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hey greg, saw this at comfort design and some ideas u might wanna take a look at for your industrial concept place. its storage mainly. storage1 storage 4 these are factory made. i would think if you can find something similar from sugei road can probly do a small restoration project if you are into it! cheers

thanks tessina, we are toying with the idea of replacing it with a scissors gate. only prob is they are hard to find, and the one source we got is extremely expensive. lets see what happens, not a top priority for now. today we had the cement screed guys coming to do the touch up before the sealant is applied. i must say that looking at them work, its no simple task. to make sure the surface are as even as they can be, and smooth at the same time, they have to sand every single corner manually. i w think the amount of work it takes is no less than laying tiles, if not more. din take a pic of them in action, but they have been very accommodating to our requests of 'here uneven', 'there not so smooth' haha concurrently we also have the guys over to do up the mesh doors for the kitchen carpentry. something which we had been looking forward to. but alas, there was some hiccup. the drawers 'lang gar' with the mesh door metal frame. adjustment needs to be done now to the carpentry hopefully before all the big furniture items come rolling in, and before the major clean up. here's a pic of the mesh door up on the top shelves, there will be a glass piece behind the mesh door to be up later. kitchen mesh and here is the 'lang gar' drawers lang gar oh well hoping it gets fixed soon. beng, here's the old sweden ericsson rotary phone we might be most likely be getting: rotary phone

hey greg, i din sand it down, i just went the lazy way and sprayed on it thanks! might plan to get it from the wood contact van gave gotta see the cost though. hey beng! yea we got something similar for the place. it's a old erickson rotary phone. i will post the pic up soon. thanks for remembering this 'old' house when you saw the phone haha hahah thanks mrmerry. your house also very power! yes..i've been a silent stalker. lol separately, does any of you guys know if we can change out the entire gate that HDB provided? have something in mind if the gate can be changed entirely. any advise?

nice!

and a much cleaner kitchen floor! floor clean first coat of paint up for the rooms door. we kinda like how the single coat paint looks, giving it the unfinished barn look, but guess we will go for one more coat. barn a lot to be done over the weekend, hope all goes well.

as we are in near completion mode, we started having more time to think about diy items. one of which is to have a small bench by the ventilation blocks for us to put on our shoes. inspiration came from looking at the crates tables and chairs at fabulous baker boy at the foot of mount canning. and luck has it, there was a beautiful plank of wood at work, and i manage to get it back home for free since it was a lose piece that was lying around. just a note if anyone else think of working with wood for a small project. if we take wood from crates / shipping crate, make sure theres a 'HT' heat treatment mark on it. this will reduce the chances of a termite invasion in future I love the wood grains on this. bench plank 2 bench plank manage to get this sand down, and next we plan to get shellac / varnish on it. we will then need to look for legs to put on them. as of now the target is the hairpin legs which i believe a few of us are targeting for, so lets see how that goes! we are in no rush on this and will take our time to get it completed. on to other side diy project. one of the request to our ID was to have a WIW done using pipes and fittings. this was not in our initial quotation and requested much later into the project. we have not gotten anything from them yet, probly cos they are busy finishing up our current place. therefore, we started looking around to source for ideas to do this ourselves. and big credit to sarah on introducing me the IKEA STOLMEN, which is a pole system wardrobe that ikea offers. thanks sarah! the only prob i had with this was the finishing of the aluminum poles, which is a nice smooth white finish. might work for many, but definitely not gonna work in our theme for the place. in order to attempt to get it to a 'distressed' old, worn look, i got a trial piece from ikea to have a go and see what sort of finish i can get. armed with a can of black spray can and a can of silver spray can, i tried to see what sort of result that can be achieved. below are some before, between and after shots before: Before black & silver on each half just to see how they turn out: between and after fiddling around with it for a bit here's the after: after i think might work better with black and gold combination rather than silver, might go get some gold paint and try. any advise welcome! we are abit behind schedule right now on the reno, but i think we shld be good to receive our furniture next sat! had a cleaning done today, first time stepping in without all the clutter and dirt. loving the reflection of the tiles of the smeg oven. kitchen clean

hahah selecting the right contractor / ID almost like tio abit already la

congrats lala looking forward to your Reno progress

to add on the question do you think this w work on cement screed floor?

seems we really have the same tastes hahha we ordered a custom made tv console from second charm waiting for delivery in mid sep im sure sharifah can do something up for you

yeap his at tiong bahru, at the same time can have a coffee at one of the many joints there no prob. glad that there are other like minded people after the old stuff on another note, one other item which we would like to share is the Bennington C600 multi point heater. As we were in the search of heaters, the obvious choices like Joven storage was easily one of the first that pop out. however, this would mean having to mount it and have it sticking out somewhere, either in the toilet or in the service yard. we were shown the C600 at one of the shops while searching for the joven, and decided to give it a shot. reviews found have been favorable so far. pros of this is since this is a multi point heater, we only need one for both the toilets. and we could also easily mount this inside one of the toilets. it works like a instant heater, so minimal waiting time for the water to heat up. cons as we are told is that we cant use this if we intend to have a rain shower. we looked around and found a place selling at 2/3 the price of the first place which recommended to us, and here it is: heater

picket and rail Chicago is calling hahah or you can take a look at the scanteak: http://www.scanteak.com.sg/catalogue/bedroom/wooden-beds/39503-vinkel-5ft-queen-bed but might not suit your theme that well i think..

hey june, the wires i found were in this hardware/pots/pans/oldschool toys/3m hooks/lightbulbs (cha pa lang) shop at fernvale point. along the stretch where NTUC is, its operated by a couple in their 50s, old school kinda shop. their price were cheaper than those i got from hock eng hin, and they had more variety as well. i got my diamond clock from him. his my wtb's ex colleagues husband. haha so i must say good la. i w think its worth to check his place out, pretty cool house.

cant wait to see your wall panel to be up.

hey van, you know ferdi too? small world, i just met him for lunch yesterday.

hey pills are those paintings of homer and marge? i cant see really clear from the pic. if they are where did you get them from? cheers!

you can also take a look at this bedframe: http://www.picketandrail.com/collections/chicago/products/chicago-bed-with-drawers we got this for our place, and now thinking that since yours is a industrial theme, might fit in just for reference/consideration. cheers

thanks will drop by then on a quiet night since they are 24 hours we actually got the mistral one along with the iona. ended up buying 3 different fans haha hanafi, if you are still looking for old school wires like these: wires i found them in a shop around the neighbourhood, let me know if you want the exact address. separately also to share for anyone looking for diamond clocks or old tengkat like these: tengkat you can check them out at http://facebook.com/ini.sukasuka we are expecting most of the reno to be done in about 2 weeks time..fingers cross as our furniture are all coming in by the 31st! exciting times ahead.

good progress! we saw the same piece of sofa from mountain teak, great choice. im sure will fit well into your theme.

to go with the theme of the place, we were specific in looking for the fans that we wanted. bladeless dysons are out for us, so we went on a old school look fan hunt & found 3 of them! first 2 were gotten from courts which was having discount for them fan2 fan 3 the last one we got was a elusive iona one which took us a while to find. it was listed that Tangs and HN carries them, but when we got there they didnt have them. the wtb was adamant on finding it and wrote to the distributor directly. we finally found it and got it directly from them at a really good price for 38.50. it didnt come with a box, as they were doing a clearance due to damage boxes, which was why we couldnt find them in the stores. comes with a 1 year warranty. the service there pissed me off a little when they tried to smoke me by saying its the only piece on display, but upon saying that i needed 2 they said that there was another piece. and when we spoke with what was the person in charge, she explained that she had alot to clear due to the damage packaging. we ended up only getting one as they couldnt assemble the other one in time, since we obviously refuse to pick up the dent piece on display. heres the pic: fan we might head back for one more in future.

hey beng just double check tt light was 28 bucks. here's a shot of it light up in the bomb shelter. bomb shelter

van, i got the saucers from a stash my mum found in the kitchen cabinet. yea i heard from sarah, im surprised it was gone so fast. hey thanks! lucky for my my wtb was into vintage and old stuff as well haha. ph5 replica from light+form at balestier. pingpong bowls from sarah and unfortunately i dont have the spoons yet. those were found by sarah online i think, so now all my ping pong players got no 'bats'. side note: if anyone looking for a cheap sofa bed 9 more hours to go. just got one for the common room. http://www.deal.com.sg/deals/singapore/courts-singapore-only-129-fuze-sofa-bed-courts-megastore-choice-brown-black cheers!

thanks for the info will go check it out at daiso. no prob haha. i actually have a few that i bought purely just for the ceiling rose. if u are ok with having them without the ceiling rose i can pass them to you not a prob. just give me a shout. i will go over to make sure they are still around in the store. hey beng i got them from hock eng hin at tiong bahru. just across the market. the opening mechanism is pretty old school, and the cage is metal not plastic. if my memory serves me right its abt 20 odd dollars, i can check again the receipt and let you know. wa lao sarah like tt i need to go find some fishballs to complete as ping pong balls liao.

hey hanajed, i got it from ikea. they were going for 3.90 or 4.90 can remember the exact amount. comes with a ceiling rose as well.

and thanks to sarah833 and her brother, i've now got my pingpong team upgraded! pingpongteam