Dream home

DESPITE having two spacious showrooms, one at Playfair Road, and the other at Millenia Walk, Nathan Yong, furniture designer and co-founder of Grafunkt, has bigger ideas. "Wouldn't it be so cool to have a House of Grafunkt," he asks. "A house where shoppers can experience the Grafunkt lifestyle."

His home, a black and white two-storey terrace house in Katong, is not opened to shoppers, but it comes close to what a House of Grafunkt would be. Mr Yong and his partner, who works in the IT industry, have been renting it from the Singapore Land Authority since April.

He had his eye on a home like this one, after seeing a friend live in one, for 15 years. "I chanced upon this house and bid for it," says Mr Yong. He used to live in a condo, which he found too sterile, and has since rented it out.