The primary entrance leads right into a lobby with a hid cupboard that may retailer not less than 100 pairs of footwear. Following that’s the household zone, consisting of the dwelling and eating rooms, dry and moist kitchens, pantry, powder room and helpers’ room.
To create a lounge-like environment, Mr Chua selected darkish wooden panels to distinction with the light-coloured ground.
On the second stage is a spacious formal dwelling and eating room for entertaining friends. Making it brighter and airier is a four-storey glass wall on one aspect of the stairwell that allows loads of daylight.
