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February 12, 2012

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by Alfred Wieneke

By Heart2Heart | Homes and Interiors | 9 Comments

Heart2Heart is so happy to meet Alfred! A very nice guy and very practical which is why all his clients really love his work and trust him to build and design their homes. Thank you Alfred for sharing your work with us. We hope to see more of your works here at Heart2Heart and more power to you!

One thing you will notice about this house is you will not see any airconditioners sticking out, they are all hidden somewhere or covered by something. In this photo, they are hidden under the planters

Even when you look at the side perimeter of the house, it is so well done and is a design in itself

As you walk along the whole house, there are many windows on both sides which gives light and cross ventilation for the air to come in the house

Basement

Even if you are in the basement, you don’t feel so claustrophobic because there is a window feature and access to go out

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February 8, 2012

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Handpainted Walls

By Heart2Heart | Arts and Culture, Homes and Interiors | No Comments

I recently visited some friends in their new condo and saw this beautiful handpainted wall in their dining room! I loved it! It was handpainted for one month by Tats Manahan.

Here is another panel from the dining room where even the painting by Mia Herbosa fit in so well

And it was coincidental to read about David Choe who painted the wall of Mark Zuckerberg and got paid in Facebook stocks in 2005. This is the most expensive painting ever US$ 200 million!!!

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February 6, 2012

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Happy Birthday Tina and Leah

By Heart2Heart | Beauty, Celebrations, Foodie, Homes and Interiors | One Comment

Happy Birthday Tina and Leah!

They celebrated in a beautiful home!

The home of Penny, cousin of Tina

It’s so nice how you can enter a house or a condo and suddenly feel like you are in a different country or a different world all together

An afternoon of beauty by Guerlain ( available at Rustan’s department store )

With special friends

And a pretty set up by the garden

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February 3, 2012

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Man Caves That Beat Super Bowl Tickets

By Heart2Heart | Homes and Interiors, Toys for the Big Boys | No Comments

James emailed me this link…. Is he hinting that he wants a man cave? 🙂

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January 29, 2012

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Garden

By Heart2Heart | Homes and Interiors, Nature | 13 Comments

My third request from James and another investment aside from

Previous entry: Sub Zero December 5, 2011

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was the garden. As we were rushing to move into the house after 18 months renovation already, I requested James that if we move in, I wanted the garden to be finished. And it was a good thing I insisted on this because it makes a world of difference! We don’t have green thumbs and don’t really know about gardening, but it was important to us that we have a nice garden that will surround us. Thank you to Timmy

and Marcia ( with her Chihuahua in pink 🙂 ) who put together our garden! Pls contact Marcia Revilla if you want to hire her services at 0919-572-3362

To appreciate more how it was transformed, I am showing photos of the before and after

Front of the house – I heard that our neighbor put these trees so that it would match their frontage

We removed it and then changed it to Buddha belly bamboos. I like it because it gives some sort of privacy instead of placing a wall

Side of the house

Changed to this

Another view, I found it a bit messy having different kinds of trees in one area

Now

The other side

Now

The main garden from the Balcony of the living room

And now 🙂 It’s just so soothing for me to come home and see this

Another view BEFORE

AFTER

Close up on the wall. James had them remove everything. At first we were thinking of just adding, but then James just removed everything and started from scratch

We are waiting for the bamboo to grow more leaves so that we can have full privacy from the neighbors

This was the wall before we stripped off all the plants

The back garden BEFORE

AFTER!

I love the pink flowers growing on the tree. And take note of the round balls around the garden. So beautiful when they are lit at night. James wanted those capiz balls hanging on the trees, it’s a good thing Timmy found this for us! Very unique yet so simple and elegant

The side garden BEFORE

AFTER

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January 6, 2012

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Mattress from the Four Seasons Hotel

By Heart2Heart | Great Inventions, Homes and Interiors, Shopping | 3 Comments

James did everything for the newly renovated house. There were only a few specifications I asked for and one of them was to order for me the mattress from the Four Seasons Hotel! I have stayed in two Four Seasons Hotel ( Singapore and Vancouver ) in my life and in those two times, I remember having a comfortable experience and slept very well during my stay there.

We sleep almost half of our lives and I think that having a good sleep is very important, so aside from our subzero, our mattress is another investment we had to make! It’s WORTH IT!!

The mattress is so comfortable because it is plush yet firm at the same time. The reason for this is that it has a pillow top layer on top of the mattress

Other important components of our bed:

1.) Down comforter

2.) Comforter cover with the highest thread count that you can get! We got ours from Rustan’s department store

To order you need to contact the hotel that is nearest to your shipping address. So for us, it was the one in San Francisco:

Gordon Yee – Director of Purchasing

Four Seasons Hotel San Francisco

757 Market Street, San Francisco, CA 94103

Voice: 415-633-3463 Fax: 415-633-3512

Mailto:gordon.yee@fourseasons.com

Web Site: http://www.fourseasons.com/sanfrancisco

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December 28, 2011

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Christmas in Our New Home

By Heart2Heart | Christmas, Homes and Interiors | 5 Comments

2 Days before Christmas, we decided to move to our new home. We are very happy to celebrate Christmas in our new home. James bought a fresh christmas tree and had it decorated by Rustan’s Flower Shop

Thank you Michelle Rufino Bartolome for the beautiful Christmas cards

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December 22, 2011

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Modern Luxe

By Heart2Heart | Homes and Interiors | 2 Comments

Thank you Jigger and May for inviting us over to your new home!!! It’s beautiful!! The three years in the making was worth it! 🙂 They took their time and within that timeframe, they were able to buy special pieces which they liked from their travels. May told me she also enjoys accessorizing, so all the bathrooms and the kitchen accessories are chosen by her. Jigger on the other hand who is very particular of everything, made sure that everything is to his specs most especially his air-conditioning system. The hospital bed in the master bedroom is his due to his acid reflux problem. I found out that we have the same problem and he has to sleep in airplane position, upright.

I just had to take a photo of the staff of Jigger – they were all there to assist in the setting up of the place – from his executive assistant and driver, to the tailor and the computer guy from the office

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October 21, 2011

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Make Room for Bliss

By Heart2Heart | Homes and Interiors, Tributes | 3 Comments

I am happy to introduce you to my highschool batchmate, Arlene. She has a blog and I love reading her posts. In many ways, I see myself in her because we have many similarities – in the way we think, the way we express ourselves and the way we look at life.

Blog site: Make Room For Bliss

Arlene is a contributing writer for Real Living magazine and is currently featured in the October issue