Hdb Jumbo Flat At Tampines

[Edelweissgarden 1]

What a lovely space!

We're also getting resale and have to rewire and change piping. How much did u spend on those?

Our's won't be as big as yours'!

Thanks newadventure!

It is indeed a lovely space.. and we really love the end result.

For ours is a major renovation - wiring, hacking, plumbing, new carpet flooring... and of course major carpentry and whole house of wallpaper.

Most of our wall surfaces are wallpaper - so we eliminate the need of plastering the whole house and frankly I feel the overall effect is much nicer

even using only solid color wallpaper than paint.. but of course with good installer

Will PM you for the pricing

Edited December 30, 2013 by Edelweissgarden

[Edelweissgarden 1]

So here it is guys.. The 3d that the ID provided me with.

Our main living area - notice how the ID actually superimposed the painting we bought into the living area.

It gave us exact view on how the unit will really look like with some of the accessories we bought prior to the renovation.

This is the family room, where it is a secondary living room that we segregate from the main one with a double french sliding door

Kitchen - we opted for all white gloss laminate and countertop in caesarstone brand quartz . Our backsplash is also in the same

tone and brand of quartz, and the finished effect is really nice - although caesarstone is of course the most expensive range

of quartz, so we had to prepare ourselves for the budget. In opposed to locally produced where you can get about $140/ft run (or was it cheaper? cannot remember)

the caesarstone can get up to $250-300/ft run. Double the price, double the thickness but it really speaks the quality and finishes.

Thankfully our kitchen is not too long

There are some mixed reviews on the glossy white laminate, so we ask for the expert opinion.

In our ID opinion, the mixed reviews are normally due to the selection of laminates. As there are many different manufacturer the

thing to look out for is the thickness of the laminate. Also some laminate from certain companies may fare better than the other.

I will share next time further on the material. Through this reno journey we also learn a lot of different materials and how they fare, technical issues and

also how to maximize our space and merge in our design idea.

And the study room

[Edelweissgarden 1]

Our son's bedroom - study with bed area. So part of the study table is actually used as a 'bed side opening' with power point plugs

for charging of his gadgets. the wardrobe is actually behind the study table, where part of the wardrobe used as bookcase -

to maximize space. And the study table in L-shape

Here is how it looks from the sitting area of the study table

And our favorite room - the master bedroom. We actually opt out of the bed frame when purchasing, and we make use of the walls

to design a headboard -> this design is a great way where we save money and get design point in the room , we have a headboard made by

partitioning part of the wall to create a cavity with lighting, so we can have best of both world, good looking bed feature at a fraction of cost

of what I initially wanted (laminated walls with leather cushion padding. Who knows half wall of custom made cushion can cost that much?)

Walk in wardrobe with another study - the doors of the wardrobe are partially in selected gloss laminate and partially in bronze mirror.

It enlarge the space because the room tend to be longish

[Khng 2]

Can you pm me your ID contact and Reno cost? Tks!

[Edelweissgarden 1]

Can you pm me your ID contact and Reno cost? Tks!

Hi Khng, PM-ed

[OceanEleven 203]

Waiting to see your selection of wall papers.

[Edelweissgarden 1]

Waiting to see your selection of wall papers.

This post dedicated to OceanEleven.. Haha

Selection of wallpaper

All of our wallpaper is sourced by our ID , all from Goodrich.

The type of the wallpaper is vinyl on vinyl backing, mixture of standard roll and industrial roll.

The difference of standard and industrial is only on the size - where for the a big piece of wall it need 3-4 standard rolls, you only need 1-2 rolls for industrial rolls.

The less usage of rolls means less joining lines - the more experienced the installer and the better the wallpaper glue solution is, the less you can see the lines.

But of course it depends on the type of wallpaper you chose also. Many times the wallpaper in small size looks good, but in actual when there is a joining line, it looks very obvious -> graphic not nice.

At times like this, although as homeowners we wanted different choice of materials and make our house as unique as possible,

I think we have to consult the ID if they had used the wallpaper previously and how the effect looks like.

In fact this is one of the lesson I learn along the way. Initially I did not want to believe the ID that wallpaper, when know how to select, the effect is nice.

I thought of using only one wall of wallpaper and the rest of the room in paint, just like my friend's house - of course that is before I know how the paint effect at his house looks nice

because he plasters the whole house.

Here is some of the wallpapers close ups that I selected - I initially wanted patterned wallpaper, but then my ID showed me wallpapers that look solid color from afar, but actually

has texture and different shading in it, and quoting my ID 'to bounce the light around the house and make it look luxe in understated way'. Totally sold me in that phrase hahaha.

Wallpaper I used in my walk in wardrobe w/study

Wallpaper in the feature bedframe of my master bedroom - will show more pics later

Close ups of the wallpaper in the feature bedframe - using the same one in my study room as well.

I tried to dig out the wallpaper codes but cannot make head and tail which one is which one. Only remembered that only one is from China,

and the rest are Japan and Europe/US.

[ahzai66 0]

Pls continue posting, camping here...

[OceanEleven 203]

This post dedicated to OceanEleven.. Haha

Selection of wallpaper

All of our wallpaper is sourced by our ID , all from Goodrich.

The type of the wallpaper is vinyl on vinyl backing, mixture of standard roll and industrial roll.

The difference of standard and industrial is only on the size - where for the a big piece of wall it need 3-4 standard rolls, you only need 1-2 rolls for industrial rolls.

The less usage of rolls means less joining lines - the more experienced the installer and the better the wallpaper glue solution is, the less you can see the lines.

But of course it depends on the type of wallpaper you chose also. Many times the wallpaper in small size looks good, but in actual when there is a joining line, it looks very obvious -> graphic not nice.

Here is some of the wallpapers close ups that I selected - I initially wanted patterned wallpaper, but then my ID showed me wallpapers that look solid color from afar, but actually

has texture and different shading in it, and quoting my ID 'to bounce the light around the house and make it look luxe in understated way'. Totally sold me in that phrase hahaha.

Yup. Got that lux feel when bounce off lightings. It add texture to the wall.

Prior to applying the wallpaper, any preparation required for the wall?

How's cost comparison with painting?

Edited January 5, 2014 by OceanEleven

[Edelweissgarden 1]

Pls continue posting, camping here...

Thanks for looking out at my t-blog ahzai66! Sorry was quite busy these few days but will continue posting..

Yup. Got that lux feel when bounce off lightings. It add texture to the wall.

Prior to applying the wallpaper, any preparation required for the wall?

How's cost comparison with painting?

Hi oceaneleven, only plastering (minor) to touch up some of the uneven walls, and they did some cleaning on the wall surface as my flat is a resale so need to clean a bit for the wallpaper to stick better..

Regarding cost comparison, if no re-plastering for the walls painted, of course paint is cheaper.. but we like to repaint every CNY, so actually for us wallpaper is a good choice because it can hold on at least 5 years before

we need to do any touch ups or re painting

If head to head comparison, one wall roughly 700-800 (4-5m long) for wallpaper, but for painting it's about 2500 for whole house..

Hope this helps

[Edelweissgarden 1]

The retro looking radio we collected -

Since the last photo showed that one of the radio I purchased is on a glass surface, I would like to highlight about difference in glass..

When we first started out comparing prices, we notice some ID quote us different costing for glass top for our loose furniture (we custom make so it can fit on our purchased loose furniture to protect against spills etc), up to 1-2k (there is a lot of glass tops..). We thought there would not be much difference in quality since it is not panel, so we outsourced our glass tops to one of the cheapest quote we received (not using our ID)

When the glass tops arrived (before my ID glass top is fitted in for the custom carpentry), everything looks good so far, all nice rounded edges and we love the quality and how it is able to follow the shape of our furniture nicely. But when my ID glass tops arrive, here is the difference

and here is how it looks from afar - cannot see that there is glass on top of it at all.

Turns out the vast cost difference is because the types of glass!

Normal glass have the normal green tinge that comes with it, but the crystal white glass - is clear white without any tinge of green. This one is especially useful if we have spray painted glass, so the color will turns out differently under different type of the glass. That explains the cost difference.. And somehow the green tinge give the glass a bulkier look when it is left stand side by side with the crystal white - although it is actually same thickness..

[vicx1234 38]

hi edelweissgarden, welcome to renotalk.

Your space is huge!! You must have paid a bomb for it.

Anyway, nice 3d drawings, and I am intrigued by the clear crystal white glass and am considering using it for our kitchen backsplash. Do you mind pm me the cost difference p/ft between the usual green tinge glass and the crystal white glass? Thanks!

[solidsurface 1]

You have a very nice house and layout. I love the wall cladding of your living room.

[Khng 2]

I like the brick wall cladding as well.

Is it difficult to maintain? Meaning will it collect dust?

This is the main concern.

[Edelweissgarden 1]

hi edelweissgarden, welcome to renotalk.

Your space is huge!! You must have paid a bomb for it.

Anyway, nice 3d drawings, and I am intrigued by the clear crystal white glass and am considering using it for our kitchen backsplash. Do you mind pm me the cost difference p/ft between the usual green tinge glass and the crystal white glass? Thanks!

Hi Vicx1234, I did asked the same question to my ID, my ID did told me but I could not recall. So sorry for that, too many items involded in this renovation so cannot remeber every single detail,haha. Maybe you would like to have my ID contact for the reno quote?