A new year
The new year has started and we continue our search for beauty, style, class, well being and well behaving. If you’re looking for stuff to decorate your home, office or shop Pluk in Amsterdam probably has something for you. If not with anything in your bag, you will at least go home with a lot of inspiration and ideas.

As they say themselves “ Pluk is for everyone who loves healthy and happy people. With us, you can be yourself ”
If you’re not in the vicinity – check out their website www.pluk-amsterdam.com/en/
 
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The festivities are over – bar a late new year’s party perhaps; find a ‘healthy hangover drink’ here http://foodtube.nl/anti-kater-cocktail-de-corpse-revivor-2/ ) – and we start 2019 full of excitement, plans and curiosity.
We want to wish our readers and guests all the best for 2019 and we welcome your input and ideas. Keep looking for us.
 
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Cooking – certainly in this time of year – is one of the homeliest activities you can imagine. Style, comfort and beauty come together in your own kitchen. In an earlier post we mentioned IKEA (www.ikea.com/); we’ve done several kitchens with their help. With online software you can make 3-D drawings yourself or have a designer help you.

That’s a bit (or a lot) more expensive though, but we used to frequent this company for advise and ideas http://www.artisan.com.sg/tips/

Have a look for yourself! We welcome your ideas and links of similar developments. Let us know what you think.
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One way to put your ideas about style, comfort and beauty in practise is by designing your own house. We’ve done that on several occassions, so let me share the house in Singapore that we refurbished – or maybe better: completely rebuilt – in 2011/12.
The story is nicely summarized in the article below and the pictures are more beautiful than we could ever have made them ourselves. Happy reading.

expatliving.sg/living-in-singapore-house-in-duku-road/

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Cooking is a passtime for many; there’s something therapeutical in cutting vergetables and it’s always a pleasure to cook for friends or family. Cooking is a craft though and you need good quality utensils and kitchenware.
So why not find something special – nothing wrong with a Le Creuset, but every wanna-be cook has one as well – for a change try a pot made of old bicyles or railroadtracks. A pot with a story, handmade in accordance with century old traditions.
Have a look here -  https://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2018/12/06/je-oude-fiets-in-een-pan-a3059747. The article is in Dutch but dr Google Translate can lend a hand…
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There is beauty in food. Good food, honest food made with quality, locally sourced produce and with respect for the environment will not only be tasty but will be a joy to experience as well.
That’s what is behind the revival of the Dutch cooking scene as displayed on http://foodtube.nl/. You can find a mix of traditional Dutch dishes and lots of imported inspiration from across the world in line with the Dutch eclectic culture going back centuries being a trade nation founded on international trade.
Not all recipes have subtitles (yet) but try this one out…. http://foodtube.nl/spaghetti-carbonara-zonder-room/.
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