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The renovation for our new home is nearing its completion, with most of the carpentry up. Nonetheless, there are still quite a lot of touch up required for the different areas. The chemical wash is scheduled for 30 Mar and we're moving in most of the old stuff and delivery of the new items on 31 Mar. The plan is to officially move in on 1 Apr 08. Hope everything goes well and according to plan... Here's a walk-through of our new home... starting from the entrance.... View from the main door. On the left is the false wall cover the door of the bomb shelter. To the right is the shoe cabinet and top shelf, with a nice separation in-between. Mrs Klick likes the shoe cabinet a lot cos it is quite spacious and can hold many of her shoes. Still, she has "encouraged" me to give up some of my space for her expanding collection. View of the living room from the entrance passageway. The wooden area under the aircon on the left will be a mirror that will make the living room look more spacious. Eagerly awaiting its installation! View of the kitchen. Walking in further into the living room, we have the kitchen on the left. The solid surface worktop has not been installed yet. Also, the two more doors to the kitchen cabinet has been changed cos they made a mistake and use black glass instead of black mirror. The stove will be installed this Sunday. We checked the almanac and it's suppose to be a good day to do so. The tempered glass is also not up, so it currently gives an impression of an open concept kitchen. View of the TV feature wall. Turning around, we see the TV feature wall without the TV. Can't wait to get our 46" LCD TV installed! View of the "entertainment room". We're still a little confused over what to do with this room, but most likely it will be home to our older 32" LCD TV. My XBox 360 will probably come here too... In case you're wondering, the tempered glass and door has yet to be installed. To be continued... ... continue from earlier post. View of the master bedroom from the entrance. On the left is the bed head and the side tables. Not completed yet. On the right is the dressing table separated with the vertical wooden columns. View from inside the master bedroom. We like the cove lighting... but there's no dimmer for it... Think I need to talk to Mr K about it... Our wardrobe. A L-shaped wardrobe that separates the Master bedroom and the study. A nice small area that will become our study. Supposedly my "wen chang wei". Hopefully I will become smarter sitting there often! Haha...

The AVR itself is only $700+. It's the speakers that blew the price up. You can consider settling for cheaper speakers or just buy the front speakers first and get the rest later. If you are looking for a nice HTIB, can consider Sony DAV-DZ1000. $1899. Not exactly cheap for a HTIB but the built and look is really quite good. You have to see to understand.... I was contemplating between the Onkyo set and this Sony model, but seriously, it's quite like comparing apple with orange. Alternatively, if you need a receiver set with HDMI input, can check out the Sony HT-SF2000 also... $899.

Hi Toothytooth, paid close to $3k for the whole system.

The sink cost $135.

The reno is finally entering its final run up to completion, and we're looking at moving in by the end of the month. The carpentry for the shoe cabinet, tv console, kitchen cabinet and dining table are already in, although most of them are half completed. Below are some teasers before we post photos of more completed works... Oblique view of my kitchen from the living room.... partially showing the dining table on the bottom left. The tamper glass will be one of the last to go up... View of my partially completed kitchen cabinet. Still quite a lot of work to be done there. View of my bedroom cum study from the entrance. Parquet flooring not yet polished and varnished, so look a bit dull.... Looks very nice with the parquet flooring done up.... however, this view will change when the wardrobe is installed, partitioning the back part of the room into a study.

Hi vowsh, Ya will be posting my 3D drawings. Need to find time to scan it.. heee. My reno about 35k. Cheers Hi Ice gal, Mine is a 5 room. Which block you at? 5 room or 4 room? Cheers

Hi, I got it at $3800 with upgrade to armflex 1/2' and 2 times installation. BTU at 22, 10 ,10,10 . 0 % citibank card installment cheers

Hi Mrs Png I am a ideal house client too. But not under Danny. Under kenneth. 24k is really a good price. Enjoy your renovation and post more pics!

Ya but luckily he is gone liao.. But maybe move to other places to sleep le. Latest update is he shifted to downstairs..hahah But i guess when more and more ppl move in he will have to get out of that area liao

About 15 days after we sign, then he give us a 3D drawings.

The new blocks at TPY is it. Those 76A/B/C is it? That's really exciting. Happy choosing tiles at Soon Bee Huat!

Hi Redwyrm, Welcome to the club. Where is your place? When starting Reno?

Bluberi, Ya cause we are the second batch of SERS at Sims Drive. The first batch was the Blk 8 at Upper Boon Keng

The past few days were days where we made purchases after purchases. This means that our wallet is burnt with a big hole! On Saturday, we met Mr K at Poh Joo to choose our sanitary accessories. The damage was $1000. Purchases include: - Kitchen Sink - Master Toilet Sink - Master Toilet Bowl - Toilet Paper holder - Towel Holder - Towel Rack - Shower accessories Our small sink due to our constrainted and small vanity top. I love my tap! I love the shape of this towel holder Toilet Paper Holder Kitchen Sink

Bluberi Ic.. Me from the SERS programme too. I bought a flat annouced for SERS and got this replacement flat.

4th March 08 Latest update! -All ceiling works are completed. -Electrical works completed -living room homogenous tiling completed -Kitchen's cabinet base completed -Cement Screeding completed -Painting half done ] Entertainment room painted with ICI - Granite Bedroom 2 painted with ICI - Bisque Kitchen entrance false wall painted with granite

26 Jan 08 Renovation work officially started on the 15th of January. The workers started with the ceiling works & electrical works, followed by the hacking and then the tiling works. According to Mr K, this will minimise the damage to our floor. On 18th of January we took a peep into our new place. All the walls were already hacked away. The whole place looks so spacious now. Ceiling works were also half done with the electrical wires done up. Take a look into our new place. View from the passageway from the main door. Left-most is the kitchen with the walls hacked away. On the right is Bedroom 3, or rather, the "entertainment room". It will have a glass wall and glass door. View from the Master bedroom. The other room other the right was originally Bedroom 2, but we have hacked away the wall to combine it with the Master bedroom. The study will be there as well.

Hi all, Thanks for the post. My blog was initially at live journal so decided to shift it here. So me going to "migrate" more posts here.... Stay Tune 28 Dec 2007 Today, we open the door to our new home! Reached our new place at around 9.40am and waited a while for our Feng Shui (FS) Master (Wang Shifu) from Hong Tai Ge to arrive. Was tempted to open the door to go in but remembered his directions to wait for him and not go in ourselves. He reached at the appointed time at 10am and after a simple ceremony at the door, which included saying some auspicious words and some banging on the door, we opened the door to our new flat for the first time! We could finally see the view from our flat. Not the magnificent sea view that some units facing the stadium are famed for, but we're both satisfied with the wide berth we have from the flats opposite us. Sadly, we couldn't see the Singapore Flyer. Probably our flat is too low. We had previously visited units higher up above us and they could catch a glimpse of the Singapore Flyer. Well, we're still contented with our unit nonetheless! Bedroom 1 (Possibly going to become our MBR - We're going to hack away the wall adjoining Bedroom 1 and the MBR). Our FS Master says this room is perfect for us. He says we will have a kid a year if we stay in this room. Hahah... the image of Mrs Klick as a "mu zhu" keeps appearing thereafter! Haha... We'll most likely take his advice, cos we both like the room very much as well and we feel very "comfortable" in that room as compared to the MBR. (Not to say we are uncomfortable in the MBR). The common toilet (left) and the MBR toilet (right). Mrs Klick can't stand the tiles. We're going to overlay everything.... 12 Jan 08 Hurray! Work on our flat will start on Monday! I sms Mr K yesterday to find out the cost for the PE that we require for the hacking. He got back to me with the figures and also informed me that our permit for the hacking of the walls have been approved and so work will start on next Monday! This is good news! So far we could only watch in envy while we see our neighbours starting work on their flat! Finally, ours will start.... Yesterday night, Mrs Klick and I went on a "hunting" trip to our new flat in an attempt to catch the possible illegal worker (IW) that was making the corridor outside our flat his home at night. We have never seen this IW but it was through deduction and info from various sources, we assessed someone was staying there. Some of the key points were: 1) There had been a foul stench at the corridor outside our unit. The drain was chocked with a black dunno-what gross substance. We have since got Town Council to clean it up, only after having to call them up numerous times over 2 months and finally threatening to write in a formal complaint. 2) There was a carpet and a empty lunchbox containing a fork and spoon wrapped in newspaper hidden behind one of the pipes in the corridor. I took the liberty to get rid of these stuff to tell him he is not welcomed. 3) The cleaner there told us that there is this Chinese guy that sleeps there. He had come across him in a few occasions. 4) Small pieces of crumpled-up newspaper were left at the corner of the space between the gate and the wooden door of my unit and my neighbours on a few occasion. There was even a few times when a whole set of a Chinese newspaper was stuffed at my gate. This was after I had taken it out and threw it one side. Next morning it was back at the same place! Spooky... Based on these information, we called the police and asked them to look into it. So far they haven't gotten back to us on it. The only update I got from them when I called to check was that they had sent additional patrol to check at night. Pretty disappointing... We drove over at around 1.30am and stealthily took the lift up to three floors above our flat. This was because we suspected he would make a run for it thru the stairs when he heard the lift stop at our level. So up we went and quietly, we walked to the other end and of the floor and looked down to survey the corridor area outside our flat. Well, he was not there.... We went down to our floor and to our corridor area and confirmed there was no one there. Even the smell that lingered after the washing seemed to have disappeared. Perhaps he is finally gone... Gone for good

27th Dec 2007 The day we have been waiting for! Collection of our keys! After months and months of waiting, we finally collected our keys! Our key collection time was 3.10pm and we were there by 1pm. There was still ample time after lunch at the nearby coffeeshop so we popped by the HBD Habitat Forum. Mrs Klick liked the colour scheme of the 4-room showflat and reiterated her point that we should have a stronger theme and adopt a bolder colour scheme. I liked the colours they used as well but I still think we need to make sure the colours need to match the modern we have chosen for the living room. Have to keep assuring her that the place won't be just white. She seems to have this impression that I want the flat to be mainly white. C'mon... I'm not so boring okay? Still had time in hand so we went for a walk to the shophouses nearby. When we returned at 2.45pm, we were shocked to see our queue number been flashed on three of the display slots! We quickly went to the designated cubicle and lucky the lady officer was still waiting for us. Phew~! The process of collecting the keys at HDB Hub was a straightforward but tedious one. Why tedious? Because there are lots and lots of documents to sign. Finally finished signing the documents and took over the keys after around an hour. Left the cubicle and went to collect the piping/electrical plan and applied for utilities at SP. After that, we're done! Here's the bag of keys that we have long been waiting for... But we can't open the doors today, cos we've got to wait for our Feng Shui Master to open the door with us tomorrow. Well, as I told Mrs Klick, we have waited for the keys for eons, what's another day of waiting to us? For a start, below is our proposed layout by our ID, Mr K!

Hi All, I just selected my flat at the above location due to SERS enbloc. All residents staying at that place, come join in! Cheers

Wah, thats a really good deal!

Hi Just curious how much cash above valuation you paid for this flat Cheers

Hi, Any other ID recommendation besides kelvin ? Anyone can PM me kelvin's contact?

Hi all, I think benedict is really busy. Called him but he seems unable to take projects. Any other ID in earnest to recommend? Thanks

Hi All, I am contemplating to choose Mr K from ideal house. Just to check does he complete his work on scheduele. Cause i am targeting to move in before Chinese New Year. Casue i read on the forum, a lot can't deliver on time. Please give me your genuine feedback. Thanks all!