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hehe.. congratz in advance! but man! its so tiring! ><

On a personal note... we are bursting with pride when our little one decide to come to our live earlier by 4 days.. LOL.. we planned for the 8 of April but NOooo.. she thinks that its funny for us to come on Easter Sunday! and a pic of her, share the joy with us! our lives is so going to be different! Our little precious..

HiHi.. ^5 great minds think alike? we love the simple lines..

SHORT REVIEW OF IMPRESS21 Henry. Hi all.. the wet phase of our reno have came and gone. We would say that the works done so far is up to our standards. Due to our working timings. The only time was on sat and sun to check how the reno have been progressing.. as you can see. Henry's time management is pretty spot on. He is responsive throughout and answers to our questions promptly. Pretty much on auto. Without needing us breathing down his neck. MAYBE the only bad point( if we need to be really fussy) was his tilers did not take more care when dismantling our room doors and old fixtures. They stack it all up in the center of the living room without making sure more floor backing was laid. Causing some tearing of the single layer of backing.. with some of the fixture was touching the new tiles. We did notice there "MIGHT" be come scratches on SOME tiles. BUT! after voicing to Henry, he assured us that once he clean up the whole area. Any tiles we are unhappy with will be replaced. We are pretty happy abt it.. (will update on this as it happens) Also, just on monday (5/4/2010), we went thru phase 2 planning with Henry's team of carpenter/electrician. Although its was really tiring, but it was worth it. I must say, from the interaction with his team. One would come to the conclusion that they have been working closely together for some time. The carpenter will make sure the electrician know where how his is going to construct the various cabinets and where any weird corners are so that the electrician will know just how to pull the lines thur.. and likewise the electrician will inform the carpenter if he needs any more space from in the cabinets if he is going to install switches and faceplates (a upon my request for the amount of switches needed). The carpenter was very patient throughout. And gives us good advice whenever we are stump for ideas. Overall, the experience with IMPRESS21 is a very good one for us. We will update more as things progress...

Our MBR , The original Air con ledge/Bracket from HDB Our MBR again.. this is the only trunking that we cant reroute to another wall.. and sadly it will be above our bed.. Our MBR again. This is the drainage pipe which will be hidding behind the wardrobe, it leads into our MBR toilet This will be our blower for study area. The trunking going to our parents room. The farthest from the compressors.

This following set of photos are suppose to be for week 5 .. but since i got it now..might as well.. These happen on monday. The installer from HONG TAR (Air con) came and started the 2 day installation phase ( purely trunking and routing with installation of compressor and blowers at another date). if you read a earlier post i wrote a short review on the experience with Hong Tar. So far so good. Our daughter's room. LOL she is so going to hate us when she grows up.. cos we routed most of the trunking thur her room Her Wall, with the most trunking. Her wall again.. from another angle, Which will be where our 2nd compressor be mounted too. Our MBR, unavoidable trunking.. Our MBR, the window, our 1st compressor will be mounted.

Hi there joleena.. thank you for your compliments .. Most of the tiles and laminates are simple, we are going for the simple , enduring look. yea.. one of the reason we chose pasir ris was the parks and seaside area.

WEEK 4 Hi all ... sorry for the late update. Only plastering was done. Its was a pretty well done imo here are some of the pics... our living room, Shot from our dinning area. Our Dinning side wall.. Living room area. This is where our feature wall will be. Our MBR, new toilet entrance with old entrance filled and plastered A close up shot of the various edges of the plastering.

Supp... sorry for the late post. Its a really busy week for us... i am just abt to up load some pics for week 4.. nothing much.. but plastering.. its pretty well done imo. For the Air con.. i went will HONG TAR. The sales lady (Katrine (sp?)) was very patient and pretty knowledgeable. Even the crew (2 man team) that she send to do our trunking impressed us. They are punctual (the fact that on the 1st day, they are suppose to come at 11.30. But at 10.30 we received a call from katrine and informed us that they are being held up at another site..and will arrive at 12.30, Which promptly they did), very effective and efficient. Once they arrived.. they started to go thur with us.. where be our blowers be , solving our trunking routes etc. Thur out the process they are very patient with us and listening to ours air con needs. And their advice helps us heaps too. We have 6 blowers and 2 compressor that need to be routed. And within 30mins the routes are all planned and agreed ... and immediately they went to work. By 5ish they have already setup the 2nd compressor mounting and routed all trunking with 50% of coolant cabling done. Which they say they will be back the following day to finish up. This (2 day trunking installation and 1 day blowers/compressors installation) was already told to us by Katrine during the sales phase. I will post up some pics and also a short review on Impress 21.

Its a crizto 1 piece bowl. a typical basin. leave you folks with a shot of my 'sea' view LOL.. thats what it was advertise , b4 we view it. till next week then.. cheers

Our common toilet .. its coming along nicely.. the shower area.. the common toilet will be without a glass shower screen. Cos the toilet itself is pretty small.. The wall tiles same for kitchen and common toilet... a peek into our MBR toilet. a little darker. the sanitary products with the kitchen hood and hob.

A shot of the study area.. we reckon they are letting the grouting dry out b4 they lay the covers. Our baby room.. Our parents room.. pretty much the same for now.. a close up shot of the flooring.. very dusty now... lol

Week 3 Supp all.. Just took this today.. all tiling done for the whole house , including the skirting. Also finished is the bases in the kitchen ( fridge, Washing Machine and the cabinets). Orders from heritage (Sanitary) , Everjoint (Joven Heater, Rinnai Hood and hob) have been delivered. We will post the place which we brought from and the prices as the items are been installed. And now for the pics.. a sight that greet us when we entered this week.. all the floor done and with the protective covers laid the living room from another angle The kitchen with all the bases done. the cement kitchen sink area . Will take a shot of our belleri sink when all the carpentry are up.

Hi all..i am going to move to Pasir Ris soon.. and so far did not notice any coffeeshops around the MRT area.. anyone can recommend any nice ones around the area? TIA! cheers

hi... yea.. we hope it will turn out ok.. and on time too..

Main entrance flooring leveled and tiled. Our floor tiles is glossy black with some gold flakes (will try to get a close shot when its cleaned up) LOL.. pretty messy front area.. thats abt it for week 2 ...

Supp All.... Week 2 .. water proofing done plus wall tiles for kitchen and both the toilets... and also the front balcony have been rises and tiled.. Kitchen wall tiles up! common toilet.. its shares the same wall tiles as the kitchen. MBR toilet. Wall tiles are up too.. its kinda bronzey colour ... Another shot of the MBR toilet.

hihi.. Oh please do.. love to see them..

heyhey.. thanks simon!!

Our kid(s) room.. The MBR with the original toilet entrance sealed.. and the new entrance opened.. a closer view on the new entrance.. some of our selected tiles.. from the left.. Our Kitchen/common toilet wall tiles, kitchen floor tiles, Common toilet floor tiles and lastly our living/bedroom floor tiles..( might be hard to see from this pic.) Till next week!

WEEK 1 - Demo week. Demo started on Tuesday ended on Thursday. Drop in just now.. and found 3 tilers working on our place. Will update more as things progress... Taken from the study side.. now from the other side facing the study area... our study area... to be glass up the old kitchen wall have been torn down ..

Hi rasp! thanks for the blessing. oh yes! Love reading your blog.. and yes.. i read all of them Needless to say there is no change in experience. Whatever you state abt henry and his works is spot on. you cannot imagine how much time you had help us saved! Even when we are sending out the quotation request.. I kinda expect that the quote from henry is the one to beat. Once again thank you , amera and all those impress21 peeps that did such a detailed blog. Cheers!

hihi... That's music to our ears.. . Hopefully mine will be as smooth as yours and rasp.

So true... I guess.. things will start to get really interesting when the tilings are done..

I guess its fate... After the OTP i heard from my agent that they were actually been offered a higher COV back in july/aug . The owners rejected it then.. then come sept which there is a slight dip in the stock prices.. and the real estate market in general. i think this coupled with the fact that their valuation is abt to expire soon.. they decide to accept our COV. Like my mom always say.. "if its yours its yours" I will try to be as photo intensive as possible.. Cos i myself also enjoy reading those blogs that is stuffed with pics.. Currently its Demo day and for the next 3 days. I dont think Demo phase is interesting enff to post them up. .. they all look the same.. "WARZONE"