Rachel & Adil
@half.baked.home
For Rachel and Adil, home is something they shape, piece by piece. Their space reflects a shared instinct for design and making, a place to play, experiment, and follow ideas wherever they lead, sometimes thoughtfully, sometimes a little chaotically. From custom-built pieces to thoughtful material choices, every corner carries intention, and everyday furniture becomes something considered and personal. It's not about perfection, but about creating a home that evolves with them: curious, deeply personal, and entirely their own.
"Rachel is a product designer by day and an illustrator by night. Adil builds apps. In our free time, we have fun making things together — furniture, random design and art projects, or digital products/apps like a mahjong game and a furniture visualising app."
"Adil is the engineer in every sense: software, hardware, the 'let's just build it ourselves' / 'how hard could this be' kind of person. Rachel is the artist, always trying to inject some quirky style and soul into whatever we make. You could say the home is our biggest project yet, a blend of these two sides. We take turns coming up with funny ideas, like making an art wall for our cat, or creating a 2025 bingo board for ourselves (still not fully ticked off), or designing the TV console that we wanted."
R: "We both knew we wanted a plywood TV console with a simple, slightly raw vibe. We looked everywhere. Nothing felt right. So that's when Adil, being Adil, was like 'f it, I will just make it.' That was the beginning of the rabbit hole. One TV console became a hobby. Then more furniture. Now you can see things that he has built all over the home — like the TV console, the record player plinth, his sit-stand desk, the pegboard, the yard bench top, and many more."
A: "I love my sit-stand desk. This was probably the hardest project I embarked on, since I wanted a table that could sit and stand, but still have a more classic, non-tech, non-plastic vibe. Rachel always claims she's low-maintenance and doesn't need luxury. But now she loves handmade furniture — which is actually the most high-effort thing possible."
R: "Adil specifically designed and made a drawing roll on the wall for me to have an endless canvas to draw my art. And the cinder blocks to hold our plant bench — I still can't believe this guy went to make a mold and went to hand stir and cast the concrete himself. We also have these Can Is Can tins that I used to package my t-shirts in. Now customers (and us) reuse them to store utensils and pens. Every piece was hand-glued and hand-sanded. Adil collected them 2–3 at a time from the drink store uncle for me. Each one feels very sincere. Each one counts."
"We're actually quite chaotic, slightly messy and creative people. So our space needs to feel bright and alive — especially since we spend so much time here working and creating. It has to inspire new ideas and memories. On any random weekend, we might fall into a rabbit hole over some new idea and end up spending the entire weekend at home building it. So we designed the home so we can work comfortably from anywhere — the dining table, the floor in the living room, a random corner with good light. We keep our creative tools and materials within reach, so when inspiration hits, we can just start. No friction."
"For everything else that we bought, we were very sure from the start that it had to feel like us — and feel unique. We didn't want to build a checklist. Not 'we need this chair, that lamp, this era.' As much as we admire all those pieces, we didn't want to feel like we were recreating a showroom or chasing a formula. Instead, we let things accumulate slowly — things that made us laugh, pause, or feel something."
"Most things are unanimous decisions, and to our own very pleasant surprise, our tastes were very aligned. If we walk away and keep thinking about it… if it makes us weirdly excited… if we giggle like kids when we see it — that's usually the sign. That's the bar."
"One of our favourite things in our home is our clock. It was created by two of our favourite Singaporean illustrator/designer friends (Cruddy and aaah.house), and we hand-painted it ourselves during a workshop by them. It functions loosely as a clock, but instead of just numbers, you can select different activities to represent each hour. It's both functional and slightly chaotic. And also a funny reminder to do things like go outside and touch grass… or go to sleep."
R: "The 'Extraordinary Moments' print from one of our fav artists is the first piece of art Adil bought for me, and the biggest also. It's in a place where we will look at it multiple times every single day. And it serves as a reminder to us that some moments in this house are extraordinary, and that's what a home is for."
A: "One home routine that brings me comfort is making coffee for Rachel every single morning, and spending a bit of time with Tiger, holding him at the window, just looking outside together before the day starts. It forces me not to look at my screen immediately. We're also first-time cat parents, and the whole process of caring for him has taught us so much about ourselves. I didn't think we could love a non-human creature this much."
"We thought we'd quit halfway through making home content on social media, like another abandoned project. But we found momentum early on and slowly built a small community. We've shared parts of our lives — adopting a cat, slow days at home, our travels — and it seems people resonate with it."
"Somewhere along the way, we realised the home wasn't just something to document. It became a medium — a space where we pursue creative ideas and life adventures. It's where we test, build, host conversations, experiment, and sometimes fail."
"We recently shared our journey of building our home visualisation app, including the uncertain parts. Even if it doesn't work out, we want to show that process honestly. The home has become a backdrop, but also a stage, workshop, studio, and sometimes a classroom. It's given us more than we expected. And although people don't usually think so, we're actually quite shy. We probably wouldn't have stepped out of our shells this much without it."
"Home is an ever-evolving place where we can feel the most like ourselves. A place to celebrate each other. To bring ideas to life together. To make mistakes. To grow into new versions of ourselves. It's where days that might seem ordinary to others feel extraordinary to us."
