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Yea... i thought it's just for new BTOs... heh.

Looks like it's almost done! Can't wait to see more photos of your MBR en-suite with WIW!

Ya. When the other ID that charged S$4k for 3 bedrooms screeding alone... i thought it's outrageous. haha. It's weird right...if buy resale, the entire block were built w/o prepacked cement. But when renovate it, need to use prepacked.

That's indeed a lot of floor to screed ><"

10k? got so much?

Hacking of Wall Yay the wall is down! Our ID just took these photos & sent to us ... So these 2 weeks will just be laying of living room floor tiles + MBR bathroom wall tiles. Can't wait to see!

Layout This is more or less the layout of our place (lighting points not included)

I bought it at S$649 just the sink alone. It's stainless steel satin polish. Dimension here.

I get what you mean now! I know my tiling cost include prepacked cement but i am not sure it's part of the screeding. But now i re-look at my quotation... it did state the word "screeding": "...include pre-packed cement screeding" hahaha oops! Thanks for clearing this up for me!

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Meaning homogeneous tiles need the floor to be screed too? Mine is a standard BTO, hence i can opt-out for floorings. I thought the bare floor (rough) can lay homogeneous tiles directly...no? For me, I appealed for them to screed the bedrooms for us only, so my ID will lay the vinyl tiles later. A bit confused now haha...

No need for homogenous tiles. Only vinyl tiles need to screed.

HAHAHA i think our hubby have no choice but to give us more space? As my WIW is not very big...i foresee I will occupy 2/3 of the space Last time we also thought of getting a king size bed. But after taking a look at the home gallery at TPY HDB hub...we gave up the idea and went for queen size instead... cos really quite tight >< My MBR bathroom basin have something like the anti-drip edge! Actually I didn't know it's for anti-drip...i thought it was just part of the design hahaha. I think doing it for kitchen will be very ex uh? Since have to custom-made... Oh my living room is using homogeneous tiles so no need to screed. PM-ed you!

Hello! Actually you can get storage headboard from other mattress shops too... not limited to ikea. Mine have storage below my mattress Ya I also saw someone did the tape thingy & thought it was a brilliant idea!

I think the additional cost of screed depends on which ID/contractor you engaged. For mine, if i get my current ID to screed the 3 bedrooms, it will be additional $1k...which i find it's acceptable. The other ID which we had terminated charged us a whooping S$4k just for screeding 3 bedrooms (exclude tiles)! Reason he gave: prepacked cement more expensive & difficult to lay...hence labor cost increase. As much as I do understand this is something HDB required and there is no way ID firms can ignore...i think $4k is a bit too much. So be careful of the prices quoted to you for screeding if you are still looking for IDs... to make sure you don't get "tok". Yup we're hacking a small part of the kitchen wall (2ft) to expand the area for Dry Kitchen. We will be putting glass panels too! It will be the separation between Dry & Wet Kitchen Nope not hacking 1 of the rooms. Was back & forth on this because i want a WIW... but also scared it will be very squeezy if i put it inside MBR. But i want the other 2 rooms to be kept empty for Study & Guest room later (my family stay in the west...so would be loved to have them stayover once in awhile). See the measuring tape? I asked my ID to tape the exact dimension on the floor for me to see / step into...so i can determine is the space okay - both at sleeping area & inside WIW. For mine, it seems good! Won't have huge space at sleeping area but still enough to put 2 bedside tables.

Took some pics of my empty house today!

Timeless Cozy Corner: Pre-Renovation Front of our living room. This will be where our shoe cabinet & TV feature wall will be... Left: Our sofa area | Right (at the back): Our dining area DIning area / Kitchen Entrance We will be hacking a small part of the wall at the kitchen entrance to create a Wet & Dry kitchen concept. MBR Walk-in-Wardrobe area MBR Bathroom shower area We will be having a frameless tempered glass installed here. Common Bathroom shower area We decided not to put in glass panel for common bathroom for ease of using (e.g. fill water pail for mopping...)

End of Week 1 Living room floor tiles & MBR wall tiles - arrivedHDB Reno permit + wall hacking permit - approvedLaying of floor protection on main door & kitchen - doneMet up with our ID just now to go through & finalized on the electricial works, as well as paid our 2nd payment. Can't wait to see these tiles up! Opened up 1 box to take a look... Floor protection at kitchen... Took some photos of our empty place while we were there just now... (continue in next post)

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Kitchen Sink We made a mistake by purchasing our kitchen sink too early We saw Mayer's kitchen sink + retractable mixer set offering at a very good price. It was a 880mm long double-bowl stainless steel - which looks great. However, we didn't give much thought as to have a top-mount or under-mount sink at that point of time... and this Mayer's sink is an top-mount. After watching many reno shows on HGTV + the opinion from my sister... we now want an under-mount sink >< We thought of just go with the top-mount since we already bought it (non-refundable & already delivered)... but if we want to change to an under-mount next time, I'm not sure can the kitchen top fit. We went to HoeKee to take a look at BLANCO sinks & decided to get a single-bowl under-mount Zerox u700. Heart pain because more money spent... but very happy with this choice as it looks so nice Anyway, we had to cancel 1 set of the Grohe rainshower (mentioned in earlier post), so the price top-up for a new sink is not that much. Win-win eh? haha. Selling... With that, I have 1 brand new double-bowl stainless steel top-mount kitchen sink for sale! I am letting go way below cost price. Please PM me if you are interested! SOLD!

Yes I am! We place it at the entrance linking up to our TV feature wall.

Usually they can store for you for 3-6 months. Everything we bought from HoeKee are like this... so we only pay some deposit. Just need to arrange for delivery 5 days in advance + paid up the balance before delivery. Those from Amazon are small items, so it's okay haha.

Tiles Went to Soon Bee Huat to choose our Living room homogeneous tiles. Reason we opt for homogeneous is because we want to have a shiny, classy look (inspired by some photos we saw online). Also, we want to have a different feel between living room & bedrooms - which will be the highly popular & pretty vinyl tiles (aka high resilient flooring). This is what we've chosen for our living room... And while shopping for floor tiles... we saw gorgeous marble-like wall tiles! So end up we added in wall tiles for MBR toilet (><") which was not factor into our initial budget & quotation =X I am a bathroom-person...meaning... every time i went to stay in a hotel, their bathroom is the one that determine is it a WOW or BOO hotel for me. Who don't like posh hotel bathroom? And bathroom is the 1st place we step into every morning in our sleepy state... so wouldn't it be nice to start the day in a pretty bathroom? *trying to justify myself* This was our initial choice for MBR wall tiles... However, after looking at the 3D, it seems a little too dramatic for the entire bathroom (the above photo can't really tell... but there's a lot of details on it) We went down to Soon Bee Huat again to take a look...and decided to change to something more simple & elegant with 2 colors... Both living room floor tiles & bathroom tiles had arrived on site 2 days ago! Shall go take a look this Sunday

TRYING to be calm... and i realized t-blogging does helps! HAHAHA. I think women tends to think more into the details/process and suddenly many "???" pops out of no where? lol. My husband cool like a cucumber leh. hahaha.

Thanks OceanEleven! That's good to know! Will take note to clean it often I guess all the food residue might drop inside when washing uh?