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thanks! i just saw your copper taps, we thought of having that as well but din do it eventually. now looking at yours its super nice!! **** hahaha

look great! love the industrial look. same question as greg, where did you get your blinds from?

hey sleepybeauty, lights from hock eng hin @ tiong bahru, near to the market. 28 bucks. hey june, ermmmm i wld say they are worth the price bearing in mind that the pieces there are all one off pieces from the 50s,60s. they w typically do reupholstery and refurbishment of the condition of their items as well. can drop me a PM if u like to find out more

hey isla, I got them from Noden collective. http://nodencollective.com/ in fact most of my furniture are from them. cool peeps there as well go check them out! cheers

nice great job!

for awhile I tot ur ceiling had the laminates on!

yes same same hahah.

waaaa that is **** oldskool! i got a 14" color tv from the 80s still in working condition just needs that extra few minutes to get the color up hahah still thinking where to put it. thanks for keeping a lookout on the old stuff ! cheers

thanks van!

hey mrswk, are you at fernvale too? looking at the gate color seems to be the same. haha where did you get the mat above? im guessing thats your unit number?

very nicely done June! did you use varnish over the wood? i'm having a hard time deciding which varnish to use to get the color tone i want.

awesome diamond clock! we have one that we cant wait to put up in the house too. do check the accuracy from time to time every couple of weeks as with these old but awesome clocks, they might go faster or slower over time your kitchen's looking great fantastic choice with the tiles

thanks mrswk & makan! hey mhb yea glad our calculation was right hahah. my laminate for the rooms are what i refer to them as 'battle worn' hahah. at least your MIL says it look dirty. for me, after the laminates were laid, my dad came over and said.."eh why your floor still hafent do yet?" hahah actually we found out the pros of having this kinda laminate while cleaning the place, you never know whether if its clean or dirty. so wth just leave it as it is. great excuse not to do housework hehe. arigato! hey gryffindor, we din do the ventilation fans in the end as we felt with the window in the toilet open and with the louver toilet doors were sufficient. so i cant comment on whether if they are allowed

our fridge and washer arrive as well. it was a hectic day with deliveries from at least 6 different companies, but every time the phone rings the excitement goes up knowing another new item is arriving here's the fridge with the kitchen 80% done. the mesh are not completed yet for the shelve above the fridge, and we have some touch up that needs to be done as well. as much as we wanted to get a smeg fridge to complete the whole look and feel, and to go with the smeg oven and hob, the size vs usability vs PRICE, we just couldnt convince ourselves to get it. but everytime we go into unilite we w spend that extra few minutes admiring the smeg fridge haaha kitchen fridge our bosch washer from gab also arrive. the delivery uncle wins the award for being the most smiley, happy, friendly delivery uncle of the day award. he was really nice and spent time going through with us on the washer. washer we also got the nespresso up, and realised it came with a box of capsules that were abt to expire. better get on coffee rush soon to finish them. nespresso one item we were abit worried about was the bed. whether the mattress will fit the bed correctly, and if the king size bed will be overwhelming since we are putting it in the common room that we hacked from the mbr. it turned out to be perfect, and gave us enough allowance to walk around and to open the drawers as well. bed was a really tiring weekend with the washing and cleaning but seeing all the items coming in place gives us much satisfaction. folks came over with dinner, and did their own 'art piece' on the chalkboard wall. dining night still quite a bit to do in terms of the final touch up for the reno, and also getting the place all together. also plunge into our first taobao purchase thanks to greg, and waiting for the bar stools to arrive for the mosaic table.

been away for a while as we had to rush to complete most of the reno prior to the furniture coming in over the weekend. it was a mad rush, but good news is the furniture and electrical appliances are in! we vacuum and mop the entire place at least 3 times over but its still dusty with all the construction works going on. plus the fact that the flooring is cement screed, it doesnt help with the powdery effect. guess this cleaning process is gonna take a while as we take it as it comes. i will let the pics do the talking! we did a change to our entrance by having peranakan tiles to the area due to some issues with the leveling of the cement. we are growing to love it even though we were skeptical at first. entrance tiles our 1960s danish coffee table. coffee table plant we got the orange and turquoise chairs for our study table, since the study table is not up we put them temporary in the living room and we like how they stand out against the cement flooring. contemplating leaving them there in the living for good coffee with chairs our 1960s sofa which we had been waiting for a long time to get it in the house finally having bought this some 3 months ago. living day shot of it in the evening furniture night

nicely done up esp w the little touches here and there makes it really cosy!

interesting theme oriental Rajasthan looking forward to the pics! I've not tried using iPhone to upload before maybe others can advise

PMed. if you end up going there look for kenny, i think his pretty honest and knowledgeable.

no prob van, they are actually not a light shop more of a hardware shop. I din check their T5 when I was there I got my T5 from 168 trading at jln besar. for the one u showed I din see any similar but they do have some small ones which u might be interested in.

hey greg for the 3 piece chest i remember vaguely they price to be a high 200.

hey sim, hahah tt will be a great idea if i have a garden to place it these are the little things that make us remember our growing up days. van, i got it from hock eng hin, opposite tiong bahru market. they are more rectangular than squarish in shape. the cage is full metal, not plastic that i saw at some shops in jln besar. fits a E27 bulb.

hey rumble congrats on the start of your reno. just wondering is your metal gate the original old one and do you intend to change it? looking for old gates to replace the one that hdb gave hehe

hey june, for the dining chair option in the same design they have some promo going on. dining is 189 (original 240), not the cheapest but well some discount of sorts. hahah

hello sniper, looking forward to your t-blog. i post mine on flickr, its free to sign up for a acc. from there just get the BB code, and copy past here. RT has a limit on how many photos you can upload, so will run out of space eventually. hope this helps. cheers

hey greg, actually one of my friend has it in his place. the orange 10 cent phone and it is working. 10cents per 3 mins call. his a vintage collector and sells some of this stuff. i posted his link before, can check it out. but he doesn't have the phone for sale, his personal collection that one. hahah thank you makan! your place has a lot of personality in it as well! glad that i have a wtb that's into vintage style as well, so both of us keep a look out on all things old that might fit the house. based on the original floor plan, we converted our MBR into a WIW and study. tts gonna be a WIP for a while as i plan to do up a pole system with some modification to age the aluminum poles from ikea. we got a chicago king size bed, which will go into the second common room which we hack down the wall between the MBR and the room. w post along the way. the bed's coming over the weekend. PM-ed ! We had the mosaic table bar stool outstanding, and its taken us a long time to find a right one. guess they dont have many bar stools during the 70's 80's? another criteria we need is one with backing, which makes the search even harder. as we now need to finalise where to mount the stainless steel bar for leg rest, which is dependent on the stool height we need to get the chair soon. we saw this 2 at comfort. we are more prone to the one on the left, metal with wooden seat. the one on the right doesnt feel as comfortable when seated.what you guys think? bar stool