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Home-styling help
Despite this unfortunate early experience,
Jenny says they loved their time in Tokyo,
although she admits that their apartment
never quite felt like home. “When we
arrived in Singapore, I wanted to make
this place feel like our home, and for that I
knew I’d have to hire a stylist as that is just
not my area of talent.”
She found interior decorator and stylist
CarolineChinGeyler fromAreteCulture, via
a well-known Facebook forum. “Her name
kept coming up, and I liked her website, as
well as the pictures of her past projects.”
Jenny got in touch with her in
March 2014, and within a month the
apartment had been restyled. Caroline
carried out a consultation, which
took around an hour and a half and
included quizzing Jenny about her
style, and taking plenty of photos of
their home. “I told her we definitely
needed to redo the living space, and
possibly the kids’ bedrooms, but
she guided me away from the latter.
She explained that their tastes would
change, and as it’s their space I should
let them do what they like with it.”
Caroline put together a plan, arrived
with a handyman on the allotted day, and
transformed the apartment within eight
hours. “What I love about what Caroline
did is that she used almost everything
that was already here, just supplementing
with a few other items and using the
space in a better way. She didn’t come
in and say I had to get rid of everything;
instead, she accessorised what I had.
She was very cognisant of the fact that I
didn’t want to remodel anything. This will
not be our home forever, but I needed it
to be comfortable and reflect our style.”
“The children
have creative
licence to
do what
they like in
their rooms;
Caroline
didn’t work
on them.”