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Sure! I was thinking if I baked 1 whole cake or 1 tray of muffins... 2 person how to finish. hahaha.

Hob, Hood, Oven Initially, we ordered Bosch Hob & Hood + Ariston Build-in Oven with HoeKee. As I did some price comparison before going to their showroom, I know there is another shop offering a better price for the Hob & Hood set. So when I told them about it, they match the prices I found, and to make things even better, they gave us an even lower prices! Doing homework paid off! We also decided to get their Ariston build-in oven which was on sale. Then 1 fine day (I think it's a PH Friday night)... we went to GC @ Sungei Kadut to take a look at other appliances. When we passed by their Hob-Hood-Oven area, I just can't help but to go and check out their prices. (It's not the first time I do that when we visit electronics shops...and usually their hob & hood set prices are not very competitive.) To our surprise, they were having a Bosch Hob+Hood+Oven set promotion that particular PH weekend! When I did a calculation, to my horror, the set at GC made the Bosch Oven cheaper than the Ariston Oven we ordered! (it's a horror because I prefer Bosch Oven but it's always so ka-ching$$$! lol.) So we (very quickly) went back to HoeKee that Sunday and showed them the Hob+Hood+Oven set promotion price (photo evidence is powerful haha). The sales lady was very nice and quickly texted her boss whether can they match the price for me. Usually they can make the decision themselves...but this promo set price is way below they margin so they have to get boss' approval lol. To our delight, the boss agreed! (The boss actually saw the GC promo in newspapers and said that such price really no profit for them. But the sales lady told the boss we bought a lot of items from them...so agreed to it lol.) Such a relief! And we are sooo happy to have a full set of Bosch Hob, Hood & Oven! Here are the items... I can't wait to start baking with this oven! And my hubby, who loves to cook, is looking forward to "play" in his new kitchen! ***dreaming of lunch/dinner parties***

Woah 10 blocks! No wonder your neck stretch till sore le hahaha. My friend's BTO >40 storeys waited 6 years Thanks! Will post up reno pics once it started proper.

Thank you! All your loots look great too! Looking forward to see your reno done. Love the white-gold feel.

Here are the Grohe items I bought from HoeKee... Initially ordered 2 sets of this rainshower for both bathrooms. (HoeKee is having 50% off!) Very sad that I had to exchange 1 set to another brand because it cannot fit into my common bathroom due to the box-up at the shower area. =/ Bought this for MBR bathroom vanity

Since I don't know how to shop from TB (too much effort needed to read chinese ), I check out Amazon instead! I am amazed by how fast they shipped from the States. If I remember correctly, from placing orders to reaching my place only took 1 week. Packaging was great too! It's my 1st time buying from Amazon for personal use (used them for company's purchase before), so decided to order a few items first to try it out. Ordered about USD$125 worth of items to qualify for their Free International Shipping. Here are my loots... All items came in perfect condition. Simplehuman is great (thanks to all t-bloggers who shared their buys). I am super impressed with Grohe quality. Really solid! Which leads me to buy more Grohe stuff from HoeKee which is having 25% off Grohe stuff...

Ya i super love that "feature" that my floor plan had! I have a direct "pantry" hehehe.

Hi djnt! I totally know how you feel... waiting for HDB to update all day everyday...until neck long long! hahaha. For the past 3 months, I was checking HDB website all the time to see was there any update. Yours is a bigger project I supposed? Ours only 3 blocks of 16 floors that's why i think it's faster. I guess should be soon for you le since your neighbors are getting keys end of the year? Jiayou jiayou! Sorry I didn't take any photo of my empty house as we were busy checking for defects right after keys collection. hahaha. I will try to take some reno photos along the way so hopefully you can have a glimpse of it

This week only laying floor protection & delivering of materials to site. Hopefully they will start doing living room flooring! hehehe.

Choosing ID We met a total of 5 IDs (I "***" their names to be fair to them, as I believe opinions are subjective). 1. C*****n - Ms A & J They are one of the big ID companies and you can always see them at EXPO exhibition. We met one of their ID in EXPO about 3 years ago after we registered for BTO. The guy was friendly & seems knowledgeable. Their designs looked great too. We told him we will look for him when the date for our keys collection draws nearer. So the past 3 years, we are quite determine to use them. However, when we tried to contact the ID, he cannot be reached. When we went to ask the company, they said he had left the company >< Anyway, since we shortlisted them so long ago, we decided to sit down & talk to their another ID, Ms. A, about our reno. To cut the long story short... this ID met us once to go through our wishlist & floorplan. Before she could send the quotation to us, she informed me that she is leaving the company ><" Her manager, Ms. J, then took over our case and met us to go through the quotation. Conclusion: Not taken up. They had the most expensive quote. (But they do give you free upgrades such as all BLUM tracks & Caesarstone. Nothing is free lol) 2. S** 9 Interior - Mr L Super direct, friendly & genuinely nice guy! He was recommended by our friend whose home was amazingly done up. We went to visit and the design definitely have WOW-factor. Mr Lam had with many years of experience working for the big companies prior to starting his own. Very very friendly & straightforward - which we like. No hidden agenda, no gimmicks. However, he is more of a Contractor-ID... meaning he can suggest some good design ideas along the way but you have to know exactly what you want right from the start. Whatever design we want, he can do it as per pictures/samples we showed him. He will come out with nice 3Ds too. Conclusion: Sadly we do not know exactly what we want . We only know what feel we like when we see certain photos but have no idea how to piece everything together. Hence, we need an ID to help us. For those who know what design you want, I will recommend him. 3. The D****n P******e - Mr R Knew Mr R (the boss of the firm) through my cousin. He said they are a boutique firm. Went to see his website portfolio and they looked promising. So after 3 rounds of meeting (go through floorplan & quotation), we decided to engage them & paid him S$1.5k design fee. Unfortunately... it was a mistake Every time we asked him something via whatsapp, he don't reply for hours & days. He said the 3Ds will be ready in about 2-3 weeks but was delayed for weeks. No explanation was given despite us chasing for it. When he eventually sent us the 3Ds, there were missing views + they looked horrible! The designs were so-template and off-the-rack (remember we paid for design fee). It seems like he had outsource to some pre-graduate student to do the drawings. So flat & ugly! And there was 1 interesting comment he made during one of our meetings: "Now all the young couples usually give me a reno budget of S$100k." SAY WHAT??? It was like a slap in the face that our reno budget of S$40k was too little for him. If he want big fish, then don't accept our project la. Throughout the process ever since we engaged him, he made our dollars felt so tiny & unworthy for him to spend effort on. Because he looked & sounded promising initially, we wanted to use him and cut out sooo many items inside our quotation. Conclusion: Terminated him. When we politely asked for a partial refund of the design fee, he never even bother to reply. We will totally understand it is business & be okay even if he says cannot. But no reply at all. What attitude. Maybe for those with S$100k reno budget, he will be nicer? hahaha. 4. B-T** - Mr S Recommended by my friend's neighbor. Mr S is pretty experienced. He told us many renovation problems that he encountered that sometimes cannot be foreseen. Conclusion: Quotation price is acceptable. However, we do not have chemistry with him. 5. Avant Ga**e C******e - Mr B Recommended by my friend's husband's ex-colleague (lol). Best attitude ID we met. Here's why: Prior to the meeting, same as most IDs, Mr B emailed us and asked for our floor plans + some questions such as the theme we like, budget etc.1st Meeting: He came with a sketched-up proposal floor plan for us, together with some photos with the designs he think we will like! (based on the answers we gave him) Very impressed that he did his homework because the rest we met always came to the first meeting with empty floor plan.Attitude: He is very sincere to want to do our house reno. Response time to our messages was prompt too.Price: Reasonable. He will try his best to work with the budget given to him. (I heard from him that he did some young couple's home with S$18k-$20k budget because they have kids & really finances really tight... so he will try to help them the best he can.)Conclusion: We picked him Reno is starting today!​ *YAYYY* He just sent us some photos of the floor protection done and the delivered floor tiles. *excited* Let's pray our reno journey will be a smooth & on-schedule one!

Hi matchalatte! Thank you! Yea ours is pretty fast. PCD is 1st quarter 2016... our first batch of neighbors started collecting keys in early September. So it's early by almost 2 quarters. Hope you will receive good news from HDB soon!