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mad love for your toilets - bold move to paint! typically we opt to tile it but actually if water is contained to shower area (which is what most toilets today have anyway), paint should last I reckon! mad love for your kitchen too! the flooring is HERF right? is it Amsterdam eggshell? my hubby sooooooo scared to use grey/white!

Doors are up but not varnished yet: study room door also up (this cost me $2000 plus!) nyatoh frame for glass also up. and store room door also fabricated. I didn't see the other 4 smaller panels which make up the shoe cabinet doors. Must be somewhere in the stack. must say my hubby really stuck true to the scandi team of white white white!

MBR vanity shelf also up. This is Admira in Alabaster. and the super tiny area for sink. in this regard, i must say my BTO house toilet in Punggol is not bigger, but better spaced. we also managed to squeeze in 2 open shelves next to the WC. and the above pics in context:

Carpentry updates: I finally see my Blum drawers as after my purchase last week, they were all in boxes. This is Tandembox Antaro in Silky White. Bottom cabinets carcass for kitchen also up. Tall larder units for my pantry stuff. Gosh, I really do have a lot of storage space! Yes, we are hiding the DB box in the cabinet and so if there's a blackout at night, may the Lord help us find our way in the dark, up the ladder/chair and turn it back on. Haha! Door for the tall unit in chosen laminate. This is Admira Pearl Ash iirc. and just a general picture of the mess from my kitchen looking out to living room:

hi fridahaklo, mine is 4-inch and yes it's LED. I bought from Hwa Ann which is fairly close to the Causeway.

i must say i like your kitchen pic better!

Hi Harriette, mine was not the first, not the second and not the fourth and sales person was a lady.

hi hojichalatte, we have similar layout for living to bedroom area I think, is this Punggol? Funny that I always see many people hacking that wall because we actually sealed up MBR entrance and combine with adjoining room to make a WIW. Although I must say this is partially why we are moving now because WIW is technically not a liveable space for me! is the 2nd pic your kitchen entrance? why HDB make small entrances one? sigh enjoy your reno process and post more pics!

hi hojichalatte, this was honestly my last option! i wanted natural hickory which is more daring as it's a dark redwood, and next choice was markham medium but hubby said scared at night we wake up the floor very dark we very scared. cos my current house is beige tiles and at night still quite bright. i must say the lighter wood lightens the color of the room. hi inthechouse, as per quotation yes tempered glass. my gate is $450 as per the quotation, but he hasn't advised if this would be more expensive (or cheaper??). yes, my toilet entrance must step up to enter. there's the slight depression where the cement strip in question is currently so water will not splash outside then the toilet floor. hope the description is clear?

hi elin1029, maybe just aluminium grills. whatever causes least damage to the walls around it. although my kids are older now (4 and 2 yrs old) and my cats are (hopefully) wiser, still cannot take chances.

Evorich HERF in Markham Oak Light is also up. I used the same for the whole house:

MBR toilet glass door also up. it's very flimsy because on the right side, there's no bracket to hold on to the glass so when one closes the door with so much as a soft bang, the glass panel shakes.

common toilet door also up. this btw is the one i wanted to have a black frame but hubby and contractor ganged up against me and kept chorusing: NOT NICE just to check with fellow bifold door users, is the flooring supposed to look like that? initially the tiler left that cement strip for what i thought would be the bottom frame of the door, but seems now to be an oversight as there isn't a bottom frame.

ok some more updates from the house: new gate is up. designed this with cats in mind. was thinking to get the samsung digital lock so when i go for runs, i no need to bring keys. and while my contractor is still around, can ask him to help me fix! i haven't shown a pic of the switches. ta-dah! legrand in white. dimmer is for my philips downlights in the living area. i'm probably just picking on things but the switches don't really have a consistent look, i feel that some switches are not aligned...sigh. it's just me.

hubby was considering invisible grills for our new house but I reminded him again of our prev experience. (thought of sharing it here after posting on another renotalker's blog) I used invisible grilles in my current house (not new house), installed them about 2 years ago and removed them a year later. I used the trademark owners, not the other one. Wasn't a good experience. I have cats so I asked the sales person who came to do a site visit for her suggestions. She said because my windows were long, it was better to use vertical grills rather than horizontal ones as it will slack near the centre. Mine is the standard HDB Punggol window, 4 leaves/panels. Then she suggested a gap of 2-inch so the cat head cannot come out. I thought she'd know best so proceeded with her suggestion. Only opted to do for windows in my living room and children's bedroom. On day of installation, the workers are Bangladeshis and their supervisor didn't come until much later when I made a complain. The process is this: for vertical grills they will drill a hole to insert a screw 2 inches apart just below your window frame so for me we have like 50-plus drill holes. Then they weave the wire grill material then put on a white frame to cover the screws. First problem: the grill lines were not straight. They were supposed to use laser pointer to create straight lines but the workers took short cut maybe? Anyway I called the supervisor to site and he agreed the lines were not straight, particularly the last 5 lines near the walls so they took it out, drilled more holes and patched the prev ones then weave the whole thing again. This time it was almost 80% straight, supervisor said last 2 lines cannot be straightened. By then we'd already moved in so each visit was a great inconvenience to me. The end product really made my house look like jail because the grills were close to one another and I have a fairly long hall compared to most other houses, even then it's very obvious. But I needed it because got cats and kids. A few months later I called the sales person to give feedback that the gaps were very tight so it was quite difficult for me to squeeze my hands through to close the windows when it rains, and after much bugging then she finally told me she recommended 2 inch instead of 3 inch because there was no stock previously. I was surprised, I thought the gaps was drilled, what does it have to do with stock? Maybe it was the frame, I don't know and didn't ask. For a few months, I lived either with completely closed windows for few weeks at a go, or completely open windows even when it rained. After a year, I cannot tahan already and I asked if we can amend and re-weave the grills to 4 inch gaps since we are using existing hardware, so just skip a screw only. Again, the sales person said no cannot be done. Not very helpful in providing options. By this time, I was getting very frustrated and asked that they remove the whole thing and patch up the holes in the wall. They charged me $200 for that. Finally did it and now I'm $1k plus poorer and back to square one.

Hi Harriette, Hope it's okay I share my experience with invisible grilles. I used invisible grilles in my current house (not new house), installed them about 2 years ago and removed them a year later. I used the trademark owners, not the other one. Wasn't a good experience. I have cats so I asked the sales person who came to do a site visit for her suggestions. She said because my windows were long, it was better to use vertical grills rather than horizontal ones as it will slack near the centre. Mine is the standard HDB Punggol window, 4 leaves/panels. Then she suggested a gap of 2-inch so the cat head cannot come out. I thought she'd know best so proceeded with her suggestion. Only opted to do for windows in my living room and children's bedroom. On day of installation, the workers are Bangladeshis and their supervisor didn't come until much later when I made a complain. The process is this: for vertical grills they will drill a hole to insert a screw 2 inches apart just below your window frame so for me we have like 50-plus drill holes. Then they weave the wire grill material then put on a white frame to cover the screws. First problem: the grill lines were not straight. They were supposed to use laser pointer to create straight lines but the workers took short cut maybe? Anyway I called the supervisor to site and he agreed the lines were not straight, particularly the last 5 lines near the walls so they took it out, drilled more holes and patched the prev ones then weave the whole thing again. This time it was almost 80% straight, supervisor said last 2 lines cannot be straightened. By then we'd already moved in so each visit was a great inconvenience to me. The end product really made my house look like jail because the grills were close to one another and I have a fairly long hall compared to most other houses, even then it's very obvious. But I needed it because got cats and kids. A few months later I called the sales person to give feedback that the gaps were very tight so it was quite difficult for me to squeeze my hands through to close the windows when it rains, and after much bugging then she finally told me she recommended 2 inch instead of 3 inch because there was no stock previously. I was surprised, I thought the gaps was drilled, what does it have to do with stock? Maybe it was the frame, I don't know and didn't ask. For a few months, I lived either with completely closed windows for few weeks at a go, or completely open windows even when it rained. After a year, I cannot tahan already and I asked if we can amend and re-weave the grills to 4 inch gaps since we are using existing hardware, so just skip a screw only. Again, the sales person said no cannot be done. Not very helpful in providing options. By this time, I was getting very frustrated and asked that they remove the whole thing and patch up the holes in the wall. They charged me $200 for that. Finally did it and now I'm $1k plus poorer and back to square one.

thanks, actually these pics were from Comfort! I'm better off just getting it from there direct.

Hi, I have a bundle of about 10-15 copies of home and decor magazine e.g. Square Rooms, Lookbook etc from October onwards selling for $2 per copy or $20 for all. Collect from Punggol by this Friday. May have some missing pages. Please PM if keen.

hi intheechouse, And since they can't measure until the cabinets are up -- this seems to be true because my contractor also told me the same thing. as such i will move in with all my items this saturday and my granite top will come in later. this is no fault of anyone because my contractor did tell me the handover is not possible by this week. would it be less dramatic if you coordinated everything from here on with Ah Gui? I've learnt a few times in life that to maintain my sanity, best to get my hands dirty for a short while, and never have to deal with some folks ever again. My vote for the iQuartz goes to Sedimen Tario - looks unique compared to the other 2. if it doesn't work out for the cement screed wall, please PM me. my father used to be a painter on a ship and he's my go-to man for painting advice. meanwhile, is there any way you can place an item to cover up the patch? It looks fairly low so I can't suggest a clock or anything.

bump!

Selling my 5 year old Cellini L shaped sofa in designer fabric. This modular sofa still selling at their showrooms. Size is 2m x 2.8m. Collect from Punggol. Sms me 9-7-4-3-4-3-6-8 Must collect by Friday 21 Feb. Price negotiable.

throwing it out here first... for those of you who use Blum drawers: 1) did your contractors provide them or you had to buy them yourself? 2) if included, how much were you quoted per foot run? i was quoted $110 per foot run for 55 feet and i bought all my Blum drawers myself at additional cost 3) do you think it's within reason for me to ask my contractor to reduce my quotation since i didn't use his internal drawers?

hi elin1029, for most still need to fabricate the front panel. i thought $110 per foot run was a steal to get Blum so I kinda expected it. don't know if i'm correct. no he didn't mention blum in the contract. he did say he could provide soft closing but hubby insists on blum. now i'm worried....

hi neighbor, yes in the midst of it now. ripped everything apart and rebuilding it. almost cried from the cost of it all!

also bar stool below. i tried to search bar stool wood and all possible permutations but nothing came close!