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I am the type of person get stress easily.... If I get any one of ur defects, i think i will go crazy... While reading your entries, i feel like scolding bad words ...gosh...

Wahh... so many people staying together...

Yes. Actually since this is your own house and somemore you do not do renovation every year, just spend lil effort to make sure everything turn out to your liking instead to leave everything to the contractor. Contractor just executor, you are the actual "designer". My principal is "do not make any assumption" cause other people may not able to read your mind. By the way, your house very nice move in condition!

I didnt get reno loan... but if I am not mistaken you can get reno loan even if you are using subcon, cause reno loan is actually another kind of "personal loan" repackage only... Plumbing works 1560 seems quite ex... i saw in renontalk some people plumbing quote only 900.... but mine is 1.1k.. somemore urs 3rm wor

Demolition works + haulage and debris remover (usually same team of worker) already cost you 3750! Somemore for a 3rm flat... very ex.. leh Plumbing works 1560...

Moving in next Friday Furniture arriving this Sunday.... Busy Busy Busy....that's why no time to update this blog...

Yeah, I did the same too.... I label the samples in chinese eg kitchen floor. Also print out simple layout and state the tile codes in the layout. cause some area like toilet wall tile have a bit of colour combination.

I quote this from somewhere : Using Feng Shui methods around your home is not a one-size-fits-all proposition. Everyone has their own needs, and everyone's tastes are different. The bottom line for you is to follow the guiding principles and make your designs work. With a little feng shui, anyone can improve their health and their outlook on life. However, it should be an understood that a healthy diet and regular exercise should also be incorporated into any healthy living resolution. Happy renovating

The reason sink & stove can't face each other is because 水火不相容。For those who believe fs, this is kind of major fs rule that most ppl follow. Also because sink & stove are more flexible to move around than others. If you google sth related to feng shui for your home, definitely you will see this rule. Besides sink, the stove shouldn't face the refrigerator & the washer too. You may consider to place your sink opposite your fridge and replace your original sink position with stove. Of course.. this only applicable if you believe in feng shui.

Eeee... they coordinate among themself one lah, if we have to call them one by one, I also run first... Sometimes they may inform us sth like XXX coming to do XXX tomorrow, then XXX will come by which day.

Can can, let me compile the photos tonight... By the way, if you are planning to shop around JB, you may ask yourself first what kind of furniture you expecting. If you are looking for those made in China furniture, i suggest you may look around sg local furniture shop like nova all these, cause the price will be around the same after GST. One important thing to take note, please shop for furniture at least 1 month before your move in date esp those imported from oversea like China (except Malaysia). Please do not wait until last minute or you may ended up buying display set... Buying lights from JB is really cheap... if you havent get yours, you may consider it. We bought our 7 inch DL lights (double tubes) after conversion only ~ SGD 15-16 Similar model in Singapore will cost >SGD32. When shopping for lights in JB, you don't really need to look at the price first, just choose whatever you like... cause after conversion... still cheap cheap

New photos updated ya! Our reno should be done next week. Furnitures had been ordered (from JB) and will be delivered next Sunday. Will share the furniture photos soon... We decided to disclose the sub-contractors nos only after everything completed . We will only recommend sub-cons who really take pride in their job. If you are really urgent (Seriously can't wait until next week ), you may PM me. Our quotation do not have detailed break down because they are all sub-cons. We pay them individually. Some don't mind if we only pay after their job done. Sort of a testament that they are very confident with their workmanship and dont mind to collect $ only after their job done. Eg for our quotation for wet works included : tiles (floor + wall), water proofing, construct a wall, construct kitchen cabinet support wall, door frames, box up louve window above doors with cements, rectify slanded walls & spoiling concrete, mbr toilet sink support using tiles, refuse chute, kitchen base...etc arggg....all in one lump sum. The accurate quotation was only given to us after we select our tiles. Cause our tiler only charged based on labour cost, he helped us to order from tile shops because contractor can get 15 - 20% off the tile price we usually see in the shop. He calculated the tile cost + his labour & sand cost and give us all in 1 total sum. Along the way we added some small small things, he doesnt mind to do it FOC. We are paying the tiler from time to time, as and when we think necessary (for him to pay for the materials), altho' he never ask us for $. We have given him another cheque last week, we mentioned that we will only pay him the rest once everything done. All small small items he will not calculate with us. He is not calculative, so we are not calculative.....hahaha Other like re-wiring with designer switches also one lump sum - a definite value for money - as compared to IDs price. The electrician workmanship is xuper good. He doesnt mind to come so many times for our convenience and will only fix the sockets position after re-confirm with us. Of course you cannot expect a lot of savings by using sub-cons. Some of the quotations may NOT have stark difference comparing to ID and DEFINITELY NOT the cheapest you can find in the market. Hahaha...afterall, we want quality, so pay a little tiny bit premium to the subcons.....still far cheaper than IDs. We do not have a lot of carpentry works, we do not have all these nice tinted mirrors, we also don't have wallpapers...We are not doing something fancy, not something with WOW effect... it is just a place we call home. Eveyday we visit our new home (we drop by before we go back to AMK after work), we leave with a smile glued on our face. Can't wait to move in... hehehe

Actually another company is Closet Design. Luckily i never engaged Closet Robe, saw them in the exhibition too. I engaged closet design for my closet , the salesman very good attitude, partition of the walk-in wardrobe will be done by them today so our painter can paint the partition before they install the cabinets this saturday. Not sure about workmanship yet. Total 11 ft for our walk in wardrobe at around 2.5k (The most ex stuff we getting for our house, all other items we outsource to sub-con). Also got free stuff like glass, blum system, dressing table and mirror. The WIW is something i really looking forward to.

But your hob seems very nice leh.. i never see this model before, else i might be getting this one too... But then so unique sure very ex hor...

Wahh... so many ppl looking for contacts, we havent update the photos leh. Just for everyone info, our tiler can only take one job at a time, if i am not mistaken he has been booked for 2 projects after ours. He only has himself + 2 workers. He has ~ 30 yrs experience, so you can roughly guess how old also.... Better let us ask him first before we disclose his contact, later he feel disturbing by receiving calls every mins... For other sub-contractors, I can PM you guys 2nite. All contacts with my hb. hehe Oh ya, we do our own space planning (shy to mention it as "design"), we just convey our ideas to the cons, just like how you usually do if you have been visiting IDs. Usually the so called IDs will ask you what do you intend to do also. Is about the same.

Har? I know need to avoid black n red in kitchen but hob kinda small also affected ah.. I am getting black hob leh, already paid and delivered...

You got my PM ! kekeke, everytime we see other T-Blogs, need to browse page by page to look for photos, so we decided to paste all photos at first page and follow by the chat sessions... Till date, most of the major items done. Carpentry will be up this week. Now is kind of rewind back what had been done in the past weeks. Need time to compile photos, and we are super busy + lazy... hahaha Yeah, we also afraid of the coordination works before we decided to use sub-contractors. But end up it is not as hard as we think. Zero hiccups so far... kekekeke. Ours is opposite RI that side... 1 bus stop away from MRT. I think we are very lucky, the owner never expect valuation to be that high. As we have been looking around that area, we kind of expect the COV to be around 10K as this is 2nd highest floor with lots of build in cabinets....The agent also help to push up the valuation price...kekeke

Wow...we have the exact same floor plan... but how come your MBR seems much bigger than mine . Are you combining 2 rooms into 1??

Hehe, we also looking around Toa Payoh & Bishan areas from January 08. At the end we bought a 4S unit @ Bishan. No choice, we love heartland but bigger units at these areas are very very ex. One thing about houses @ these area, most of the them are very old... If well maintained, the owner will demand very high COV. By the way, your unit seems very nice eh... congrate!!!

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Masterbedroom Toilet Common Toilet WIW Door WIW View 1 WIW View 2

Aiyak, how come reno 2 image size looks different. Suppose to be the same like others... not sure why...