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Wow.. Big big place.. A lot of room to renovate... My 4 room is so small and yet more ex... Good buy.. I love the new kitchen.. Sleek and cool!

Having an L-shape would be nice.. More space.. But doing opp. side will mean to incur more cost.. Becos need to shift water supply around.. Our white cabinet is around 1 metre away from the toilet wall..

We are trying to keep it within 15K for everything now.. Still trying hard... But will definitely do only things we like within this limited budget...

PM'ed you... I paid a higher COV probably becos of the good condition bah... The kitchen is quite small, can fit in L-shape? I still haven't get Ah Soon, will convey the msg...

Think all of us with this layout doesn't have too much choices.. But the wardrobe won't be big.. So I think I need to spill over my clothes to the other bedroom as well...

Yup.. Exactly.. Actually the kitchen is not my ideal design.. But it's really in a pretty good condition to hack... So I shall live with it...

1) Feature wall cum console in living room 2) MBR wardrobe revamp 3) seatie cum cupboard in bedroom 2 4) 2 toilets revamp 5) Hacking of partition wall in bedroom 3 6) Usual painting and polishing of the marble.. Minor reno lah

guy77, I also like the broken marble flooring... So not changing the flooring.. leaving it as it is... xiaobinbin, Same layout! So maybe we can share more on how to overcome the various obstacles in the house... The MBR is indeed a bit small.. Yes, it's separated into two parts by a wooden door... the MBR layout is very hard to do.. Wardrobe put anywhere also seem weird.. So I have to just follow the old owner and redo the wardrobe at the same place.. As for the light issue, I dun need lights to sleep, so it's ok.. hee.. Mine is NS facing, so hopefully ventilation is not too big a problem... Anyway, I'm getting sys 4 and should solve ventilation problem if there is... Actually, the kitchen has a lot of cupboards.. In fact I find it excessive... There's two more cabinets besides this main one that smartie showed... Indeed very little workspace.. but the fortunate thing is that I dun really cook now... haha.. And by the way, there's another existing breakfast table to put things.. Maybe Smartie can post more photos for you to see... Rune, thanks.. Quite a decent condition.. though I'm still very envious of those who can redo the whole house.. becos everything is NEW...

When we visited the house for the 1st time, the agent told us 40+K COV before we stepped into the house... I was like almost fainting then... The owners are very clean, so the house was therefore very well maintained.. In fact, their house just had a new coat of paint last year.. And the curtains were also made last year manz... So it was a great news when they accepted our offer of 23K in the end... Our parents keep saying there's nothing to do as well... haha... I find the toilets too hard to maintain.. I'm a lazy person who have hardly done any household work... And smartie also sama sama.. And I also dun like the small partition in bedroom 3.. Used to be for maid.. But I got no money to engage maid now.. ... And I want my die die must have seatie cum cupboard in bedroom 2.. So still will do a bit of reno... In fact, I was quite sad for a while after buying the house becos I dun have much room to do up our house... So I cannot bring myself to just bring luggage to move in... LOL... Thanks for all the suggestion though...

Your DIY clock is very successful... Your fridge is huge and beautiful.. My small kitchen cannot fit in this big fridge...

Hee hee.. smartie snap too much.. so need time to sort out the photos.. He easily snapped 100 I think... Can't be posting all 100..

Your blog got many many pages manz.. like storybook... Playing piano NOW? That's late...

My existing house already have quite a lot of L-box in my living room... so haven't tot of doing any false ceiling.. Now I wonder how high is my ceiling? I have no idea... The house is already hacking liao.. Really really fast manz...

Wow.. You are like an artist... And have a lot of ideas for your 2nd home.. One good thing abt bishan is that there's quite a few good schools for kids.. hmmm, am I a bit too early to think of schools for my kids? haha...

Collected our keys today.. and smartie is snap snap snap all the way in our new home... Thanks pinkpetter for your reassurance.. Will try to dig Ah Soon out and see what he can do for us.. Adrian_john, there's quite a few bishan people in this forum.. We can share ideas around... =)

Collected our keys today.. and smartie is snap snap snap all the way in our new home... Thanks pinkpetter for your reassurance.. Will try to dig Ah Soon out and see what he can do for us.. Adrian_john, there's quite a few bishan people in this forum.. We cab share ideas around... =)

Hi asugama, I'm also a bishan dweller.. Similar layout as you and a big beam in the middle of the living room.. It's indeed the characteristics of bishan homes.. Wow.. so fast starting reno.. congrats..

Hello pinkpetter... Since there are quite a few Ah Soon's fan here, share with us your story with him... We are still in the midst of deciding between ID and contractor... We have our own ideas of how to get about renovating our homes.. But just afraid that the colour, design and stuff doesn't match well in the end... Can he gives valuable advice like colour and design combination? Or he just follow and ensure that he does a good job based on what we want?

Definitely excited becos this is our 1st new home together... Great to see so many people living at bishan ya...

Would appreciate if anyone could PM me Kenneth, Danny or Steven's contact. Many thanks!

What did you do to your kitchen cabinet? paste a new laminate? What's the cost like? Do you have any before and after photos to share? Can you pm me the carpenter details? Thanks.

At least there's some contractor like you willing to share your experience.. Or else owners who know nuts like me will have big headache trying to understand tons of reno things..

I just went to Living Home in Expo last weekend.. Really very pushy.. Some state like 18K for basic reno for 4-room.. Well.. I simply dun know how much hidden cost there is.. true true.. Will consider whether to hack or not after getting quotes.. Curious.. which ID you are from?

The conditions of both the walls and flooring are in good condition.. Just that the walls are those uneven homogenous or country tiles that are very hard to maintain in the long run, so I'm thinking of hacking the walls only.. Tot of overlay, but wouldn't it make the toilet even smaller? Can all wall tiles be overlaid, regardless of the texture of the tiles?

Hi all, Anyone can advise what can I do to my used kitchen cabinet? It's dark brown colour solid wood with metallic handles in good condition.. But because it has been used by previous owners for a couple of years, therefore you can see some scratches kind of wear and tear.. 1) What kind of cabinet can remove the top layer of laminate and paste a new laminate back? 2) Or is there companies who can polish the wood of the cabinet to look new? 3) Any spraying on wood like tile spraying? 4) Can I replace the handles without spoiling the cabinets? Anyone with experience to advise?