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sharino

Our First Home - First Renovations

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Hubby and I got our keys back in Feb 2007, one month after our wedding.

Home

Jurong West St 42

5A unit 133sqm

We had initially wanted to renovate our Kitchen and common toilet but the plans was put aside when I found out that I was pregnant in May.

Now our Princess is already 7months and Our renovations are on the way.

We had consulted several IDs

1) Innerview @ IMM - Package price beyond our budget

2) Ideal reno @ Up Bukit Timah - Mid pricing but charges quite high for hacking

3) Line Living @ Imm - Came to view our hm but did not quote despite sms reminders

4) Roslan Renovation @ Geylang - Didnt bother to serve us to quote independently - **** Disappointed

5) Home Way Design @ Geylang - Wanted to confirm but quotation was slightly above our budget

6) Multi-Building Interior Renovation thru Straits Times - Our last attempt. Hubby wanted to find contractor as he can design through software himself.

Choice - Multi-building Interior Renovations - Sincere, chatty contractor in his mid 40s. Acceptable prices

with great design input coming from a contractor.

Photos of work in progress coming up with further details

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Scope of work

1) HDB permit

2) Hack existing cabinet, concrete support for stove, floor tiles.

3) Change water pipings and wirings for kitchen and common toilet

4) Supply and install

- 1no WC

- 1no Water heater storage tank

- vanity top cabinet door

- 1no aluminium Toilet window

5) New kitchen and toilet flooring from whitehorse

6) overlay kitchen and toilet walls from whitehorse

7) Necessary waterproofing, sand, etc

8) Construct sink, stove and kitchen support with breakfast table - see pics

9) Necessary fridge,washer base, concrete border for rubbish chute

10) Makeover of Vanity top in toilet - re-tile plus construct a concrete panel with indentations to put shampoo etc

11) Acid cleaning, disposal etc

Note: carpentry eg doors for concrete support are not done by our contractor. Advised by him to consult his friend who is a carpenter after the works are complete.

We even decided to revamp our balcony

1) Hack existing half height wall tiles and arch cornise

2) Lay full height 'rustic' tiles from whitehorse

3) construct platform

4) Lay parquet on platform

5) Boxed up water pipe at balcony

6) Necessary wiring

Toilet hacked and wall halfway tiled. Look at the old fashioned vanity

DSC00236.jpgKitchen hacked

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balcony hacked

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More pictures of work in progress

kitchen wall tiled halfway

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balcony tiled with whitehorse 'rustic tiles'

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Will add more pics when we take today. Heard that the balcony platform and parquet will take a few days itself to complete.

Kitchen wall tiles was designed by the contractor albert to be placed staggered...

Will post pics of my parent's hm too - feature wall and PLC light done by my contractor 4days ago concurrently with my renovations. Mum stays 1 block away from me

 

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that's a great view from your balcony.... ideal coffee corner

exactly our intentions but it will be with tatami mats on the parquet and probably a tv console with a 32" LCD but not wall mounted as its quite a heartache to drill the new tiles. haha.

sidetrack abit.. Our 7mths old daughter on her palm seat which we just bought but currently stored at my parent's hm

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