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    Yes, please check out the cost for me. Real marble tiles absorb water, thus the water stains. This is particularly noticeable on vanity tops and the bottom part of the wall. You can try keeping a lookout for commercial buildings/toilets with marble or granite tiles. The bottom part is usually darker than rest of the area.

    Hi Livinstyle. Sorry about the late reply.

    The price for 4 pc corner granite shelves is SGD$320 from my renovator.

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    thanks mudball for the explanation. where did you get the granite shelves from? is it ready cut to size, what's the cost like? i'm also considering having similar shelfing in the kitchen, but not sure what if the wall can hold long shelf.

    we did considered using marble wall tiles for the bathroom. while this is beautiful, it is not so practical considering that marble tiles is best kept dry. guess real marble toilets are good as powder room, or the hotel restrooms where they have an attendant to wipe dry the place almost instantly.

    The granite shelves is provided by the renovator. He cut it to the size suitable for my bath area. cannot remember the cost off hand. I check for you later tonight.

    We like marble tiles but cannot pay those high price. Hence, we settle for "marble like" type of tiles. Did not know that marble need to kept dry. haha.

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    Hi mudball,

    Noticed that you've corner shelfing in the shower area. Are they granite or solid top & how was it installed into the wall? Can take a clearer pic?

    The bathroom walls - did the tiler put a plastic strip at the edges of corner/L-shape walls?

    I have also chosen a similar marble like tile for the bathroom.

    Hi Livinstyle, tried to take a clearer picture for you just now. But it is not going to tell much.

    The shelfing is granite. Did not see how the renovator install it. From the look of it now, it seems that they cut a groove into the tile to insert the shelf, because there is nothing else to support the shelf below and the shelf is solid strong to support all our showering equipments.

    For the bathroom wall, we put the plastic strip at the edges. Originally, the renovator agreed to do the 45 degree cut of tile for the corner. However, after we choose the tile, he suggest that we use plastic strip because 45 degree cut tile is weaker (unlike the true marble). So, considering we have small children at home, we changed to plastic strip for round corner.

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    nice!

    where in china u get it? u chose from catalog or personally?

    this is because when i was in china, i thought of carrying it back myself then gave up the idea.

    hi berry_surprise. I bought everything from GuangZhou area. Quite a lot of furniture shops there. I order personally from the shop and gave them the warehouse address of my freight forwarder for delivery. The freight forwarder took care of all the shipping and transport.

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    yes buying in china is v cheap.

    but did u ship it over with ur own courier?

    or ask them to ship it to u?

    u used 1/2 a container?

    I just engaged a door-to-door service from some freight forwarder. they take care to ship it to my house.

    I separate the shipment in3 batches so that any defects from previous batches can still ship a 2nd part for replacement.

    So, each batch is a few cubic meters.

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    just moved into the new house and did a housewarming party last weekend.

    Now, let me upload some picture of the house now.

    This is a snapshort of the dinning area.

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    my study room and living room separated by the TV wall. With the computer at one side and TV at the other side, and a media box connecting, I can watch HD movies downloaded from the Web directly on my big TV now. The sofa and coffee table are all purchased in China. Else, cannot afford to buy such high end stuff.

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    Purposely designed a TV cabinet with a section of tinted class so that I can hide all the set-top boxes (singtel, starhub, media box, power socket). and the low hide TV cabinet acted as extra chair during my house warming party.

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    hi mudball,

    I wont say i like your marble like toilet wall tiles..... BUT

    I will SAY I LOVED your marble like wall tiles :P

    care to share where u find them - Soon Bee Huat or Hafary or ???

    and how much psf ?

    Thanks

    Could not remember the exact name of the shop. It is at somewhere near Ang Mo kio. My reno ID brought me there. So did not pay attension to the name.

    The cost is $4 per sqf. Hence, I paid an additional of total $260 to my reno ID for the 2 toilet, on top of the original quotation based on $2.3 psf.

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    this toilet cabinet was bought and ship over from china. It is made out of solid real wood, with basis top and wooden wall mounted mirrow cabinet as a set. Compared with the other toilet cabinet I asked my ID to custom made for the other toilet (mainly because of the odd size of the other toilet), I think the cabinet set from China was quite a good deal.

    cabinet from china:

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    custom made cabinet (quality is good, no complains. Just that the price is no where near to something directly bought from china.)

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    but the steel structures cannot be cut and removed away right? or they say can? if everything can remove, then the living room ceiling will even look bigger :)

    of course not everything. He said it depends on the beam itself. The balcony beam was a very thin one. Remember that he said something about less than certain cm. Other beams in the living room bigger than that cm width cannot remove.

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    bro, is this the RC structural member, allowed by HDB? I remember HDB ruling is even though it is allowed to hack walls, any exposure of steel structures during the course of the demolition work, the lessee is not allowed to proceed with the renovation work and to inform Branch Office immediately....

    The branch officer came up to see the demolition himself and allowed to proceed. :D

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