More for Living Room

More stuff for the living room: The TV console, 42" Philips LCD TV, Double layer-Day and Night curtain. (Ignore the ugly carpet, it's a temporary stand in at that time)

This is how the home theater set up looks like in the beginning.

Starhub digital set top box. Once you started watching cable, free to view channel contents are quite rubbish
Pioneer DVD Player with HDMI output and upscaling to 1080p. This player makes some of the DVDs look really good on the HD panel with it upscaling capability. Only gripe I have, it doesn't read some of the discs.
Pioneer AV 5.1 Receiver. Not those top of the line ones, but is good enough, if you're not to choosy about it. Does have a bit of regret not getting the set from Denon or the better set from Pioneer that comes with HDMI switching as well as 7.1 channel decoding.

Philips 42" Full HD LCD TV. We were contemplating on whether to get the 47" one as there was a pretty good offer then. After much consideration, we missed the promotion and ended up getting the 42" instead. That was done with much research too. It was such a good buy that even Claurene joined in the purchase and got one for her family. The price is considered quite good even till now.

This is how the entire home entertainment setup looks like with the HTPC hidden from view. Boston Subwoofer and JBL speakers works quite well with the Pioneer receiver. This is how it looks like as of now (Dec 2008). Still considering about getting a silver Playstation 3 to fill up the gap in the console.


[Non-Tech Stuff]

Frilly blind to act as a separator between the door and the windows. Supposedly from the fengshui perspective, it's not good to have the door directly facing the window. Aesthetically, it as as a visual separator between the doorway and the actual living room, it gives the living room a more regular shaped look as well as allowing the dining area to be visually segregated from the living room area.

Much debate went on in the selection of the living room clock. We had a more elaborate one in mind but installation as well as maintenance will be quite a hassle. This was therefore settled. Also the clock face design matches the the

2 statues that we feel fits into the living room very well. Also the design celebrates the joy of togetherness.