The rooms in these old executive maisonettes are quite spacious, so we could even fit the 1.5-metre dining set from our first home into the study. Currently, my husband and I both work from home very regularly so we share one room with the kids as an office and study space. First and foremost, how did you go about configuring the home to accommodate a large family of six?Įxcept for our main suite, we only bought loose furniture for the rooms to accommodate the kids’ needs as they grow older. We spoke to Rachel to find out how it all went down. This gave the family the time they needed to renovate and shift their lives into a brand-new home-not an easy feat while looking after three kids and a pet, but it was handled skilfully by the team at ChengYi Interior Design. “Every night we prayed with the kids to find a buyer who could give us a long extension for the renovation period and who would love our ground-floor HDB flat as much as we do and be willing to pay a fair price.”Įventually, the perfect last-minute viewing answered all of their prayers the buyer instantly loved the flat and was in no rush to move in, granting them a generous extension. “Buying a house before even listing ours up for sale was a huge risk,” says Rachel. Selling their previous home was the more nerve-racking part, with few viewings and lacklustre offers coming in as the weeks passed by. Although somewhat of an impulsive choice, the house ticked every box and warranted an offer-which they made the very next day.
The original owners still occupied the flat and had kept it in great condition over the years. “We were its first viewers that weekend, and fell in love with the airy space and its potential,” Rachel recounts on Instagram.
It took three months of searching property listings online before they came across the current place: a 36-year-old maisonette with unique architectural features, located in the tranquil neighbourhood of Lorong Ah Soo. “We wanted a house closer to school, and a house we could grow into for the next phase of family life,” Rachel shares. The search for a new home was thus born from the need to simplify things and give themselves more room to breathe. The long, daily commute was exhausting, and so was sharing her small home with a sizable family, comprising three kids, herself and her husband, and their old dog Blue. Like many parents, Rachel ( used to set out at the crack of dawn to drive her eldest daughter to school. First they found the perfect flat for their family of six, then the ideal buyer for their old place-and now they patiently wait for gorgeous secondhand furnishings to turn up on Carousell.
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