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Interview with Ebenezer Yoon: Concept first, style later

Minimalist. Industrial. Modern. Scandinavian. With all those styles, and more, how does one choose how to design their home? Or maybe, just maybe, that’s the wrong question to ask. It should all begin with concept first, according to Ebenezer Yoon.

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Interview with Ebenezer Yoon: Concept first, style later

House Hacks

4 Warning Signs of Spontaneous False Ceiling Collapse

Last Thursday marks just one more, among many other cases in the past six months, of spontaneous ceiling collapses. Enough to make you think, “Is mine next?” The good news is that these things don’t just happen

Is your home ready to entertain your kids these June holidays?

I’ll be honest with you — I’m dreading the upcoming June holidays. Although COVID restrictions are lifting and more places of entertainment are opening up, as a parent who mostly works from home, I’m not looking forward to having my quiet late mornings and afternoons completely disrupted with my little monsters constantly whining that there’s nothing to do at home. My home is not equipped, and as such, neither am I.

Is your home ready to entertain your kids these June holidays?

4 Warning Signs of Spontaneous False Ceiling Collapse

Interior Design Trends of 2022

Inspiration for this year’s renovations. The past couple of years have been rough. Everyone’s been forced into a more intimate relationship with their homes and, well, there’s a lot more room for improvement than anyone cares to admit.

Is your home ready to entertain your kids these June holidays?

Hacks for a Low-Maintenance Home

Growing up, mom did all the cleaning. Every time a mess was made, the cane would sometimes appear along with the cleaning cloth or the broom. I always wondered what the huge fuss was about until I had my own space to clean.

An Inside Look: Intelligent Eco Farm by Tan Lay Hoon

Singapore’s blessed with many things but land mass isn’t one of them. Farms took a back seat to urbanisation and, well, that meant that we’ve had to depend on other nations to meet our nutritional needs. However, with advances in technology..

6 Ideas to Make Small Apartments Seem Large

Space: the final frontier. Every apartment dweller craves the comfort and inviting living space that’s neither cramped or cluttered. However, that extra square footage is exceedingly elusive (like Bigfoot). Not impossible though (unlike Bigfoot)...

6 Common Home Design Mistakes That Will Cost You

It’s easy to get carried away amidst the excitement of designing a new home. It signifies a fresh start, you get to decide every single detail...

PRISM+ launches first OLED Android TV series and Dolby Audio Enabled Soundbars

Singapore, 10 March 2022 – Homegrown consumer tech brand PRISM+ today announced its latest line-up of home entertainment systems, with the launch of the PRISM+ Alpha (AL) TV Series and the PRISM+ Soundbars...

Vinyl vs Tile Flooring

Admit it. You’re reading this because you’ve got to make a decision quick. A decision that’ll affect the rest of your life (well, most of it anyway). You want to know which flooring to go for: vinyl or tiles..

6 Hacks for a Higher Functioning Bathroom

The bathroom is where you do most of your unspeakable, unsightly grooming (I hope), and that means you need it to be well-lit...

Indoor garden ideas for HDBs

You’re probably thinking, is there really space in at home, especially a HDB one, for a garden? The answer is: yes, you absolutely can!...

Beginners Guide to Creating a Smart Home

Wake up, wash up, dress up. The aroma of freshly brewed coffee wafts into the room. But no one else is out of bed yet. You head for the kitchen...

6 kitchen countertop materials for your next renovation

The heart of every home is the kitchen. Why else do most spend the better part of their waking hours in it (it’s true!)?...

The 6 Most Functional Kitchen Layouts Today

Say what you will, but the kitchen is the one place you cant be frivolous about if youre serious about cooking. Its all about functionality...

House Hack at Toa Payoh

This weeks House Hack is a real job, and its set in Toa Payoh. Its a real doozy...

Tips for Designing a Home for the Silver Generation

Moving into a new home with aging parents? Or planning to live on your own as you age (a.k.a. aging in place)?...

House Hack - 3 Room HDB at Bishan

Welcome to our very first House Hack ever! Whats a House Hack? Its us taking a real or hypothetical or speculative renovation request...

Taobao furniture: Dream come true or too good to be true?

You need new furniture (dont ask, you just do), its got to look awesome, and it cant be IKEA because everyones already got the same one...

TV Consoles: Do we need them?

The TV is the centerpiece of just about every home regardless of whether youre an avid gamer, film buff, or even someone who has no time to watch anything on it...

6 tips to soundproof your home

Lets face it: Singapore has little to none countryside environment. No matter where you are, youre surrounded by the beautiful symphony of buzzing bikes, honking Hondas...

Should I wallpaper or paint?

Unless youre really into industrial design (i.e. too lazy), chances are that youre going to want something to pretty up all the walls in the house...

Preparing your home for a ROBOT vacuum

Whether or not you have a crippling fear of our future robot overlords eventually taking over. Lets learn more about how Robot Vacuum can help...

6 tips to transform your impromptu WFH space into a professional one

Just when you think its over, a new wave comes crashing down on you. And you've just packed up your work from home station too...

Sixides Insider

6 Ways to Pay for Your Renovation

Right. So you’ve got a new home and it needs some sprucing up. You’ve got ideas turned into plans and everyone’s ready to go. So, short of discovering you’re heir to a mountain of gold, how are you going to pay for it all? Here are some ideas, starting from the least interest-laden to the most.

Sixides shows a passion for social causes

When Astley Ng, our chief executive officer, and a group of seven staff and six volunteers made a trip in April 2022 to low-income homes in Singapore’s Chinatown area to install grab bars for the elderly as well as low-income families, he said: “As an interior designer who has been in the industry for nearly 30 years, he hopes to use his expertise to help people in need..

Sixides shows a passion for social causes

6 Ways to Pay for Your Renovation

Sixides shows a passion for social causes

SiXiDES – Because We Know Spaces (and You Better Believe It)

At first glance, you might write SiXiDES off as a typical aggregator of interior design firms, with its easy-on-the-eye low key interface...

Home Interior Trends of 2021

If you haven’t already redone your home, here are 6 most popular design choices you’ll want to consider...

6 Facts about Renovating in Singapore

Stuck home long enough? Enough to have (unwillingly) saved up for a little renovation?...

Sustainable Homes

What is a sustainable home? Buildings account for over 20% of Singapores carbon emissions. How? By cramming a whopping 7,900 persons per square kilometer, onto a really small island...

Picking the Right Pros: Interior Designer or Contractor?

Now that youve got your home and your budget, the question is, who should you get to renovate it? Throw caution into the wind and save a few bucks with a contractor?...

Renovation on a Budget

Youve been scrimping, scraping, and saving for the renovation of your dream home for a bit now. Maybe longer than a bit. But long enough...

Sixides - Redefining The Industry

Conceived as a means to safeguard aspiring consumers in realizing their space with ease and peace of mind...

Designer Of The Month

Interview with Ebenezer Yoon: Concept first, style later

Interview with Melvin Keng: Making the common uncommon

What do you do when you’re trying to have a fresh new take on life but you’re too comfortable with the familiar? You call in the cavalry who can remake the familiar into something exciting.

Interview with Mark Teo: Every space a story

Mark Teo is an Assistant Professor at the Singapore Institute of Technology. He obtained his Bachelor of Architecture from the University of Melbourne and, later, attained a Master of Science in Environmental Management at the National University of Singapore.

Interview with Rashi Tulshyan: The Midas Touch

A design graduate from Parsons School of Design, New York, and founder of Home Philosophy, Rashi turns everything into gold with a bit of clever spending and zero compromise. So much so that homes she’s touched...

Interview with Ethan Goh: Self-made Designer

If you’ve ever wondered what a self-made man looks like, just look at that portrait up there. That’s self-made, right there. That’s Ethan Goh.

Interview with Leon Yap: From Architecture to Interior Design

After earning his degree in architecture at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Leon Yap began his career as an Architectural Associate...

Vendor Spotlight

Vendor Spotlight: Greenology

You’ve heard of gardeners. You might even have heard of landscapers. But have you ever heard of urban greening specialists? They’re like gardeners on steroids, using the power of both art and science...

Vendor Spotlight: Greenology

Vendor Spotlight: Econflo Systems

Ever thought that maybe, just maybe, you could flush less water down the toilet? How about a fancy way of saving water?

Word From The Nerd

DESIGN RESULTS FROM human decisions. You can design with intention, which means you have a chance of doing it well, or you can let it happen, which means you’ll probably fail...

Word From The Nerd

DESIGN RESULTS FROM human decisions. You can design with intention, which means you have a chance of doing it well, or you can let it happen, which means you’ll probably fail...

Press Release

AsiaOne - Powering Interior Design with AI

SINGAPORE, Jan. 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- In Singapore, home renovation often conjures a duality of emotions...

AsiaOne - Powering Interior Design with AI

SINGAPORE, Jan. 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- In Singapore, home renovation often conjures a duality of emotions...

Yahoo Finance - Powering Interior Design with AI

SINGAPORE, Jan. 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- In Singapore, home renovation often conjures a duality of emotions...

Powering Interior Design with AI

SIT partners with Sixides to translate interior design ideas into visual recommendations and industry-standard quotations by harnessing the power of artificial intelligence and machine learning...