Forever a work-in-progress
From hotels, magazines and TV shows, Charles Yap gleans ideas for his sleek Telok Blangah home. By Tay Suan Chiang
HAVING spent seven years working in the hotel industry, Charles Yap thought of his favourite hotels when he was doing up his home in Telok Blangah. "You could say I was inspired by the good hotels that I stayed in," he says, where his favourites include the Hilton in Kuala Lumpur and the W hotels in Taipei and New York.
Then, he continues in almost the same breath, "but I was not going for the 'hotel look'."
The media executive for an international TV network merely wanted a place that he could truly call his own. "You can't personalise too much when you live in a rental apartment, but with this apartment, I could put my stamp on it," says Mr Yap of his first home purchase.
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