A Home Of Our Own@simei St 1

[nurikonagano 0]

hi..u can refer to my reno blog for some ideas and tips on renovation...i renovated mine ages ago...but stuck around here coz i love to see new renovations before and after photos.

every renovation is without its share of headaches and problem..most importantly u know what to look out for and resolve them when it comes.

Hi! I've just bookmarked your "http://diva79.blogspot.com/" to read at home. Opened the blog and took a quick look just now. Seems very informative! Not convenient to read in office now....

[jeffcraze 0]

Welcome to RT! Welcome to Simei!

Will be reading yr blog tonite when I get home. Not convenient to do so in office..

[kor69 0]

Welcome to RT too

Have a pleasant Reno Journey

mine was great

its the moving and shifting ... i hate :bangwall:

[nurikonagano 0]

Thanks all for the warm welcome

Getting a lil bored at work, so come in here to take a peek....

As mentioned earlier, suppose to meet ID on 9th April. Ytd FH called and say she wanna change to 6th April night. Ok....since I'm free, of cos will be good to discuss earlier. Then just now, FH called again and say can meet this Sat if she finish drawing out the design. U free I not free lor....Don like to keep changing the appointment....Well but at least I think I will have more updates about my reno by end of next week.

In the meantime, have to think of how I wanna plan the space of my WIW. More hanging space? More shelves? Hmmm....A drawer to hide away the intimate wear and socks is a must.....Thinking of having a glass top drawer to put the watches and some accessories....and I'll need some shelves to put my loads of skincare products. What else??

[nurikonagano 0]

Been 2 weeks since I last update. But there isn't much to update actually.

End up my meeting with the ID was postponed till last Tuesday (It almost get postponed to Wednesday again if not that I show blackface to my FH)

But FH just told me that his cousin is helping us with the design for free. U can't demand much when things come free rite?

And he have another cousin studying design at Raffles, doing internship now, who will help us with the 3D drawings (yeah~ for free again)

During the meeting we basically talked about the basic layout thru some sketches, and we printed out some pictures of what we would like to have to show them. Most of the layout stuff settled except for:

1) TV Console - FH just ordered a set of 5.1 home theatre system from his bro's fren (they buy average system otr and modify them to better specs for u) and there's some problem with the placement of the woofers and speakers in front if we use the previous suggested design. So ID will think about it and redraw for us.

2) Kitchen layout - Previous design was meant for placing only a washing machine behind. Now that FH wants a dryer too, design needs modification. Place against wall on the left and stack on washing machine, it'll block ventilation and sunlight. Place against wall on right side where the high cabinets and fridge will be, I find it ugly. So.....we still cannot decide. Now we are considering to get a washer cum dryer to solve the problem. Need to do some research on whether such 2-in-1 machine is inferior to the separate ones before we decide.

3) Blank wall on left of living area - As we don have a store room, was thinking of making use of this wall to add some storage spaces that acts as some design display as well. Quite like a particular design from Acerbis International but ID says it's high maintenance. Hmmmm......so we shall wait for internship cousin to come up with the design for us (New blood got more creative ideas mah)

It'll probably take some time, but I can't wait to see the 3D drawings!

[nurikonagano 0]

Can't believe my last post was in April...so little progress in the last 2 months.

End up FH's cousin din do a good job on the 3D drawings, so we make do with the 2D drawings we have (trying to save every cent here!). Haiz...family problems.

Anyway, we finally started the hacking of walls and floor on 6th of June!

Look at the big heap of thrash torn down on the first day!

Wall to be hacked for our WIW

It din go well that week cos we had neighbours coming by to complain about the noise level of the drilling and hacking. We haven move in they already so unfriendly... The workers say that there's this Indian lady who came to complain, went into our house (trespassing!!!) and took photos around saying she will use those pics to complain. Hello??? We got permit from HDB to do the hacking~~~ In the end, an officer really came down, and in order to pacify that lady, ask the workers to use one driller instead of 2 to cut down the noise level. OMG! What an idiot. U drag our progress, then the noise will prolong right? In the end we couldn't finish the hacking within the 3 days and had to apply for another permit to continue hacking the next week.

[nurikonagano 0]

After more hacking in the 2nd week and clearing of all the scraps....

MBR view from WIW (wall hacked)

Common room 1 from MBR (we hacked down the whole store room)

Living room with the delivered cement!

Kitchen cabinets taken down, and wall hacked for a more "open kitchen"

Common Bathroom wall hacked to re-position the door

[nurikonagano 0]

After all the tearing down, now it's time to put things up!

Putting up the new windows~~~

New bathroom windows installed!

We took measurements of floor to ceiling again after all the hacking and realise that the cement below the tiles was around 5cm thick!!! So with the hacking, now our ceiling is 5cm taller. Hahahaha.....Better than nothing. Cos I was quite bothered about the low ceiling we have. Last Sunday night I went down to take a look with a torchlight and saw that they have start with the plastering of the wall.

Last but not least, the latest update yesterday when my FH went down to "spot check"

They have started laying the marble tiles for the living room! Finally it won't be a house of just bricks and cement. LOL~