The concrete couple is on a roll. They’ve come up with ideas for their sideline business and have made them a reality – from a plant pot, to a plant stand, to a tea light holder. This episode is about making a concrete lamp base. Watch the video below: Feeling…
Dark, cloudy skies. Frequent downpours. Summer is over! Good job on beating the heat and staying cool in what was arguably the hottest summer we’ve experienced so far. Now the monsoon season’s coming up, you may want to revamp your home, starting with your kitchen, to fight back the cold…
If you’re able to make a plant stand, making a concrete tea light holder should be easy. Watch the video to see how Sarah does it with concrete mix, water and a sandwich ziplock bag. Just recently I answered a friend’s FB post lamenting that his PhP 1,000 does not…
Green is a color we seldom see in a city like Manila or Cebu. What pockets of green you can see are getting smaller and smaller as they make way for construction sites that would in the future become hundreds or thousands of homes for urban dwellers. Think of the…
Sarah and Pete are on a roll with their side line business of making concrete pots for their succulents and selling them online. But now they want to up the game and make a concrete plant stand too. You know those trendy stools you see on the web that are…
After making their own concrete pots and planting succulents in them, how is Sarah and Pete’s DIY crafts side business going? Watch the video below and find out. Any start-up will always have hiccups. Even established businesses can fail big time. Which is why anyone who wants to be a…
Are you faced with the task of DIY house painting? What’s one of the easiest ways to choose a color palette? Believe me, you don’t have to climb the walls to know which colors to choose because there’s a trick I’ll share with you here. I’ll call it the easy…
Florals are springing up in interior spaces in 2018, from the chintz fabrics and wallpapers of our lolas to the bold, colorful prints of overblown blooms. Very KUKUR (kukurtinahin in other words). Chintz is making a big comeback. Using the same floral fabric on the walls, window treatments, and furnishings—think…
Being the heart of the home, the kitchen plays an important role in bringing families closer together and making guests feel comfortable and at home. Like all the rooms in the house, the kitchen is also a reflection of yourself—your personality, style and taste. The ideal kitchen should then not…
Not any kind of pot would do for Sarah. She put on her crafty hat and started a pot project, making something unique for her succulents. She added a dash of paint for a trendy look. She chose a subdued pink which is still so hugely popular ever since Millennial…
Tucked in a hidden corner in Greenbelt 3 is a gem of a shop called Guava Sketches. It’s a well-curated design store with originals from European designers. This shop was founded by sisters Jennifer and Joan, and shows their love for good design and functionality. In their website, Jennifer and…
This new DIY webisode about the Concrete Couple starts with Sarah’s passion for plants especially succulents. She plants the little cute things in small pots, and with the help of husband Pete, takes photos and uploads them in a new website. But like all new start-ups, the going was tough.…
In the final installment of the Set in Color Series to promote Boysen’s Color Trend 2018, the team brought their final installation to Plaza Independencia, the most historically significant plaza in Cebu, which also fronts Fort San Pedro, the oldest triangular bastion fort in the country. That’s a lot of…
Did you know that the color of your kitchen, or any space for that matter, can significantly affect your mood? This phenomenon has to do with what is known as color psychology, in which it has been proven that certain colors and hues can incite a corresponding emotion or behavior.…
Manila is one of the world’s most polluted cities, with air pollution levels above the safety standards set by the Clean Air Act. The need for more trees has never been greater. However, it takes more than ten years for one tree to become mature enough to clean the air.…
SM Home has this assistant vice president for Marketing and I call him Turbo Tom (Castañeda). He’s the whirlwind behind the many major activities of SM Home since he joined more than a year ago. I just finished writing about the April and May room vignettes, but while we were…
Imagine how lucky you must be if you are a freshman in college and this pretty pink condo is your home. Not for you the trials and tribulations of going to a dorm and sharing a room, bathroom and toilet with strangers, while trying to navigate the new everything in…
Download a wallpaper for your desktop. These wallpapers are using the color palettes from Boysen Color Trend 2018. Download the BE BOLD Wallpaper in High Resolution HERE Download the BE HERE Wallpaper in High Resolution HERE Download the BE SEEN Wallpaper in High Resolution HERE Download the BE YOU Wallpapers…
In the third installment of Boysen’s Set in Color Series to promote the latest color palettes of Color Trend 2018, the team brought their furniture and fixtures to the Garden Bloc of Cebu IT Park. Cebu IT Park is the region’s main hub for lifestyle, dining and business process outsourcing…