I'm a newcomer in the forum had been reading the threads for quite a while. Finally, it's my turn to start my own t-blog after silently reading thru so many people's blogs!

Have gotten our keys to our love nest on 26th March 2010! Have been looking around for IDs and contractors (some recommended in the forum) even before we got the keys but have yet to narrow down our choices yet. Tight budget, but wanna do a lot of things. Will post a pic of our floor plan by this weekend and share our experience about the IDs and contractors that we have met up to date and also to get some insights.

Till then, ciao!

welcome to the RT family! Hope to see more if your house transformation.

Welcome to RT-blog .

It's like that de .... a lot of stuff to do but little $$$ haha. Think a lot of us also face the same problem

Waiting to see your floorplan.

Thanx for the welcomes!

I wanna show u guys my floor plan too! But... the thing is my hubby forgot to do the settings for our printer to be able to scan the floor plan..

now trying to see if can get the soft copy from hdb website..

welcome...Simei...my area toooooooooooooo......lol

Thanx for the welcomes!

I wanna show u guys my floor plan too! But... the thing is my hubby forgot to do the settings for our printer to be able to scan the floor plan..

now trying to see if can get the soft copy from hdb website..

jus pay $5 lor if u want to get from HDB. since u hv hard copy then find a scanner somewhere, home or office to scan it in...save $

wcseow -> u staying in simei too? which part?

welcome...Simei...my area toooooooooooooo......lol

I got scanner cum printer at home, juz tat my hubby has yet to set up the scanner.. he promised to do it tonite.. will "irritate" him till he sets it up..

jus pay $5 lor if u want to get from HDB. since u hv hard copy then find a scanner somewhere, home or office to scan it in...save $

juz a little update.. we have already been sourcing for quotations from contractors and IDs.. some recommended in the forum, some by frenz, some at roadshows.. am pending 2 more quotations before relating abt our experience with those we met up so far..

Finally able to scan our floor plan..

It's rather small, but, still, it's our very own love nest!

Anyone with any comments or suggestions on wat can be done, please share! Most willing to listen..

Juz to share some pre-reno pics.. Albeit not taken very nicely..

Kitchen

Common Toilet

Store room wif ugly stain on floor - will be hacked off to make the kitchen cum dining area bigger

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Living room - view 1

Living room - view 2

MBR

MBR toilet

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Bedroom 2 - the odd angled room which will be converted to a study cum wardrobe room (but not WIW)

Bedroom 3 - along the corridor

To date, we (actually hubby did all the talking) have met up wif 11 IDs and contractors. We are too tired from searching for more and already have a good idea of wat we want already, thus decided to stop our "hunting" for IDs/contractors le.. Now in the process of narrowing down to the last few and asking for revised quotation and hope to finalise on one soon!

We are intending to:

1) Hack all the floor and wall tiles in the whole house

2) Hack the store room (the L-shape in the kitchen only)

3) Lay tiles in kitchen, toilets, living room and all the 3 bedrooms (thought of doing laminates but impossible coz we have a dog which likes to scratch the floor. )

4) Paint the whole house and bedroom doors

5) Construct L-shaped wardrobe

6) Construct kitchen cabinets

7) Construct TV console and feature wall in living room

8) Replace the windows in the living room and bedroom 3 and put grills for all the windows

9) Replace main gate

10) Plumbing

11) Rewiring (coz our flat already 22 years old le)

12) Construct shoe cabinet

13) Re-construct store room in bedroom 2

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