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Hi Redder, How's your renovation progressing? Got anymore pics to share?

Wow, thanks for pointing this out. Will try to remember to check this as well.

Hi Akademon, Sorry that I have not sent you the address for the lighting shop. The shop name is Best Lighting and is located along Public Bank at Jalan Rosmerah. I keyed in Public Bank and selected the one located in Jalan Rosmerah to locate the shop Went back to the shop over the weekend to purchase the remaining lights and gotten my fans from them too. Have done a few quick survey. The prices in this shop is still the lowest but the downside is you will need to pay in cash and needs LOTS of patience in buying from this shop as it is usually packed with customers and the lady boss will need to be a spiderwoman, to have many hands and to be everywhere at the same time. Best to ask her the prices and to write down if you are there scouting for the first time. Noted that the prices that she quoted me the first time was different from last weekend when I returned to purchase the remaining lights from her. Luckily she wrote down in my first bill and I was able to show her some "proof" of price that she quoted. All the best to you in your shopping!

Hi Hotmailiw, You've got mail!

Hi Gryffindor, My countertop is not installed yet. Will take more pics when it is ready ya? For now, they are still doing tiling works and my plaster ceiling

Hi Akademon, The shop is in Jalan RosMerah in jb. Will need to dig out the receipt tonight and will try to pm you as soon as possible

Hi Solidsurface, You've got mail!!

Tiling in progress I could not recognise my own master bathroom anymore! Bye bye donald duck! Hello new tiles!! Tilings in kitchen

December 24th 2013 First day of renovation! As i was not around in Singapore, my contractor took pics and sent to me for updates Melt melt melt away! YAY! Bye bye old tiles.. Doors to balcony were removed to make way for a platform . My kitchen: All melted away.. The 2 common bedrooms which makes my heart pain with the additional hacking costs. Anyway, bye bye old cabinets and grills!! Grills in master bedroom gone

It was truly a packed weekend for us during 20th - 21st December Spent an entire day in Gain City and got our fridge, washer and aircon from them. I salute the salesman there in Gain City because he managed to convinced the man what I failed to do: to purchase a front load washer instead of a top load washer Me: Buy a front load washer is better dear. Man: Why? I detest bending down to do the laundry Me: But top load you also have to bend down wad when you take out the freshly laundered clothes Man: It's ok. Its for a while only Me: Front load is gentler on your clothes and it has hot water function too.. bla. bla bla Man: No no no. I want to get top load. Thats Final! Fine. Let him get his top load coz I already used all my saliva to tell him bout the pros of getting a front load washer Guess what? When we reached Gain CIty, when we told the salesman we are getting a top load washer, the salesman started asking why not get a front load and started the speech on the pros of using a front load (same as what I had said) and the man said OK what?????? the wife say front load he not ok but when the salesman say front load he is OK???? Men! Seriously do not understand them. However, still happy I am finally getting a front load! After Gain City and a meal in Carl's Junior, we headed off to a furniture shop in Marina Square where the man had seen a sofa set that he fell in love with during a fair and this is what we got! This sofa also same story. I suggested buying a fabric sofa but the man was against it, saying fabric sofa is hotter, harder to maintain, not stain proof (and the list goes on and on). So ok, we started looking around at leather sofa and did not really saw anything that caught our fancy Then, during one fine weekend, we visited a fair and the man fell in love with this set at first sight. Sigh, I guess the saying that women are fickle-minded will have to be changed from now on. At least my man is fickle minded. Well, all the better for me as I am getting what I wan

More pics! Master bedroom Common bedroom 1 I nearly fainted when I saw the built in table and cabinets in not one but BOTH common rooms! Wondered where my eyes were when I viewed the place with the man. He was astonished as well as we could not remember the cabinets! Oh well, more costs to be incurred for them to be removed Common bedroom 2 Master bathroom toilet (Again, apologies for the upside down pic)

Gosh it has been ages ever since I updated on my progress. have finally gotten my keys on 19th December. So excited! Well, less talk and more pics. The house condition after the sellers moved out View from the main door into the living and dining area View from the balcony View from the living: View of the kitchen (Apologies for the upside down pic) not sure why it is like this

Hi Solid surface, I believe so. However, I have broken up my purchases to be below $400 per person into spore so there has not been any problems for me

Hi Redder, Wow you started your reno already. All the best to you! I will only start mine on the 23rd! Can't wait!!

Continuing from the above post 2 common lights. Sam design as the kitchen lighting except that its round rather than squarish Toilet lights. Simple LED squarish lights

Has been a truly busy weekend. Went over to JB to purchase my house lights and both the man and I had very sore necks looking at the lights. spent 4 hours in the shop and was the last customer to leave the shop before they closed for the day. However, was very satisfied because it has been a fruitful journey for us. Less talk and more pictures! Selected downlights for the Living and Master. LED downlight with glass edge Kitchen lights. Love the glass and sturdy feel of it. Again LED light was chosen for the energy efficiency and longer useful life (I hope)

Thanks Klimoo! Appreciate it

Hi inthechouse, From what my contractor told me, they will box up the area and put tiles over it to protect it from all the moisture/dampness in shower area. However, he did point out one disadvantage of boxing up pipes. That is in the event HDB were to upgrade the pipes or to do any repair, the box will have to be removed, which I seriously cannot imagine how messy it will be. Which is why we have not finalise on what we are going to do for our common bathroom.

Hi IntheChouse, Perhaps you can box up the pipes? Will that be better? Then you probably will not have to face to unsightly pipes during shower. I am facing the same problem with my common bathroom but yet to decide on the final solution as we have not gotten our keys yet. However, you will need to take note that your rain shower cannot be too long or else you may bang your head against the shower disk.

Hi Klimoo, Your place is coming together nicely Love your platform! Did you use laminates on it? Mind if i ask what laminates did you use? Thanks in advance

Hi Woodywood, Yep you are right. For the kitchen appliances that I bought it is is truly a pity the warranty is not valid in Singapore as I received extended warranty for them Crossing my fingers and hoping all the appliances will not give me any trouble Now sincerely hope my BKK trip gets cancelled so that I can go in JB this weekend to check out the fair

Hi Asking4Help, thanks for dropping by my blog. Hmm, that I am not sure. I think you will need to check with the individual supplier. However, has read from other threads on the blog here that some furniture shops do include delivery (of course la, if not ask me ship in myself i will go crazy liao. Unless i own a trailer, it is not possible for me to deliver it in ) Do take note that some of them will charge a delivery fee and you will need to pay 7% GST for the delivery. Also, some of the bloggers here have shared their woes that some of the furniture shop were very irresponsible with their furnitures hence please be careful and do not make full payment when ordering. BUT!! as mentioned in my earlier post, the shop where I purchased my kitchen appliances from, does not provide delivery. So, i have garnered quite some muscles bringing those things in when the man needs to work on weekends Hope the above helps

Hi Redder, Any inputs to share after calling citygas? If possible I will also like to install that as I find the water tank too bulky for my liking. However, am concerned on the consistency of heated water during showering Thanks!

This is for the readers who are planning to go JB this weekend to shop for their house stuff. JB is having a HomeFair"13: Year end sales, 6-8 Dec @ Persada Johor. Find Mattress, Furniture & Electricals all under one roof! I literally typed out the message the man sent me Good luck hunting!

Met up with a granite supplier last night over dinner, courtesy of both drunkenchivas and vanessa. The price that he quotes was really attractive!! Makes me wana use granite instead of kompactop for which my heart was set on. However, other than black granite, other colors will not make the cut to the man. He will probably me if i were to choose the other colors, which the granite supplier also agreed they are pretty old school and can be found in our parents' kitchen. But black will not fit into my theme of woody-white theme for the entire house... so.... have to say a sad bye to granite So, decided to go back to kompactop. Just have to be more careful with it and give it more TLC. Ok, one thing off the list! Hope to be able to go jb to buy lights this weekend if possible. Actually, already booked a trip to bkk with my colleagues but with the current political rally, it looks like my trip may be in danger of being cancelled! I am partially hoping for the trip to be cancelled, as i am seriously running out of time to buy my lights, rainshower system and water tank! Stress stress!!