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Hi June,

Thank you for sharing all your DIYs, they are great inspirations, now I can have a way to cover up my ugly fridge. May I get some contacts from you?

1) Workshop to customise dinning table

2) Places to buy tables legs and pipes for study shelves

Thank you, please PM me the contacts when you have time.

Cheers.

 

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Hi everyone, after a series of small DIY projects that turned out quite well, I decided to do smth bigger and more ambitious. but it turned out to be a big mistake. My latest DIY project almost drove me crazy because it was soooo tedious and soooo boring. I literally pulled out my hair while doing it and I almost wanted to strangle myself with the measuring tape :(

Well, remember those plywood pieces I bought recently? I decided to make a wall feature above my sofa. First, I had to stain the plywood, which was actually the easy part. The first obstacle was having to saw some pieces into half. I bought a saw from Daiso as I didn't want to pay for a proper saw because this would probably be the first and last time Im sawing wood. 10288315515_1cdf09f3cd.jpgphoto.JPG by BachelorettePad, on Flickr

It doesn't take a genius to know that a $2 saw wouldn't work as well as a real, professional saw. It was truly a toy saw! You know how sawing works right? Basically you push the saw forward, then pull it back and push it forward again. But for this toy saw, I can only pull it backwards but I cant push it forward!! This means that I can't do the normal sawing motion but can only keep 'slicing' the wood backwards! What a joke!!

It was truly a test of my patience. So many times I was on the verge of giving up bcos the task was taking a doubly long time. But given that I had already bought the materials, I had no choice but to press on. Finally after a few nights of 'work outs', I managed to finish sawing the wood.

Amazingly, the pieces were quite neat, even though I was half 'slicing' and

half breaking the wood (and pls ignore my rainbow shoes)10288208264_07eaa3b7c2.jpgphoto.JPG by BachelorettePad, on Flickr

If sawing was tough, the next step was the hair-tearing part that made me want to swear off all DIY projects. It involved marking out the position of each piece of plywood and mounting them on the wall with adhesive tape. It was SUPER TEDIOUS and SUPER MONOTONOUS! And I realized for the first time in my life that Im lousy in measurement! it was super boring that I had to go watch tv or surf the internet after measuring each piece. 10267872184_42bdcac279.jpgphoto.JPG by BachelorettePad, on Flickr

Finally in line.... 10291460434_90c4a11c3a.jpgphoto.JPG by BachelorettePad, on Flickr

It took me several days to get this task done because i kept having to re-do as the plywood pieces were not straight.

Now I have a phobia of the measuring tape. :(

(to be continued...)

I was referring to this project.

 

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Finally sorted out the washing machine and track light problems today. I even managed to wipe my wardrobe. Now it's all ready to receive the boxes of barang barang tomorrow.

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photo.JPG by BachelorettePad, on Flickr

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BachelorettePad, on Flickr

I love the black inner laminate! The carpenter is really good and there is nothing I want to complain about after scrutinizing every inch many times in the past weeks. Soon all this space will be filled to the

brim..

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BachelorettePad, on Flickr

Also bought a little pot of plant for my fire escape rack, which is just next to the front door. Need to buy a couple more pots. It really reminds me of the fire escape in American apartments in hollywood movies.

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The plant rack's pretty. Where's it from?

And kudos for the progress log.. Love the design!

 

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