Hello! Decided to start a T Blog here after reading so many interesting blogs from you guys! Have been a silent reader since late last year and now my reno is almost ready hence would like to share my buys and progress.
My crib is located in the north-east area, we got our keys in mid jan. Renovation did not start until mid march as i want to avoid the CNY period.
First up, my tiny 4 room floor plan :
Floor Plan
Theme
As per the title, i am going for the super overuse wood,white & black color board in my new crib because i love the ambiance of those cafes which are sprouting over in Singapore over the past 1 year or so. Hence i decide to create the same ambiance which consist of a little of scandi, loft style so that i will not spend so much money on cafe-hopping.
A few must haves :
Woodgrain laminates
White laminate
Brick wall
Black electrical conduits
Contractor/ID
We have decided from start to engage a contractor instead of ID mainly because i have the design more or less in my mind.
I have read through so many blogs here and the first one i approach was Nicholas from Renoguyz.
He is the first and the only contractor we met up. We decided to engage him as our contractor after 2 meetups. He has a reputation of being sloppy,straight forward but that is what my husband like about him. Both of us are comfortable with him throughout the 2 meetups with him and we get along quite well with him hence we decided to take the plunge and go with him.
His ideas are more to the practical side and if he thinks it is not nice or will not fit, he will voice it out instead of accepting whatever i have suggested.
Budget
We did not take up any renovation loan hence our budget is quite limited and we allocated under 20K for renovation.
Nick gave me a very satisfied quotation 1 day after our meetup and its well below our 20K!
p.s : we opt in for tiles and doors from HDB.
Things we did :
Taobao
I have been an avid fan of TB since 5 years ago and It is in my natural instinct to get stuffs from TB since i am quite well verse with it. .
I have engaged AMCON for all my sea shipments till date. Their prices are slightly cheaper than other forwarders and they are fast! My 3rd shipment only took 5days! It is true that they say cheap will not be good, good will not be cheap because their customer service is like non-existence. Shall not rant on that part however i will still use them because of their speed!
Did not receive any damage on any of my items so far and i have to give credit to the AMCON warehouse staff and delivery uncle and of cos to TB sellers who wrapped it so well and sturdy!
I will write a separate post on my purchases on TB.
Progress
I do not have the before and after photos because i am not always around when they are doing the works. I only do checks on weekends and most of the time it is nicely done! So i only have the almost-done photos.
Every weekend checks are like opening presents during Christmas because our crib is changing every single week i went up and check!
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Hi can you pls send me the number of contractor to sweetycancan@gmail.com?