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Lights from JB Tampoi I was super excited when my ID told us that lights are up! And it didn't fail to disappoint! Living room Seriously find my house super bright now! It's like a light showroom. That chandelier stole the show! The walkway My walk in wardrobe a.k.a Vanity corner Even the toilets has two moods for the lights. The normal white light The yellow light (For more romantic feeling haha) I was too caught up with the lights that I didn't get to take much photos. I'll upload more in the future!

Hahahaha! It really does look like kueh lapis! Moving in soon?

Painting Works As I've mentioned, we really wanted the cheery bright happy house and our ID helped us choose the colors! For living room, it's this pastel turquoise color, its not mint or tiffany blue but somewhere in between. For bedroom 3 - It's the future baby room and we don't know what gender would we have so purple is the safest! As for the master room, we chose this brown-mocha color because we have so much lights, it'll look very elegant and classy atmosphere kind.

LIGHTS March7 2015 - We went to JB to buy our lights. It was CRAZYYYYY. So much lights so much choices we didn't know where to start. How we end up buying in JB? Because so many of my friends told me that its ridiculous to buy in singapore when they mark up double or triple the amount but of the same quality and same brand I was skeptical at first especially on quality so we went a week earlier to JB to just see see and almost 100% of the customers are singaporeans. the parking lot is full of Singapore cars. I saw the quality, the choices and especially the price! That's it, gotta go back the following week! We tried to see like 5-6 shops in singapore from balestier to ubi to other places and the lowest they quote for my whole house $1850 and the highest is extravagant price of $3000 (including chandelier etc) So after buying we spent a grand total of $930 including 7% tax! What we bought: 15 downlights (3 moods) 22 t5 lights 2x lights for toilets 3x lights for bedrooms 1x light for kitchen 1x light for service yard 1x 2m track 1x 1 m track 3x 7w spotlight 3x 4w spotlight 1x chandelier for dining area 1x chandelier for walk in wardrobe and lots of spare bulbs! I'll be sharing photos later on! March 9 - False Ceiling up! Living hall is up Bedroom ones is up too!

Reno Timeline We have gone through many ID's and contractors but finally went with Kevin from Defong interior becuase of a friend. His workmanship is good too and you need not pay premium price as well. We waited till after CNY to start renovations rather than start and then stop halfway. Don't want to lose the momentum! For our concept, its not really 'modern' or 'scandinavian' or 'victorian' We just simply wanted a house that is 'cheery' and colorful without it looking like a disaster or clown. February 23 - measurements were taken, marking was done and now we wait for HDB to approve the hacking February 28 - We chose the toilet wall tiles overlay. We had to get rid of the horrible kueh lapis design! March 4 - Major stuff happening! Kitchen walls is hacked As we are combining master bedroom and bedroom 2, we're closing bedroom 2's door and convert the whole room to a walk in wardrobe. With the amount of clothes and bags and whatever vanity stuff we both have, it won't fit in the master bedroom! March 6 - Toilet Overlays Done! And toilet sink removed!