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Camping in to see the 2 walls! *Quickly post*
Must be 2-thumbs-up!
yes CountryGlow! we have painted bedroom 2 and 3, and believe me when i say its a masterpiece compared to the tv console wall and the mbr wall =)
tks benetay =) it was a fun thing.
ze husband
p.s. btw wife's getting all excited about posting about the bedroom walls when she's off work today =))
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Are you gonna paint bedroom 2 & 3 too?
I love the art piece esp the MBR wall!
Can you come paint my room too?
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#omg
Your walls are AMAZING!
U both can outsource your talent to DIY-paint for others alrdy!I REALLY LOVE THE END RESULT!
Gonna show my hubbz these too!!
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My Taobao (TB) loots! Cont'
C) For the bathrooms -
For the MBR bathroom: 1m long mirror with storage
For the common bathroom: Another mirror with storage
(I guess we won't be using this toliet often so this will be for storage purpose and for the guests to see themselves in the mirror when they visit!
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Our shampoo & soap wall dispensers
Brilliant space-saving idea given by Mr J! We wanted to build a hollow block/ledge within the shower area to place our soapy things but as the shower area is cramped enough, we decided to scrap the hollow block/ledge and drilled in glass shelves for these stainless steel soap dispensers! I got a pair of dispensers for hubby and 3 in a row one for myself
Then, I remembered that I have body scrubs, scalp hair shampoo & treatment, body foaming lotion and the list goes on....Now, I'm stuck without a holding area for them *headache*
Rain-shower set at the MBR bathroom to pamper ourselves!
Okay okay, this is the best item we bought for the bathroom so far. We decided to go for it because it's too hard to say no. Can't wait to jump into the shower under this rain-shower!
D) For the Service Yard
Search high and low for such a laundry sink and when we finally found one, the price is steep....You see, I hand-wash all my delicate clothing and at my current place, I'm able to soak and wash my precious clothing in the toliet and hang them to dry just few steps away into the kitchen - the old HDB 'toliet in the kitchen' layout. Now that the common bathroom is one whole u-turn into the kitchen then to the drying area at the service yard, I thought of a very clever idea to install such a laundry sink at our service yard! So I can soak, wash and hang my (hand-washed) clothing conveniently all at one place!
So glad we found one from TB. There is storage under the sink to keep away your bottles of detergent etc! Woo!
E) A Must-Share for the Wardrobe!
If you are looking for a pull-out trousers rack for your wardrobe, ^5! We found it too! According to the description, the material seems solid and looks not as flimsy as the Ikea one. Hopefully it matches to our expectations!
These are the highlights for our FIRST order on TB. I'm currently searching for more stuff to place for our 2nd shipment. For now, we are eagerly waiting for the stuff to arrive.....keeping our fingers (very) crossed that they reach us SOON and they are in order
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It's time to update on my Taobao (TB) loots!
Disclaimer (first): I must really give myself a big pat on my shoulders, I'ld say. *pat pat* As I'm a potato shopping on Taobao! (Ok, maybe after you got hooked on to shopping on TB, it will really turned you into a couch potato. Haha)
This is my first time shopping on Taobao and the challenge of course was the language, still is actually! Besides making Google Translate my good friend, I have invested lotsa time ploughing through many others' t-blogs who had shared generously on how to shop on TB. Since I couldn't really communicate well with the sellers directly, plus all the alipay and ali-card etc, I decided to take the easier way out and engage Peeka as my agent and forwarder to help me purchase and ship my orders over. Happy to share that I have ordered about $1,200 worth of items from TB - LOL! No idea how did I accumulate all those purchases (maybe it's really soooo addictive!) but I must really say, all the efforts to learn shopping on a foreign site really paid off! Great savings especially on lighting and accessories which cost a bomb for the designs of my theme!
I can't help it but beam (with pride) when I share all my buys with my hubby because Missy Po-ta-to has succeeded! 
Anyway, below are my loots which are currently still pending at Peeka China receiving centre, waiting for my last item to reach, packed and then shipped out.
Shipment would likely take 2 - 3 weeks and now, we are quite worried if the delay of the items will cause any delay in the fixture of things during the renovation.
Should have ordered earlier before the long CNY break in China....well, we will have to be positive! Below are some loots ordered by Missy Po-ta-to:A) First up! Lightings...
Top left: 2 wall lights in the living hall beside our fabric sofa
Top centre: Pretty sweet hanging light for the kitchen
Top right: Wall light above my side table next to our bed
Middle left: Cosy cottage hanging lamps for bedroom 3 (purchased from Singapore at a steal!) We intend to spray the metal parts white (one of our min DIY project)
Middle right: Hanging lights above our dining table (totally LOVE this lamp)
Bottom left: 2 wall lights along our walkway into the rooms
Bottom centre: Downlight for the area right outside our MBR toliet
Bottom right: Simple lamps for both toliets. Another one which we plan to spray the metal portion white!
B) Decorative accessories - what can we do without them
Love these flowers which will be popping everywhere in our house. Half of them will be go to the 2 bathrooms as we are not going to change HDB's original bathroom design, hence we hope by throwing pops of colourful flowers around the bathroom would do the simple trick of customising them like our own
Design switch frames for the living hall and rooms
Paintings for the kitchen
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End of Week 1 ~ We are very satisfied!
Our country floor tiles rockz!
The last time I updated was on our beautiful floor tiles which was Works In Progress (WIP). Now, we have completed the tiling works for the living hall, walkway, 3 rooms, kitchen and service yard! Really no regrets overlaying tiles over the last 2 as my entire kitchen & yard look so much brighter now!
My kitchen overlaid with wooden tiles *view taken from the service yard when WIP*
When tiling @ service yard was WIP
Proudly presenting our bright and cosy service yard! *Pardon the dusty floor & grout lines...so satisfied with our decision* 
Coming up next is the 'special entrance' which I mentioned previously...*Da-DAH!* The mini porch area in front of the main door!
Managed to capture a shot of Mr Worker B laying the pebbled-tiles skillfully
Love our front door 'porch'?
Further updates of week one renovation:
- Electrical wiring and piping works are all completed. Except for the service yard, which we have last minute decided to place our washer & dryer on the right side of the yard and Mr contractor J will have to re-run his electrical points for us. Oops! Hehe!
- Chose our laminate colours for our 3m in length wardrobe, kitchen cabinets and shoes cabinet
Psst: As our kitchen is now much brighter due to the new tiles, we have decided to go with my dream baby-blue coloured kitchen cabinets for a more cottage-y country feel
- Settled our self-designed layout of the above 3 cabinets as well
- We are doing cornices for the whole house! (Yes they are traditionally-old-school, but what is a country-style home without the cornices!?)
Albeit the smooth renovation thus far, one thing which we are pretty upset about is the main door. As the floor tiles are tiled higher than the kerb from the front gate, we are unable to close our main door now
(the workers removed the door during tiling and after fixing it back discovered that the door can't be closed 
) Not sure if there is any miscomm, Mr J has not helped us fix the door back and end up, we have to contact the BSC to trim our door shorter before fixing it back to close properly. Hope they get it done quick because we are worried for our flat without a door now 
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I've alrdy overlay my kitchen tiles. One step too late.
But at least now I know!
HI CountryGlow,
Yes, I initially also thought not able to hack until i saw some of the T-Bloggers also hack, but need apply permit. And HDB during approval will state that you will need to use water proof premix.
Bathroom confirm cannot, need to wait 3 years.
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Great idea to build a WIW within a room! 4 room flat's MBR doesn't have that luxury as it's so small!
Looking forward to see this innovative WIW
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Yes! Thanks for all the sharing babe!
You nv know, might just run into you since I'm only next block!
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Hi HansamuQ...
i didn't know HDB allows us (BTO) to hack the original kitchen floor tiles? Didn't know else I would hack & not overlay...thought there's some water - proofing regulations that can't hack
Do u know if we can hack the bathroom floor tiles too?
Monday is the first day of my reno. But can only proceed with hacking of kitchen floor cause my hacking walls permit still pending. Hope does not requires PE.
Kitchen hack till clean clean. Debris removed ready for tiling after the wall is hacked.
Tiles that i had chosen.
Living Room:
Bedrooms:
Kitchen:
Toliet overlay mock up from hafary
Master Bathroom:
Common Bathroom one side of the wall
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Thanks snowy89! Yes finally started on my t-blog after saying for so long. That is also becoz my reno got delayed due to HDB's approval.
Well well, all is good so far...and it's so true, I'm enjoying every single bit of the reno journey though super busy! Documenting it down for memories & to share with others any useful info. You t-blog is one of the few which I benefited from!
Oh ya btw! I remember you overlay ur toliet floor & wall tiles. Did ur ID or contractor caution you on anything like popping tiles over time?
Happy to see that you have started your t-blog! Things are looking good.
Keep up with the progress and I am sure you will enjoy the process~~
The end results will be worth it!!
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Hi HansamuQ!
Thanks for the reminder! Came in timely
I've asked my tiler guys rgd the diff in height between the kitchen and living room and they mentioned that will have 5mm diff. That is like 0.5cm? Negligible enough that I won't trip (I'm a clumsy person
)We decided to do overlay for the kitchen! *do boogie dance*
Considering for the bathrooms now
Looking good your tiles! So have you decided to overlay the kitchen tiles? Just to note, when you overlay the kitchen floor tiles, it will be higher, must ensure that it will be the same height as the living room.
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Hi benetay,
Yes, didn't expect such speedy work from our contractor! We know he specialises in larger scale renovation works eg for buildings and offices, so probably the reason why he coordinates and make things happen so quickly. Anyway, it's only the 5th day of our reno and I don't wish to comment all positive so early. We only saw the speed of things but haven't check the quality of it yet. Haha...we will think positive for now and believe that the reno will be smooth sailing
Oh yes, we have already bought most of our furniture, kitchen appliances, sanitary wares and even decorative items for our house! Expecting some loots from Taobao
I will share more at subsequent posts when I have more time!Anyway benetay - ur purchases from Amazon are looking good too! We have yet to reach that stage of buying the "titty gritties". Hehe...
I like what you did to your bathroom, that you re-positioned your vanity counter. We considered that too but gave up the idea eventually because we wanted to stick to our budget. We did minimum to both bathrooms, except throw in decorative items hopefully to beautify them.
Very fast! Can't wait to see the final outcome. Have you started your purchases on things you will need when the house is done and all the hob hood etc?
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Week 1 ~ We are so impressed! (Cont')
C) Lovin' our Country floor tiles!
*Our beautiful floor tiles are from Spain and we got them at a special price courtesy of my Dad who brought us to his old contacts
*We popped over to our flat yesterday (Sunday) and we were surprised to see 2 workers tiling our floor. Most contractors & their workers rest on Sundays but not for Mr J. If his workers' schedule allows, they will work on Sunday too, depending on each renovation (according to Mr Worker A when I asked him). The cement screed needs minimum 8 hrs to dry and set in. The workers had finished screeding the floors on Saturday evening and started tiling on Sunday morning. Efficiency to the max!
**One thing which we learnt!** As our tiles are long and will warp gradually over time, each tile is laid side by side at 2/3 of each tile length (hope you understand what I mean). This method not only prevents the tiles from warping but act as a nice design to the entire flooring!
We have also told Mr J to use grout that is closest to our tile colour to fill the gaps in between. In this way, the same colour grout will make the entire floor appear to have lesser lines. Hope it works as we imagine so...Haha!Took some photos of the flooring which was already 70% done when we left last evening. Spoke to Mr Worker B and he told us that flooring, including the skirting, will be completed by Tuesday. *WOOOW*
Looking like REAL wooden-planks
Good and bad news ~ To overlay kitchen and bathroom tiles?
Thankfully that we made a trip down to check and we realised that we have over-ordered our tiles.
Knowing that we cannot seek refund for the excess quantity, we are now contemplating to overlay our kitchen, service yard and bathrooms with the same floor tiles! All this while, (after trying to convince ourselves) we have little issues with the dull greyish kitchen and bathroom tiles provided by HDB, except that they are too dark for our full liking and that HDB contractor did not do the best job in tiling (we have to rectify the tiles with BSC 5 times before they meet our expectations). Now that we are toying with the idea of overlaying these areas with our bright and beautiful country tiles, I can't resist but HOORAY all the way! I'm most excited about overlaying the kitchen tiles as they will definitely achieve a better effect for our country kitchen! For now, we will just wait for Mr J to update us on the excess quantity after his guys finished the tiling to decide if we should proceed with overlaying. This, of course will be an (unforeseen) additional cost added to our overall renovation cost. Well, we shall see! *Shout-out*
One thing though - My Dad, based on his experience again, mentioned that overlaid tiles will not last and will 'pop' over time due to constant expansion and contraction resulted by our weather. Does anyone know if there is any special chemical or cement in the market now to fix the tiles stronger together? Or any latest "Cement technology" will help resolve this issue? Would love to hear from anyone if you would know such info
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Week 1 ~ We are so impressed!
I mentioned the last time that my next post will be updates on our renovation progress...Indeed, there are lots to update! Pictures speak a thousand words, so let the photos below tell us all
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Official start date of renovation at our Maison - 12 March 2015
A) And the walls came tumbling down
Mr J has been standing by to start work right after CNY. However due to some hiccups at HDB's side, our approval for hacking got delayed for 2 weeks. As soon as HDB stamped the "approved" sign on our request form, Mr J sent his men down to our flat immediately *superb-ly efficient
*Creating a "hole" at the living room wall
Creating a "hole" into Bedroom 2 (our WIW)
*Photo taken at the MBR entrance *Photo taken from the MBR toliet
B) On the second day after renovation begins....
Met Mr J to confirm our piping and electrical/wiring points. When we reached our flat in the afternoon, his workers have already completed the extension of our TV point and other relocation and fittings of the electrical sockets in all our bedrooms
Extension of TV point across the living room floor
As we have decided to place our TV on the opposite side of the TV point, Mr J suggested to extend the TV point across the hall which will be concealed under the floor tiles. Note the white tube in pic below - that's the conduit pipe which contains all the wiring and will be under the tiles.
Side track: The pebble-like tiles beside the conduit pipe will be laid at the entrance of our main door. Hubby's idea to 'create' a mini porch at the front door for shoes area
Kitchen mortar base and toliet kerbs are up!
Cement floor screeding + sealing of Bedroom 2 entrance!
At this point of time, we are really impressed with Mr J's efficiency. In 2 days, he has started and completed the 'foundation work' which sets the ground for the rest of the renovation to take place. According to my very experienced Daddy (who used to be in the construction line), these are the basic work which requires more time and especially, experience and skills to get the job done well and quick. So glad that Mr J has been so efficient and we are excited to see what's in store for us next!
Next update...Tiling works begins...
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Hi chilarvet, ^5 to our common interest in the same theme! So hard to find one who appreciates our beloved country-style theme
I did not engage an ID but a contractor. I wanted to do wainscotting on the walls of my entire living room and corridor but that would mount up to about $5k. We scrapped the idea and will focus on one side of the wall in the living room instead. That brought the cost down to about $1,200.
Then again, wainscotting could vary in designs and so is the costing. The more layering in your wainscotting, the more $_$ you will see!
Wow, so exciting to see someone do a country style theme like me too.
Love your idea of having the Wainscotting. Mind sharing how much your IDb is charging you for it per sqft?
Looking forward to seeing your renovation T-blog.
Cheers!
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Can't wait to see!!
Hello benetay! Thank you for camping in to support!
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Getting an ID or/and contractor for such a niche theme is definitely not easy. We started ploughing through home decor websites and magazines to gain ideas and hopefully find a suitable ID with a country-style portfolio. As what we have expected, there are not many whom we can consider. We have however managed to meet up with 3 IDs which we gave up eventually because one of them couldn't really understand what theme we wanted, while the other 2 gave great design ideas but with a BIG price tag
I gotta admit, probably half of me have already expected the 'uncommon or unpopularity' of a country-style theme, hence, we didn't put much effort to search for IDs, knowing that there are not many out there in the market. And since Hubby and I are clear of the design and layout we want, we decided to be our own ID and engage a contractor instead! *That's a big step of faith which we decided to take*Well...scouting for a contractor who has experience renovating country-style themes is none the easier. Unless we have the exact pictures and designs which we wanted + good good communication skills to convey what we have in mind, we figure out that our desired theme would likely backfire. Horribly.
But thank God, we managed to get 2 recommendations from our friend & my aunty who had engaged them to do up their almost-country-style-homes and so, we met up with Mr B and Mr J!Mr B - Nice and patient contractor. He had done up my friend's home and achieved the country-cottage theme. However, he charges pretty high for his carpentry works.....which is out of our budget. But as we know that country-style theme is all about the carpentry e.g wainscotting, trimming and accessorises, we could have engaged him even if it means blowing a bigger hole in our pockets. We put him on our KIV list and met up with Mr J next.
Mr J - He's my aunty's contact. Also a nice chap but he's not experienced in the theme we want. My aunty however gave us good reviews of his character, workmanship and post-reno services, which we thought are crucial to our considerations. Plus his quotation turns out to be reasonable, which my aunty also told us that Mr J is a generous contractor whom we can negotiate on certain costings and throw in some 'freebies' for us. That, scored him brownie points. Hehe!
Seriously guys, my hubby and I thought through real hard before we came to a decision on which contractor we should engage (although there are only 2 to consider, it was tough). We are most worried to choose the wrong contractor as we certainly don't wish for our country-style maison to end up a flop. In the end, we chose Mr J as our contractor. The next big step of faith. As we believe that one's workmanship and post-reno services are very important, we decided to give him a shot. Of course we took on the onus to communicate clearly to him on our actual designs as we partner along with him to construct our dream house. Keeping our fingers crossed, we finally started renovation this week!
Oh yes, prior to that, we went through 2 months of ding-dong-ing with BSC on our rectifications and for HDB to approve our hacking and the renovation permit. This past CNY break was the longest one we had as we can't wait to start renovating our new flat...!Before I share more on our renovation, these are our requirements which we communicated clearly to Mr J
Living room
- As our standard BTO flat doesn't come with tiles, we bought long wooden-like tiles separately and Mr J only needs to provide labour to lay tiles.
- No false ceilings or built-in TV consoles (as we have purchsed all our french designed furniture separately)
- Wainscotting i.e. Chair-rail and beadboard on living room walls
- Hack through half of bedroom 3 wall to look into living room, fixed with tempered glass and white wooden border like a cottage window
Kitchen & Service yard
- One side with top & bottom cabinets, and the other side only bottom cabinets. White laminates with blue trimmings for a country-style kitchen
- Since Hubby & I don't cook much, we opted for blue solid surface counter top
- Ceiling to be painted baby blue (Hehe...I like a blueish country kitchen - see below 1st pic)
- Service yard to be painted a soft glowing yellow - see below 2nd pic for overall feel.
MBR and bedroom 2
- Bedroom 2 will be our walk-in-wardrobe + dressing room (can't wait to see my french dresser table!
)- Hack wall opposite MBR bathroom to WIW at bedroom 2
- Wallpaper at MBR and bedroom 2
- Tiffany green coloured door for MBR
Bedroom 3
- This will our exercise room cum Hubby's toy display area!
- Clear tempered glass PD door for bedroom 3
- Hubby is considering a built in cabinet for his TOYs.....
- Ceiling to be painted tiffany green (as seen below
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These are our requirements so far and hopefully will turn out to our expectations! We are still researching and changing our ideas on the go! Haha...thankfully, Mr J has been patient and accomodating thus far as we kept changing our designs which in turn, he has to keep revising his quote. *Result of not having an ID to help us.....* But it has been a great start so far! And I will be sharing on our renovations at the next update...
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Hello Reno-talkers!
I'm finally able to start my own T-Blog after months of reading and waiting for keys to our new BTO flat! We have finally started renovations this week!
Firstly, a shout-out of "thank you" to all fellow T-Bloggers who have shared and contributed your design ideas, home/reno pictures and TEN-cents worth of knowledge and experience from your reno-journey. So much are in store here for a noob like me to gain ideas and information to our big project R-E-N-O-V-A-T-I-O-N Well, I will first start off by explaining a little on the topic title to my T-Blog - "Maison de style champêtre @ Punggol" (means Country-style home in French). The reason why I name it as such is because I always adore country-style themed homes and would love to design my first home to one of such theme! Thank God my hubby is cool to live in my desired theme for our first home and I shall invest all my time and effort to research and create a beautiful country-style maison for us!
I always love English and French country homes (the Laura Ashley sort) and had done a fair bit of research in the ID, decorations, accessorising etc. We embarked on our quest for our country-designed home about 1 year ago when my friend recommended us to her neighbour who owns a ID cum furniture company which sells french furniture (victorian, baroque, modern classic..). The lady boss was hosting a tea party that day with a 50% off storewide promotion and we had popped by for some window shopping to gain inspirations for our dream themed home. Never to know that I fell in love with the furniture there and bought ourselves a fireplace mantel, serpertine, french buffet cabinet, sideboard and mirror! I could have bought the entire shop home if renovations had started then! Geez...thank goodness it had not but we only came to realise that we had bought our furniture way before we even collected our keys and we were kinda like stuck to this French theme for our home as we have already spent quite a bomb on the furniture (no turning back now!). What comforted us was the 50% storewide savings and the lady boss was so nice to keep all our furniture items in her warehouse until our house is ready. We thought that was really nice of her as she knew our flat would only be ready about 1 year from then and yet allow us to take up her storage space at such great discounted prices. Since that day, it was the start of our "maison de style champêtre" adventure...no turning back or regretting...Which we didn't, surely!As a prelude, let me share on the floor plan of our BTO 4-room maison. (As everyone would say, typical floor plan it is!)
Here are some photos & examples of our hope-to-achieve dream home
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Thanks snowy89! YEP IT'S A GOOOOOOD BUY!
I didn't wanted it initially but couldn't resist in the end I'm just praying FOR MY Taobao loots to be shipped out soon as they're still stuck at their China Receiving Centre.. Anyway, my renovations started on Thurs and I hope to start my T-blog soon!
Have benefited much from your sharing and pictures post! Can't wait!!Sorry Countryglow, I bought the more expensive one. It is the same price as you have stated. I forgot about the rough $, but the exchange rate from peeka was slightly better then but still very worth it to buy as compared to buying locally. Saved about 70% I would say. The only annoying thing is the water marks left behind. If you want it to look sparkling new will have to clean it every other day.
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Thanks for sharing snowy89!
I've gone ahead to order before your reply. Coz I can't wait longer as shipment wld take about 3 weeks to reach me. And I'm worried that my contractor will start fixing up the items soon. Hope the loots reach me fast!
Anyway, can I clarify. You bought ur rainshower set thru this TB seller right? Your recommendation - http://item.taobao.com/item.htm?id=1352358635#
U mentioned about handspray set? There isn't an handspray set in this link....are u referring to the usual hand-held shower? Also, can I ask if u bought the version A or B? I googled and realised that version A is stainless steel (RMB 498) while version B is copper/brass material (RMB 598). Seeing that copper material is better, I bought the RMB 598 (i.e. est S$130 before shipping) option. You mentioned u got yours less than $100? Is is version A? If not, I could have missed a discount
Anw, I do agree that water pressure depends largely on the level we're staying at. I happen to also stay on the lower floors too, hence the decision of a rainshower!
Hi CountryGlow, I am happy with my rainshower set. It also comes with a mixer tap and handspray set. It is worth to buy as it only costs less than $100 each before shipping. I had seen random ones which are not as asthetically pleasing going for $300+. So really save alot to buy from taobao. Quality wise feels like hotel standard. But if you are the kind that enjoy heavy downpour then I guess it is not for you. Mine is more like light rain showers. Anyway, I seldom use the rain shower function as I prefer the handset too. I think for water pressure, it has nothing to do with the rainshower set, more of the level you are staying in etc.
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Hello! another topaz in checking in and we have the same floor plan!! Hee..
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Hi Syafia! I found another lover of the same theme!! Hooray!
It's so true...Victorian/European classic themes are so hard to come by....I'm doing a French Country style theme for my new house and my hubby & I had a hard time searching for an ID, contractor, furniture & furnishings to complement the desired home decor I want...we went to a few IDs and finally, we decided to be our own ID instead as we know what we want. In the last few months, I have done enough research to finally put together the design, colour scheme & decor for our house. Like you, we share the exact same floor plan too I read through ur blog and saw ur photos.....They are exactly what we have designed & bought (I'm referring to the furniture)
A European classic home cannot do without wainscoting, pretty designed floral wallpaper & a fireplace!! As mine is French country style, I'm doing bead-board instead. And I'm getting the Laura Ashley design wallpaper for my rooms! We're starting our renovation this Thursday and hopefully have the time to do up a T-blog of my Reno journey
Oh yes....besides Taylor B, we got our furniture from JS Manhatten Interior. Her prices are not cheap but we manage to buy all our pieces at her storewide sale & tea parties. Turn out quite reasonable...
Maison De Style Champêtre @ Punggol
in Reno t-Blog Chat - HDB BTO Interior Design and Renovation
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Eventide - Thanks for the compliments on the tiles...they turned out to be so much better than we expected! Make our hall look longer and brighter too!
With a touch of the wooden floor, makes our home cosy and warmth 
Penicillin - Thanks for your inputs too but we are good with our choice! The overall feel for the tiles look great actually. Pebble design compliments the wooden-like tiles perfectly!