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your lights are looking good!

we also got some items to put up in the place once done: diamond clock with red black wires: ping pong dishes vintage 60s wall display: it seems really fast how things are moving, and esp so when things has been smooth flowing for us so far. cant wait for the furniture to be in!

thanks hanafi! the lights were all up and we pop by to see how it looks at night. all the installation coordination was done by the ID and we din have to be there which was a big plus point for us. with technology this day, we got 'live' updates from our ID on the progress, and could make changes even though we are not there physically which i think is a big plus for us. chicken cage light from bali for main living area. think this is what they used in kampung to catch chicken. dining lights: blackboard wall: corridor lights: view from kitchen: the lights above the mosaic table looks abit like donut to go with the simpsons tiles on it.

no worries. haha if it was me, i w definitely get from the old uncle the price you've seen is pretty good, not sure if its worth your trip down to ubi in this case, but there are alot of other shops in that area like comfort furniture u can check out as well.

hey zihui nice hanging chair! u can also check out d'galleria for the hanging chair. they are at ubi techpark lobby b #01-22 they do mostly outdoor furniture a decent price I think cheers

at this point we are pretty much done with all wet works. we have quite a bit of cement items going on, including cement screed flooring, walls, cement top for all kitchen table top, oven & hob, as well as dining table. common toilet: master bedroom toilet: hob oven and dining table: kitchen tiles: we are pretty much left with plumbing and carpentry, almost there!

nice shower system u have there

thanks zihui, im sure your mission impossible is gonna turn out very possible! looking forward! hey lala, on the ph5, we are using energy savings, i gotta check the watts on this. same for the kitchen lamp and main living room light. on the nestum tin we are using incandescent, for the looks and also the fact we wont on this for long. the rest we have got philips led bulb in them. hope this helps! haha ya i think the new generation wont know of the blue mosiac tiles table these days. thanks!

nice lights! pics soon i hope

moving back on the reno...as we had a slightly longer living room area which is marked as the study area for most 5 rooms these days, we wanted to use that as a chill, and relax area. the initial plan was to build a platform, and throw a couple of bean bags on it. our ID however came up w a idea to have a bar island top, and we went with it. we wanted to have a feel of a place where we can seat have a cuppa or beer while surfing or watching soccer over the weekend. one thing that came to mind was to have it similar to what is slowing being phased out today at our void decks. those growing up in the 90s will probly remember the blue and white round concrete table, with a chess mosaic layout on it. so we went with that concept and came up with this : mosaic choosen: middle of mosaic table with simpsons tiles. being an avid fan of simpsons, these were added for a personal touch to the table. view from front entrance: power point at side of table for possibe coffee machine or other devices

hey hanafi, i got them from hock eng hin, opposite tiong bahru market. its a old school hardware shop with really friendly uncles. 71 seng poh rd. yea these are non existence these days with technology arent they i think it would be ok if used on a round table that seats maybe 4-5. anything bigger might not be bright enuff. then again, you can always change the bulb to a higher watt for brightness. hey zihui, yeah initially we thought of milo tins, but these days most of them came with a paper wrapper for the logo so we ended up with nestum which has the logo printed on the tin itself. hahah that G.O.D. mug will be applicable for all of us i guess

as much as we w like to have a original ph5, the cost and budget just doesnt allow. so we ended up with a replica one, which is looking really good, but at the same time the most ex light we spent on. we have this up in our bedroom, so that its the first thing we see when we wake and last thing we see when we sleep hahah we felt that the cable provided was too 'modern', and requested for them to change it to black. here's a pic of it installed in the room. again i must thank all the info shared from the various tblogs which i was stalking silently to get these info we also got inspired from a restaurant and decided to diy our entrance light with this: up on the ceiling: we actually had a more vintage looking nescafe, but it was pretty badly rusted, and we decided not to use it. but we have it still in the even if we wanna interchange them. this is the cheapest light in our place! i dont think it's most people cup of tea but we felt it blended in quite well, hanged near our vent blocks.

another big chunk of our time were spent on lights hunting. and this forum we found places that are quietly hidden in the neighbourhood w the lights that could fit our theme. i will let the pics do the talking. cage light for the corridor: cage light with glass cover for the bathrooms: black and white cables used for these lights: light for bomb shelter: kitchen light: we also went around search for more lights at different shops, ended up buying from 3 different shops and also got the main living room light from bali. more pics to follow. cheers

hey vanessa, yea they bring a different feel to the place. i've seen yours and they are really nice! no worries, i was stalking many others blogs silently before hahaha thanks! they w a must have from the start for us when we saw them.

hey pencil, kitchen tiles are from hafary. cheers

thanks for suggestion will definitely look into this:)

thanks makan, hanafi, pokz! makan I was lurking ard ur tblog before haha silently though hanafi drop u a PM.

thanks macuser77, yea its been smooth so far hope it will be all the way to go with the theme of how we want our place to turn out, we have to find specific places to hunt for our furniture. this forum has been a great help, with recommendations on where to get retro vintage pieces. we went places such as second charm, journey east, mountain teak,lorgans, and few other places with similar sort of pieces. the sofa and dining chairs we felt will play a big part on the overall feel of the place together with the lights. after many weekends of hunting we found these 1960s refurbished sofa and dining chairs: now to think of it furniture hunting was tiring having to go round the island to find the correct piece, but it was worthwhile when we found the right pieces. we have 6 dining chairs of 3 different design to mix and match our concrete dining table, cant wait to get these delivered. i think probly as of now with the photos, many will see this as wa lao why this house so kampong one hahah more kampung lights to follow soon! cheers

Very nice grass carpet!

Haha lala81 yea guess I gotta cope w the spiderwebs every now and then. On the master bedroom we wanted to use it as a wiw and study. Other consideration taken into is if one of us is asleep and other party needs to wake early or use the pc it wldnt distrb the other party. Makes it easier when the toilet is near to the clothes as well. Guess we will have to throw couple of thirsty hippo around to deal w the moisture haha

we also combined our master bedroom with one of the common room. and the master bedroom will be used as a wiw, and the common room will house our bed. this means hacking down a opening between master bedroom and the common bedroom, and sealing up the existing door for the common bedroom. at this point of time we are done with all wet works. below are some pics of the progress. vent blocks: toilet tiles: laminate laying: will update more on the furniture we got to go with this 'old' house. cheers!

thanks for the replies guys. hapigal: yeap we gonna paint chalk board paint over that particular wall. zihui: we love G.O.D. stuff but they are pretty costly, so far i have only a tissue box from them haha. moving on with the reno process. from the very start we knew that we wanted a open concept kitchen, and also had specific tiles / laminate in mind, the selection was pretty much over in 5 mins, when we told our ID what we wanted, and they immediately knew what we were talking abt. i w let the pics do the talking. so off goes the wall: tiles for kitchen: tiles for toilet dry area: ventilation blocks to seal off original kitchen entrance: laminate for bedrooms: i think we are probly the only few who chose the above laminate which looked all torn and battle worn... but thats the look we are after so it was an easy choice.

hello all been surfing around for the longest time and gotten tons of useful information from everyone here. we are halfway thru our reno and thought it w be a good time to start this before our memories fails us. and hopefully in return share with anyone who needs any info that might help. we read about all the do's and dont's, but ended up doing a lot of dont's. haha so fingers cross that all goes well. our ID/contractor search was over pretty quickly in less than 2 weeks, and we went w a pretty new start up which obviously went against the recommendation from the advise here, but guess we took the risk as we felt we could click better with the ID. So anyway, as the title suggests, our home to be is theme to be a blast from the past. we wanted our new home to remind us of the days growing up in the 80's at our grandparents' cement screed flooring, old wooden furniture, torn laminates, vintage tiles, all things old....yes we are abit crazy like tt. haha. so expect a lot of cement (wall,floor,table) which again is not recommended here from what we read, but we weigh the pros and cons, checked out our friend's place and decided what the heck, and took the plunge. things been moving really quick with minimal hiccups so lets hope it stays tt way. here's the 3d of the dining, master toilet and floor plan. will share more as we blog along! cheers!