Hi,

Wow, the amount of work, hours and agony (not to mention $$) for our 6 weeks moved out period to completely re-do our EM is finally done.

We bought this place 8 years back but didn't do much as we are not sure if we liked the neighbourhood enough. But must say, everything OK. So we decided to give it a major revamp as like a new flat.

In jun last year, we finally got down to it to hurt for a renovation/designer contractor(RD). We spoke to three and finally choose one (and he is not the cheapest) simply we liked his style of consultative and most patient approach ie he doesn't push you to do things which does not creat the wow factor, and he most patient with idiots like us.

We finally decided on all the fixtures, tiles, color and after 2 to 3 changes of the designs in Oct 10. In mid Nov, we moved out and the whole place was hacked out, including repiping and rewiring. The only thing we saved was the luscious teak flooring (about 20 years old) from top to bottom floor.

Rough specs of the work:

• Re hack and remodeled 3 toilets
  
• Re design 4 bedrooms including all custom made furnitures
  
• Re hack and redesign back balcony with specific instruction to have a hideaway for laundries
  
• Re hack and redesign kitchen
  
• Re model the living room to maximise dead space usage (we use this to create a storeroom, which is sadly missing from EM design)
  
• Re model the living room to become a threatre/music haven when needed
  
• Re model the back balconey into a usuable area
  
• Re piping entire place
  
• Re wiring entire place
  
• Change the old sliding windows
  

Of course it may not look like much, but the final bill says it all (it is a lot of work)!

The shops involved:

All sanitary fixtures + basins + taps - Poh Joo in Jalan Besar

Tiles - Hafery

Fans KDK - Parisilk Electronics

PL LIghtings - Chan Huat

Ovens/Cooking Hob - Technogas

Curtains - MGL

The KEY person (RD) that helmed this together is Jason of Ritchie Design (93874390). He was given quite a fair of challenge including no frills style and accomodating my old furnitures.

And I found a most interesting and accomodating electrician (sole propietor) in Ah Koh (90889288)

So here are the results.

Entrance - Before

Entrance - After

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Staircase - Before

Staircase - After(with Storeroom)

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Try to get the images to appear inline - it makes for easier reading

Back balcony - Before:

http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/69/3obalconey1.jpg/

Back Balcony - After:

http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/221/3nbalconey1.jpg/

http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/851/3nbalconey2.jpg/

HI,

Anyone know how I can upload the pics directly?

I tried to insert the images here but everytime got blocked by a msg "You are not allowed to use that image extension on this board"

Why ah?

Back Balcony - Before:

Back Balcony - After

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Kitchen - Before

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Kitcher - After

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Living Room - Before

Living Room -After

To be continued......

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welcome to t-blog and love your renovated home! those you've already posted look beautiful , congrats!

welcome to t-blog and love your renovated home! those you've already posted look beautiful , congrats!

Thanks, costs quite a fair bit, but results worth it!

The staircase store room is very interesting, i considered that b4 but does it make the house feel cramp?

Especially the alley.

The staircase store room is very interesting, i considered that b4 but does it make the house feel cramp?

Especially the alley.

I think visually it looked cramped cos the straight through visual is blocked as we are used to it. Spacewise, it depends on what you have in mind to use the space below the staircase. I was unable to come up with ideas to utilise that space prior to the reno. I used to call this area the dead zone.

We need a storeroom, so it is either the back balcony or here. Finally we decided here cos 1) spacewise it will be put to better use 2) The creation of this storeroom also double up as a wall where we can installed a sliding glass door for me to cut off noise to the rest of the house when I am watching HTS or music.

So it serves the function very well indeed.

It a lifestyle chioce!

Edited May 23, 201115 yr by rotty

Yeah i agree with you,

That area under staircase is dead & occupies alot of space...ur idea is good, at least really create a separate area.

I think visually it looked cramped cos the straight through visual is blocked as we are used to it. Spacewise, it depends on what you have in mind to use the space below the staircase. I was unable to come up with ideas to utilise that space prior to the reno. I used to call this area the dead zone.

We need a storeroom, so it is either the back balcony or here. Finally we decided here cos 1) spacewise it will be put to better use 2) The creation of this storeroom also double up as a wall where we can installed a sliding glass door for me to cut off noise to the rest of the house when I am watching HTS or music.

So it serves the function very well indeed.

It a lifestyle chioce!

Edited May 23, 201115 yr by rotty

Yeah i agree with you,

That area under staircase is dead & occupies alot of space...ur idea is good, at least really create a separate area.

Sori, forgot to add this, the alley width is 3 feet, wide enough for all the stuffs we need to pass thru. I know it looked rather narrow in the pic.