Malaysian couple turns boxy Melaka terrace house into bright, functional space


The rock garden situated at the front yard is a space where the couple spend most of their evenings together. Photos: The Star/Ong Soon Hin

When a home is described as having a modern, minimalist design style, it often conjures up images of stark rooms with little more than simple furnishings and the feeling of it being sterile or cold.

But this certainly isn’t the case with the home of graphic designer, Nabila Shakira Nordin and art and design lecturer, Musaddiq Mohammad Khalil.

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