littleones

First of all, don't misunderstand me. I just Want To Find the right ID Went to the big furniture fair last weekend to recce some ID companies there. After meeting some of them, I felt like it's going to be a long and arduous road to find the right match. I thought it would be a case of shortlisting the portfolios we like, talk to the IDs, see got chemistry or not, tell them our likes and wants, get a quote, confirm if the price fit, and let their creativity flows...but alas, it's not the case at all. The first company we met doesn't get the style we want (which is along the line of scandinavian but no industrial elements, which we thought it's pretty common these days?) The second is only interested in showing us their Blum-fitted kitchens right away instead of finding out what we are looking for The third only wants to sell packages, although very attractive but very suspicious as no works of the ID can be found online and the last, looked at our floor plan and said we don't need to do anything, just need to build a shoerack and paint the house . So, I would like to ask fellow forummers if it is possible to post here what we are looking for and let the right ID come to us instead of the other way round, or will we get a lot of unsolicited sales calls and end up like the above situations again?

Hi All Bubbles are coming out of the grouts in my dining area floor tiles. It does not seem to be water because after a while it will be solidified. Please see the pictures below. Anyone has encounter this problem before? Is there any ways to prevent the bubbles from coming out, besides hacking away the tiles and re-do them? Thank you in advance for the response!

Thanks for the suggestion but it is kinda hard and tedious as there are too many holes in the furniture already. Are your furniture infected by powder post beetles too? We've tried insecticide before but it didn't work, the beetles just make even more holes.. when I've time, I'll post up some pics..

well, we've bought some solution from HomeFix and sprayed our infested furniture with it. not able to totally eradicate the problem. don't even know why we have to go through this in the first place. now probably too late to complain or get my money back. i'm not sure we want to hire pest busting companies either as they'd probably be expensive and hubby rather discard the furniture and buy new ones.. sadz

hi peeps, i know i've disappeared for some time and many of you have PMed me asking for Mr Chew's contact. if you had bother to read my blog, you would have seen me posting his contact in post #94. just an update on the furniture i bought previously from you know where. i must really say it is one of the worst mistakes in my life to deal with that person and made those purchases. now 3 of the 4 pieces of furniture i bought are infected with wood pests and everyday i would be slapping those insects flying around and feel very sad to see more and more little holes appearing on the furniture. i'm also worried those pests are going to infect my other wood furnitures from Ikea. really dunno what to do. hubby said we should just throw them away but the furniture are not even a year yet... if i could undo time, i would definitely not have bought from her. so much trouble, so much distress......... i think some of you might have bought from her earlier. are you experiencing this and how do you deal with the problem?

We used roman blinds for the whole hse - living room, MBR and 2 other rooms - as all are half-height windows. Apparently, I've also heard that roman blinds are expensive so I was surprised that ours costs $750. However, I would think that they are only more expensive than normal curtains; day-and-night curtains of the same window length would probably cost more.

We spent $750 on the roman blinds.

hey newnyew, thank goodness you did not get anything from her. yah, i just want to put this unhappy episode behind me and not let it mar my new life in my new house. feel comforted after reading the other thread, knowing she's the problem and not me haha..you want to visit and see the quality of her stuff issit?

Some of you have been asking me about my side table replacement. Well, here's the update. I've self-collected the side table. I was super pissed off and cannot understand why I had to self-collect something which was delivered wrongly to me in the first place and I wasn't given any choice at all - either I self-collect or I keep the wrong one. Absolutely ridiculous! After an endless flurry of email, I only agreed to self-collect upon the seller's word that I do not have to bring back the wrong side table to her or return the $100 which she transferred back to me earlier (which I was supposed to transfer back after I got the right item). Thus, I take the $100 discount as compensation for my time, effort, and fuel spent on travelling from the west to east and back although I still would have chosen not to do collect it myself if I had any choice. This is the replacement I've got. In fact, the dimensions are still the same as the previous one just that it was rotated such that the length became the breadth and vice versa. The height is still too short for my bed and the proportion of the legs is not like the original piece either. That's the front of the side table. Looks much better than the previous piece but compare with the original yourself. The table top which looks abit weird. Jagged lines on 3 edges save for one side; and a close up of the lines. Well, I really dunno what to say anymore...Guess what we pay is what we get?

Sorry peeps, I've been super busy these days and pretty much settled down in my new place, thus no time and nothing much to post. Have moved in for about 2 months already. There are still much decor and touch ups to do but once you've gotten used to the environment, it's really tough to envision what can be done better Anyways, sorry for the late reply but Pinklady, I'm not sure if the carpet sale is still on; the place is in Ubi, really kinda ulu unless you stay in the east You can check out google map. My dear mudpie sis, I don't think my house is in a visit-worthy state yet but if you gals wanna visit, just let me know and I'll see what I can do I know what you mean...it's only 2 months and my house is moving towards becoming a pigsty already..oh dear.. but well well, do go ahead and makeover your house.. then Charl, Suz and moi can go visit!! Oh, I've gotten a cheapo ironing board from my neighbourhood hardware store for $14.90 but it's pretty ok so far. I like the green leafy one from Brabantia but the price is really crazy..too atas for me i guess. but in any case, if there's a Leifheit sale again do let me know

haha..like that also can?!? like meeting for blind date quite worth going i felt as it was one of our more fruitful trips

Hi yuene, thank you i'm in west coast leh, not clementi, can join also? newnyew: yes, yes, that's the one!!! here are some stuff which i got there. The dark green shaggy carpet at $56. Door mat for $2. Comes in several colours. Shaggy bathroom rug (about 60 cm in length) at $4. Comes in several colours too. Bamboo mat at $5. Comes in several designs. More for deco purpose I think. My foot there is just to give an estimate of the size...

i'm so sorry, dyleen, i racked my brains but still can't recall the place i went to in ubi...if i see the advert in newspaper again, i'll PM u Pinklady: thank u the other rooms pretty empty and toilets super small...so nothing to show still trying to deco the whole house. will try to post some final pics when my i'm done.

hi dyleen, oh dear..we've got our carpet last week actually but i didn't blog about it. it is a shaggy carpet in dark green shade which looks like a patch of grass and costs $56. it was from a warehouse sale in Ubi which we got to know about through their advertisement in the papers. the carpets and rugs were really quite cheap. i'm not sure if the sale is still on

Supersimon27 and dyleen: thank you for the compliments! newnyew: oh dear...i just read your posting on PHC...hmm...i think her biz is too good that she can opt to choose customers. i suggest you don't transact with her to avoid getting high blood pressure.. bunbun: not convenient to reveal the name here as my biz transaction with them is not over yet and neither do i wish to further advertise for them. hope you understand To the rest who are requesting for Mr Chew's no. Here it is...96534689