Magazine Feature : Designer’s Concept

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Headline: 艺术成就唯美家居 / Home Artistry

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生活与艺术有着无可切割的纽带。artpainting.com.my为现代家居带来可提升室内设计风格的画饰,藉此展现个人品味。

Art has always been an indispensable form of expression for the human race since its existence. Honouring that tradition, Artpainting.com.my is offering modern consumers the opportunity to express their individuality through art.

装饰画成为了现代家居的主要环节,而精品酒店和主题食肆的蓬勃发展更是大大促成了装饰画的流行。artpainting.com.my不像一般的传统艺术画廊,创办人Angelica利用网络作为主要的推广和销售平台,以大众化的价格让所有人都可负担精美画饰。然而,大众化的价格丝毫不降低画饰的品质和水准。artpainting.com.my的上千幅作品皆是公司的内部设计师和国外设计师的精心杰作,而店家也承诺会在每个季度增添上百幅新作,消费者只需自行选择心属的尺寸、画饰质感和边框,即可拥有一副理想的画饰。

Art painting plays a huge role in distinguishing personal taste and social status in homes and other spaces throughout the history of human civilisation. Today, art paintings are commonly used as great finishing touches in homes, hotels and thematic food outlets. Riding on the wave of customisation, Artprinting.com.my offers consumers selections of art paintings that mirror their individuality. Differing from conventional art galleries, founder Angelica decided to digitise Artpainting.com.my by prioritising its online store. As a result, the company is capable of supplying vast varieties of art paintings at a comfortable price range without sacrificing on quality. On top of that, Artpainting.com.my works closely with its in-house designers and international artists to produce artistic and intriguing art paintings as it plans to continue adding hundreds of new artworks into its collections every year. Consumers can easily customise their favourite art painting by simply selecting your ideal painting size, print type and frame colour.

 
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artpainting.com.my结合了台湾材质和韩国的优质打印技术,先将图案打印在客户所选的材质上再上框,这不仅大大降低了画饰的成本,还可让画饰的颜色得以保留至少十年之久。至于画饰的质地,artpainting.com.my共有两种材质供选择——高素质纺布和亚克力Eco Panel。来自台湾的高素质纺布达到了博物馆级的展示标准;而同是来自台湾的亚克力Eco Panel除了达到环保标准以外,还十分轻盈坚硬,配合先进的印刷科技让画饰展现优质的像素和卓越的视觉效果。倘若客户喜爱闪亮的表面,artpainting.com.my还可在亚克力Eco Panel上添加一层玻璃,出色且生动。

Using advanced Korean printing technique, Artpainting.com.my will proceed to print out the selected artwork onto quality canvas materials from Taiwan before sealing it into a frame, which greatly reduces the cost of each art painting. Additionally, the colour quality of the art paintings will not deteriorate for at least 10 years, ensuring that they look like brand new. Consumers are also offered the option of selecting between two materials – a high quality poly-cotton blend matte canvas and acrylic Eco Panel. Imported from Taiwan, the poly-cotton blend matte canvas shares the same specs as the canvases used in museum exhibitions. As its name suggests, the Eco Panel is engineered to be environmentally friendly and extremely sturdy. For an extra glossy finishing, Artpainting.com.my can also add a layer of protective glass on top of the Eco Panel.

 

除了画饰的质感以外,artpainting.com.my还提供了不同的边框选择。三种厚度和黑、白、金、银四种颜色的边框选择,完美搭配不同的画饰尺寸和室内风格。倘若客户需要特别的厚度和色彩的边框,店家也可以尽量配合打造。值得一提的是,artpainting.com.my是全马首家推出铝制画框的品牌,防水防锈的之余也十分轻盈,不必忧虑墙面承受过分的重量。

The customisation doesn’t just stop there. Consumers could specify their favourite frame, choosing between three types of frame thickness and colour choices between Gold, Black, White or Silver. On another note, Artpainting.com.my is the first brand in the country to offer frames made from aluminium, which is water and rust-resistant as well as being extremely light in weight.

艺术诉说个性,展现个人品味。Angelica虽从事门窗生意多年,却同时也深信艺术的情感是为家居加分的主要元素,而这信念也促成了artpainting.com.my的创立。artpainting.com.my通过网络的力量推广并销售家居画饰。广泛的的选择、专属的定制服务和公道的价格让艺术氛围弥漫家居空间。

Art is all about expressing our individuality and showcasing our personal taste. Coming from a background of producing doors and windows, Angelica has always kept in touch with her artistic persona. Believing that artistry is just as important as any other aspects in home designs, she decided to establish Artpainting.com.my. Mainly operated through its online store, Artpainting.com.my has surpassed restrictions of operating a physical store as it offers consumers exclusive services and vast personalised artworks at an attractively affordable price, allowing owners to style up spaces according to their personal tastes.

 

Angelica Lee

Founder of artpainting.com.my

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5 Myths of renovating a rental property

Ms Wong, 35, a property investor who owns more than 10 properties and has more than 9 years of renovating and renting property experience. Today, she is going to share with us the “TOP 5 Myths about Renovating a Rental Property “ along her property investment journey.

 

Myth #1 -“ I want to spend the LEAST amount, I don’t care about the look and quality, I just want everything to be the cheapest to lower my cost so my net rental income will be higher”

Well, if you really believe this is the way, the highest possibility your rental property will end up like the photo shown below >>

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Fact: “Cheap renovation/furbish” will attract “Cheap Tenant”. Be ready yourself for delayed rental, default in rental, problematic tenant who wants to take every “advantage” from you as they want the cheap rental too oh, did I mention the damage they may do for your units when they have gone missing?

My rule of thumb: Always spend at least 5%-10% of your purchase price, get yourself some good furniture’s (not expensive), durable electrical appliances (just because you are planning to rent for years not months), and most importantly is your EFFORT, certainly the more effort you put into renovating your rental properties, your tenant will be more likely to appreciate it.

By renovating your rental property well, you will have larger pool of tenant options. This gives you a great advantage to screen out those potential bad tenants and more options to decide.

 

Myth #2: “Why need to spend so much money? I am not the one using it!

Treat your rental property like a business. Your rental property is your stock, and your client is renting it by paying you monthly installment. Put yourself in tenant shoes, if you were there, wouldn’t you want to stay in a more comfortable place? Always treat your tenant your client, renovate in a way that you yourself would love to stay in and extend the tenancy upon tenancy expires, this will save your a lot of opportunity costs (when you change tenant) and hassles ( trouble of getting your unit refurbish, put out to the market, find the agent and arrange for viewing …the list go on if you let go potential good tenant).

 

Myth # 3: As long as I provide all the basics in my property, I will be able to rent it out well.

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The tenant will feel your efforts. They are like you, you want a good tenant, and they want a good and responsible landlord. Your amount of effort to as little as preparing a brand new towel for them upon their move-in will definitely make a good impression to them.

Put some flower and grass pot in your property make it more lively and lovely. If your targeted tenant has a family, his wife will appreciate it. If you targeted at expatriate with family, try to make your home more homely and welcoming, it is not easy for them to relocate, your effort to ease their relocation will be appreciated and the like hood for them to renew the tenancy will be higher.

TIPS # 1: I always prepare extra light bulbs for my tenant cause I understand the frustration when the bulbs go dead, and you can save the hassle of getting call from your tenant too!

TIPS # 2:I always take good care of my rental properties; always make sure my property is sparkling clean and tidy for the viewing. I want to give the impression to my tenant that I treasure my property very well and so do them. I want assure them that they rental they are paying are worthy, this is very important part that many landlord forgo.

 

Myth # 4: Inflation every year so does rental! I must increase the rental if the market rate goes up or I will terminate the tenancy agreement and look for a tenant who can pay.

This is not a definite case. Changing tenant is a high cost for landlord. You must measure the opportunity cost letting go the current tenant to reach the decision. Letting go an existing tenant will expose you to potential losses as below:

  1. Agent Fees: 1 Month of rental goes to the property agent’s pocket
  2. Opportunity Cost: It could be one, two or up to 6 months that you could not find one tenant who willing to pay you rental you desire. You will loose both rental incomes in these months.
  3. Refurbish Costs: By putting out your unit to the market will cost you some refurbishment, cleaning cost to put the unit out again to the market.

I know some of the landlords make emotional decision when comes to tenancy renewal, some even ending the tenancy contract because of the RM100-200 monthly rental incremental, which in return, they bear a great loss.

 

Myth #5: I do not want to spend too much on renovation, because the tenant will not be taking care of it!

Fact: You can require one more month of rental deposit by justifying your potential tenant with your renovation cost. To minimalist the risk, you can always visit your property every quarter to make sure everything is in order. Throughout my renting experience, due to my renovation, I am lucky to get more options to choose a better tenant pool such as professional, expatriate (Japanese & Korean take good care of my properties always) to reduce the risk. But if you do not put effort and more money into renovation, you will not be able to attract this pool of good tenant, then you really running in the risk.

 

Myth #6: Art Painting? For a rental property? I do even spend that on my own house! There is no way I will spend that money on my rental property…

Fact: Many people still have missed out the importance of how art piece can affect your rental property and value. If you are targeted on expatriate tenant, you must put some art piece in your property as they will appreciate and fall in love with it during the viewing. There is some affordable option for art painting in the market now, which is call Art Printing. Unlike human draw painting, Art printing is using printing technology to print the art on canvas or other material which save you more than half of the price of real painting.

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Due to online store booming, you can even buy your art piece online. I strongly recommend https://artpainting.com.my for their high quality and affordable price. Their online store has more than 1,000 collections for chose and they are using premium graded canvas and aluminum frame. You can buy the art piece there from as low as RM180/piece.

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I always set aside of RM1, 000 for art printing to every rental property, there are the powerful statements in the house. Nice painting adds edge and stylish look to your property, which increases the chance of you getting to rent the unit out Fast, Higher renal and Longer term lease.

Check our bestsellers!

 

Ms Wong last advice to the reader:

“Being a landlord is like running a business. You are providing a product (Property) to your client (Tenant).

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Renovate your rental property that you would want to live in, treat your tenant like treating your client, you will minimize the risk of getting potential bad tenant and able to hold a long term tenancy with the good ones.

Below are some of Ms Wong renovated rental properties, for more ideas on renovation tips, please stay tuned at https://artpainting.com.my/blog/.

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5 Easy Steps for Choosing The Right Wall Art

Step 1: Select the theme of your interior

A good wall art can act as a compliment to your interior theme or vice versa, it could be the main focus on your overall interior. Before choosing the right wall art, one should decide the overall interior concept first. Should it be a Zen, contemporary, classical, African safari, Japanese, Korean, pop style or any, this theme sets a prerequisite for your art painting choice.

Step 2: Define the color theme

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After the interior design theme is set, you may choose your favorite color to incorporate into your theme. The basic rule of thumb is to choose an art piece that will match your room without detracting from any of the design elements that are in it. If you find that your design style is filled with cool sleek lines and neutral colors, then a wall art that adds a touch of color to a room is the perfect selection. If your room is filled with color, such as with a Middle Eastern styled room, then a simple canvas wall art that has minimal color will provide a nice break in the room.

When you go to purchase your canvas art, it is important to bring some swatches of the colors that are in your room. This allows you to find the perfect color and to ensure that the colors do not clash.
Step 3: Define your Feature Wall

Select the most important and visible walls in your home that you want to feature, it could be your entrance wall, dining wall or the wall behind sofa seating.

The art that you decide to put is important to you so it gives a room to shine by leaving some walls blank. It does not necessary to hang wall art on every wall. The place for just a good piece may be enough to draw attention and it is often the first areas to get noticed in a living room.

 

Step 4: Match the Artwork

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As with all other pieces of art, there is a range of styles that you can choose from. There are pop arts, abstract, oil painting, black and white, landscapes, flora art and many other prints that can be found in www.artpainting.com.my so you really need to make sure that the theme in the picture does not clash with the theme in your room.

For instance, a lighthouse landscape is not going to work in a

room that has been decorated with an Asian feel and an oriental floral canvas art is not going to work in a room that was decorated with a nautical feel.
No matter how much you like a piece, if it doesn’t match your decor, then it shouldn’t be purchased.

 

Step 5: The Size does matter

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Determine how much space you have available and search for pieces that are the right size. A rule of thumb is to have the art fill two-thirds to three-quarters of the wall. Size matters — for contemporary art, bigger is better to maximize impact.

 

Another rule of thumb for hanging art is to center it at eye level. Consider if you’ll usually be standing or sitting in the space, and select your eye-level height accordingly.

When hanging art above a sofa or another piece of furniture, like a credenza,keep the bottom edge of the frame 6 to 12 inches above the furniture.

Large-scale pieces can be more expensive. If you can’t make that type of investment yet, create a gallery wall of smaller prints grouped together to take the place of one large piece. Reframe pieces you already own to give them a new life.

 

Hope through these 5 simple steps can help you to find the ideal wall art to your home!

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