alishong

Arrival of the water feature on 24 April 2010 From Island Landscape & Nursery Bali 8 + light + delivery charges - $474 Magic contractor can't stand the sight of the messy wire and will do a box up FOC!

Lightings From Lightings.com.sg as recommended by this forum I really must say Good service Went to change my staircase light from two to one after finalising the electrical points on site with magic contractor. No black face and got my refund back (by post) within ONE week. Upon delivery, four lights spotted with black spots and called them immediately. No excuse given and agreed send them to my house for exchange straight away Do note that $18 delivery charge applicable. Dining light - $395 Do note that this kind of light will cast shadow which you don't get to see in the lighting shop. Staircase light - ice cube -$38 Very nice, casted a butterfly shadow on wall LED track light for the corridor downstair+upstair - $103 x 2 2x13W Downlights for living(8nr)/balcony(2nr) - $19 x 10 2x13W Round lights for all toilets/yard/store under stair/utility/main dr entrance - $28 x 8 recommended by this forum again 2x36W Rectangle light for kitchen - $58 2x36W Rectangle light for all bedrooms - $50 x3 Total lightings - $1297

Living + Balcony without furniture yet Roof up the balcony with false ceiling to form part to the living room. Roof tile awning @ balcony with false ceiling $2880, sliding window @ balcony $594 Now the hall is HUGE and cleaning up is going to be xiong Install KDK ceiling and realised the blades are too short to be at the centre of the L-box Get the magic contractor to shift the position and re-paint

2nd Storey Common Toilet Magic contractor realised the shower screen door open to face a 90deg sharp wall edge and alter the wall without extra cost

MBRM toilet Simply love my pozzi tap - $68

MBRM entrance Magic contractor managed to get 180 deg hinges to open the door up to the wall.

Staircase Wrought iron railing with wooden handrail - $2500

Dining area without furniture yet

Clear glass sliding door at the kitchen - $580

Kitchen Toilet

I know many EM owners "hide" their washing machine in the toilet or convert it to wash area. However, due to FS reason, a yard is created to put all the household stuff and washing machine. Kitchen toilet must be clean and CLEAR of household items

Kitchen Because the lighting is at the centre and that cast shadow when doing washing, the magic contractor was ask to add some lighting under the cabinet. Do consider this when planning for your kitchen.

Main entrance

As we have lots of time to source for ID/Contractors after signing the OTP, we used the icompare as recommended in this forum to source for quotation. It was really an easy and simple process to get quotes instead of calling so many firms. Many ID firms responded and we received close to 10 quotations from ID firms thru icompare. We also called up two contractors (one recommended by my sister and one recommended by this forum). We then realised all firms asking the same question - what are the scopes. In order to get the quotation on equal basis, we drafted a list of scope and send to all. Of course the quotations came back (abt 2-3wks) with all kinds of presentation including their in-house package and whatever, ranging from 70k to 100+k. We then shortlisted 3 that is 1. M Image ID & Renovation; 2. Lowe Living Concept; 3. Sky Creation Design. We met up these 3 firms to finalise the quotation and see who will be the final one. Each thought that they are the one and started to show their true behaviour. Lowe Living and Sky Creation started not responding to our calls and kept delaying our meeting. On the other hand, M Image was so responsive and experence, he even gave us a blank copy of idemnity form for us to get the owner to sign during our first appointment knowing in our case, the owners are staying in USA. This will allow us to start our renovation earlier and we have not even agree to sign up with him. After so many rounds of changing and changing, we managed to cut the quotation to 55k, only carpentry work is the kitchen cabinet, flooring at 2nd storey to remain and use back the old wooden door. The rest all hack, remove and install new, including plastering and re-wire the whole house. We shall see how this magic contractor (he likes to use the word "magic" ) transform the house

Hi Alishong, Welcome to RT and Yishun. I'm also a Yishuner at the 800 series! Where is your EM located? hi, babyleomummy, i am opposite the industrial park 200 series, wanted to be within 1km of ChongFu

Yes, reno starts before 2nd appointment. Got the previous owner to sign the indemnity on 1st appointment as they are now staying in USA.

that's all for the pre-reno will take the post-reno pic this weekend and post up asap...

2nd floor - BR 3 Suppose to be my son's bedroom Damaged floor at door entrance which my contractor managed to save my future scholar is going to study here...

2nd floor - MBRM Funny door opening - entrance and toilet door clashes Lucky my contractor proposed and get 180 degree door hinges to solve this weird layout

2nd floor - BMR Toilet

2nd floor - Common Toilet

2nd Floor - Corridor to common toilet. Waste of space and got the contractor to converted to vanity top wash basin to have bigger shower space...

original conditions of the staircase with red carpet

Balcony

Living room