Since rearranging the furniture a couple of years ago, my husband Vince and I have hatched plans to do something about the blank wall behind the TV. Sun-burst mirrors. A collection of framed art prints. Built-in shelves so we can move out the books in the boys' room, which used to be our home office in our before-kids life. A wall of cabinets for extra storage and to hide the TV. We always planned our plans whenever we watched TV (so that was every day haha) because look at it:
Soooo saaaaaad! How could we have lived like that?!? (Hehe, so melodramatic.) Well, we had to live with that because we just couldn't find the energy to have carpenters come in and build shelves and cabinets for us. We live in a condo and there's so much red tape and fees just to have people come over to OUR house and fix OUR house, services that WE hired and paid for using OUR money. I mean, seriously, with the way condo management polices what we do in OUR homes, you'd think THEY own the place! So even if we want to do stuff like a simple cabinet installation, a paint job, or an entire home renovation, we get defeated.
And then Simply Modular sent us an email and told us to check them out.
Simply Modular Furniture System was designed by and for megacities. Yes, Simply Modular is from Hong Kong, Japan and Korea. Now it's in Manila! It's basically panels that snap together so you can assemble them any which way you like to create shelves, cabinets, closets, tables, desks, cribs, beds—whatever you like!
I liked Simply Modular because we can design the specific furniture we needed, and then as our needs change, we can reassemble the panels to create new furniture. Amazing! Vince liked it for the same reason plus the fact that every Simply Modular piece is made of high quality ABS plastic. So it's basically LEGO! That also means they're waterproof, termite-proof, and rust-proof! And, unlike IKEA (which almost destroyed our marriage hahaha when we built our kids' bed), Simply Modular is so easy to assemble! Look!
So we agreed to have a starter kit sent our way. As soon as we saw the panels, we liked them so much, we bought more! Good thing there's a wonderfully made website to shop at: www.simplymodular.ph.
Okay, big con for me was that the website (at the time I shopped) did NOT accept credit cards or PayPal. As a longtime online seller and shopper, I know that a basic requirement of any online shop is to offer easy online payment options. I almost quit at this point because this means I have to shop at the store. My longtime readers know I hate shopping at malls! But since Vince had his heart set on Simply Modular and because I love him so very much, we made the looooong trip all the way to SMDC M Place in Panay Ave., Quezon City, to shop for the pieces we needed.
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| Ideas: shelves, TV console, cabinets. |
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| Ideas: Desk, side tables. |
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| So many colors! We picked white, orange, blue and green. I'm still dreaming of that pink, though! |
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| Bottom panels have attachable legs. |
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| The sets can hold weights up to 200 kilos so your kids can sit and lie down on them. |
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| No need for screws or pegs. Just click the panels together! |
And here are the finished shelves!
Sooo happy!!! We love our Simply Modular shelves! The entire thing cost us about P15,000. (And it was so easy to assemble, it didn't cost us our marriage, too!) That's actually affordable because these shelves will last forever. And I can reinvent them into another piece of furniture, too! Like what my kids did with the extra panels:
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| They made a stage for their puppet shows! |
The first store is at G/F SMDC M Place, Panay Avenue, Quezon City, just beside ABS-CBN. I'm glad to report that more branches are opening this year at SMDC malls below SMDC condos. Hooray! There's an SMDC mall near us! I'm thinking of replacing the TV console with Simply Modular shelves and cabinets, too, because the darkness of the wood doesn't look so nice against all those happy colors. I'm also planning to make my laundry room pretty and efficient so I really want to shop at Simply Modular again!
so nice! I love the pops of color! Medyo turn-off nga lang that you need to go to their store if you live far from it.
ReplyDeleteMeron naman OTC bank payments sila sa website =)
DeleteNatawa ako sa "it didn't cost us our marriage too", nakakarelate ako dyan everytime my husband and I have home improvement projects haha!
ReplyDeleteDibaaaa??? I dread projects like that haha But with Simply Modular, okay kami ni hubby hahaha
Deletematibay po ba talaga ito? including the small "brackets and pins"?
ReplyDeletesayang kasi kung madali lang masira.. we're planning to make a bed with storage underneath.
Yes, matibay siya but depende rin sa structure na gagawin mo. For example, if you want it stronger and more stable, you're going to need more panels para reinforced. If you want a bed, you're going to have to make sure the middle of the bed has supporting panels. And definitely hindi pwedeng mag-jump up and down sa bed.
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