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Wahahaha！ That is so typical of him!

TSK! he diam diam never contact me...

Thanks for this!! I shall bug him tomorrow liao. Lol

VERY SWEE!

is the lamp heavy or light weight? coz the one at brilliant was rather heavy

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hey summer, brilliant has the white version too!

Hi i got it from brilliant source lighting. it's retailing at $278. i think you can get it from franc franc for almost half that price. i don't know why the price difference is so great but it could be due to the material used in making the stand.

nope not planning to paint

i heard best not to move at all during qing ming..

there was originally an electrical point there so they left the hole as it is. after discussing with electrician i realised i needed to shift the point. i don't know if it's anyone's fault? anyway i'll check with him after the CNY break. should be a small issue ba

i like these 2!

don't know can relay or not.. ..hopefully can & hope he doesn't charge me too much extra!

must move before qing ming leh

went down to make some measurements & realised the switches are up contractor has patched up the hole in the brickwall but i would like to ask if this should be the correct method? coz it looks really unsightly anyone can advise? should i just live with it coz i think my TV cabinet will be able to hide that.

Gong xi fa cai! Looking forward to your reno updates!

Confirm huat! Lol

This is one tile shop that I didn't go to but worth visiting. Friend went n took photos for me. Shop name is an huat

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I see that you have engaged Alan too! when will your renovation be completed?

I'm sorry if i can't recall any of the tile details coz there were just too many & i didn't manage to record all of them. I'll try my best to answer if any of you has any questions.

Happy New Year to One & All! Hope you all had a great celebration. CNY is actually one of the most boring festive periods for me as I don't celebrate it & most shops are closed. Sigh. With nothing much to do, I thought of updating my thread with some info which I hope may be useful to the other home owners. I'll touch on tiles selection only for the first part. Because I spent almost 3 months to select my tiles. I went to different tile shops & I went to them not once but at least 3 times. Not that i'm indecisive but because the choices were aplenty & i needed to rely on my design instinct to select the right tiles for my house. being a 3rd time home owner who had previously engaged IDs for my past 2 homes, I realised I missed out alot of details the last time. i relied heavily on the IDs for tile selection & advice. As I've chosen to engage a contractor this time, main reason for cost savings, I do realise I need to invest heavily in time to do my research. So I embarked on a journey on my own, together with a few of my friends, to go shopping for tiles. I first started off with going only to the big names eg Soon Bee Huat, Hafary & all the other tile shops along Balestier. The tile selection was massive & enough to confuse me. So i had to make about 3 - 4 trips to the shops to look through the selection over & over again. After reading up on the other threads, I realised I could have missed out other tile shops that were worth visiting. But alas I was too tired. But i made an effort to go to this other tile shop called Unlimited. Their display of tiles of course, pales in comparison to the tile shops in Balestier. It was kinda disorganised & messy, if i were to describe it. It made one feel lost as to how to even start searching for any tiles. BUT, i realised their variety of tiles is in no way, inferior to those tile shops in Balestier. In fact, their prices are way more competitive. One classic example would be the honeycomb tiles. A tile shop in Balestier is selling it at $8.50 per pc but at Unlimited, it's only $5 PSF. Well, this is just to share my brief experience in shopping for tiles. And now to share some photos of the tiles I've seen from the various tile shops. Enjoy!

my bro has 2 kopitiam chairs which he's planning to pass to me! i'm so excited! i want to send them for upholstery & repainted to another color. any one has any recommendation where i can send it to? the condition of the chairs is great!

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