Interior Design
Lessons From 5 Homes That Do Mint in a Fresh Way
This temperature-cool hue is hot in Singapore homes
Greenery may have been touted as Pantone’s Colour of the Year for 2017, but Singapore homes are embracing a different shade of green altogether. With Greenery being a punchy, somewhat tart apple-green that evokes summer, it only makes sense that we turn to a temperature-cool hue – that’s just as fresh and trendy – in our hot, humid climate. Enter mint.
Minty touch: The bedroom door indicates its colour with its chevron stripes standing out from the neutral palette of the common spaces.
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2. In harmony with woods
Designer: Kelvin Seow of Xin Concept
Location: Clementi West
Home: 5-room HDB
Homeowner’s request: The owner’s brief was “spacious, clean, airy, calm, and seamless”, which the designer translated as pale blue and wood hues for the common spaces, and pale green and wood hues for the master bedroom.
Designer: Kelvin Seow of Xin Concept
Location: Clementi West
Home: 5-room HDB
Homeowner’s request: The owner’s brief was “spacious, clean, airy, calm, and seamless”, which the designer translated as pale blue and wood hues for the common spaces, and pale green and wood hues for the master bedroom.
Minty touch: Paired with storage units clad in wood finishes and concrete-look floor tiles, a more subdued mint – almost celadon with its undertone of grey – definitely fulfils the owner’s ‘clean, airy and calm’ brief. Its greyish undertone gives it a more masculine look, while preserving its freshness.
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3. Concrete contrast
Designer: Raymond Seow of Free Space Intent
Location: Upper Thomson Road
Home: 2.5-bedroom condo
Homeowners’ request: As this is his own home, Seow could design for his own pleasure by incorporating things he loves – pastel colours, geometric shapes and Scandi-style furniture.
Designer: Raymond Seow of Free Space Intent
Location: Upper Thomson Road
Home: 2.5-bedroom condo
Homeowners’ request: As this is his own home, Seow could design for his own pleasure by incorporating things he loves – pastel colours, geometric shapes and Scandi-style furniture.
Minty touch: Seow himself painted the pastel polygon on a mint green wall in his living room. The mint green intersects with a raw, concrete screed-finished wall, showing a contrast of edgy, industrial material with a soft, sweet feature wall.
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4. Feature-wall worthy
Designer: Ken Lee, Ben Teo and Kate Deng of Mr Shopper Studio
Location: Macpherson
Home: 4-room HDB
Homeowners’ request: The owners gave the designers free play to design their home. The designers thoughtfully looked at the owners’ personal style which features many pastel-coloured clothes, and took their cue from there in terms of the colour palette.
Designer: Ken Lee, Ben Teo and Kate Deng of Mr Shopper Studio
Location: Macpherson
Home: 4-room HDB
Homeowners’ request: The owners gave the designers free play to design their home. The designers thoughtfully looked at the owners’ personal style which features many pastel-coloured clothes, and took their cue from there in terms of the colour palette.
Minty touch: A minty green-blue paint was used on the wall concealing the bomb shelter door. It is in contrast with the Tadao Ando-esque effect of exposed concrete panels, fulfilling the Scan-dustrial theme of the house.
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5. To pep up grey-and-white
Designer: Vandra Png and Wilson Teng of Studio FortyFour
Location: Upper Serangoon
Home: 4-room Built-to-Order HDB
Homeowners’ request: For this home, the owners asked for a pink and blue palette. While the common spaces fulfil this brief, the designers made tweaks in the bedroom, using a softer minty blue with greys in the bedroom.
Designer: Vandra Png and Wilson Teng of Studio FortyFour
Location: Upper Serangoon
Home: 4-room Built-to-Order HDB
Homeowners’ request: For this home, the owners asked for a pink and blue palette. While the common spaces fulfil this brief, the designers made tweaks in the bedroom, using a softer minty blue with greys in the bedroom.
Minty touch: A slightly greener tint than the ubiquitous Tiffany blue gives the master bedroom a fresher feel. The colour both enlivens the greys of the chevron-patterned floor and the textured surfaces, and creates a restful, refreshing ambience.
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Designer: Liew Guofeng and Wong Zihao of Studio Super Safari
Location: Tiong Bahru
Home: 4-room Built-to-Order HDB
Homeowners’ request: With chevron being a design statement throughout the house, the owners wanted their bedroom to be different yet still visually connected. So the designers proposed a lighter palette (the common spaces have darker wood chevron walls) with a similar pattern on the wardrobe doors and storage unit. The owners requested for the mint green addition.