Interior Design
7 Bachelor Pads That Beguile With Their Bespoke Designs
These apartments are dressed to impress, but also more importantly, are customised for their owners' personal delights
There’s a saying, “dress for yourself, not for others”. The same saying could be used for the home of a single person. As your sanctuary, you dress it up for yourself, not to impress others. With the help of a discerning designer, your personal quirks can be used to create a space to impress (and even seduce!). Look to these bachelor pads as an example:
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Home: 2-bedroom penthouse condo in Thomson Road
Designer: The Interior Place
Bespoke features: Decor-wise, this apartment’s focal point is a ‘sneaker wall’ dedicated to the owner’s Nike collection. The individual ‘floating’ shelves made of clear acrylic panels affixed to the wall and trimmed with LED strips hold up each pair, and were inspired by retail visual merchandising. Both bedrooms – the one on the main floor was turned into a home office – were renovated with glass panels to have a view of the sneaker wall.
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Home: 2-bedroom penthouse condo in Thomson Road
Designer: The Interior Place
Bespoke features: Decor-wise, this apartment’s focal point is a ‘sneaker wall’ dedicated to the owner’s Nike collection. The individual ‘floating’ shelves made of clear acrylic panels affixed to the wall and trimmed with LED strips hold up each pair, and were inspired by retail visual merchandising. Both bedrooms – the one on the main floor was turned into a home office – were renovated with glass panels to have a view of the sneaker wall.
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Home: 5-room HDB flat in Bedok
Designer: Biyi Oh of Proj. B Studio
Bespoke features: As the owner is a keen home cook and enjoys entertaining, his apartment was designed just for that. The foyer is playful and whimsical, with a vertical garden and a swing to balance out the rustic, masculine style of the rest of the home. A reconfigured layout allows for the owner to cook for his guests in an open kitchen, and for the well-connected living, dining and cooking spaces to be conducive to mingling.
Home: 5-room HDB flat in Bedok
Designer: Biyi Oh of Proj. B Studio
Bespoke features: As the owner is a keen home cook and enjoys entertaining, his apartment was designed just for that. The foyer is playful and whimsical, with a vertical garden and a swing to balance out the rustic, masculine style of the rest of the home. A reconfigured layout allows for the owner to cook for his guests in an open kitchen, and for the well-connected living, dining and cooking spaces to be conducive to mingling.
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Home: 2-bedroom apartment in Hougang
Designer: Alvin Oh of AO Studios
Bespoke features: For this owner who travels a lot for work, a home that reflects his favourite travel destinations is both a place to rest and entertain. Designed in the Scandinavian style, there is a suspended timber tongue-and-groove ceiling feature over the dining area, which is his preferred focal point. The stunning woodwork continues into the other rooms of the flat.
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Home: 2-bedroom apartment in Hougang
Designer: Alvin Oh of AO Studios
Bespoke features: For this owner who travels a lot for work, a home that reflects his favourite travel destinations is both a place to rest and entertain. Designed in the Scandinavian style, there is a suspended timber tongue-and-groove ceiling feature over the dining area, which is his preferred focal point. The stunning woodwork continues into the other rooms of the flat.
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Home: 3-room HDB flat in Bukit Permei
Designer: Quck Zhong Yi of asolidplan and SOLID architects
Bespoke features: Clever design turned this flat’s odd, angled layout into a sleek bachelor pad, with sliding mirrored panels transforming it into a now-you-see-it-now-you-don’t package. The mirrored panels make the triangular layout appear square, and conceal storage, TV and kitchen. Custom-designed furniture also deal with the space-starved house.
Home: 3-room HDB flat in Bukit Permei
Designer: Quck Zhong Yi of asolidplan and SOLID architects
Bespoke features: Clever design turned this flat’s odd, angled layout into a sleek bachelor pad, with sliding mirrored panels transforming it into a now-you-see-it-now-you-don’t package. The mirrored panels make the triangular layout appear square, and conceal storage, TV and kitchen. Custom-designed furniture also deal with the space-starved house.
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Home: 3-bedroom condo in the North of Singapore
Designer: Low Chee Khiang and Roystern Goh of 0932 Design Consultants
Bespoke features: A transforming pavilion crafted out of the balcony is the design centrepiece of this apartment. It contains a foldaway dining table, one wall that slides open to change the configuration of the space and the view, and glass panels that can turn it into an alfresco area. Lightweight furniture was specified so that it’s easy to transform it into a yoga space or a dining area.
Home: 3-bedroom condo in the North of Singapore
Designer: Low Chee Khiang and Roystern Goh of 0932 Design Consultants
Bespoke features: A transforming pavilion crafted out of the balcony is the design centrepiece of this apartment. It contains a foldaway dining table, one wall that slides open to change the configuration of the space and the view, and glass panels that can turn it into an alfresco area. Lightweight furniture was specified so that it’s easy to transform it into a yoga space or a dining area.
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Home: HDB maisonette in Tampines
Designer: Eric Chua of Sync Interior
Bespoke features: This home is a recreation of a Japanese ryokan, the traditional inn that you can say the owner’s obsessed with. Although his mum lives with him, he had the entire maisonette renovated to look and feel like this, with tatami rooms and shoji screens, and a sushi bar-inspired kitchen.
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Home: HDB maisonette in Tampines
Designer: Eric Chua of Sync Interior
Bespoke features: This home is a recreation of a Japanese ryokan, the traditional inn that you can say the owner’s obsessed with. Although his mum lives with him, he had the entire maisonette renovated to look and feel like this, with tatami rooms and shoji screens, and a sushi bar-inspired kitchen.
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Which bachelor pad caught your eye? Tell us in the Comments below. And don’t forget to save your favourite images, bookmark the story, and join in the conversation.
Home: 2-storey penthouse in Paterson Road
Designer: Vera Tan of Metamorphic
Bespoke features: Compartmentalising is the key idea in the way this two-storey apartment was designed: the lower floor is intended for entertaining and rightly has a statement-making bar-kitchen with a glowing honey onyx bar counter. The upper floor is the owner’s private – and quiet – retreat, and appropriately has a Japanese tea room (with its own kitchenette) and a balcony with a view of Orchard Road.