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Hi, I didn't have that concern since I thought you've got to trust your contractor when you're entrusting your 'house' to him. And many of the forum-ers had their house done by him (including one of my personal friend). Currently, I've paid 95% of my payment, remaining 5% to be paid to him during handover (everything's done except final touch-ups!), so far so good. Hi, you can contact Kevin at 90222321 but he's currently on holidays, will be back by 6 Dec. Anyway, I spent roughly 30k. Items as follow: 1) brick wall 2) 5ft shoes cabinet 3) kitchen cabinets with solid top 4) concrete screed for kitchen walls 5) subway tiles for kitchen walls 6) vanity table + mirror for 2 toilets 7) dresser table + mirror 8) floor tiles for whole house (except kitchen & toilets) 9) plumbing 10) electrical 11) painting 12) 3 room doors 13) windows for service yard 14) honeycomb wall tiles for MBR toilet 15) Glass shower screens for 2 toilets

Thank you! The brick wall was a must for me cos I'm not for a feature wall and it'll be too plain in my opinion to keep it as it is! The carpentry works were of satisfactory standard and the wood laminates all turned out well, lucky us we thought! Most definitely! Will be sharing more photos on Sat/Sun once few pieces of the furniture are in

Sharing a few more photos of the house

Hi both, if I didn't remb wrongly, it's 1.2k for the shoes cabint (5ft).

Sure when it's up! Installations will only be done on 14Dec!

We allocated a room solely for our 'walk-in wardrobe' without hacking the wall that is. Engaged another vendor who specialises in walk-in wardrobes, hence it's not under the reno cost by K.

Hi, sorry didn't notice your signature which states that you've engaged K! Your place is looking good too, K is pretty fast but we waited 2.5weeks for carpentry to be up (he has a whole list of houses queuing for his carpentry! haha). And yup, K has helped arranged for painter these 2 days and chemical wash on Fri and my furniture's coming in next week. Thus, more or less done!

Thank you! Quotes may vary on your requirements; size of works and materials selected, hence it's best to have K go down your new place to take a look and give you a proper quote. But for a rough gauge, I spent about 30k inclusive of the following: 1) brick wall 2) 5ft shoes cabinet 3) kitchen cabinets with solid top 4) concrete screed for kitchen walls 5) subway tiles for kitchen walls 6) vanity table + mirror for 2 toilets 7) dresser table + mirror 8) floor tiles for whole house (except kitchen & toilets) 9) plumbing 10) electrical 11) painting 12) 3 room doors 13) windows for service yard 14) honeycomb wall tiles for MBR toilet 15) Glass shower screens for 2 toilets To be honest, K is not the cheapest contractor around (in fact his cost might be on-par with some IDs) but his workmanship has been pretty good thus far (except for some frustration with the electrician!) and I like that he's easily contactable (if he misses your call, he's sure to call back awhile later!). Plus, his style suits the house theme we are looking for, hence our decision to use him. Hope the above helps

Hi! I'm actually one of the latest (reno and moving in!) amongst my fellow estate peeps! I had the keys collected in June but didn't start on reno till Sept. Anyway, K is away on holidays now, hence he'll only be able to do final handover of my place in Dec. Did you also engaged him?

With most works completed, we are pending final round of painting and thorough chemical wash before we welcome the furnishings. Finally the lights are up, no need to navigate in darkness when we do our rounds at night!

Hi mrswk, may I ask where did you get the lights for your walkway? have been trying to find this sort of light but with only 1 electrical point! Thanks!

Just 3 photos to share for this week as mostly touching up works were done. All tiling works have been completed; cement screed beautifully done up in the kitchen; and the lovely brick wall which is a contrast from the dark grey living room tiles (our bold move to be different)! Air-condition will be up next week and K will also be preparing our carpentry (looking forward to our 5ft shoe cabinet; vanity for the bathrooms; cabinets for the kitchen; dresser for the MBR)! We have also purchased our dining table + bench, coffee table and study table during this interim. Got to work on getting the lighting and toilet fittings so K can help to fix up!

Thank you thank you! More pics coming up this weekend! All the best for your upcoming renovations too No problem, I've gained much from the forum so I hope I can be of some help to the rest too! Good luck for the designing of your living room!

I have been garnering inspirations from the entries of fellow forum-ers and finally it's my turn to document my renovation process. We collected the keys for our new place (Fernvale) in June but delayed commencement of renovations till 2 weeks ago. We compared a few quotations and of course did our due diligence on these IDs/contractors before deciding to go with K (Regular forum-ers should be familiar with him by now!). Anyway, to cut the story short, these are works we sighted when we visited our place today. Loving what we see thus far and progress is going relatively quick. Brick wall in the living room. We'll be placing our TV on this side of the wall. Wood tiles for all 3 rooms almost completed. L-shaped feature wall done up by black honeycomb tiles with white grout in the MBR toilet. White subway tiles and black grout in the kitchen. The other plain walls will be cement screed. Long side of the kitchen will only feature low cabinets while the short side of the kitchen will house both lower and upper cabinets. More pictures next week since we can only drop by on weekends. Pleasant weekend everyone!