thehappykowple

Thanks for all the comments and visits so far to my fresh new thread! It's been really fun posting updates. These are about 2 months back-dated and I'm really enjoying looking at throwback pictures of the house and how it looks now. I'm going to talk about walls today! For our minimalist look, white walls were a no-brainer. Our ID was really curious to see what was behind all the false partitions left behind by the previous owner and told us to be ready to make some decisions if he liked what he saw behind those walls. And so, after the partitions were removed, we found a textured wall like so! Our ID decided to grind off the paint to see what was beneath that. This was what we found. It wasn't conventional like your brick wall and while my husband and I were undecided, we decided to follow our ID's suggestion. If we didn't like it, I guess all we had to do was paint it white. I totally expect a great divide in opinions regarding the walls because it is really raw but what's design without some calculated risk? (: It certainly looks like a hot mess in the above but here's a sneak preview on what it looks like with white paint for contrast against our polished cement screed floor. (This is progress as of June)

Hello! Could you PM me the contact for your curtains and racks please? Loving you and your wife's creativity!!

And so... hacking began in April, around the same week that we got married. Even before the new coat of paint and new layout began taking shape, you can already tell that much more light is in the apartment. For the first floor, all of the homogenous tiles that were removed will be replaced with cement screed, except for the kitchen, which will be chevron tiles. I love how it adds abit of a visual element and it also softens the feel of the house. The laminate on the stairs and second floor were also hacked away and because the cement underneath was in relatively good condition, we did not need to do a new layer of screeding. Hooray, savings! (Which actually went into other aspects of reno unfortunately. :/) Here is the kitchen! Cute tiles right? Fun but not overly cute. The metal structure in the middle is the skeleton for our island counter, which will have a granite counter. There will be a cupboard on one side and our induction cooker on top of it. The other end will not have any storage underneath so as to give a floating look. Can't wait to see the final product!! Our cabinets and wash basins will be behind the island counter so the kitchen won't actually look that big. This extends to the yard area where we will do our laundry... more on that later. (: