This is my second and final home for me and my family. Decided to stay in the East this time round and share my experience with all in Renotalk.

Have been reading the T-blogs whenever I'm free to get more tips and ideas while waiting for my second appointment with HDB. Now, we've finally completed our HDB sales transaction after a long delay from my buyers, and gotten the keys in December 2012.

The house is really in a bad condition, so we will have to remake the whole house.

My floorplan for sharing:

Edited January 29, 201313 yr by Icez

Some pictures for our House Original Condition

Entrance

Living Area

Kitchen

Toilet

MBR

To Do stuff

1. Hacking of all floorings, kitchen & Toilet wall tiles, Cornices, Toilet WC and basin, kitchen cabinets, and all the doors except main door

2. Plastering of ceiling and walls for whole house

3. Whole House revamp wth new tiles

4. Electrical rewiring

5. Painting of whole house

6. Plumbing Works of whole house

7. L box lightings for Living area and all bedrooms

8. Built in Kitchen cabinets

9. Window grilles and gate grill

10. Air con

11. Built in wardrobe for MBR

12. Built up store room with a small wall

Welcome to RT...which part of east is this?

similar layout with my 4 room flat. of coz mine is smaller size.

Jia you! which part of pasir ris?

mine at st 51

Edited January 29, 201313 yr by Z3phy

ID Hunt

We went to a couple of IDs for discussion. We are very clear with the things we wanted to do and the budget that we could afford, so we do not really need professional services on space planning and furniture layout. Below are the few companies which we asked for quotes and proposals:

(1) ###### Werkz

(2) Y-Axis I.D

(3) Pavilion

(4) Space Interiors

(5) Plush Living

(6) .

(7) Friends' Referral

(8) Contractor Referral

We signed up the Kitchen Cabinet Package with ###### during the Expo Fair, and it cost us $4.8K (for 20 ft top and bottom cabinets with blum system) with 3D Perspective Drawing for us. We decided to take this up first before deciding on the rest of the reno package.

The 3D drawings are out, but we will decide on the design again at a later date.

Design 1

Design 2

Welcome to RT...which part of east is this?

Thanks 888, we're staying in Tampines

similar layout with my 4 room flat. of coz mine is smaller size.

Jia you! which part of pasir ris?

mine at st 51

I like this layout, it allows us to separate the areas easily during space planning.

But there are some minor fallbacks for my house due to old structure. There are a lot of walls which could not be hacked. The MBR is quite small due to the toilet ( which can't be hacked) and there are 2 drop down ceilings which cant be hacked too. At first, we wanted an open concept kitchen but was unable to do it due to beams etc.. so we dropped the idea..

Anyway my new house is in Tampines, one mrt stop away (",)

I like this layout, it allows us to separate the areas easily during space planning.

But there are some minor fallbacks for my house due to old structure. There are a lot of walls which could not be hacked. The MBR is quite small due to the toilet ( which can't be hacked) and there are 2 drop down ceilings which cant be hacked too. At first, we wanted an open concept kitchen but was unable to do it due to beams etc.. so we dropped the idea..

Anyway my new house is in Tampines, one mrt stop away (",)

Yup, it's squarish hence hardly any odd corners.

Do you mean all those darker walls (in ur floor plan) cannot be hacked? mine was in the form of pillars.

For mine, the previous owners already hacked the wall between bedroom 2 and MBR. it's neither here nor there coz of the pillar.

i think my place got beams oso.. but we're probably still going for open concept kitchen. =)

Hello! I love your square square layouts - a breeze to plan for space. Have fun for renovation! Looking forward to more updates.

Yup, it's squarish hence hardly any odd corners.

Do you mean all those darker walls (in ur floor plan) cannot be hacked? mine was in the form of pillars.

For mine, the previous owners already hacked the wall between bedroom 2 and MBR. it's neither here nor there coz of the pillar.

i think my place got beams oso.. but we're probably still going for open concept kitchen. =)

Hi Icez, congrats on ur flat & welcome to RT! looking forward to ur reno journey updates & pics

Hi Z3phy, yup, walls represented by thick black lines are not hackable thus there are limitations to wat Icez can do to change the layout..

by the way, visited ur blog too! wonder how u will overcame the pillar (if u remove the rest of the wall next to it) smacked right in the middle of ur big big MBR? haha!

Edited January 31, 201313 yr by jus4fun

Hi Icez, congrats on ur flat & welcome to RT! looking forward to ur reno journey updates & pics

Hi Z3phy, yup, walls represented by thick black lines are not hackable thus there are limitations to wat Icez can do to change the layout..

by the way, visited ur blog too! wonder how u will overcame the pillar (if u remove the rest of the wall next to it) smacked right in the middle of ur big big MBR? haha!

Replied you in my blog. =)

Yup, it's squarish hence hardly any odd corners.

Do you mean all those darker walls (in ur floor plan) cannot be hacked? mine was in the form of pillars.

For mine, the previous owners already hacked the wall between bedroom 2 and MBR. it's neither here nor there coz of the pillar.

i think my place got beams oso.. but we're probably still going for open concept kitchen. =)

Yup all those darker walls cannot be hacked..

I guess if your previous owners did apply the permit when they hacked the wall between bedroom 2 and MBR, then it is okay

Your kitchen definitely can go open concept from your floor plan.. Your flat also resale?

Hello! I love your square square layouts - a breeze to plan for space. Have fun for renovation! Looking forward to more updates.

Thanks SeirenGrey.. yup space planning is rather simple for us..

Decided to engage the referral contractor to do my house main reno. As I've signed the kitchen cabinet with + Space, would have to let them do this one item.

Hacking started for my new home.. Some pics to share..

Kitchen

MBR

Living Area

Soon they will be tiling my MBR toilet first, then the kitchen and toilet walls. Will share the pics when I have time to go my new home to take some snaps.