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  1. Posted

    The pictures sure add a lot color to the living room.

    The dining seem a bit too close to your study area it seem

    As for the bed, i think you choose the right option and thanks for sharing (At least the bed frame is not unstable or etc if you look on the bright side)

    1 more thing i like to check is that how big the difference are the Teka appliances cost compare to singapore ?

    I am actually thinking of getting Teka or Alpha brand stuff for the house.

    Hi Songz,

    Thanks for the kind words on the paintings. Was having 2 minds whether to put them up then decided to heck it and go ahead and do it. Glad you think it is nice :wub:

    The dining table and sofa were pushed closer to the study on purpose as Gain City was delivering both my fridge and washer then :P

    Will pm you on the price of Teka appliances from JB. I did not check Singapore price by the way so no idea how much the differences are :sport-smiley-004:

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    Oh yes, before i retire for the night, thought I should share this on the forum too.

    I had my first share of unpleasantness in my renovation journey, though I should not say this as it is still CNY???

    But I think must caution all fellow home owners who are shopping for furniture for their homes. I got my bed frame from this furniture shop called Silver River. When I make the purchase, I requested them to change the legs of the frame for me as I disliked it and specifically reminded the salesperson to check that the legs are changed before delivering it to me.

    Surprise surprise, they got the legs wrong when they delivered it to me. So I asked the delivery guys how and their reply was," I don't know wor. The store ask us to deliver so we deliver. If you do not want, we will not fix your frame for you."

    I asked them what do they mean by that, as I still wanted the legs to be changed. They said they will just leave the bed frame on my master bedroom's floor like that!! Needless to say, my :furious: started looming but i kept my cool as their rudeness was starting to piss me off. My hubby was already :furious: and I got him out of the bedroom so as to talk calmly with the delivery guys

    I called the salesperson on the spot and he told me to get the frame fixed first and he promised to change the legs for me after CNY, as it was the last day of working before they close for CNY holidays

    Imagine my :jawdrop: when they asked me to sign on the delivery order chit and written on top of the delivery order chit was 2 words.. DISPLAY SET

    :furious::furious::furious:

    By then, I could not kept my poker face straight and immediately frown and asked them, what do they mean by display set?

    Again, they shrug their shoulders which just made my blood boil even more. I called up the salesperson again and he said they wrote wrongly,as they must have meant DISPLAY SET COLOR. Cannot be display set bla bla bla. Ok fine. I gave him the benefit of the doubt and asked him to double check, which he promised to do so and to give me a reply the next day as he claimed to be very busy that day

    When the delivery guys left, i was left with a naggin feeling (call it women's instinct if you must but sthg just did not feel right). I suggested to my man to go straight to the showroom to see if the frame is still there. If it is still there, I can accept his story of the store ppl writing it wrongly on the delivery chit but wat if the frame is no longer there?

    My hubby was agreeable as well and we just shoot straight down to the show room.

    Guess what??? The display frame was gone!!!!!!!:furious: I immediately requested for the salesperson to see me straightaway and :fire: him with questions while still trying to keep a lid on my temper. He paled when he saw us as he did not expect us to be at the showroom to check the frame and promised to give me an answer the next day as he sort it out with the warehouse ppl

    The next day, he called and gave us 2 options. 1) take the display frame and he gives us $150 in return for the display set and 2) they will deliver a "brand new" frame in late march/april

    After much consideration, I decided to go for option 1 as i have lost all my trust in this salesperson and furniture shop and am wary of the quality of the "brand new" frame that they promised to deliver

    A very valuable lesson to all new home owners out there. Please learn from my mistake. My first mistake is paying the frame in full before delivery. Never, ever pay your furniture in full before delivery. Have yet to collect the $150 from them yet so will update again if they fail to honour their promise.

    This furniture shop have some bad reviews but i still decided to go ahead with my purchase as i could not find the frame elsewhere.

    Sigh.. so there goes my first taste of hiccup in my renovation process. Hope that others will take a leaf from my book and if so, then it is worth to share.

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    My elusive contractor, coincidentally, also starts with K but he is not the famous K in this forum :P He is helping me to clean up my shoe cabinet but refused to turn his face towards me :rofl:

    I love the grainy laminates that he choose for me for both my shoe cabinet and my study table as they complement my floor.

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    Ok. that's it for tonight. Will take more pictures when the boxes are gone and glass backings are up! :)

  4. Posted

    Got these 4 pictures in Ho Chi Minh during a trip about a year back and they have been sitting in my storeroom since.

    Finally they are able to see some light and be enjoyed..by me.. hahahhaa..

    Honestly, I am not a very artsy person but I love the colors in these paintings. Furthermore, I think my place is too woody-white and hence, these 4 paintings added some zest and color to my place (hopefully.. :notti: )

    Got the sifus to hang drill the holes for me to put up the paintings. Again, did not expect them to put 101% of effort in this as this is something extra and they were about to finish their job for the day. Really am grateful to them for the effort put in.. They even used laser beam to get the bearings right.. :jawdrop:

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    The sifu who helped corrected my flooring is the one seen here checking his hp. Even insisted on redrilling the hooks in my paintings so that the hooks could not be seen when hung up :good:

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    Even using the steel block to ensure the paintings are straight.. :good:

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    This is the end product with my unwrapped sofa. What do you think??

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    White gloss finishing is nice but experience tells me that under light and certain angles, it will look dusty and any scratches will be magnified.

    Still contemplating shall we go with it. BTW is that a microwave on top of the oven? Mind sharing the brand, model and cost for the hob, hood, oven and microwave?

    Hi OceanEleven,

    All my kitchen appliances are from Teka but I got them from Teka Malaysia when they were having a home fair and they were all on 30% discount. So far no major issues with the exception of the hob, as I just written in reply to Songz mail. Will pm you the price in awhile

  6. Posted

    I saw this during the last week of my renovation and was honestly, had bad heartache when i saw it as I did not change the room floorings. However, there was a gap in the entrance of my bedroom door!!

    Was prepared to fill it with grout as I could not afford both the time and money to redo the flooring of my room. :dunno: and was prepared to live with the ugly grout line that might appear in my bedroom flooring

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    And then.... the sifu of my carpenters solved it for me!!!:dancingqueen: He merely used a blade to slide against the skirting (?) of the flooring and used a hammer, yes, a HAMMER and hammered it downwards and blew up the dusts that settled in the gap and voila!! Now you don't see it!!

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    Really kudos to the sifu!!!:thumbs up::thumbs up::thumbs up: I was there when he did it and I must say i am really amazed with his workmanship. He is abit of a perfectionist but hey, that's fine to me as it shows how much pride he took in his work and ensured every door and cabinet are fixed well. :good:

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  8. Posted · Edited by iceage

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    Yes, finally able to load pictures from photobucket after trials and errors. This is the shoe cabinet. Choose black laminates after reading vanessa's blog :notti: Have been warned by my contractor that using black laminates will have more maintenance in future but dang it.. at least it is my choice :jammin:

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    Hi iceage, I am really new to reno, saw ur Reno pics, look good!! I suppose u r happy with the work so far?do u mind sharing the contact of your ID or contractor? Do they help with the dope signing as well?? We just purchased a resale 5rm flat that needs total overall... Need someone experienced to do the Reno job... Would greatly appreciate any help from your and all in this forum! Thanks a lot!

    Hi Greenbowl,

    What is dope signing? You've got mail! My contractor so far no major complaints bout him. Super patient with me and even entertained me during Chinese New Year, which they are supposed to be on leave for 2 weeks. He has helped me alot on non-related stuff like getting a technician for me to fix my Teka hob which was not functioning, and has been advising us on the length of furnitures to be purchased, like whether a room can fit a King size bed or not or the maximum length of sofa that we can purchase. He has jokingly said that he is gonna charge us consultancy fees soon for all his advices but it all fell on deaf ears :bleah:

    Hmm, I think it will be good if you have an idea what theme you will like for your home and think through your lifestyle with your partner in designing your furnitures. For instance, I got my carpenter (who is also my contractor :P ) to build a coat's rack in my shoe rack for me. (Of course it is separate from my shoe compartments :D , in case you are wondering,"Eee...so smelly.. :P ) as my husband often wears a coat for his seminars and meetings and I dislike hanging his coat back together with my other clean clothes in the wardrobe.

    I am having some problem uploading photos in this forum so hopefully I can upload photos soon to share with you :)

    Oh, sometimes contractor or ID might enforce their ideas upon you but as adviced by inthechouse, you gotta be firm on what you want but it is also good to hear their opinions as they are supposed to be more experienced than us, having done up more houses than us. I have been adviced against getting black laminates for my shoe cabinets by my contractor as he has pointed out it will be very evident once scratched but I decided to go ahead with it anyway :sport-smiley-004:

    All the best to you in your renovation journey. This is fun and unfortunately, also a headache part for us all.. Most importantly, hope everything goes smoothly for you! :D

  10. Posted

    Thanks for the reply.

    So hows CNY in the new house ??

    My key collection will be on 27th March and I still have not a single idea of things :help:

    Wahh Songz,

    You are super prompt in your reply. Did not expect anyone to reply me as it is Chinese New Year so everyone should be taking a break from their renovation works

    New house ah...Cleaning, unpacking, cleaning, arranging, cleaning, organizing and more cleaning. But at least now there is no more powdery feel when I walked on my floor :notti:

    Wow, it is drawing near. Must be excited yeah?? have you decided on your theme yet? For me, I find the most difficult part in my renovation journey is choosing laminates, colors and material. But so far, have been very happy with my decisions :P

    So have you purchased any hardwares? oh yes, I must say this in this forum so that others can learn from my mistake. I purchased my entire kitchen appliances from Teka Malaysia and so far no issue with the exception of my hob. Malaysia does not provide town gas and hence all households in Malaysia are using cylinder gas.

    So, I happily asked citygas to come fix the gas for me yesterday as i could not stand living another day on my steamboat portable cooker hob anymore :bleah: so badgered my contractor to get the citygas ppl to come fix it

    To my horror, i could not turned on my hob after my pipes are connected because it seems the valves used are different!! :jawdrop:

    Town gas valves have to be bigger so what to do..I called Teka Singapore as Teka Malaysia does not provide international services 8|

    The reply I got from the phonecall was,"Thank you for calling Teka Singapore. We are closed for the Chinese New Year holidays and we will reopen on the 11th February 2014" :jawdrop::jawdrop:

    i seriously felt like :wacko: then. Was looking forward to cooking my first real meal in my home and my hob could not be used. So I messaged my contractor whom, bless him, through his contacts, got the Teka technician to come fix it for me despite them being on holiday still :sport-smiley-004::sport-smiley-004:

    So, a very valuable lesson to everyone out there. If you wish to purchase your hob from Malaysia and use Citygas, please ensure your valve is compatible or else you will be facing the same problem as me. :P

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    Hi Songz,

    Thank you for your kind words!! :thumbs up:

    The sink is from Teka and it comes with a colander and a matching chopping board.

    Erm..on the size of the sink.. will need to check it out and let you know again :notti:

    Hi Songz,

    Sorry for the super late reply. Has been real busy with moving in and Chinese New Year so have not been logging in for the longest time. The sink dimensions are 800 x 500 (mm). It came with both a matching chopping board and colander and I am loving it!!!:good: Really practical for a heavy user like me. I will upload more photos next week

    Happy Chinese New YEar!! ;)

  14. Posted

    Very nice tone of color for the wardrobe. :good:

    My current parent house also have some wardrobe built last year, same with the key issue but not too big of a problem.

    By the way the kitchen sink is from Teka and how big is it ??

    Hi Songz,

    Thank you for your kind words!! :thumbs up:

    The sink is from Teka and it comes with a colander and a matching chopping board.

    Erm..on the size of the sink.. will need to check it out and let you know again :notti:

  15. Posted

    Curtains and roller blinds

    Both the man and I actually decided to hold back installing the curtains and blinds till a later date (after we have moved in) as we do not wish to burden ourselves financially but all of these change when we stepped into a curtain shop in jb

    Was initially only planning to find out what the rough costs would be to get a curtain shop to install for us as we found that many of our friends paid above S$2k for their blinds and curtains. Of course the measurements, designs and materials differ between them but the average amount that they paid was S$2k

    One fine weekend when we were shopping for our lights in JB, hubby saw this curtain shop and we made a U-turn to visit it

    I was initially against it as we are running out of time and thought we wil just be wasting our time if we do not have the plans to install it first

    First impression of the person serving us. She seemed quite the curt kind, giving short, to-the-point answers to our questions. However, she did give some good and practical suggestions, like the material that we choose.

    Again, not knowing what our windows measurements are because it was not our planning at all, we just gave an "agak-ration" measurements of what our windows would be.

    The price came out pretty ok for us (me think! :P ) and just decided to go ahead with it.

    I have to say this is the fastest decision made by both us simultaneously and we finished choosing the materials in half and hour's time.

    Arranged for a person to take measurement the following Tuesday and voila, 1 weeks later which was yesterday, they came and installed the roller blinds for us. The curtain for our living will have to come in after CNY, which we are fine with it given the short period that we have for the shop

    So, here they are!! Opted for a simple ivory blackout blinds for all rooms to be in line with our theme. Simple and cosy

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    Had to turn on the lights to take this pic as it was too dark when the blinds are down :sport-smiley-004:

    ok, thats about it for now. Time to work! 8|

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    Master bathroom sink

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    Now pending the doors, mirror and the top for my bathroom. Will give an update once my bathroom and kitchen tops are up!

    Master wardrobe

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    This is the biggest size that we can afford given the limited space. Envy OceanEleven's 11 square feet (?) wardrobe.. Oh well, will just banish the lesser worn clothes to the other rooms since it will just be the 2 of us..

    *Humming "Just the 2 of us" while I am typing this :bleah:

    Close up of my wardrobe's laminates. Love the textured feel

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    Love how the drawers are fully extendable.

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    But found a tiny problem.. The doors will not be able to close if the keys are stuck at the key hole. Must remove them. Oh well, small price to pay for the workmanship.

    Next up.. My roller blinds are up!!

  17. Posted · Edited by iceage

    My study table!

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    Love the curvy side. I am a very clumsy person so have asked specifically not to have any square edges in my home designs especially in the bedroom and living area.

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    Kudos to my contractor for finding a similar wood laminate to match my laminated flooring. Loving the design of the seemingly continuous flow from my platform to my study

    I brought an empty file to test the height of the cabinet because I have specifically told my contractor that my top shelves must be able to fit big files

    Tried and tested!!

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    It really fits nicely.. anything higher than this will not be able to go in :good:

    Next up...master bedroom!

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    Made a decision early in my renovation planning process that I would invest in blum drawers for my kitchen. I had bad experience in using shelves where experiences bad ache for trying to get my pan out from the inside of the lower cabinet, and my record in my entire life of breaking bowls came from this, I broke 6 BOWLS while opening my kitchen shelve door coz they were no stacked properly. So i told the man, I am investing in blum drawers. Proposal drawn and the paper was passed in the my family's parliament :bleah: So here they are!!

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    My kitchen sink

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    Loads of pictures to update!! :dancingqueen::dancingqueen:

    First up. Let's look at my beloved kitchen shall we??

    This is my laundry area. I asked for this to be built and my contractor was giving me the puzzled look when I first brought this up to him. I learnt this from my mom who told me a laundry area is a must in the event we wana scrub some clothes. the pic below is showing the washing machine base and the boxed up pipes

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    When my contractor told me he will be fixing all my cupboard doors with soft close, I did not expect him to mean EVERY door. Even this boxed up pipes door is fitted with soft close! :thumbs up:

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    My dish rack! Love the grainy laminates!!

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    This is where my hood will be. I was quite surprised by this as I did not expect my contractor to literally box my hood up. But he told me he couldnt stand not boxing it up coz he finds it less desirable on the eyes :dunno:

    Anyway, was pleasantly surprised to see him properly laminating the piece

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    My favourite unit in the kitchen!! My larder!!

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    My kitchen (island??) or whatever you term it. To me, its the closest thing i can get to an island..given the space that I have

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    *waves back*

    I pop in once in a while

    loads of photos taken but no time to update yet... auditing period right now :help:

    hahahah you're so cute!

    I know exactly what you mean! I was humming happily and :dancingqueen::dancingqueen: as we were cleaning our new house for the first time.

    Last weekend was our 1,536,082,2490th time cleaning our house. The happy humming has been replaced by silent cursing and the :dancingqueen: has been replaced by :curse:

    :rofl:

    LoL ~

    I think everyone is quite the same as what Zihui just describe ~

    The initial phase and after phase ...

    Haha Zihui and Songz,

    I am probably so lost in the initial phase that I could not appreciate what comes later.. :P But i do not think i will dislike cleaning as I think of it as a workout session for me :P

  22. Posted

    Lights continued & other purchases

    A close up of our kitchen wall lights - the lamps came bigger than originally expected, but hey it still looks good! The wife says that it's a bit too high though. What do you guys think? Anyway, we're gonna keep the plastic cover on the lights until all the works are completed. Still pretty dusty and dirty in the house after all the carpentry and electrical works.

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    A side shot of our bedside table lamp. Out of all the lights, I would say that the quality of these lights are the lousiest of the lot - think it has to do with the number of joints it has. Also, the metal plate mounted onto the wall is a bit thin and flimsy. Not sure if it can withstand the weight of the lamp in a couple of years. I suspect we'll have to change it further down the road.

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    The fancy Edison bulbs for our kitchen dining lights just came too! Very excited to see the beautiful filament patterns.

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    LED Track spotlights - we will be using around 6 x 5w lights to light up our WIW. Good thing with tracklights is that you can focus on the spots you want to. For these particular lights from taobao, they came in a size much bigger than expected. Not as nice as the ones made in Germany that they sell at Chan Huat etc. Oh well, for the price you pay, can't really complain. At most just change when it's spoilt. :bleah:

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    Our fan finally got fixed up and I must say it looks fantastic. It has a matte finish and although we haven't tested the wind speed, the blades look like they can generate some serious air. :notti: Very happy with this purchase.

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    Sometime last week I was researching on robot vacuum cleaners and came across this thread on hardwarezone:

    http://forums.hardwarezone.com.sg/home-decor-furnishings-188/lg-roboking-3692302.html

    Having been impressed so much by the reviews, I immediately msged E and told her that we need to get it haha. It is available in Singapore via autovacstore for $908 or from QOO10 for $699. Just so happened that the QOO10 store was having a promo price at $599 so I immediately bought it. Free delivery summore! Will do a review of it once we start using it.

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    ohhh bad bad vicx1234. now you got me hooked!!! can share your Q0010 link where you bought this? arrived d? funny how come its all the guys who are so bent on getting the irobot. my man has been pestering me to get one too...

    baddddd badddd vicx1234... you will be the reason why i am getting one too..hahahahaha

  24. Posted

    Good on you! :good: Maybe you may wanna mark out on a copy of your floor plan too? In case you yourself forget where the 25 points are. Heh. After a week, we almost forgot too. Coz there are/were just so many things to remember. This will come in handy when calculating your final bill. The masking tapes will come off at some stage.

    Ah yes, thank you again for the tip. But there is a backup for me, coz as the man was writing on the masking tape, me being his PA was dutifully taking down notes on my hp which i whatsapp back to the man. That way both of us have the 25 points !!:rofl:

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