leonjennawong

Aww thanks so much mrbytez... I just checked my quotation and #PoshHome quoted $2.4k on the ceiling beams... But I signed the contract in January 2014, so I'm not sure if the price has changed much now...

You will not believe where I am blogging from.. I am actually typing this post while on the MRT on the way back home from a company-sponsored SharePoint 2013 course held at Tiong Bahru.. Haha.. My muse hit me at the darnest timings sometimes. First, the gym exercise bike, and now on the MRT. Let's hope I don't get STOMPed. Ever since I started my reno journey; My cousin, my poly choir friend #Pish & several other friends (including #MrDFMuscle) all seemed to be asking for examples of good workmanship... So I thought I would take a short break from sifting & arranging my copious amount of renovation photos, to have a short word about laminate carpentry workmanship... Now please guys, I am no expert but I have definitely gotten a tad or two wiser from this Leon & Jenna Reno Experience.... So allow me to share very humbly on this particular topic, following which, I hope everyone (esp the newer Renotalkers) have a better idea of what you are entitled to!! LAMINATE CARPENTRY WORKMANSHIP OK now I am blogging from my new home. Had to come back to allow the curtain fellas in to do measurement... Hahahaha... Anyway the MRT train ride was too short & uncomfortable to write much... Bleah. As I was saying, I was at a training centre at Tiong Bahru... There were standard tea break times yada yada, at their self-proclaimed 'excellently decked pantry'.. (yes it really said that on a hand out that they gave out. Hahahaha..) But what caught my eye wasn't their 'excellently decked' offerings but the peeling laminate on their carpentry... Oh goodness... Haha. Hey, don't look at me like I'm some crazy fella... I'm telling you, once you start your very-own reno journey, especially for the first time, you will be looking at shopping malls & retails shops in a whole other light... It will be more of "Oooh! I wonder if this is laminate or veneer!" or "OOOH! Look this shop also uses scandinavian theme! Let's go in!" and even "Chey, this shop also using scandinavian theme. But still, let's just go in anyway!!" Hahahaha... And when you go in... Let's just say you won't really be looking at the clothes or the wares they are selling. I snapped a quick picture of the carpentry laminate.... Mind you, a lady staff was incidentally bringing someone (I assume it's some visitor) around and proudly told him that they just renovated the pantry area! Sheesh! Here is the picture of the pantry carpentry: - Join-lines cannot be anymore evident than they already are. - Perforated join-lines caused by careless filing of the edges. I just checked my carpentry pieces & am happy to say that I THINK that #CalvinTan & #Edgar definitely didn't skimp on this aspect... HEHEHE. *phew. heng ah.* For better illustration I will attach 2 pictures of my master wardrobe carcass laminate, taken at differing angles of 90 degrees... MASTER WARDROBE CARCASS LAMINATE WORKMANSHIP (FACING WARDROBE) In case you can't tell what this photo is, the right-hand-side whiteness is the wardrobe casement door, and the left-hand-side whiteness is my wall... If you focus on the brownish carcass laminate in the middle, you will notice that you completely cannot see any blackish/greyish join lines at all even though this is a laminate.. According to #CalvinTan, they managed to engage a carpentry sifu to do their carpentry requests, and by the looks of this, I take my hat off to him.. Their carpentry sifu is truly a master.. MASTER WARDROBE CARCASS LAMINATE WORKMANSHIP (90 degrees from previous photo) And here is the OTHER exposed side of the carpentry carcass laminate... You should notice a clean straight darker join-line running vertically downwards.. No perforated join-lines & the join-line is only visible from one side of the carcass... I was not very ngiao about this before, because I had no idea what is considered to be 'good' workmanship & what is 'bad' workmanship... Do try to bring this up to your ID or contractor even before they commence carpentry if this is one of those things that get under your skin... Hope i provided some useful considerations for would-be home owners! Cheers! Moving on! Some people have asked me for a close-up look at the useful 270 degree-of-freedom door hinges that are installed on my Master Wardrobe, so here you are! CLOSE UP OF MASTER WARDROBE 270 DEGREE-OF-FREEDOM HINGES - CLOSED STATE CLOSE UP OF MASTER WARDROBE 270 DEGREE-OF-FREEDOM HINGES - OPENED STATE OKOK I better get going now... A silly dragonfly just flew into my living room about 15 minutes ago (and scared the heck outta me. It is BIG ok. Don't judge. ) & I have to think of a way to chase it outta my house before I lock up for the day.. Hmmm it's surprising that I actually managed to complete another post so soon after I just posted one yesterday! Must be some auspicious day or something, oh well let's give a lucky number off the top-of-my-head for any punters out there.. Hmmm... OK, 1050. If you strike 4D please remember LeonJennaWong. Hahaha... Well, GOOD LUCK to them punters & for the rest of you non-punters out there, GOOD NIGHT and see ya!!

Hello bianzi!! The #BLUM vertical swing door hinges are apparently called a "lift system" under the product range #BLUM AVENTOS HL 20L380 series... I bought the hinges via #CalvinTan at supplier price (pricing is controlled by #BLUM)... Cost me about SGD170+ for the hinges alone... I did a short Google search and found the following #BLUM price list for 2013! My #BLUM hinge is found under Page 56 of the price list... Here it is and enjoy!! Yo Celtricia! Hahaha yeah it might!! But CFO & I are really so elated with the matt mint green... My CFO makes the best choices... (including the choice to say "Yes!" to me.) Hahahaha... Ok la, she actually didn't say "Yes!". She said, "Yes, of course." with a chuckle.. Hahaha.. Here is the link for the TB granite sink! http://detail.tmall.com/item.htm?id=37275943735&ali_refid=a3_420434_1006:1108013836:6:%CB%AE%B2%DB:38f0ba5fb837d150aad65e763c45117e&ali_trackid=1_38f0ba5fb837d150aad65e763c45117e&spm=a230r.1.0.0.yj8n04 BTW do take note that the sink is not meant to be an under-mount, but it can be installed in such a way of course... Lastly, CFO & I both think that the #Blanco sink is smoother & feels more like it is made from stone (whether quartz or granite)... She did casually mention that she would've gone ahead with the #Blanco sink if she had been able to see the 2 products side-by-side.. Oh well. Hello buddy breakster!! no more LJW ah..? Hahahaha... Anyway here are my replies to your queries! Hehehe 1. how come the shoe cabinet at the door area the skirting is still brown ah? havent paint? Ans: You got a sharp eye!! Yes going to be painted white soon... #CalvinTan & #Edgar have promised to be very very very careful... Hahaha... 2. I think you shld paint the main door yourself...doesn't look right that shade. Yeah man! Let's see what can be done... I would very possibly take up your advice to paint the main door by myself... The brown is just too jarring on the eyes... :( 3. the utility box area with the 4 door panels are you doing anything? Nope! Leave it white lor... And not planning to convert it to shoe cabinet or anything, seeing as I have a huge-donkey shoe cabinet in my dining area already!!

Continued... KITCHEN GENERAL PROGRESS - My 1000m3 Rinnai exhaust hood has been installed!! Yeah! The electrical was hooked up to the fume hood a short while after I took this photo.. And it was surprisingly quieter than what I expected for 1000m3 of raw suction power! RAWR!! Wahahahaha sorry feeling a bit lame today... *limp limp limp* Anyway my taobao under-mount quartz sink has also been put in place! Just waiting for the #Kompactop to complete the look! KITCHEN CABINET VERTICAL-SWING-DOOR - The microwave oven #BLUM vertical swing door is installed and works like a charm!! Anyway, I can't remember if I mentioned this before... My parents also have the same vertical swing door installed for the portable microwave oven & they've tried both the pneumatic-piston-version and the chicken-wing-hinge-version... And both are unreliable and failed quite quickly... Failed, as in the hinge mechanism loses its strength and will not be able to hold the door up anymore after a while... And thus CFO & I went for the most reliable brand in #BLUM for this particular hinge! KITCHEN CABINET LADDER UNIT - Here is my dearest CFO's desired kitchen cabinet ladder unit! Total of 4 heavy-duty #BLUM ladder unit trays that can carry quite heavy loads (I can't remember what is the safe working load liao. )... Again, we went for a tried & tested brand because of the quality assurance, especially since the ladder unit might possibly be used to store some heavy items... Such as canned food, canned food and more canned food. And some more canned food stacked on top of the previous canned foods for good measure. VANITY CABINET & MIRROR CABINET CARPENTRY (AT MASTER BATHROOM) - The mirror is finally up! And the carpentry installer seems to be flirting with my feelings by only installing one-side of the vanity cabinet swing doors... Hahaha... I'm sorry folks, these days pictures are all I have to show for the renovation progress.. However if you are interested in our considerations during the decision making process, do PM me to let me know ya? As always, have a good day and fingers crossed for work tomorrow!

Oh my... Please accept my sincere apologies everyone.. It really has been such a long time since I took refuge in this cosy little e-space and had myself some "me-time"... Now that I am here again, I am overcome with a strange content feeling that makes this feel like I'm coming back home. 3RD DAY OF LEONJENNAWONG CARPENTRY! Third day of carpentry installation!! Wasting no time at all and jumping straight into the main dish, I will once again, provide unmistakably BIG sub-headers to caption my photos as I go along... Enjoy... CEILING BEAMS @ DINING AREA - My beloved ceiling beams are up!OH YESSSSSS! Now if only I could reach the ceiling beams, I would caress each one of them gently.. All the while patiently, and softly whispering to each of them on my long arduous journey of how I managed to convince CFO to allow me to get them.. The beautiful ceiling beams... I am in love once again, ladies and gentlemen. I truly madly deeply am.. Oh ya, my babies are not complete yet, still need to plaster and paint white. Yep. Hahahaha... Here are two photos of my babies.. All 17x of them... Hehehehe... As you can see from the above picture, kitchen entrance glass door is also installed! Still awaiting the veneer-wrapped wooden handle... Another angle of my beloved ceiling beam babies... SHOE CABINET INSTALLATION (Cont'd from 1st Day) - Finally completed!! VERTICAL BEAM WITH SHELVES - Minor touch up by #CalvinTan and his team to open a squarish hole for a new electrical outlet point... In the meantime, I'm still sweating on the future decoration ideas for these 2 shelves... 3-METRE LONG SIDEBOARD JOINING LINE CLOSE-UP - Here is a close-up of the joining line between the two seperate 1.5 metre-long carpentry pieces! Tell you honestly, at first the join-line was quite perforated and left me feeling a little bit surprised that #CalvinTan provided such carpentry quality especially when everything else has been quite perfect for me... In the end I messaged him about it in the WhatsApp group chat (with CFO & #Edgar too!) and the conversation went like this (word-for-word copy from the WhatsApp chat... Hahaha...): LeonJennaWong: "the joining line of the sideboard at the back of the living hall seems quite perforated... Got sth u can do to make the finish better?"#CalvinTan: "Sideboard table top already asked carpenter replace, failed!"LeonJennaWong: "Wao Lao best. You are **** good. Goody goody" Hahahaha... Once again happy & vindicated in our decision to have engaged this guy.. Who seems to be living up to his notorious smelly reputation of being a super "ngiao" ID in the peaceful streets of Sungei Kadut... To Be Continued...

Hey ho! Yes the middle block will be removed afterwards! Apparently it's just there as part of the installation process! Yea lor.. Not just a bit off lei actually... The more I look at it, the more off it feels... Arghhhhh! let me talk to CFO first... Wish me luck... Wahahahaha..

Continued... SHOE CABINET INSTALLATION (Cont'd from 1st Day) - Doors are up for my shoe cabinet too!! Similar beautiful oak legs being used here!! The complete warzone look... Hahaha... Hmm... The colour of my main door looks a bit off hor... Haiya.. Budget over liaooooo... ignore, ignore, ignoreeeee... VANITY CABINET & MIRROR CABINET CARPENTRY (AT MASTER BATHROOM) - Happy that our under-mount Kohler sink from Taobao fits the carpentry carcass perfectly!! The mirror cabinet also zhun-zhun stops at the bathroom window... Yeah! L-SHAPED WARDROBE; CLOSED (AT MASTER BEDROOM) - I was never that excited about the master bedroom wardrobe (other than the laminate colour choice hahaha), but this is one awesome wardrobe! Spanning the entire height of my master bedroom, this wardrobe is really a high, mighty & awesome sight. L-SHAPED WARDROBE; OPENED (AT MASTER BEDROOM) - Attach a picture of the wardrobe opened up to access the storage space deep at the corner for everyone to reference.. It works exactly like what #CalvinTan advised before we signed with him! The door hinges have a very interesting (i kept looking at the hinge, and then I opened-closed-opened-closed.. just to see how it works.. Hahahaha...) mechanism that can open up to MORE THAN 270 degrees, (i know right! OMG.) allowing us to step right up near to the wardrobe & access the storage space deep at the corner of the L-shape wardrobe!! Very happy with this function & I have been happily boasting about this function to my buddy #MrDFMuscle and my sis, since they probably also need to consider getting L-shape wardrobes... Hehehe... :P That's the end of the 2nd day of our carpentry progress! Hope to have more great looking pictures up here soon! In the meantime have a productive day at work/ home/ wherever you are!