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We decided to shift our blog updates here... hehe :dancingqueen:

Summary of Major Milestones of the Progress of our home-making

28 NOV 2007 - First Viewing of the unit

6 DEC 2007 - Deposit $1000 and signed Option to Buy Letter

13 FEB 2008 - First Appointment with HDB

13 MAR 2008 - Renovation Commences

19 MAR 2008 - Second Appointment with HDB

For the details of our past progression of our unit, please go to our blog here

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FLOOR PLAN

Some of the Pictures before Renovation Starts...

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The Living Room now LOOKS Brighter

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Our Dining Hall

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Our Kitchen

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Our Work Room

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Shower Room

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Master Bedroom

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Common Room

 

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Hey, your floorplan shows your place as being spacious for a 3 room flat besides the interesting layout.. is that a 90sqm or 80 sqm area I see?

 

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CONFIRMED Interior Design Firm

After one by one contractor, and after our first appointment with HDB, we finally come down to a decision to hire ideal house as our renovation contractor, our interior designer is Steven Tay from IDEAL HOUSE.

Recommended by our friend. A friendly and patient guy that really listen to what we look for in the house design... and try his best to do to what we want... notti.gif

Selection of Tiles

Our ID brought us to select our floor tiles at Balestier today. We managed to pick our floor tiles within 2 hours. Kinda of fast. But somehow we can visualize the kind of tiles we wanted as our home theme is Modern Classic.

My hubby has his eyes on a rustic feel tile for the foyer floor. The surface seems a bit rough, gives a ruggard kind of feel. Good for me, less cleaning... haha. i cannot stand things that can see dirty too easily.

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Steven recommended a cement looking tile for kitchen. But then, we prefer black tile for kitchen. The kitchen carpentery shall be red and black theme.... Wooo.... we can visualize its going to be very nice as our kitchen lack of light shining in. Red shall brighten up the kitchen feel...

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Then going into our utitily room where we decided to overlay the flooring since it was just being upgraded by HDB with a woody feel.

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Then for the living hall, we do not have much to choose... our ID recommended a neutral beige for the living hall and black for toilet floor. Initally, even before going to meet our ID, my ideal tiles for living hall is black gloss tile. But seems like we do not have much selection. Our ID recommended matte tile if we want a solid color. But then he warned us that there is a lot of maintenance to be done, and you can see if its dirty easily. He did recommend us a greyish matte tile but that again look like cement floor which i don't really agree on. tentatively, my hubby and i choose on a beige white homogeneous tile.

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As we still have some time, we went to Jalan Besar to select our sink, kitchen tap and towel bowl. We couldn't see a nice sink so we shall KIV our toilet basin and sink tap. We might be DIYing our basin bracket.

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Cooker hob.... we prefer to get the black gloss instead of aluminium surface... our ID shall be checking out the extra amount we need to fork out. We were so tempted to get the flat sleek cook hob that runs on electric.. but was quoted 900 plus...forget it... :P

Hey, your floorplan shows your place as being spacious for a 3 room flat besides the interesting layout.. is that a 90sqm or 80 sqm area I see?

HDB upgraded a utitly room... and making up to 76 sq metres. :P

HACK HACK HACK from 13th to 14th March 2008

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Demolished particles.. HEHEHE

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Tiles Demolished @ the living hall....

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Half height wall Demolished... it really make a difference, the house look bigger!

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Kitchen cabinet demolished!

Demolish + Dismantle work COMPLETED!

Tiling Works from 18 Mar to 21 March 2008

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Tiles up for the toilet!

Still not happy with the wall tiles but due to $$$ constraints, we have to bear with this for the time being, after all, we dont really spend much time in the shower room or WC room.... I HATE the flower strips!:dribble: gonna find some way to cover this up!

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Kitchen tiles upz!

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Work Room tiles Upz!

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Living Hall tiles not done up yet...

We can't wait to see the end result! Kitchen base is yet to done up as we have yet to find a fridge yet.. haha

we promise to get our measurement by 16 March...

WALL COLOURS

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For the overall house....

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For the master bedroom and common room

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For the headboard wall of the master bedroom

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For the Dining Hall

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For the Work Room

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For the living hall Feature wall

Electrical Stuff

Finally bought the major electrical appliances for our house..

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Sony LCD KLV-40S310A

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Hitachi R-Z410AM

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Electrolux 7kg Washer EWF984-1084

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Alpha EC-888 Water Heater

Plastering works done on 29th March

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Now they are laying the wires and aircon trunking will be next weel! We will see our dream house SOON!:P

LIGHTNINGS for the House

Our ID brought us to one of the lighting shop at Jurong East near to Chinese Garden MRT on 30 March 2008.

The following are the items we bought:

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Recession Lights at the Entrances to Dining Hall

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Downlights for Living Hall and Dining Hall

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Milo Tins for the Kitchen and Laundry Area

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Lights for the Shower room and WC room

 

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Wow, not bad, your layout is different from the normal standard layout for 3 roomers. You were referring to induction cooker hob right? Would be more worth it if you got a 2 hob induction cooker as cannot use 4 hobs at the same time for cooking. Cheaper one is vitroceramic but got to be careful 'cos can burn yourself compared to induction. :dribble:

 

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Work Room Lights

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Master bedroom and common room lightings

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Dining Hall Lighting (Oh i LOVE this... but really concern with the result if its too dim)

Wow, not bad, your layout is different from the normal standard layout for 3 roomers. You were referring to induction cooker hob right? Would be more worth it if you got a 2 hob induction cooker as cannot use 4 hobs at the same time for cooking. Cheaper one is vitroceramic but got to be careful 'cos can burn yourself compared to induction. :)

Hah Budget budget... our reno contractor giving us FOC but we are topping up to a glass surface hob :D

Wanted to get vitrocreamic but really on tight budget.. perhaps when we are richer in years to come by.... :dunno:

FINALISED 3D VIEW OF OUR HOUSE

After selecting the Cabinets, the wall colours... our ID finally produce a 3D perspective view of our dream house

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Lively Living Hall

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Classic Dining Hall

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Cozy Master Bedroom

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Our Black and Red Kitchen

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And lastly Laundry Area

WALLS PAINTED!:dribble: ON 3rd APRIL 2008

Finally! Our walls are now painted... we were worried that the colour we picked are too dark....

the effect turns out quite nicely...

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Entrance

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Dining Hall... ROYAL Purple... Favourite area of my hubby

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Living Hall... Wooo VOGUE PINK!:P The favourite Wall of mine

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Kitchen (my camera's problem)

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Mini Storeroom

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Shower and WC toilet

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Common Room

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Master Bedroom

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Work Area

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Our incomplete set of lightings... and the FOC door bell.... (ugly but bo bian la its free gift) and they are going to be installed on 8 April!:P

The only thing that we are really unhappy is the aircon trunking... it appear very obvious from the master bedroom on to the toilet... sad case but bo bian. :(

General cleaning was done on 12 April 2008 night....

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Living Hall View

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Entrance View... I love the contrast blend effect of the foyer to the dining hall!:P

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Dining Hall View

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Access Corridor to Bedrooms

Carpenetry Works

16 April

My Hubby went to take some snap shots of the inital stage of installation.... Can't wait to see the completion of our home!

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What a mess at the halls!:)

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With woods and woods and MORE pieces of wood

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Our Custom Made dining table SKELETON!!! hoho...

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Mirror Mirror On the wall... Hey where's my Mirror?

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Our Accessories Arrived AT LAST!

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Dining Hall Benches

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Closer look at the Dining Hall Benches

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Master Bedroom Wardrobe

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The Redundant Window... at the bedroom (we're gg to cover this up)

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Kitchen Cabinets Upz!

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Laundry Area....

 

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Nice 3 Ds & your colours look nice. I counted 6 diff colours choosen, but out of the 6 colours there. 4 are neutral companions to contrast nicely with Dark or light grey. Nice

2 hob vitroceramic (Ariston) is about 499 with mayer, might have discounted price. The brands, not sure about the pricing but brandt is ex

 

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Counting down to Moving in!:dribble:

We went to check on the progress again...

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Finally they got our window fixed up... now it look more like a house hehe :P

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Dining Hall

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Kitchen Cabinet.... SO Nice!

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Laundry Area... duno why the cabinet at the right look so extremely crooked....

Nice 3 Ds & your colours look nice. I counted 6 diff colours choosen, but out of the 6 colours there. 4 are neutral companions to contrast nicely with Dark or light grey. Nice

2 hob vitroceramic (Ariston) is about 499 with mayer, might have discounted price. The brands, not sure about the pricing but brandt is ex

Thanks thanks...

My parents n in-laws are quite pessmistic on the colours... u know.. old folks. but we want our unit to be somewhat different. Quite glad that the colours come up to our expectations.

basically our renovation is completing soon and we can move in in early May! so happy.

Ok.. i'll take note on the price and brand. thanks for ur recommendations :P

 

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No prob. Just sharing what I know. :dribble:

Old folks are like that with traditional outlook. When I did the painting of my place with my hubby, we painted it in monchromatic coliours like dark & light grey colours for living & red for one of the walls. My PIL felt the colours were too sombre and dark for their liking. Only when the flooring & skirting are up then it made the view look better for them.

It's very difficult for older generation to visualise clearly how the colours will turn out so it might turn out not too bad for your folks when everything's up in the end

 

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No prob. Just sharing what I know. :P

Old folks are like that with traditional outlook. When I did the painting of my place with my hubby, we painted it in monchromatic coliours like dark & light grey colours for living & red for one of the walls. My PIL felt the colours were too sombre and dark for their liking. Only when the flooring & skirting are up then it made the view look better for them.

It's very difficult for older generation to visualise clearly how the colours will turn out so it might turn out not too bad for your folks when everything's up in the end

Ya... i feel after we fit in some of the carpentry, it doesnt look small... but they are not living in the unit mah... most importantly is we like it haha.

RED? initially my ID also recommend us RED but i fell in love with this Lolipop pink when i first saw in the catalogue. :dribble:

 

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Hehehe, as long as you're happy with the colours, don't have to worry about others. :P

Ya... i feel after we fit in some of the carpentry, it doesnt look small... but they are not living in the unit mah... most importantly is we like it haha.

RED? initially my ID also recommend us RED but i fell in love with this Lolipop pink when i first saw in the catalogue. :dribble:

 

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Progress to date 19 April 2008

We went up in the morning to check on the progress... and spotted some stuff that need to be changed!

Living Hall

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TV console TOO BROAD!:P:)

Too awfully bulky look... To be cut to slimmer the breath of the tv console!

Dining Hall

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My Favorite Lamp needs to be centralize!

Temper Glass is installed today!:P:dribble:

Custom-made Dining Table

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The dimensions our ID given us is too short! My hubby was so dismay when he saw this. He has been looking forward to this table as we couldn't find any table to our liking... Talked to our ID... change change change... :P

Kitchen

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Some bits and minor things need to be changed e.g. the base of the drawer to use a thicker wood. Found some tears and scratches but we are assured by our ID, by handover, will do up the touch up...

Master Bedroom

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hope not too late to spam chop. nice design. :yamseng: seems like u have a lot of carpentry work too. :P

Yeah. actually we did carpentry for whole house except the work room and the common room and toilet.

And this go up to our reno bills... :dancingqueen:

 

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Hey Shix2_82, is your ID from Ideal House?

Anyway, just like you, my bf like a dark glossy finish tiles, but the sales person told us it is not easy to maintain too. So she recommended a greyish black matte with running tone for a modern contemporary look. It's a pretty tile. After much consideration, we stick to beige tiles for living also. =)

 

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Another Steven/Max from Ideal House member!!

Really love the look for your house!:yamseng: All that carpentry!:dancingqueen: Love that pink/red matching with black...too bad my FH likes more white and bright....

More pictures!:P!

 

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