For dining, living, and mbr, it's ok just with cove lights. But kitchen definitely need even more.... My mbr, 90% i only on cove lights. So is my dining. But kitchen definitely need brighter.

thanks for letting us have a view of your place csingeu & lovely wife, i must say i dont know what's wrong with your situation as i was too busy admiring the view and reno progress *paiseh* may you have a smooth finish to the rest of your reno work.

Hi Bro,

Thanks for letting me and my partner have a look at your house. It was especially bright and airy!

Love the unblocked view from the MBR and balcony.

Hope your Reno shun shun all the way!

Edited May 22, 201115 yr by knownothing

For dining, living, and mbr, it's ok just with cove lights. But kitchen definitely need even more.... My mbr, 90% i only on cove lights. So is my dining. But kitchen definitely need brighter.

Exactly, that's why my kitchen is the only place I have flourecent White tube ceiling light.

Anyway, the fsm already advised me that my house must be bright & I'm now getting used to having more lights. All my downlights are warm White lights. I will also feel dizzy if there are too many warm lights.

yo so we finally "forced" you to update?

anyway, on the cove light, i personally prefer daylight. but why not just try out May's / your mom's suggestion to use both warm and cool white? even if you find it not suitable after a while, the lights can still be changed...

Edited May 23, 201115 yr by marshmallow

I would suggest that anywhere you are likely to be doing any reading whether it is a book, ingredients of a food packet or the latest bill to arrive, it would be better to use natural light.

We use warm in the bedrooms, warm in the living room down lights but natural in the ceiling fan which gets used 90% of the time.

Now if you want to be really funky, get dome bright white lights and fit a clear plastic cover over them and then tint the cover with different colour plastic films to give any colour you want, when you want it.

Natural and warm for the living room seems like a decent compromise. Natural for the dining area as if you want it more romantic you can just bring out the candles.

Bedroom should be warm... either that or disco lights .

Rb

Hahaha...finally some updated progress photographs as at 21-May-2011, 4:00pm!!

View from the Main Gate where csingeu relocated:

The dining area with windows along the corridor:

View of the Kitchen with partial hacked wall:

From Main entrance seeing out to the Balcony:

View of main entrance standing at balcony:

One worker was seen working when we were there last Saturday.

actually cove light is very bright le, despite i'm using warm and not daylight.

ya, a mixture will be good, wont be overall bright, yet cozy (when you want to)

haa. need sis mae to update photos on ur behalf ah.

the flooring looks good le!

dun really see grout lines wor.

wah it looks so nice and clean! thanks mae for the updates. cs, I like your gate!

hmm regarding lights, I like warm lights in the living room. at night it gives a very cosy and warm feel which I love. not surprisingly my bedroom also has warm lights. usually you use warm lights for mood.

for reading in bedroom and living room, I was considering white light from task lighting e.g. side table lamp etc for functional purposes.

my toilets and kitchen, bathroom and dresser table uses white light. downlights in my living room are warm, the DIY chandelier in my kitchen will also be warm.

continued from progress updating:

Master Bedroom:

Entrance to his MBR:

The toilet with the controversial discussion on shower bay:

The WC area:

Common toilet: Nice wall tiles...but may not be easy to maintain when dirt accumlates..

Continued from above:

The staircase railings...csingeu is unhappy with the workmanship

hmm.. the staircase railings really looks off.. the joints like mismatched?

n how come there's a weird joining line?

seems abit dangerous? if happen to knock against it, will it give way?

Continued from above:

Windows & view at MBR:

Ceiling at the LivingRoom done:

The Balcony ... with the steel bracket for aircon compressor

...and you guess who are these people (excluding the photographer - mae29)..

Edited May 23, 201115 yr by mae29

the one with bb is sleek?

My most concern is the floors are not protected with corrugated boards at ALL!!

I was worried that they may be scratches as works are still going on....with workers seen carrying & moving things around. I thought it should be a practice to lay protection once the floorings are done?