The Sassy Lawyer & Pinoy Cook on food, family and home.
Ever since we saw this house and decided to buy it, I always dreamed of hanging bamboo blinds on the living room and dining room windows. I also thought that bamboo blinds would look great in my office/study. Bamboo blinds are elegant, environment-friendly and they come in so many designs and shades. Little did I ... (more)
It is the master bedroom but I don’t like calling it that because it implies that the other bedrooms (or its occupants) are somehow inferior. So I call it the Mom and Dad bedroom. It has a bow window that looks out on the street and the swimming pool of the clubhouse. It also has ... (more)
What used to be the family/TV room is now an office/study. Above, how the original family/TV room looked. There was a built in TV cabinet/stand (left side of the photo) and the walls were in pale blue and white. I had the cabinet removed and the colors changed. Pale blue might look good for a ... (more)
In the construction of standard houses in the Philippines, window casing and architrave are not standard features. Even baseboards are often additions shouldered by the buyer. In our case, the house came with baseboards but the windows were bare. I wanted to frame the windows so we bought moldings and had the carpenter install them. ... (more)
A window is a window is a window? Not really. Look at the windows in the photo above. That space is going to be my office/study. Normally, all it would take is a curtain rod across the top of the window and curtains to block or let in light. But there are a lot of ... (more)
One of the biggest challenges that our new house presents is the treatment of curved windows. We have two — one in the master bedroom and the other in Alex’s bedroom directly above it. The windows are so beautiful and so wide offering a panoramic view of the outdoors and I really don’t want to ... (more)
I don’t know by how many ways windows can be classified. For purposes of determining how they should be dressed, however, there are two classifications that are worth knowing. The first is how the window opens. Casement windows are hinged at the sides and pushed to open, picture windows are generally large panels of glass ... (more)
If you need interior design inspiration, there’s nothing like browsing through books. The idea, of course, is not to copy what’s in the book but to come up with a personal version of what’s in it. 600 Decorating Ideas is filled with picture-pretty ideas. Although most are ornamental without being truly functional, this book provides ... (more)
Casa is Spanish for house. CASA is also an acronym for Connie, Antonio, Sam and Alex. We are all surnamed Veneracion. We all love to take photos -- of anything that catches our fancy. It's a family obsession.
This is a journal of how we live, eat, learn, play and have fun. Work? Work is part of playing and having fun. Seriously.
In 2003, a time when I hadn't heard of the term "blog", I started a recipe website at cooking.houseonahill.net using a now defunct content management system that ran on ASP. Ok, never mind the geek talk, I'm sure you're not interested in that. The contents easily multiplied and, in 2004, I moved the food site to pinoycook.net. Always unhappy with the fact that the dot com … »»
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