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"The Karung guni Hostel" is how our local paper - The New Paper describe us ...
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We have decorated our hostel with uniquely recycled materials except
the beds, linens and mattresses which are brand new!. The local newspapers call us
"The Karung guni hostel". Karung guni refers to rag and bone men who pay you a
small fee for your unwanted stuff.
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Let us show you around... Hope you would love our hostel!
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The entrance - our signboard is made from a discarded PVC door and children play mat....
and the lamp is an old keorsense lamp converted into an electric lamp.
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Beware of Croc! as you go up the colourful staircase... (friends donated it to us when they wanted to throw it away).
Browse through our staircase mini library of over 200 travel guide books, storybooks and magazines.
Pick/exchange a book to help you pass time on our cosy sofa or on a long train/bus/plane ride ...
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 Picture from The New Paper
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Does our colourful and lively lounge and beds brighten up your day? We actually painted the colourful floor ourselves.
Our collection of 1970's electric clocks are dedicated to tell
the local time of the first guest from each country. Want a clock commissioned by you?
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A SINGER brand sewing machine-turned computer table ... You can exercise your legs
while surfing....the most healthy way to surf the net!
Our mini lockers are made from plastic pipe. We painted them green to make them look like bamboo!
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Designer seats! Our most popular (VIP) seat in the hostel - converted from a portable toilet bowl! and
the colourful jelly can seat.
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Our Red/white kitchen...my dad says it looks like a chinese temple!
...and stools made of wire reels riveted together
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 Picture from The New Paper
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Our gaffetti toilet or we call it the "Loanshark Art Gallery". Loanshark is a term in Singapore for illegal money lender.
They will "paint" your gate and door for FREE in the most "artistic" way if you fail to pay up your due sum with interest.
You will definitely be "the talk of the neighbourhood" the next morning.
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Other wacky and vintage stuffs...
Bird guidebook in a bird cage...
Charcoal filled iron and 1950s electric iron...
Our patched up sofa (donated by our friends after their hamsters chew it up!)...
1960s vintage fans...
Rubber seeds and saga seeds (our childhood toys/collectable or cash crop in the 1940s...
The basket lamp made from a basket which we found at a nearby void deck...
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the list goes on and on ... come and see it yourself!
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