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1 Bedroom Condo For Rent, Fort Bonifacio

1 Bedroom Condo For Rent at W Tower, Fort Bonifacio

myfieldsofgold.sulit.com.ph - Sunday, November 13, 2011

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Feels Like Home

Finally finished renovating and decorating our place! After a few months of renovating and a couple weeks of unpacking, rearranging and shopping -- this simple small place finally feels like a home. Eyebrows and I decided on a clean French look for our second place. Monique was our architect and she captured our vision quite well.

The overall color scheme was white and beige with a few hints of green and brown to add color. I shopped for a few simple and elegant accent furniture that added life to the place. I love the glass vases I found at Rustans. They are the perfect size (and I must it is not easy to find elegant furniture for a small space)! I coupled it with potpourri in shades of green and beige to go with our color scheme. 

All the furniture was custom made to fit into the small space and to go with the theme. Beth, our furniture maker, did a great job! Most of the furniture is painted to mimic an old french country look (snagged the look from Ethan Allen, its funny though how most older people think the furniture painting is undone!). Beth used 7 layers of paint and sandpaper to get the look right. I chose simple textured fabric for most upholstery with a few printed damask accent pieces. We really wanted some semblance of greenery and were really happy to find these clean-cut grass in silver pots to go with our theme.

Our home has a very soft feel to it. It is clean and fresh looking just like I imagined. In a way its sad that  its all done. Its just so fun to design our place, I want to do more of it! Next step is to finish the Nursery and Christmas decorations. 

Online Shopping for Cloth Nappies

We're planning to mix cloth with disposable diapers for our newborn, mostly to prevent diaper rash. "According to the Journal of Pediatrics, 54 % of one-month old babies using disposable diapers had rashes, 16 % having severe rashes.  A study done by a disposable diapers manufacturing company... shows that the incidence of diaper rash increased from 7.1% to 61% with the increased use of throwaway disposable diapers." (a)

So I went off on another online research and shopping spree in search of the perfect nappies. Its amazing where Google can take you, found 3 local websites that sell cloth diapers:

• Eco Baby Boutique
• Sunshine Babies Boutique
• Pinoy Baby

Took a look at a number of brands before finally choosing the GroVia All In Twos. It's basically composed of an outer waterproof shell and an inner absorbent and removable soaker pad. What made me go for this brand was the fact that the diaper system is adjustable and can be used from newborn all the way to the toddler stage. Most of the other brands came in multiple sizes depending on the child's age. Plus, almost all the online reviews were positive. Below is an online review of how this thing works.

One set of this diaper system comes with a shell and a soaker pad. Additional soaker pads can be sold separately. My next question was, how many of these will I need? After some researching, they say I'll probably need 3-4 shells and about 10 soaker pads for partial cloth diapering for a newborn. Considering one shell is over PhP 1k, and a 2 pc soaker pad set about the same price... hmmmm, am I really sure to use this?

Off to some other alternatives, another option is to use prefold diapers instead of soaker pads, at least until our newborn starts to need less changes. Although the GroVia was not made for this, I did read that it worked quite well for other mommies. Prefold diapers are much much more reasonable.

So those are my options for now... I almost went ahead and purchased them online, then figured I can probably hold off on it until I am 100% sure to go "mixed-nappy-ing".

Sources:
(a) http://www.thenewparentsguide.com/diapers.htm