Weekend Plans and Home Decoration

It's 11 pm now. Both Maisarah and her Abah are asleep. I wasn't feeling sleepy yet so I decided to get on the Net. Maisarah followed us to the office today but we were there only for half a day. We took leave today but went to the office for my class. Once I finished the lecture at 11 am, we zoomed back to PJ. We stopped for lunch at Gi*ant KJ and then reached home before 1 pm so that could go to Friday prayers. Maisarah and I watched her favourite purple dinosour VCD and then Kungfu Panda. Less then 15 minutes into the movie, we fell asleep. We didn't even realize Shah coming home from prayers. Anyway, the rest of the day was spent lazing around the house.

Tomorrow we're planning to go out to one of the shopping malls (either O*U or The Cur*ve). It's been awhile since we went to the mall together. Not sure what we're gonna do there. Probably just walk around and then have lunch. On Sunday, Shah has to go meet a friend so maybe Maisarah and I will go out with my sister. We're planning to go to Ikea* since it's been ages since I've been there. I just love to look at the furniture and home accessories there while imagining how I'll decorate my future house but Shah is not too keen on furniture window-shopping. So, this will be the chance for me to head there. Plus, I'm longing for the Sweedish Meatballs.

Anyway, talking about home decor. Have I ever mentioned that sometimes before I sleep at night I will imagine how I will decorate our the house that we have bought? I can't wait to decorate our house once we get the keys and I have lots of ideas on how I will decorate each and every room. Since I was in the UK, i love to watch home decor shows and I always bought book and magazines related to home decor. And some times, when I'm bored with my PhD work, I would browse the Net for home decor pictures and save those that I like. So I can't wait to put all the things I learned from the TV shows, books and magazines into practise.

The first place I'm going to decorate is the kitchen. I'm torn between having an English country kitchen with all the wood cabinets and flowers or a modern contemporary kitchen with a marble or granite table top and stainless steel back splash. What I'm sure of is that I want a kitchen cabinet made of wood with built-in microwave and electric oven. My ideal kitchen would have a cooker placed on top of an island in the middle of the kitchen but that would not happen as the kitchen in our future house is not that big. But I'll definitely try to put in a breakfast bar. I also want a big fridge and am dreaming of having one with twin-doors but that would cost us a bomb. As it is, my dream kitchen cabinet may have already cost us an arm.

The next room that I like to imagine decorating is our bedroom. Our future bedroom in the house is huge! Well, huge for a terrace house anyway. There is even a sort of "walk-in closet" leading to the bathroom. So I am so going to have fun shopping for our wardrobes. I would love to have full wall-to-wall wardrobes with lots of hanging space and drawers. I also secretly would like to have a floor-to-ceiling shoe cabinet like what Carrie had Mr Big make in the SATC movie but my mom says that is not for us Asians since we dont wear our shoes in the house. So, I've got to find some where in the house where I can have a big shoe cabinet since I am a shoe addict and I want a nice home for all my shoes where thay can be displayed beautifully and not be put in boxes and cramped under the staircase any longer. As for the bed, we have decided that it should be King sized. And I am secretly hoping for an iron four-poster bed but a wood-framed bed is okay too. And I think there will be enough space in the room to place a day bed so that is Maisarah falls sick she can sleep with us in the room.

Well, I think that's enough for now. I'll write more on my dreams for our future house decor next time. I've got to go to bed and tonight while I lay in bed waiting to fall asleep, I'll imagine how I'm going to decorate the living room and upstairs family area. Sweet dreams!