One of the realizations after purchasing a studio or 1 bedroom unit is finding out how small it actually is. It makes space planning of the unit more important as each square feet counts.
De centrum residence's 1+1 bedroom unit is 574 sqft while the SOHO units are only 447 sqft. Most people like me who focus on absolute price and forget that 600 sqft and below is a very small space to work with.
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| Ghost Chair |
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| Ghost Chair with arm rest |
Recently attended a short gun (3 days only) interior design course and learned how to make a small space/room look bigger. One technique is to use furniture piece are transparent/translucent.
One such furniture piece are ghost chairs. It's basically a plastic looking chair made from transparent polycarbonate material (acrylic). It's kind of logical why it could make the room look big because it makes the eye thinks that there is nothing there because it's transparency. Pairing the ghost chairs with a tempered glass rounded table will enhance the effect also. If rounded tables are not available, pair the ghost chairs with white tables and white walls it will also make the room/space look bigger.
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| Ghost Chair paired with white walls and white table |
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Ghost furniture to make room look big
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Ghost furniture - See through rounded glass table and ghost chair
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I'm not so sure about old people knocking into such furniture in the dark but hey SOHO and 1 bedroom units are not aimed for them anyway.
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| Ghost Chair Price in Malaysia |
A check on Lelong.com shows it costs around RM300 for 1 ghost chair. These are replica units of the original, the original ghost chairs were designed by Phillippe Stark and are called Louis Cartell ghost chairs. However, it should be still usable and would be an alternative for the budget conscious person.
