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What a nice master bath you have. I am intrigued by the lighting. Are they downlights, resting on the grille base of the piping box?

Hi John, the lights are LED spot light, resting on glass and mirror. I threw away the grille-like base of the piping box.

 

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It's been awhile.... We've been busy cleaning and packing x 1000 times and slowly shifting our stuff over.

Here's a very "zen" photo after a looong day of "work"

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Just chilling on a cool saturday night....

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My amzing bath basin is up

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This mirror cupboard contains all my skincare, make up, girly things

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My table desk with space for hidden power sockets

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The backlash so big piece, cover the whole wall.

Or i see wrongly ...

yes, cover whole wall, becuz the hdb tiles very ugly

 
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Hi John, the lights are LED spot light, resting on glass and mirror. I threw away the grille-like base of the piping box.

Thanks, Septh.

Congrats on your new home.

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We have shifted in a couple of days back :sport-smiley-003: So far, we have a functional bedroom, bathrooms, dinning room and kitchen minus pots and pans.

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Setting up the TV in our Master Bedroom with our black glass feature wall and lighted shelves!

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And, everyone loves our dinning area... ...

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Super pleased with our glass showcase for toys!!!:thumbs up:

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Lastly, our empty living room still awaiting our sofa to be delivered in mid June...and there's still a TV to be bought.. :sport-smiley-018:

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Hi Septh,

Tried to PM you but I guess your inbox is full.

Anyway:
Was reading through your Reno T-Blog and I must say some of the reno works you did really inspired me for my upcoming reno (collecing keys in a couple of months). For example, your masterbedroom design (hacking of wall to combine 2 rooms in one right?), marble flooring, hotel style toilets... wow!
Hope it be possible to share your detailed quotation? Would really appreciate it if you could! Will pass you my email address via PM..
Thanks & looking forward to your reply. Meanwhile, enjoy your lovely new home!
 

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Hi Cjsaya,

Yes, my dinning table is 2m extendable to 2.5m x 1m wide. I bought it at the International Furniture Fair a while back for around $400.

Surfsiderose,

Mine is a self designed / self managed project, therefore I can't give a detailed breakdown. We are in the reno industry :D

Aspialle,

I spent less than $1K to hack for whole house, including Bedroom 3, Master Bedroom wall.

Songz,

Thanks! Yeah, I'm still waiting for my awesome sofa...2 more wks to go....

Crushoverride,

As mentioned, I did my own reno and it happen so that we have our own glass installers, if you are interested we do have some promos going on now... :jammin:

 

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My reno is finally completed with the installation of curtains and roller blinds yesterday. Looking back, amongst my sub-contractors,

Best experience with:

Vinyl tile Guys, their workmanship is great, look at the joint between the vinyl and wall. I also think their pricing is better than Ev****h. This vinyl tile is 5mm thick and apparently it's from France.

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Worst experience with:

The carpenter. Ok, so other than their super cheap pricing, everything else was average and they took a freaking looong time to complete things, sending only 1 worker 1 day per week and 2 days per week, leaving my house in a perpetual state of stagnant progress, it was depressing. I only found this carpenter through their adverts pasted on the lifts and the fact that they were cheaper than my other carpenters.

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The rest:

Tiler and wetwork guys are pretty ok, they are fast moving and they work on Sundays too, just plastering wall and touch ups as no noisy works. They did a few minor mistakes here and there but those were rectified very quickly. The downside of this sub-con is, we have to manage his workers and he has soo many different workers that you really have to be onsite most of the time to guide the workers. But, overall his pricing is really reasonable, just that I feel, a layman won't be able to handle this tiler guy.

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Plumber, this was refered by the tiler guy and his pricing is also very reasonable, and mostly the problems we faced from plumbing are usually HDB's problem or the basin's problem. However, as far back as I can remember, when our storage heater was installed, the pipes started to have this whistling sound periodically and especially when the heater is switched on. Storage heater shop says maybe the release valve is turned too tightly but plumber guy says it's actually coming from HDB's internal piping. We are dragging to solve this problem as we have already boxed up our heater and this problem isn't affecting us yet.

We only have 1 wooden door in our house other than the Main door which HDB provided. Thus, it was difficult to find someone who's willing to install but by a stroke of luck, I found a new office neighbour who specialises in solid wood door and I must say that his service is prompt and within less than a week my door for master bedroom is measured and install with a nice upgraded lever handle in stainless steel

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Yesterday, the last sub-con completed the curtains and the blinds. Apparently, the workers were very meticulous and fast. They took around 45mins to install 2 sets of roller blinds and hook up 2 sets of curtains to my existing automatic curtain tracks. Only, 1 minor misunderstanding with regards to the width of the rollerblind in my dinning room which I added a token sum to overlap more on the window on the left side but they have installed based on old measurement and yet the invoice still reflects the added amount. We will be settling this issue this Sat I hope. Although it's just a token sum, I don't wish to have a "cheated" feeling :no:

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My reno is finally completed with the installation of curtains and roller blinds yesterday. Looking back, amongst my sub-contractors,

Best experience with:

Vinyl tile Guys, their workmanship is great, look at the joint between the vinyl and wall. I also think their pricing is better than Ev****h. This vinyl tile is 5mm thick and apparently it's from France.

IMG_7397.jpg

Worst experience with:

The carpenter. Ok, so other than their super cheap pricing, everything else was average and they took a freaking looong time to complete things, sending only 1 worker 1 day per week and 2 days per week, leaving my house in a perpetual state of stagnant progress, it was depressing. I only found this carpenter through their adverts pasted on the lifts and the fact that they were cheaper than my other carpenters.

IMG_7373.jpg

The rest:

Tiler and wetwork guys are pretty ok, they are fast moving and they work on Sundays too, just plastering wall and touch ups as no noisy works. They did a few minor mistakes here and there but those were rectified very quickly. The downside of this sub-con is, we have to manage his workers and he has soo many different workers that you really have to be onsite most of the time to guide the workers. But, overall his pricing is really reasonable, just that I feel, a layman won't be able to handle this tiler guy.

IMG_7513.jpg

Plumber, this was refered by the tiler guy and his pricing is also very reasonable, and mostly the problems we faced from plumbing are usually HDB's problem or the basin's problem. However, as far back as I can remember, when our storage heater was installed, the pipes started to have this whistling sound periodically and especially when the heater is switched on. Storage heater shop says maybe the release valve is turned too tightly but plumber guy says it's actually coming from HDB's internal piping. We are dragging to solve this problem as we have already boxed up our heater and this problem isn't affecting us yet.

We only have 1 wooden door in our house other than the Main door which HDB provided. Thus, it was difficult to find someone who's willing to install but by a stroke of luck, I found a new office neighbour who specialises in solid wood door and I must say that his service is prompt and within less than a week my door for master bedroom is measured and install with a nice upgraded lever handle in stainless steel

IMG_7496.jpg

Yesterday, the last sub-con completed the curtains and the blinds. Apparently, the workers were very meticulous and fast. They took around 45mins to install 2 sets of roller blinds and hook up 2 sets of curtains to my existing automatic curtain tracks. Only, 1 minor misunderstanding with regards to the width of the rollerblind in my dinning room which I added a token sum to overlap more on the window on the left side but they have installed based on old measurement and yet the invoice still reflects the added amount. We will be settling this issue this Sat I hope. Although it's just a token sum, I don't wish to have a "cheated" feeling :no:

IMG_7840.jpg

vinyl flooring looks good! can i know which company is that?

 

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