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Slow Juicers Everybody wants to live a healthy lifestyle these days. Apart from regular exercise, diet is important. And the slow juicer may be one of those things you want to get. Actually, I had bought a slow juicer when I shifted to my new place. Used it a few times, stored it and completely forgot about it. Until recently when something happened to one of my close friends. As in most such cases, the family tried everything, changing to a completely healthy diet. All of us followed suit, and I brought out my slow juicer from the cupboard. Now, we juice at least twice every day. What is the difference between slower juicers and normal juicers? Slow juicers (also called cold press or masticating juicers) are supposedly better than traditionally centrifugal juicers in that they produce higher juice yield and the low speed and heat preserves more nutrients and enzymes. I shall not go into the arguments over whether a slow juicer is better than eating the whole fruit etc. Obviously, you can only eat so much, and there are stuff like celery which I am not sure you would want to eat on its own, or even with an apple. I have the 2013 Hurom as shown in the video below. http://youtu.be/zh4smxKSTfM Why buy a Slow Juicer? You can read more about the advantages of juicing and slow juicers in particular here.

Lessons learnt after 2 months in the house: 1. Undermounted sinks are better. We have an overmount and the tap resides behind the sink. So whenever your wet hands go to switch the tap on or off, you leave a pool of water around the tap. And being overmounted, its just that much harder to dry the area. You can't just swipe it all into the sink. You have to get a cloth and soak it up and wring it out etc etc. Tedious. 2. Kompacplus has terrible water marks. We chose the black and that might have been the reason, but the material shows of watermarks like nothing I've seen! So you always need to wipe down with a cloth. Thankfully, the marks go away easily with a damp cloth but again, tedious. 3. Soap marks on dark walls. This applies to the toilets mostly. The soap suds dry and leave a residue on the tiles that become quite visible and require a fair bit of scrubbing to remove depending on how porous your tiles are. Our tiles are textured so theres quite a bit of room for the suds to hide in. You can think you've rinsed all the suds away after a shower but somehow, streaks will still form over time. 4. Bosch products rust. We don't know if we got sub standard products (we bought from mega discount store) but there are spots of rust on our oven already as well as the hob. The only 2 items we have from bosch. Things were all brand new and so we're a bit disappointed. 5. Sliding doors do nothing for sound proofing. We loved the idea of sliding doors and had one installed for our bedroom. It works beautifully. Unfortunately, it really doesn't block out sound which is fine if you both go to bed at the same times but not when you keep very different sleeping hours like us. In retrospect, a pocketed sliding door would have been much better at sound proofing but its more space consuming and more expensive. And to be fair, the ID did warn us that sound proofing would be an issue but we thought the distance to the bedroom would already attenuate the noise to an acceptable level. Guess you always think your house is bigger than it is when you look at the floor plans alone. lol.

I liked them! I mean they weren't perfect, hiccups still happened (which I feel could have been avoided) but they were patient and understanding and did their best to rectify the situation. She threw in one or two freebies for me as the reno progressed and I made last min requests. She was also very patient in listening to us and explaining to us what was going on. So overall i found the process to be good. Workmanship, well whenever i pointed out defects, they would rectify immediately even if it meant redoing a whole section. So i would say that was good too. What I appreciate them for the most is their artistic direction. But you do pay a pretty penny for it. Definitely worth a visit in my opinion. Especially if you're looking for industrial/ loft styling. Good luck for your reno!

just for your info, the cheapest quote i got for the fridge was $1k at harvey norman. however, i bought it online from rakuten in the end... at $95x (can't rem exact figure)