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Sweet Home Complete Makeover~!

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Let me share my sweethome's complete A-Z makeover renovation....

Before that, let's take a look at the original looks of the house when we bought it...

The Kitchen

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Common Toilet

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Kitchen Door

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Master Bedroom

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Master Bedroom Toilet

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Bedroom 1

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Bedroom 2

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Study Room

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Main Hall

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Balcony

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It's time to HACK HACK HACK!

There's goes the kitchen stove/basin area...

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And the living room marble tiles...

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And the MBR next...

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Together with bedroom 1...

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And the MBR toilet's bathtub's beneath was full of leaked water!!! Yikes!

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The common toilet's tiles and everything have to go!

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And down goes the kitchen wall since we wanted an "open feel" concept...

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And so is the balcony area... no walls!

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And linking up MBR and Bedroom 1, there goes the wall between them...

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The more we hack, the more shiok we feel, so down goes the Study Room's wall too! :D

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While the debris goes down, the tiles comes up!

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You have a package!

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After clearing all the debris, it's time to patch things up... :paint: Wet (Masonry) works is next!

cement screeding the common toilet...

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And the kitchen walls...

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Cover up the Bedroom 1 original door hole...

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MBR toilet wall is good now too... we shifted the original door opening more leftwards due to our design of the MBR room.

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waterproofing in action!

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While the kitchen and toilets are in progress, the other rooms are undergoing cement screeding, in preparation for the parquet flooring in 5 days time...

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Kitchen's tiles! UP!

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Common Toilet's tiles! UP! UP!

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Living room's 800x800 homo tiles is along the way...

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And so is the kitchen floor tiles too!

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Here's a more clean-up look after the tiles are laid...

Living room shine shine!

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Common Toilet wall design...

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Kitchen's chute is mounted...

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Kitchen walls are cleaned up!

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MBR Toilet cultured tiles are up...

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And floor tiles, toiletbowl... and best of all, my jacuzzzzzzziiiiiii..... :P

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While everything is still messing around, the air-con men arrives...

Compressor & blowers

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26K BTU blower in the living room...

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12K BTU blower in the MBR-linked-to-Bedroom1...

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9K BTU blower in Bedroom 2...

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9K BTU blower in Study Room...

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Mounting in progress...

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Checking for gas level and topping up...

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Next is laying the parquet flooring...

Woodstock is here!

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Applying glue...

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halfway there...

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building a platform bed...

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Special arrangement for aircon-pipes to go beneath platform...

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About done in Bedroom2...

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And MBR too...

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Covering up the platform...

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About done too...

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We decided to use 2/3 of the orig MBR as a walk-in wardrobe. So here's the partition wall process...

The partition guys doing measurement and marking...

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Gunning the support metal structure base to the ceiling & wall....

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Adding the rest of the structure...

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Pulling some electrical wires for the power & lights...

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Covering the partition boards now...

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