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I guess you guys are pretty lucky for not directly letting dinning area to been seen. Partition is a must eh. I read abt a partition is to retain the 'chi' in the house, be it 100% see through glass as partition or a full height wall or curtains. I also read abt normal house should see living room first. But the HDB layout like that, we also cant do much. The only gd thing is mine is a point blk. Door close cannot see anything.

Thanks. Will check it out! Congrates! Show us more pics!!

i also remembered seeing my friend's house like that.

Thanks. I guess nowadays HDB layout is pretty longish.

I wonder if is ok to see dining area first then living room when step in from the main door. Please advice. Thanks.

Yap. Ahhh so "qiao". I will be getting another 4 sets of lights after my contractor finalise whether is possible to have lights at my desired areas. Just saw your reno blog. Your toilets & kichen are BARE now!

i see. !! any idea what does the colour consultant do? did you all follow the consultant suggestions?

Should say is toilet bowl stains. Previous owner must be nv clean it before moving out. Anyway, will drop by again on tue to meet up the colour consultant. Will clean it, if not i scare the stains cannot remove if left too long. Since so near, then we will become "Known" strangers. hahaha. Nope, my primay sch is not Jalan Teck Whye. Met up with ah keong in the afternoon, to choose laminates. He was telling off one of his worker for not putting the laminated finished works properly. !!

More photos to share. Taken after closing toilet covers... haha.. Current living room light, will be shift to Wardrobe cum study room. Because my dinning area will be at that area, will be shifting my dinning lights to there. 3 types of lighting Warm White Mixture Dining lights Ceiling Fan (Very dirty) Toilet lights Bedroom 2 light Kitchen light Light under shoe cabinate

Wow! very fast progress. I like the red room. HUAT AH!

Hey, I used to live at Teck Whye Blk 6.. I just came back from my new house. Made a trip down to close toilet covers And realise, the toilets are dirty with stains. Or should say, the whole place is dirty.

Haiz, we just remember yesterday night that we forgot to do a very important thing. We forgot to close the toilets' covers before leaving the house on sunday. Later have to go down to close the toilet covers.

okok. both of you dun fight le. tml will be meeting ah keong at the workshop again to choose laminates...

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okok.. had called mrs quek to confrim. We no need to pay anything consultation fees.. She also arrange the ICI colour consultant to come down to our new house on tuesday. Then I ask whether can request Nippon colour consultant. Then she say is the same. Is it true??

I see.. will ask him about it.

Anyone use patrick's nippon voucher before?? Ah keong told me that if we want consultant to consult on colours concept of our house, can get a $70 voucher from patrick and they will come to my house. Usual pricing is $75, so we only need to pay $5 more, including the voucher.

That's good! !! Show us more pictures!

yeah! Fools' day... Hopefully I am not a fool.. haha..

As for me, I didn't do much selections. I am impressed on the things they look out for which I never took notice of. Like the platform in MBR that I intend to remove. Ah keong told me, some contractors will use nails to nail down the platform in order to stablised it, instead of using glue. And if the platform was really nailed down, which means the existing tiles will be spoilt and I will need the change the tiles for the whole MBR. He is honest to tell me what will happen, so that I will have mentally prepared for it. Of course, I dont want to spend another amt of $$ to change tiles. Now have to pray hard that the platform is not nailed down. OT abit... Have just confrim with them that our reno will be starting on 1st April.

Hopefully this 5.3k will make the place looks slightly different from before.

Something to add on. It is good if you see any design that you want on magazines and show it to them. They are very experience. I asked ah keong to show me some pictures of his finish works. All nicely done, especially one, black and white theme. Very nice, like that we see in magazines.

Yap. From the list above, I am just touching up things here and there. I know somewhere out there will get cheaper price. But since will be doing some capentary, I just get a reputable contractor. Pay alittle more for their workmanship and also their after-sales service.

Thanks. If nothing goes wrong, will start the renovations on 1st April. April fools day!!

Agree with mickoe, have to call patrick up after email him. Patrick has so many projects in hand. I already feel blessed when he can remember what I want.