Making Room: HDB maisonette with a huge home library | CNA Lifestyle

For this week’s CNA Lifestyle’s Making Room series, we check out a cafe-inspired family home in Hougang that’s bigger than our usual - and how its homeowners embraced an awkward space to show off hundreds of books.
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[@sayurik]

As a book lover, her mini library is a dream 😍

[@numb3rthree]

Love it! HDB flats are pretty much blank canvas. You fill it up with characters. This is definitely a home.

[@bluegotme]

Great to see a home with such unique and personal designs when most designs these days are just the run of mill trends that are all over the place.

[@simaikhaw]

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[@carmenirigoyen-lopez9920]

Beautiful renovation, your ID, interior designer, must be proud of the result!

[@limliza992]

Love your renovation. Having a cafe at home is so cozy.

[@samuelwong1596]

Omg! I'm loving the book collection you have!!! I also kept the books from my childhood!!! I have about 1/3 similar books that you have!

[@IKEMENOsakaman]

Oh wow, can't believe it's a HDB in Hougang... It's beautiful

[@ordinaryobserver897]

Finally not just another tiny house on cna. This house is tastefully done. Very nice.

[@beezlebub9]

Such a beautiful home! Great to see the family enjoying it!

[@leoesque2803]

The mini library is amazing. It’s a pity they didn’t do all the way to the ceiling. It would look like the library in Seoul Coex Mall.

[@engguan1]

Home sweet home, thanks for sharing your lovely family

[@pardontube]

Beautiful... Both the home and the lovely family

[@theallybelly]

Gorgeous and done in good taste. Love that book shelf

[@investmenttudor1659]

They have made a warm and cozy home

[@alvinleong173]

Could easily pass off as a condo apt from D10 :)

[@shoubiaokuang747]

Gorgeous !

[@EthelYap]

Very cool home. I want that library area too!!!!

[@zhaclub]

Beautiful

[@roxxyroxxy4667]

me to loves all my book 😁

[@WasLostButNowAmFound]

Ah.... So nice

[@eliqqasitihawastanleyzaccheus]

Ohh im a bookworm n book lover,i loved ds.if i hve a house of my own i wana hve my own book library or book cafe haha..n modern garden in the open space kitchen.myb mine wil be mixed of urban vintage and zen

[@limliza992]

Nice board game.

[@ChirpyChat]

Nice practical space for growing teens!!! Love the book shelves.

[@golddigger9007]

❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@pinkziesofficial]

Good.

[@priyavicky3401]

Books are great to have but bear in mind, it attract worms. U have to ensure u clean the books if u want to have them.

[@sevenhenson3926]

Lol looks like u intentionally keep your super junior books out of reach of the kids

[@David-vv9cx]

😀👍

[@fireroum]

Great layout and design... maybe i missed it, but where's the laundry? Would have been great to see all the "unglamorous" parts too like the laundry (i'm assuming adjoined to the kitchen) and the home entryway. It seems like thought was put into segregating those parts and it's a shame not to showcase it.

[@saeriyesung2556]

Spotted a service yard at 1:49 And from my knowledge of a maisonette layout, on the right of that frame is the kitchen toilet where they usually place washing machine nearby (or some residents would put washing machine inside) If really the service yard is the laundry area, then I think the ID is very clever to separate as such Cz maisonette layout esp in Hougang/Serangoon do not have service yard.

[@adlinaaa9171]

omg dewi

[@jrukawa11]

Rich people loots and liquors

[@SuccessforLifester]

Just go to the library. One day you will be throwing the books on the void deck tables.

[@stemikger]

Awesome! On a side note, you would think with all those books they would be sophisticated and have learned that religion is non-essential once we know enough about it, yet I see she is wearing a hijab.

[@Vapour85]

Awesome! On a side note, you would think that someone who talks about sophistication might have some common decency, yet I see he is still wearing his bigotry.

[@jameslim6865]

A HDB is worthless after 99 years. Literally zero. 100% depreciation.

[@NurzatimanAstha]

Then in the 99 years that they stay there, do you recommend they sit on mats, eat off paper plates, sleep on bare floors? Sit down James Lim and let ppl have nice things.

[@muhammadfairuzsamsi7209]

ok, and your point being? so what if its worthless, you buy hdb to live or to invest/sell? if its for investment, the most stupidest thing a person can do is treat a house you live in, especially HDB, as an asset. you want an appreciating asset, don't live in one, you buy one and do anything with it except live in it.