clothes can hang at service balcony (or kitchen cuz I can't
recall they have service balcony) as they have the gadgets
installed for this purpose anyway.
to drink wine at night at the balcony... erhmm... good for those
who don't need to do housechores lor. The balcony will be
covered with dust every day, worse still if the main road is
visibly nearby. Good if got maid to do the chores every day
unless the individual resident don't mind doing it every day or
don't mind the dust. Every table and chair that you put to
enjoy the glass of wine is dusty. Everytime sit liao, better
go in and clean up, change before heading to bedroom, unless the
individual don't mind sleeping with part of the body stained with
dust. So to maintain the balcony's furniture, the housewife
or the maid will have to wipe them everyday.
Balcony opening can bring a lot of dust to the living room
also. Have to mop the whole place (not just the living room)
every day, again unless the individual don't mind the dust, don't
mind doing it himself or has a hardworking maid. Used to live
in a 5rm point block with balcony, then move to a exec apt without
balcony and then moved to a 3bedrm condo also without
balcony. can straightaway tell the difference in terms of
maintenance of the household cleanliness. The 5rm flat, although
the smallest in floor area, was the one that took most effort to
keep the floor clean.
That's why the moment i see the clementi DBSS design, I know the
design only look good niah.. but in actual fact totally not
practical. Plus the big balcony eats up much of the limited
floor area, resulting the living room being left with very small
space and the residents can only put a two-seater sofa and a
four-seater dining table (or was it two-seater only).
The small sized apt, I'm afraid, only suitable for young couples
or old couples not staying with kids. Any family with three
generations is a definitely no-no. How to accommodate the
family when you can only have a two-seater sofa in the
living? I won't go on talking about the walkway to the
bedrooms, the kitchen and the indivdual bedrooms. Too
depressing.
