benetay
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Taylor b design?
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Good stuff. Keep it going.
I have yet to look at any furnitures. Want to see how our "theme less" reno comes out than decide what furniture will fit.
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I'll go for Phillips any day on lighting. Of cause there are better more expensive or less expensive ones in the market. I buy for the service they provide and piece of mind. Their design ain't bad.
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There are quite a number of places in Singapore like trade hub balestier, there is also many discussion on this topic. You might want to search individually like kitchen sink and it will appear or I have them already hyperlinked here:
http://www.renotalk.com/forum/topic/70245-21k-theme-less-3-room-bto/
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Very interesting on the concept and we also did not follow any of theme, just more on how we feel and lifestyle we have.
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Some of the other items that were sent here:
Oxo soap dispenser
Simplehuman dustbin (this one isn't from Amazon, got it from another place)
Portable wireless doorbell from honeywell
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Yong81, i was wondering why do you need to ship from Amazon China to 65Gaigou when you can ship from Amazon China direct to your place? Amazon China also fulfill the AmazonGlobal Eligible.
The only difference between Amazon China and US site is that the China site has lesser to choose from however all the 23, 30, 30" Kraus sinks are available and they are comparable in price after FX.
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Thank you Yolo, appreciate the insights. Will let our ID know about the colour.
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Yolo, i saw your colour selection, can share with me the process? is it 3 sides 1 colour and another 1 side a different shade?
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Looking good! I see you are purchasing a lot of the lights from TB?
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Hello HansamuQ,
For Grohe you use this Grohe link
Check out the Kraus kitchen sink links on the first post.
Most importantly actually is to select the brand you want, then click on
AmazonGlobal Eligible:
Need to purchase more than $125 USD to be eligible. Less than 400 SGD will not require import tax and duties.
These are some brands (Some items) that extend free shipping on amazonglobal eligible:
- Simplehuman
- Oxo
- Lodge
- Cuisineart
- Moen
- Kraus
- Kohler (some items)
- Kitchen Element
- KitchenAid
- Camelbak
- Otterbox
- BalanceFrom
- Ozeri
- Grohe
- Etc etc etc etc
There are
Many brands have GlobalEligible.
Hope it helps.
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Kim, I was inspired by your posting hence I tried to talk to CSO and they offered free shipping. So everything free shipping during the period on Black Friday.
Rightfully it shouldn't be free shipping but I think talk to CSO and also during big festive holiday like Black Friday it will work.
All from Amazon. I may try amazon china and see if got free shipping a not.
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Yup that is right. I fully support because price is what we pay. Value is what we get, if there is no additional value why would I pay for something more?
Welcome to owning a kraus.
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I think he meant to ship from China to Singapore using china Amazon. Anyway, like what Kim mention about talking to CSO to waive shipping it will work sometimes.
Welcome to the Kraus family.
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For those asking about where did I purchase my things:
Fridge,hob,hood,washer,dryer (all fisher and paykel), 707 water heater from Goh Ah Bee (GAB)
Pans,soap dispenser, door bell, toilet accessories (Amazon- with free shipping is cheaper compared to taobao) huge savings. Crossing my fingers that U.S. dollars don't appreciate so much. Brands such as oxo, Kohler (authentic) products are cheaper even using Amazon.
Hope this helps.
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Always like to have good grill, so purchase a grill cast iron pan from lodge. A saucepan and 2 skillet to try out.
Searing is great on a cast iron for proteins like beef, chicken, fish, etc.
Saw this youtube link and decided to purchase the Lodge griddle for making breakfast but a smaller one at 10.5 inch instead of the 16 inch.
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The living room, no tv console. We are planning to get a work station done on the left side and a glass partition between the work station area and the 'living room' area.
Some of our purchases for common toilet, MBR toilet, lights and water heater
707 water heater, one compact one princeton
Hood and hob still unopen
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Bought some cookware online for Lodge and Cuisineart.
Lodge is cast iron, very heavy. Need to do some seasoning. Have tried Lodge dutch oven, even MIL say it is heavy but quite good to use.
Cuisineart Stainless steel and hard anodized.Read up on Cast iron online and watch youtube videos to see how they can be season.
Will put it up to the test when possible. Ordered a few more Cuisineart to let my mom try and see if it is worth the money. She prefers something lighter so hard anodized it is. Tefal gone case after 8months, metal scrapper on the coating really shorten the lifespan.
Ordered silicon spatula from Oxo. Will do a posting for those items.
Cheers!
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Toilet:
Removed the existing basin and door. Shift the pipe (hot and cold) nearer to the door frame to add a vanity area for our Kraus vessel bowl. created a build up area for the piping to be conceal and act as an area where shampoo can be place etc.
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Away with the wall
Kitchen wiring and base
Drain holes - Additional. This is done in case the sink floods or leaks or pipe burst or anything that may happen during the course of stay. This 2 drain holes will help in flooding in addition to the drainage in the service yard.
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Also got the Moen towel hooks
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Read many blogs and search through many years of older posting to aid in the renovation journey. Really appreciate those who posted and we really benefitted a lot in terms of knowledge gathered. We took our keys in September/October 2014 period (i'm bad with dates) and started looking for ID.
Long story short, 5 ID, 1 ID was selected due to good value for the price paid. The 5 IDs are well known ones as well but when we compare Apple to Apple on some of the items, we can see a significant margin gap from a well known vs a less well known.
5 quotes: Range from 18-30k.
We could have done it much cheaper with lesser additional items like glass partition, toilet glass partition, blum aventos, display cabinet, work station, pull out kitchen drawer. Without all these will make the reno in the range of 17-18k. So it really depends on how much additional you want to spend.
End up we chose a less experience ID to do the job with no fancy 3D drawing like some of the ID. It is really a risk for us because we really do not know how it would turn out to be. Moreover, we did not utilize any of the theme such as minimalist, scandi, industrial, etc.... we just simply do as accordance to our lifestyle.
I'll not divulge our choice of ID until our reno is complete, which is somewhere targeted April, May period.Reno is almost done, for those who are asking for my ID contact, please PM me your email address or reply to this thread.
Prior to the start of the reno, we started purchasing things online and from local shops. Most of the items are from Amazon to make good use of the free shipping to Singapore.
I'll try to do a link for some of the items we have purchased and give a review or direct a link on information that affected our purchase.
- Amazon free shipping step by step by Kim76
- Sealy Bed
- Toilet Accessories
- Kitchen Sink 1st link (Kraus)
- Kitchen Sink 2nd link (Kraus)
- Getting TB sink? Users here experiencing problem - Daddywinter Tblog
- Hood and Hob (we got Fisher & Paykel touch and slide Induction & a 90cm hood)
- Cookware Lodge and Cuisineart
- Best place for Grohe
- Display Cabinet
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Kitchen pictures (Work in progress)
Living room pictures (Work in progress)
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Depends, some prefer Cove for aesthetic, but if industrial look, track is better.
You should decide depending on what you want and your budget.
Good quality lights with recent design is not going to be cheap even if you import directly from overseas.
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Woah, i already purchased, if not i would get it from you too. too late
very good price.
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Okie thanks! Once we finish our reno we will pop by look see. We are hacking down another wall so our reno will be delayed.