Hiding washroom inside the wardrobe

Nowadays, most of the house designs are having a washroom inside the bedrooms, this is especially common for the master bedroom.

However, having a washroom inside your bedroom is a very bad idea in feng shui practice. Even disregard the feng shui viewpoints, it doesn't look nice to see the washroom in your bedroom too. Therefore, when I planned for the location of the wardrobe in my master bedroom, I made it to be on same side with the washroom entrance, and hide the washroom inside the wardrobe.

This is a great idea, I think, as most of our friends who entered our master bedroom before were curious to ask: "Does your bedroom has an attached washroom? Where is it?"

Well, this is the custom made wardrobe in my master bedroom. It covers the whole wall surface of one side, and we like it very much.



Make a guess. Where the washroom is hiding in?
Here is it!



In fact, this same wardrobe also hides the entrance to a secret chamber. Guess where is it. Sorry, I won't show you here.

So how about the washroom for the other 2 bedrooms on the same floor? Many double storey houses let the other washroom to be shared by the other 2 bedrooms upstairs, which is also located inside and in between the 2 bedrooms. My house original design has that shared washroom detached from the 2 bedrooms and is located behind the family hall outside the rooms, so I don't have to hide it anyway. If the other bedrooms in your house are having the shared washroom inside the rooms, I think you could probably hiding the entrances with the same wardrobe idea too.

Outdoor motion sensor light

I purchased this motion sensor light for just hundred something ringgit each from the lighting shop.



I installed one set to illuminate my car poach area, and another set at the backyard area.

It's sensitivity can be adjusted. With the light sensitivity switch, I configured it to operate at night, where there is little or no sunlight. There is also a timer switch to set for how long it will illuminate when triggered before turning itself off again.

So how it works? When the lighting environment reaches the preset condition (in my setting, only when lighting is weak, eg. during night time), it will automatically turn on when any motion is detected, and then turn off itself when no more motion is detected after the preset number of time.

With this sensor light in place, whenever I walk out the house during night time, it will automatically light up for me. The same will happen whenever I come back from outside at night. Pretty convenient, isn't it?

It also serves some security functions, as any motion detected during night time will trigger its light on, thus helps to deter bad guy from entering the house compound. You can also link its circuit to your doorbell system, so that your doorbell will chime when it is triggered.

AOCM - A friendly and resourceful automotive club for Toyota Avanza owners

Before I made the booking and then purchased my Toyota Avanza 1.5G last year, I did quite a lot of researches about the goods and bads of the car. It is this Avanza Owners' Club Malaysia or AOCM which helped me made up my mind for the final decision.

For the price of around RM70k, which is close to RM10k cheaper than Toyota Vios 1.5 and Honda City 1.5, this car has a lot of impressive features. So far the Toyota Avanza assembled in Perodua's plant is still the cheapest 7-seater MPV in Malaysia. Its seating position gives a good clearance view of the road. It has versatile seat configuration. It's 3SZ-VE DOHC VVT-i engine performs well when carrying 7 adults with luggages. Its 3rd row seat can really sit in 2 adults or 3 children pretty comfortably. It has dedicated air-cond blowers for 2nd and 3rd row seats. During my time of purchase, it come with a free Sony 32" LCD TV or free Aerokit too. In short, it is valued for money.

However, we all aware that this car has some shortcomings too. People find it bouncy, noise insulation is poor, etc. For all those shortcomings, AOCM always has good workaround solution.

If you plan to buy an Avanza, or you are already Avanza owner, and you are not AOCM member yet, do pay a visit to http://www.avanzamalaysia.com/. You can join in free of charge. We have regular technical talks (TT) meetup session every month. This club is really resourceful with knowledgeable sifu, and the members are always ready to help up each other.

I'll tell you what I have learned from the sifu in AOCM and the practical improvements made to my Avanza in the upcoming posts.