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Living/Kitchen/Dining continued... A look at the folding kitchen doors closed - this will be necessary when we turn on the living room aircon, do some heavy cooking, and to prevent our future toddler from entering the kitchen (potentially a dangerous area for them) . From inside the kitchen (the wife working hard in the background ) A small gift from my dad - an EKO brand step bin. Looks and functions very well, not to mention it has a great capacity at 20 litres. We've moved some of the crockery that we bought from Bangkok sometime last year over to our new place, and placed them from our precious Commune shelf. This is not the whole lot yet! Haha. We may have gone a bit overboard with those purchases haha. Rinnai Hob using inner flame technology - we are very excited to start using this appliance, but we don't have our cookware yet! This Rinnai hob apparently cooks thing way quicker than a conventional hob due to it's inner flame technology - apparently it produces a flame similar to what you see at tze char stalls. Can't wait to get cooking.

Been loitering around renotalk for months, we are finally starting reno this week and I'm very excited to share the process here. Humble 4-room BTO in B. Panjang It will just be a simple renovation for our new home. We didn't engage an ID. So this is a self-designed project to keep the costs low. Floor Plan

Hi all! Finally I have decided to create my own TBlog n finally managed to figure out how to post up pics! For starters, we applied for our 3 room BTO in a Yishun Riverwalk back in 2010, after several bad queue numbers for 4 room BTO ballots took a try in the lower number 3 room category n bingo! Got it.. That was before we started our family.. Through the years and now, we are a huge family with 3 kids! Surprise! No. 4 is on its way, due in June 2014! 😅 though we tried to appeal for a change of room size, 'pro-family' HDB insisted it would be unfair for the rest to bypass this way thus we could either cancel our application and start all over again for another unit(after ruining thousands of $ on open market rental for all those years??) or just wait to sell this unit after 5 years and upgrade.. So yea we are stuck with this for now, small but well most of us grew up in a small home with several family members right? N we made it, close knit, happy n healthy! So we shall put up with this arrangement for now.. We intend to upgrade a few years down the road.. But we'll make this our cosy home til den, making sure the best arrangement is made for each n every member comfy n happy! Our kids r aged 11(from my 1st marriage in case tis confuses u readers, 11yrs old within 4yrs of marriage??!!lol),3yrs n 2yrs old..of cos e latest edition is on his way due in June.. So we were anxiously waiting for e keys collection for our home cos somehow our project had been facing delays n drags from e start, delayed commencement, pause in e middle, bla bla.. So after much anticipation, chasing and shadowing HDB, we were finally told today that our keys are finally handed over to HDB by the builders! N after chasing my project officer, we were a schedule for the 1st batch of key collection, 19th March!! Next Wednesday that is! Wow that sounded gooood! I was so stressed out to get our keys so that we could get reno n settling down done soonest and in time for baby to arrive anytime in June and think at the timeline we have now, it's nicely possible! Yay! Soo many things to do though.. Our very first home n so many things r new, especially e reno journey.. Thankfully hubby n I had started our shopping n preparation as early as Jan this year when we got updates that we may get our keys in the 1st quarter of e year.. Mostly from Spore Expo sales, online recommendations etc.. We didn't do much ID sourcing as hubby is e type that's too lazy to look around too much n wud want to settle down with the one who offers him the best quote etc.. We did sign up with e 2nd one we spoke to, paid $500 n after which we pulled out n forfeited the money! That's another story.. I just didn't feel assured or safe with him.. Was all bout money but not in making me comfortable that he will realize our dream home.. Every idea I had he simply brushed it off saying its unnecessary n can make do without it n wit cheaper materials/alternatives which would totally scrap my idea of how my place should turn out like.. Finally settled with the 3rd ID we spoke to.. Was my find.. After talking over the phone n feeling some comfort level with him, got him to email me his quotation which was pretty reasonable, hubby agreed to meet him up and found him to be very professional n refined unlike e 2nd one, really contractor standard. Finally engaged him n r hoping he keeps up to our trust.. Sooo sorry I'm a very lor soh person, very detailed n thus this has gone soo long.. As much as I have learnt n benefited from RT n others' experiences, hope to share my experience so that others can benefit the same.. So pls bear wit me! First pic of e day is our floorplan..

$455.... yoohoo... hhahahaha

Fast hand fast leg got this Bosch package promotion on their last day. I considered this a great buy, was told this combination selling half the regular price is only offered 100 sets island wide or out of stock.

Hi leonjennawong, Your house is amazing!! Can share your quotation and breakdown? Email: goh_t@hotmail.com Thanks in advance!

Supermama, Sadly to say my house will only be ready ard Q3-Q4 2014. Not too sure if it is a gd idea to look for Gil so soon. Maybe in Jul to Aug'14 ba. Cross finger that HDB will give me fast enough. Franc Franc is closing in May thus I will be there to scout for some item first. Have to learn how to use taobao soon for more savings.

Time is freeing up for me to be able to blog with a lil more frequency now. We have moved all the essentials that we need to live at our new home and now that everything is in working order, it's time to really start enjoying our home. I have posted pics of our kitchen, toilets and MBR to date, but nothing on the living room & study so here goes: Living Room / Dining Here is a view from the kitchen showing our dining, living and study room just beyond the dining table. Our dining table purchased from taobao has since been set up (although with some issues - more on that later) and it's looking pretty. We're quite happy with the edison light bulbs but have been advised that since they consume quite a bit of electricity, we're better off switching to energy saving light bulbs and to only use the edison light bulbs when guests come over. There is quite a bit of space to the left of the dining, which we will most prob reserve for a playmat for the future kid. Another view Study table purchased from taobao - this was quite a good buy as it costs double here in Singapore. Easy to assemble, and comes with soft close drawers. Finishing is not perfect, but it's matte and nice to touch haha. This is where we will be spending quite a bit of time watching movies/tv shows etc. Just got our PLEX media server connected with the LG Smart TV so we're ready to roll! Opted not to wall mount the TV in order to retain the full feature wall. Easier to change TV in the future also. Yellow carpet was from a FrancFranc sale which sad to say will be pulling out of Singapore soon. Really like their stuff, but maybe the notoriously high rent in Singapore also got to them. A view from the other side. It's nice to see some space in our living room! Hopefully it won't be too cluttered up with toys upon toys in the future haha The latest addition - a shoe cabinet (matching wood colour) that we got from a garage sale at $50. What a steal! We did chip it in some places while transporting it over, but hey at $50 you can't really complain.

Seems like your house is going full speed in reno. Good to hear Gil is a responsive person to work with!

Hahaha Let me tell you that my design sense seriously kind of lousy and color combination is at another disaster level. Anyway thanks for the compliments...

Hi... Congrats on almost completing the reno to ur hse... Would love to get the details of your ID as well as a copy of ur reno quotation too...? TIA...

My family uses KDK too and I've had the wobble also. But it's been 10 years and it's still spinning happily! So no worries Supermama!

Ok sent friend! Good luck

ladies and gents, if you're not intending to hire a maid, definitely seriously consider a robot vacuum! Can be any brand it will free up some of your precious evening or even weekend time. Vicx guarantees this haha Ok cleared my inbox haha. Yes, please tell him that it would mean HE does less household chores like vacuuming the floor, lol

Hahaha, will definitely share my 3D with you! (: Keep updating ur T-blog! 😄

My personal opinion - look for lamps with cleaner lines. Would keep the overall look of your home more to the original intent, plus also draw more focus on the table you invested in

I think the lights will be suitable for your house design. For me i will prefer to go with white more ... (*Juz my 2 cents worth)

the lamps are nice, try to source from taobao lol

The whole reno seem to be progressing very well. Hope to see more updates when its completed and when furniture are being placed.

Swee lah supermama!

May I know how much is your ferroli water heater? So far how is it?

how to reject this? WHEN ANDY LAU IS THE ONE POINTING AT YOU!!