mrslee07

Hi guojiawen, We bought a Whirlpool air purifier from Courts a few weeks ago, the model is AP628W. We got that due to the CASE test report which reflected this model as the highest performing one... and the price looks ok for our budget too. Perhaps you can consider, just sharing . And in other news, we are also moving this Sunday! Movers and all coming over to our current place to shift all our boxes and other items over.... haha so coincidental!

Bar counter area. Hubby and I really wanted a bar counter for our first home so this area which usually people use it as a dining area was converted to the bar counter area. Our dining area now will be the 'study area' which will be directly behind our sofa. Hubby loves this NYC wallpaper, which we took a long time to search for a deliberate over... looks great when the track light shines at it. Yippee! Brick wall with black tinted mirror for dining area. Loving the dining lights! The black white white stripes wall is the bombshelter cover-up... Our walk-in-wardrobe in Bedroom 2, next to Master bedroom. We did not hack down any walls so to enter the WIW will require us to enter the room as it is. Notice there is a small area left behind the walk-in-wardrobe, that area will be converted to a little play area for the hubby's gaming time on his PS4. Another view of the walk-in-wardrobe. It's like a U-shaped WIW. Our dining set, coffee table, and sofa have since been delivered and placed in the house. And immediately the spacious feel of the house becomes history! With and without furniture really makes a lot of difference... This Saturday, the curtains & blinds will be installed... washer, dryer, fridge and wine chiller will be delivered... storage bed and mattress for MBR will be delivered. After this, our house will look more or less complete... and then it will be time for the actual moving-in!! Time really flies!

thanks... but not sure why my ID did general cleaning twice and also an external cleaning company came to clean our place, this white marks still remain all over the vinyl flooring... Zzzz

Hi guys, Latest update - we have completed our renovation and are now in the stage of cleaning up the place and getting furniture in! Hopefully we will be able to move in completely by end of Sept! We are facing a headache now though... we did vinyl flooring and now the flooring is having all these white patches of not sure what. It looks like dust from reno works... how did you guys manage to clean up your vinyl flooring properly after renovation is done? We employed a cleaning company to clean our house for us but looks like the vinyl flooring is still facing these white patches. Our ID claim that it's just dust from reno works and take a few more cleaning before it can be completely removed. Thoughts and help anyone??

I also wanted to share this pic - a fabricated trouser rack by our carpenter. Hubby searched high and low all over Singapore and could not find the proper measurements required... in the end our carpenter came up with a solution to fabricate it from scratch. The result is very pleasing to us, especially for the hubby because this is his item in the walk-in wardrobe and the MBR wardrobe. thumbs up!

Ok I managed to have some time and handpicked some pics to upload here ... finally able to share some random pics on our tblog here. this is the bombshelter feature wall this is our craftstone brickwall at the supposedly study area which we will now use for dining area. The cemented area is going to be placed with a black tinted mirror... something special instead of a full wall of bricks. this is our living area tv feature wall and tv console as well as a display portion and storage cabinet next to it. This is our grey and green kitchen.... with our Blanco granite sink, off-white quartz countertop as well as our Delizia chimney hood and Bosch hob installed (carpenter will box up the portion on top of the hood later) I simply just love our bright kitchen... the effect of the countertop and our chosen laminates just go so well! As least to us! haha we are so very pleased indeed! Our MBR toilet... with the Baron WC as well as shower screen and rainshower all up. The other side of the MBR toilet consists of our vanity cabinet which is not fully done up yet so no pics there. Our MBR wardrobe... simple and nice just the way I had wanted

Thanks Songz. I guess to each his own la... that's why no 2 homes are the same. Some things look great and is a must-have to one, but is completely unnecessary to others.

Hi trdseal, Oh and we mentioned we wanted 3 types of colours in one downlights - hence they immediately showed us to the made in taiwan downlights. Our downlights allow us to choose from warm white, day light and cool white. Some people find it cumbersome and useless... but we just love having the options! haha

UPDATES: Sorry for the long hiatus guys.... i guess i'm not keeping up with the tblog as frequently as i had wanted. We took many pictures but it's quite a chore to download them from phone to hosting site so i will probably share pics of the completed house in future. Really not much time to do these things here I'm afraid. Anyway, for people who are (still) keen to know about our progress.... We're at 80% completion of our reno. This means only minor carpentry touch-ups, another coat of paint for touching up, glass backsplash for kitchen and customised mirror for dining area and master bedroom dresser are pending. After these are done, we should be looking at the handover soon! How time flies... So far we've been really pleased with the carpentry works too... it's really nice to see a few of our ideas come nicely into fruition. There's been some minor works to be improved here and there but our carpenter and reno supervisor are usually very quick to oblige. This gives me some comfort, at least their standard of quality is aligned with mine so far!

Hi there, sorry for the late response. So far none of the downlights from PE has failed us.... we bought extra but looks like we won't be needing them for a while. Comparing the ones we bought from PE and those that people bought from balestier... it looks exactly the same. So we are happy with what we've got so far. Unfortunately I did not manage to take pics of the downlights when it's switched on.... sorry about that!

Hey guajiawen, nicely done up house! our layout is very similar... and i'm also doing the shoe cabinet divider the way you did. So many things that I can resonate when seeing your design works. I also chose Vincent as the curtain supplier and my living room curtain design is the one you chose for MBR! haha... all the best in the final touch up and wishing you happy handover soon!!

Thanks OceanEleven.... and hope your aircon problem also gets resolved soon. I guess for our case, I wouldn't classify it as a issue from GC... because we really don't know who's speaking the truth here (ID or GC) so I'm not going to be so quick to say GC is at fault here. In other news, GC came back yesterday to install the living area aircon unit after our ID got his tilers to make the adjustment of the false ceiling so that the aircon unit can fit into the space. GC also then offered to solve the problem of the drainage pipe problem which we were more than happy for them to do because it's probably best that we leave all the aircon issues to them to resolve. So wala!! Aircon units all tested and all working fine.... Boy, are we glad that the aircon nightmare is over! But, we realised another issue.... we intend to build a feature wall to cover bomb shelter.... but after the aircon unit in living room is installed, we realised that there is now no more extra space between the aircon unit in living room and the wall of bomb shelter. It is fitted snugly into that space above the walkway area. Our ID failed to take that into consideration and did not inform GC or highlight to us about the need to buffer space there to build the feature wall. So... we'll see how our ID get out of this one and resolve this when we meet on Saturday to discuss installation of lights and bathroom accessories. Really not very pleased with the way our ID is handling our reno at this stage... and progress is still so slow! Arggghhhh.

All has been well for our reno until today..... **** hits the fan. Gain City came back for the 2nd trip to install up the aircon units after the previous trip where they did up the aircon trunking. Bad news all around! We did tiles overlay in our MBR toilet, and they said that our tilers concealed all the openings to the aircon drainage piping when they did the overlay and so they had to do alot of work to get the drainage pipes done up again and likely will ruin some of the tiles. They were reluctant to do that, and said that no proper instructions was communicated to them by our ID when he briefly popped by during the aircon trunking trip. So miscomm #1. Also, for our living area aircon unit, the allowance given by the false ceiling was not wide enough for the aircon to be installed. Gave my ID the exact measurements of the aircon and they didn't even buffer 1-2 inch of allowance, hence not enough space. So gaincity could not finish the installation today of the living area aircon unit until the false ceiling space is rectified. Therefore we need to incur cost to get them to come back for a 3rd trip to install this aircon unit! Another case of one's word against another. ID claimed that Gain City didn't draw the right dimensions of allowance needed, and when asked during aircon trunking trip, Gain city just said to follow the exact length of the wall beam will. So miscomm #2 So got our ID to speak with the Gain city aircon guys and it led to an extremely heated argument.... ID was extremely pissed with Gain City because his stand is that Gain City needs to complete the aircon installation and they can't charge us extra for a 3rd trip since their job is to finish the installation. And ID also claimed that proper instructions were given to Gain City about the drainage piping requirements in MBR toilet but Gain City didn't do it (a case of his words versus theirs since we were not around to witness this convo).... it was just bad la. Our ID was so aggitated that he even used vulgarities on the aircon fella from Gain City... i thought that was really uncalled for by the way. Conclusion: ID said he will get his own aircon contacts to solve the aircon drainage piping problem and will get his workers tomorrow to cut abit off the false ceiling for the living area aircon unit to be installed after that. Gain City will come back again tomorrow to install the living area unit... for a cost. Simply an unpleasant encounter. Who's right who's wrong? What would you guys do? Sigh. Just simply irritated with this mess. Another problem - hubby and I took leave tomorrow as we are doing our overlaying of vinyl floor tiles for bedrooms... and guess what, when we asked the salesman (our contact) for the timing his men will reach our place tomorrow... he told us that he had missed out our appointment is tomorrow and there are no available workers who can work on our place tomorrow! Freakin pissed off la! So much planning for nothing! And now I have to plan for another day and rework my work schedule to accomodate this. I honestly hope this is the end of the nonsense from renovation!!

Hi there, PM sent.

Hello everyone! Sorry for the hiatus on reno update.... been really busy busy... So as of 11th June, we have commenced our renovation works officially! Aircon trunking is done, kitchen bases, service yard base for washer, shower kerb for both toilets all done! On tiling, our Master bedroom toilet tiles are all nicely doned up as well as our craft stone brick wall! Well, almost... just missing a few more tiles and we should be complete with the tiling works by today/tomorrow. Yippeee yayy! So far it's been going well, and we are happy with how our tiles turned out as well as the workmanship of the tilers. This week, electrical wiring works and false ceiling will be completed as well according to our ID. We also finalised on our carpentry layout and dimensions, as well as laminates. So i suppose the next 2 weeks will be carpentry fabricating time as well. Wanted to share pics but somehow i'm having some problems transferring the pics from hp to pc.... so give me some time yea.

Hi there, I bought a Mayor oven that has rotisserie function. I haven't use it yet (because I haven't shifted into my new place) but you can find out more about it at the Mayor shop in great world city for example. And it's cheaper than Bosch... lol

Hi all, we have a brand new Samsung TV to sell away if anyone's keen... reason being, my mum blessed us with another tv for house warming gift.... so now we have 2 on our hands! Brand New in Box, Samsung SMART 3D LED TV, 55F7100. This is a medium-high end model of SMART TVs by Samsung. Bought it at $2999, selling now at $2.3k (negotiable further for serious buyers). If you see this model in Best Denki/Harvey Norman/Courts, it's selling way above this special price from us. Drop me a PM if you are keen please, thanks... first come first served.

Yeah!! Same same taste!

Hihi, the stainless steel storage cabinet with open ledge in your common toilet... where and how much did you get it for? thanks!

Lol... I meant my hubby will comment on TB questions separately... Since I'm noob to that side of things. Interesting. Seems like different people do have different preferences and tastes... Never considered round downlights because simply do not like the look of it. So I guess to each his own

Digressing.... for more info on TB purchases, hubby aka mrlee08 will update separately. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- So updates on our home again. We've rectified fully the 2nd defect list which we submitted and everything has been checked and signed off. The supervisor in charge of our black was a really nice foreign worker and helped us arrange many rectification on the side in the unofficial way instead of going through the BSC office. That definitely helped to speed up the process for us! With that out of the way, it means that reno will be starting soon! So hubby and I have decided that reno day 1 will be 11th June for us - as that's the day that aircon trunking has been arranged as well. So exciting! ID and his site supervisor have also been informed... looks like we're set to start things rolling very soon. Over the weekend, hubby and I went over to Heritage @ Geylang to buy some outstanding items which we've been procrastinating to buy. So we went back to buy our Mayer oven, Delizia Tabla Cap hood and Joven 25L storage heater. All at the most competitive pricing which I've been offered so far. In fact, Heritage is having massive GSS sale right now! Most items at 40% off... it's really a good place to visit to buy your kitchen/bathroom items now! It will last all the way till end-June, so hurry! One thing though, the Delizia hood I had my eye on had unfortunately increased price by over $100!! Luckily we managed to get them to maintain the price which was offered to us previously (3 months ago) and they managed to do so. The thing I like about Heritage is that they will write down the prices offered to you and keep in record so that it is sort of in 'black and white'... this shows their sincerity in doing business with their customers. And it really sits well with us! We will be going back to buy some more items soon like toilet accessories and ceiling fan.

More updates!! So we submitted our HDB defects list previously and the first round of defects has been rectified and signed off. However, hubby and I noticed some other defects and had to submit a second one. HDB also anyhowly rectified some of the earlier things... some can close one eye, but there's just some that cannot be accepted! HDB contractors has now successfully destroyed my electrical-media-box cabinet that came with the house. There were some scratches and dents which we told them to rectify the first time, and the contractor basically just did a lousy patch work and painted over a certain part of the white laminate. And now I can so visibly see 2 shades of white on my white cabinet door. Annoyed to the max! Gonna make sure they rectify that properly! In other news, hubby and I have been busy busy shopping around for more items for the house... and lo and behold we got 'poisoned' into buying a Boston Acoustics soundbar with subwoofer set when we visited Tampines Courts Megastore. But it was too good a deal to miss out on. The promo price was $299 for that weekend... but we paid less than the advertised price for it because the salesperson know us well from previously. Thank our lucky stars! Our intention to look see look see for a soundbar for the MBR turned out to be a purchase eventually. Haha. But we're super pleased with the purchase, considering Boston Acoustics is a much better audio brand compared to the off-the-shelf electrical brands out there. Yippee yayy!! So our new place will all be powered by Boston Acoustics speakers (for living room) and soundbar (MBR) and subwoofers... lol. We have also been sourcing around for curtains and grilles. Tay Boon Huat renovate contractors are different from TBT works. Just in case people get confused out there ok! We got an extremely competitive and good pricing for horizontal aluminium Grilles from Tay Boon Huat renovate contractors and will likely go with them unless the other part we are seeing this Saturday can give a better price... i doubt it though. TBT Works gave a slightly higher quote than Tay Boon Huat renovate contractors so won't go with them. For curtains, we've decided to do Black out day/night curtains for Living room and black out roman blinds for MBR. As for the other 2 common rooms, we will just do simple roller blinds. We approached Vincent (of Garvin Marting Services) who gave us a pretty good pricing so we also signed up with him. We're quite 'chop chop' that way... heehee. Will be meeting our ID again tomorrow to discuss again on some works etc... another long discussion tomorrow. Can't wait to fully rectify all defects on our place and get the reno going!

Hi, What colour code is this grey colour? it looks very nice... is it Nippon or Dulux? Also, how is the 3-blade Fanco fan serving you? Enough wind ? Thanks!

Some updates again. Someone asked for our floor plan, so here it is. Hubby and I headed to JB yesterday for a day trip to check out some of the recommended lighting shops mentioned by other kind forummers. So we went to Tampo Lighting Centre first to check out downlights. Indeed they have very cheap downlights at RM45-48 (4inch, 12W, 3colour LED square downlights). Their T5 lights which we needed to get for cove lighting also seemed quite cheap at RM15-18 depending on the length. Unfortunately, the initial model of downlights which we wanted to get at Tampoi was out of stock and we were told to come back again over the weekend. So we decided to just get the T5 lights from them first. We then went next door to check out Star World Lighting... they were selling some made-in-malaysia downlights for RM42 which we initially were keen to get. However, upon closer inspection I realised that the quality was really lousy! The downlights had painted exteriors (white colour) and the paint job was horrible. So it was a no-go. We felt bad because we decided not to proceed with the purchase after inspecting some 10 downlights one by one... so decided to buy some squarish ceiling lights for service yard/toilets/bomb shelter from them. Quite cheap at RM58-68 per light so we decided to buy it. We then checked out Yako Lighting Centre but their downlights were so expensive! RM68... and made in china type. So we left and went to check out Best Light Electrical. However, on the way there we got lost and just couldn't seem to locate the shop lot on GPS... in the end we stumbled upon another small light shop Project Electricial at 65 & 67 Jalan Rosmerah 2/2 Taman Johor Jaya, 81100 Johor Bahru This place was such a wonderful discovery for us! The lady boss Ms Leena Chen is a really warm and friendly lady, with absolutely no hard selling. Her downlights (same as the ones sold at Tampoi) were offered the cheapest at RM38 per downlight. Her T5 lights were also selling slightly cheaper... but too bad hubby and I already bought from Tampoi. They have a nice variety of ceiling and pendant lights too and more designs to come... i couldn't make up my mind about which pendant light i liked (for dining area) so didn't commit to a purchase. Ms Leena told me not to rush into it if I have yet to spot 'THE ONE' and will whatsapp me new designs when they arrive. This is the downlight which we bought. Really happy with it - and at such a price, it's too good a deal to pass up on. Initially hubby and I were thinking if the price difference isn't a lot in JB and Singapore, we will just buy in Singapore... but this is easily more than 50% in cost savings... so we decided to just do it! It's made in taiwan... which is similar to many downlights sold in Singapore too. So hubby and I decided to take the leap of faith and buy it. Ms Leena also gave us 1year warranty on all the downlights. We strongly recommend this small shop to people who are considering heading to JB for lights-shopping! If you are keen to buy better brands (but only 1 light colour, not 3 colour option) like Samsung and LG, this shop sells them too. So do check them out in JB for your lighting needs!

Yes it is!! Thanks for your recommendation man, all thanks to you really!