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    Our search for an Ideal house in Singapore began way before we returned home. Hubby had scouted all over Singapore for a place we would call home eventually.

    Being away from Singapore for years, needless to say we were astonished by how much the housing price had increased !! To cut long story short, we eventually found an ideal location for our house and this is it, Our journey begins...

    Search for Contractor / IDs commenced immediately after signing the OTP. It was then I discovered the Reno blog which is such a savior! Lots of information and advice provided in the T-blog. What a great sharing and I've learnt so much from it. So here's my payback time, hopefully my experience can lend a helping hand to someone out there. :D

    Enough of words...here's some pics of the house layout & renderings done by the IDs.

    Hi may i know where is your place? I've got a house same floorplan as you. Dun mind you PM me your ID? Nice house

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    Would like to share some of the designs that had given me ideas, there are also some from magazines but hard to show to all of you cos I do not have a scanner at home

    But most ideas and advice gotten from renotalk... thanks to all ~

    like the counter kitchen

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    like the suar wood table

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    like the use of cement sceed wall

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    Hi may i know where you get the suar wood table from and the price?

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    When will the dropping stop?

    The median Cash-Over Value or COV paid for a Housing Board resale flat fell to zero in February 2014, down from $3,000 in January. This was the lowest median cash over valuation (COV) figure since SRX records began in 2006. It is also the first time COV hit zero since 2006.

    About 37 per cent of deals, almost 4 in every 10 deals closed below valuation overall. In contrast, only 29.4 per cent of HDB resale deals closed below valuation during January 2014. Resale pricesfell by 1.8 per cent, which means that price level are now at same level as 20 months ago in June 2012. This was the sharpest month-on-month fall since prices started declining in April last year.And fewer flats changed hands.

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    Out of the 28 towns in Singapore.12 towns saw zero or negative median COV, an increase from 7 HDB towns in January. Bukit Panjang, Punggol, Sembawang, Sengkang and Woodlandsclocked negative overall median COVs recorded in February 2014 while Bedok, Bukit Batok, Choa Chu Kang, Geylang, Jurong West, Tampines and Yishun recorded zero overall median COV.

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    Year-on-year, resale volume dropped 6.3 per cent. According to flash estimates, 734 HDB flats were sold last month in the resale market, a 20 per cent month-on-month drop from the 918 units in January. Rental volume also dropped 13.7 per cent year-on-year. An estimated 1,118 HDB flats were rented in February, 25.3 per cent less than the 1,496 rental transactions in January. On a year-on-year basis, February’s rental volume posted a 11.9 per cent drop from 1,296 flats leased over the same month of last year.

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    Before the carpentry came in, our Suar wood table and benches from Bali arrived! But not after 2-3 weeks of lead time, they had to polish, laquer, crate, ship to Surabaya then to Singapore. The custom clearance amount was a lot more than I expected :/ 3 crates worth 300KG! Really pity the poor logistics guys carrying the crates 2 stairs down.

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    Before uncrating

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    and here it is after uncrating! there are 2 other benches not in picture.

    The guys accidentally drop the crate and their tools during the uncrating and chipped my tiles a bit :( no choice, just have to close one eye. Still worth it though, love our dining set!

    Just an interesting share, the craftsmen at the Suar wood workshop gave a quick share on caring and maintaining real wood furniture. We cannot lacquer every inch of the wood, because the wood will be "trapped" and cannot breathe. Not being able to breathe will result them to bloat and rot as time goes. That is why our wooden doors are usually not painted/lacquered at the top, just so wood can breath!

    Hi may i know how much it cost you for the lovely Suar Table and what is the dimension? Simply lovely

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