Apartment Choice

Travel accommodation is frequently seen as a mixed bag; something to be approached with equal parts wariness and trepidation. It’s a sentiment often reflected in popular culture, from the iconic motel shower murder scene in the film Psycho , to the famous lyrics of the Eagles’ Hotel California describing a hotel where “you can check out any time you like (but you can never leave)”. Nonetheless, most hotels can be relied upon to deliver a basic standard of quality, along with safety, security, and stability – important considerations when HR is sending its employees off to unknown foreign locales . A guest can expect a standard template of amenities when checking into a hotel room: bed, bathroom, desk, mini-bar, breakfast buffet, and daily housekeeping at the very least; room service and laundry if they're willing to shell out a little more. The shared option? Airbnb, in contrast, promises character and homeliness at a fundamental level. No two homes are the same – likewise, n...

Share This: Modern Studio Apartment %20-%20http://www.yliving.com/blog/decorate-modern-studio-apartment/" target="_blank"> Modern Studio Apartment %7C%20YLiving" target="_blank"> The stakes are high when decorating a modern studio apartment . After all, when every function needs to happen in a single, compact space—from sleeping to cooking to entertaining—even one poorly placed or scaled piece of furniture can throw off the balance of your modern living room or modern dining room . To avoid common missteps we called on Iain Halliday, of the New York- and Sydney-based architectural and interior design firm Burley Katon Halliday . A veteran designer who has detailed everything from studios to vast homes, Halliday offers modern living room ideas for smart small-space design. YLiving: What are the major challenges when decorating a studio apartment, and how can they be addressed? Iain Halliday: It’s important to understand that in a studio many thin...

Artist’s impression of Town Square Bintulu Soho Commercial lobby . KUCHING: Ibraco will be launching its new commercial space Town Square Soho Commercial at Sarawak Housing and Real Estate Developer Association (Sheda) Bintulu Home & Property Roadshow at Commerce Square Mall in Bintulu this weekend (Aug 19 and 20). According to a press statement, Town Square Soho Commercial is the commercial podium located below Ibraco’s first Soho (small office, home office) development in Bintulu, Town Square Soho . It consists of one-storey of preferred high- ceiling retail outlets ranging in size from 351 to 1,040 sq feet with just 24 units up for grabs. Town Square Soho Commercial caters to the entrepreneurial needs of small to medium- sized business owners venturing into small easy to run and maintain businesses that take advantage of the 158 units of Town Square Soho apartment units expected for completion in 2019, as well as the newly completed 8- storey office block at Town Squar...

With the words well cleaned, well pressed and well dressed hovering in three red arrows above its iconic sign, it’s tough for those passing by Broadway Cleaners in Redwood City to miss it. Built specifically for a dry cleaning business some 57 years ago, the building at 1681 Main St. is a fixture standing where the street dead-ends into El Camino Real . It’s now occupied by lifelong dry cleaners Marti and Jim Russell, who have owned and operated a business there for the past six years. An instructor and third- generation dry cleaner , Marti Russell is no stranger to the business. She has fond memories of helping her father, a dry cleaner himself, sort through hangers as a kid and worked in his Belmont shop while she attended San Mateo High School . Though Marti Russell has logged over 50 years in the business, the stories her customers tell her about the items they are dropping off keep her far from bored. “You just can’t make some of this stuff up,” she said. From helping customers...

There have been some clunkers on the horror front this year. From intriguing concepts falling short of executing their primary conceits to flops that just weren't quite ready for full release, 2017 hasn't been the best year for horror games.  And after the bigger-but-less-scary Outlast 2  tried admirably to give us backwoods hillbilly scares but being slightly detached, the horror fan base is ready for something more personal and mind-bending -- and that's what you get with Bloober Team's  Observer. Boiled down to its component parts, this is  Layers of Fear meets SOMA  but in a futuristic noir detective story . Want a more horror-themed version of Blade Runner ? Well, you've got it now. You can check out our full Observer game review below but if you're looking for guides instead, check out our walkthroughs here: A Dark, Alternate Future Observer has style in spades. It's abundantly clear from the intro movie that's a bit like a cross between the...