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This carefully restored shophouse is also hailed for its heritage contribution.

DARK, DINGY AND grim aren't usually the criteria a househunter puts on his wish list, but for married couple Chin Sing Ping and Sharon Tay, looks didn't matter in their quest to buy a shophouse.

"We love shophouses and didn't want to move into one that was already restored and renovated," says Ms Tay, a homemaker. "We wanted one that was old so that we could redesign it to our preferences."

That was how their property agent took them to see 105 Onan Road, a dilapidated shophouse that had previously been used as a workers' dormitory. Needless to say, the couple fell in love with it.

As their pre-war shophouse was gazetted in 1993 as part of the Joo Chiat Conservation Area, it had to follow the Urban...

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