I was watching this show "Bai Jia Le" on channel 8 and I found my dream design theme's name. This show usually shows these 2 artistes competing with each other using a HDB flat. The challenge is to design the living room with furnishing up to $6000 SGD. $5.8K of furnishings and $200 of DIY work. There will be 3 professional interior designer judges for the contest. Winner HDB flat will take away the furnishings. Loser can keep the DIY Decor. This time, both were well designed. I fell in love with this theme. My dream house has always wanted to be like this. It's called "Cosmopolitan".
Interior Design
The cosmopolitan design gives an immediate feel of luxury of the house. It may not need extremely good furniture to create this concept. It lies more in the decor it seems. It gives a heavy and cosy look. More is here.
Bryan Wong's Timeless Cosmopolitan Design. I realised that most of the good designs have a good choice of curtains that matches the decor.
Kitchen
Next is the kitchen! The most important corner of the house. It should be a place where I'm willing to spend time there in cooking rather than washing and cleaning. That should be the concept. Therefore, I should have an induction cooking stove! Hehe. I'm willing to live with the need to pay just a little more for electricity rather than dangerous gas tank and fire that may possibly destroy my house, especially when there will be any kids in the house in future. And, it will save my cleaning time, detergent and water that is required to clean the normal gas stove. That little more for electricity is worth it. 
Being Environment Friendly
The material and items used need not be totally environment friendly. However, we should collect all used items of plastic / metal / paper /wet rubbish separately to pass to recycle centres. In this case, a car maybe required. 
Maintaining Cleanliness
One day or another, cleanliness will always come back to haunt you. I don't need to scold anybody for making an irreversible change. Preferably there should be no uncleanable surfaces in the house. Usually this happens for fabric surfaces, like sofa and carpet. So they better be cleanable. No vacuum cleaners!!!! I hate vacuum cleaners.
