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Atiqah Nadiah Zailani
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Ringgits & Cents: Costing for the Meraki Project [Updated Dec 2019]
How much building a house (and an eventual farm-slash-orchard) is costing the wallet. As per last year, I am conducting an end-year...
Atiqah Nadiah Zailani
5 min read
DIY Multifunctional Sofa for the Meraki Tiny House
Putting together a custom Do-It-Yourself sofa because why not make life hard for yourself. My initial hopes and dreams were to DIY most...
Atiqah Nadiah Zailani
4 min read
Rainwater Harvesting at the Meraki Tiny House
Installing an off-grid rainwater catchment system to water the tiny house with. Now that the rainy season has begun, at least in my part...
Atiqah Nadiah Zailani
4 min read
Ringgits & Cents: Costing for the Meraki Project [Updated Dec 2018]
How much building a house (and an eventual farm-slash-orchard) is costing the wallet. Since I first published the costing for this...
Atiqah Nadiah Zailani
6 min read
Installing Solar Power in the Meraki House
Let there be (sun)light (to power up everything I need in life). Throughout this entire process of conceptualising, planning and building...
Atiqah Nadiah Zailani
5 min read
Meraki Tiny House: What I Would Do Differently
All the things I would do differently if I were to build a house again Last week marks the anniversary of the start of the Meraki Tiny...
Atiqah Nadiah Zailani
3 min read
Ringgits & Cents: Costing for the Meraki Project
How much building a house (and an eventual farm-slash-orchard) is costing the wallet. If you've been following my Personal Finance...
Atiqah Nadiah Zailani
3 min read
House Building Diary: Final Week (+ Behind the Scenes)
Just a little bit more... The first week of the build was spent getting the basic structure up, while the second week was spent on...
Atiqah Nadiah Zailani
5 min read
House Building Diary: Week Two
Continuation of the house-building adventures. The first week of building was exhausting, and I was starting to think that I had gotten...
Atiqah Nadiah Zailani
5 min read
House Building Diary: Week One
The plan was to build a house in 3 weeks time. Naturally, nothing went according to plan. This house build has been a long time coming. I...
Atiqah Nadiah Zailani
5 min read
Building a Sustainable Home
Efforts to build a home that meets all of one's requirements and yet produces minimum negative effects to the world around it. Being a...
Atiqah Nadiah Zailani
5 min read
Designing A Home For Yourself
When you're not an architect or a construction worker but you still insist on designing and building your own home. There’s nothing quite...
Atiqah Nadiah Zailani
5 min read
Get Inspired to Build Your Own House
When others do such a great job that you want to do it too. I am certainly not the first to attempt building a house, or the first to try...
Atiqah Nadiah Zailani
7 min read
A Tiny Home for a Tiny Person
Building a home by yourself offers a gazillion possibilities - a terrace house? A mansion? A freaking palace?? Or the exact opposite: a...
Atiqah Nadiah Zailani
6 min read
A Place to Park a House: Adventures in Buying Land (+ Free Guide)
Lessons learned from 6 months of seeking and chasing after the land of my dreams. Almost as difficult as finding true love. Once I got...
Atiqah Nadiah Zailani
4 min read
The Trials of Getting Yourself a Home
Opting out of the debt-ridden house-buying tradition, and building one from scratch instead. The thing about getting older is that you...
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