starting out.

i've read from a lot of lifestyle and interior design blogs that the first step in decorating is to pick a style, or at least a color, and build around that slowly.

easier said than done, since girls are known to change their minds rather quickly about the look-and-feel of home.

thank god for this:

flipping through its pages gave me a good sense of how to manage color combinations, storage solutions, etc.

i know ikea has its fair share of critics, but i've always been inclined towards the edgy modern minimalist concept. plus, i'll have to work with a very small space.

the funny thing is that there are no ikea stores in manila.

but we do have small showrooms that carry some of the smaller, more common ikea items - one is in makati but pretty near DLSU (mobler) and the other in quezon city (ikeaph). certainly enough to make the pinoy ikea fan giddy! click on the links to check out their multiply-based catalogs.