Hello Folks & Fellow Neighours @ Jln Membina

(Loads of Photos- Please let them load)

Our renovation is finally completed! (Sort of)

Took like 9 months to get it done. Hehehe...(Period = Dec 07 till Sept08)

Not that we are in a hurry anyway

Feel free to comment and ask qns on our reno path. Will be glad to share.

Here are some photos of our house... (Pardon the different sizes though)

BARE-NESS : state of house before love and thought is given to it.

Initially, we had wanted to go for Modern (no classic) theme/design. Baby/HTB thinks that the classic part is a bit too 'old' and expensive for us.

Okay! Modern theme then. Let's see what's our end product in the later part of this entry.

Main Door = The doors for our house are the same throughout. Nice doors. Like condo ones, as I always say. Haha.. But hor, even the toilet doors are of the same pattern.

How to eat like that? Max at 1.6m Length of Dining table. SIGH.

Yes, bedroom door. (again) Nice right? Currently top in my list of "THINGS I LIKE ABOUT MY HOUSE".

Next, is our gloomy kitchen. Really gloomy right? No sign of sunlight at all.

Edited September 21, 200818 yr by saeran

congrats!!

Nice bedroom doors that u have.. how much is it ah??

Surprisingly, our toilets are very big. Too big. Was always lamenting how good it will be if the extra area could be put into good use at our living area.

We went to do a mock up of our dining and living area, ie: using masking tape to ‘draw’ out the max space we have. So sad. The more we mock, the more constraints we think we have.

Think I will invite only models into my house. Fat is out.

So I can tell you, 不是我家小， 是你胖!!

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Some ideas which came up during our reno progress...

This is what I call epitome of Modern Classic.

This is what I want.

As you can see, the dining bench is a MUST DO for me.

congrats!!

Nice bedroom doors that u have.. how much is it ah??

Hello Celestial, it came with the flat we are paying for. If you wish, you may show your ID/contractor the photo of this door. My friend did it too. Should be able to find something similar. Good Luck!

Another MUST DO. MBR Headboard.

These photos are taken off ID/reno magazines.

I like the designs I see at this site. Very classic.

First thing up: Our 'Gloomy' Kitchen

Preview of kitchen, yes, white laminates.

View of Kitchen from Foyer.

Works was then partially done for the kitchen. Real disappointing that the laminates looks wavy. Yah, perils of choosing glossy laminates for kitchen.

oh geez....i chose a glossy laminate as well...aim was to have light bounce off them in all sorts of unchartered angles to make the kitchen look bigger...now you've gotten me worried.

Work in progress then...

Aircon, ceiling and paint works in progress. Excited to see the end product?

The base of the false ceiling.

Living room cove ceilings. 是美的。

4FT box up **** room. Saeran’s idea. Made both of us **** happy. Makes the living room looks bigger!

Aircon location at the living room. Too Long.

oh geez....i chose a glossy laminate as well...aim was to have light bounce off them in all sorts of unchartered angles to make the kitchen look bigger...now you've gotten me worried.

Hello honeyclub, you need to remind your contractor/ID to do a good job. Also, choose a thicker type of laminate. Thicker = More Expensive. We din't go for the thicker type then. That's the result.

View from kitchen. Yes, my living room looks **** big hor? 哈哈！

Foyer - half painted with Velvet Dream. Colour same as our MBR.

MBR cove area. Dreamy…~~

We went to countless shops and numerous trips to Jalan Besar, Balestier... in search of the ultimate lights for our house. Very tiring and frustrating, when you see expensive lightings and wonder why are they so ex in the first place?

Baby likes our house to have a lot of lights. He wants it to be a 'Lights Gallery' -_-

Beautiful. Can’t stop thinking about this even as we went around 8-10 shops.

I must buy this!

Something like; “This is so saeran lorh!”

Happiness

As our living room will be facing the afternoon sun, it is very important that we choose the RIGHT direction to place the TV. Else, the distracting reflections will certainly piss me off.

Let’s get to the floor…

Super Shiny floor! Saeran likes!

We took a very very long time and effort to decide on the laminates for our house. Our friends actually took part in it also. Think this was during Feb time frame.

Baby and myself too went personally down to the office/factory one day to take samples (big pieces) and talk to the sales in charge.

Some of you may ask why don't you leave it to your ID? Well, we din't have an ID. We used contractor.

Anyway, we love this process during renovation. Nerve wrecking cos scared choose the wrong laminates. But the final product is the result of work we did! More on laminates later.

Okay, to the rooms.

Think our house is slowly morphing into Moroccan style.

i better flap the laminate to test it's thickness and your floors very shiny loooorrrr. Great welcome to Marrakesh

The 4ft box up is ready! Seen with my Shakira Dining Lamp.

Okay. Back to Kitchen Talk.

The granite top is up. Baby absolutely loves this. Even though I thought that white counter top will look better. But WHITE (AGAIN?) - it might stop all of us from cooking - totally. hehehe.

You see how sparkling it is? It always reminded me of some toilet in the hotels/shopping complex.

i better flap the laminate to test it's thickness and your floors very shiny loooorrrr. Great welcome to Marrakesh

Hehe..Think is better to ask your ID/Contractor to confirm for you. So that in any case, they have the responsibility to ensure nothing goes wrong to your laminates!

how's de color of velvet dream? i'm using it for the wall behind my bedhead in my mbr. i hope it turns out good.

btw, i'm waiting to c all ur carpentary wk. shuld be pretty impressive. how much u spend on the reno?

Next...Our Feature Wall!

Okay, finally —- another progress in our home! Feature wall **** room. Awesome. We actually thought that it will be the wrong choice when I first saw the un-finished feature. But ****, it was a beauty. Subtle beauty.

The 2nd feature wall @ our MBR. The prints and colours of the laminate matched our wall colours (Velvet Dream - from Nippon) well.

Another view. No, the right side of the feature wall is not for displaying items. That’s unfinished feature wall. Need another set as the max one piece of laminate can go is 4ft x 8ft. (Impt to note when designing feature walls, folks. That’s the reason why most feature wall needs some designs. Not cause the owner wants it that way -_-)

There you have it. TV @ MBR is up! Though nothing much can be said about the resolution of LCD TVs, the TV just fits perfectly well inside the allocated cut out on the feature wall.

Close up of the floral laminates we have got for the wall. Some bridal house is using the pure white ones. Nice too.

Edited September 21, 200818 yr by saeran

Nice! Keep the pictures coming.

how's de color of velvet dream? i'm using it for the wall behind my bedhead in my mbr. i hope it turns out good.

btw, i'm waiting to c all ur carpentary wk. shuld be pretty impressive. how much u spend on the reno?

Hello mwerkz.. velvet dream is definitely the colour to go for in MBR! Super cozy. You should be able to see it in my posts now.

No regrets man.

We spent SGD21K on the reno. This includes the lighting points. Which is reasonable because we have a LOT of lights!

Nice! Keep the pictures coming.

Hello Angel81..okay..more photos coming up. BTW, what you waiting for as mentioned in your signature? hehehe.. any tblog to share?

Edited September 21, 200818 yr by saeran

Nice work! clap*clap*clap*

Waiting to see more pics...hee

Meanwhile, some photos which tells you our initial choices….

Actually, the choice is quite a clear cut decision on the floral laminates.

Photos taken with handphone, thus the inconsistencies in the wall colour.

I love this living room laminates which we had chose!

And I think everyone should try this method which we did. You never know till you try.

One of my wish list then:...Stone - by Kartell.

Okay, time for more carpentry! *** Exciting part***

Pardon the the yellow/orange tint in the photos. Never set white balance

1/2 done dining area. Missing dimpled cushion & mirror on both walls.Has always been in our MUST DO list.

Planning for misc stuffs (eg: keys/hp/icons/photo frames) on the area above our shoe cabinet.

Edited September 21, 200818 yr by saeran

150cm shoe cabinet. FengShui has a saying, that shoe cabinet can't be taller than the owner. My fault la!

Open up and reveals the 9 tier cabinet. Hehe.. it will NEVER be enough lorh. Had a thought of getting the wheel shoe holder seen in Molecule. But then again, seems like the dirt it might trap is a headache?

Here's to show you guys my elephant (aircon). Check out my glowing downlights from Laniber. Expensive and kenna tok already.

Cove lights above the dining area

Close up of the floral laminates we have got for the wall. Some bridal house is using the pure white ones. Nice too.

love ur laminate!! but we can't afford