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Whoa - I LOVE the water dish! I've never seen anything like it. Where did you get it/the idea?

Ha! LLC beat me to the comment about the water dish.

I saw the beutiful photo(s) and I instantly knew that I had to have a water dish for my pad.

I grew up around ponds and homes with fountains and a water dish would be so perfect for me.

Plus, at my last place, I had pet turtles (now living freely in a friend's garden).

I'd love to set up a water dish with fishes and some nice water plants.

More information/details please!

Love it, love it, love it!! Ditto on the water dish details, and also on the great corner in the 3rd pic. Is that plant living on the branch or is the pot just hidden behind it? LOVE how you have the rocks around it!!

od56,
The plants may be orchids, with often live holding onto the side of a tree (not parasites though).

This is really beautifully done.

lovely...did the co-op/condo board raise a fuss about this though?

Affinity is in Singapore, info from her blog.

Affinity
wow, that's the look i hope to have!! How's the frangipani doing without full sun?May I ask how long has it been there?
Always like to plant one, but living in an apartment.. I have my reservations... I had a calathea recently but the leave was drooping due to the lack of sun factor.....

cmei from Malaysia

Hii! thanks for all your comments.
LLC and Meltendo, it was my hubby's idea to have a water dish to complete the "resort" look. We can buy the dish easily in the nurseries here. Not sure where you can buy them in NY tho. But any pottery dish will do! Or get a steel dish if you want a modern look! i think steel dish will look great but not sure whether it will cook the fishes if you put it under the sun!
We threw in water lettuce to provide some sheltor for the fishes,and got a taller waterplant to add some height to the whole structure. For fishes, you'll have to get hardy fishes like bettas as we didnt put in any pump/filter. We threw in a pair and they bred. now theres a family in there! :)

Oceandreamer and Jon_B, yes the plants are orchids! :) we lug the driftwood back from a beach here and tied orchid plants to it. now waiting(& hoping) for it to bloom :)

Sammie2, nope no noise from anyone yet :) why would they?

Hi Cmei 'neighbour'! oopps yes i'm fr sg. oh dear is this only open to US? You're right the frangipani tree leaves are dropping due to the lack of sun :( but we do get some afternoon sun and we put fertilizers, so new leaves grew. i had it for 2 months, hope i'm not left with just the trunk 1 year later!!

Very inspiring! I love the driftwood arrangment, and how the glass wall to the living area is both beautiful and practical.

Wait... do the doors to the actual balcony still exist? Do you have two sets of doors - the balcony doors and then the glass wall seperating the space from the rest of the apartment?

Hi Vanessa, the doors of the original balcony has been hacked away so that we can enlarge the balcony. The frameless glass doors that u see now is the only doors separating it from the rest of the apartment