Week 5

Our toilets are more or less completed over the last week

This is master bath with WC and bath tub installed

We solved our issue of ugly air con pipes in our master bath by covering it with tiles, look at the perfect joins! Super <3

Common bath is also 90% complete, waiting for glass shower screen and vanity basin

When we went over on Sunday, the workers were busy working on the marble flooring

This marble has been causing a lot of headaches from the start! From being broken during delivering to running tones...I'm glad it's finally installed on the floor.

Wow, the aircon piping can withstand the weight of the tiles?

Wow, the aircon piping can withstand the weight of the tiles?

why not? The air con trunking is secured tightly to the concrete wall and beside the tiles are not that heavy. My tiler used adhesive to paste the tiles onto the air con trunking

Week 4

It's been a month since I've started reno, although there were a few issues here and there, we are finally seeing the light at the end of the tunnel!

Managed to snap up an wooden extendable table and 2 chairs for our place at the International Furniture Fair last Thursday. It's now in my office as it's a display piece and had to be collected last sunday.

My wetworks are progressing really well with installation of my bathtub complete

My marble is in process too, pending replacement of some pieces which cracked during delivery

and my false ceiling is also done and plastered but no pictures cuz it were already dark when I got there

I have also managed to confirm my basin and WC over the weekend, will be finally using my dream undermount basin for my common bath. Now the problem is I can't decide if my countertop should be white or black? Both has its own charm

I would go for Black top

Haven't received my place yet but this is one of my possible look for the bathroom

Great idea on covering the piping with the tiles

By the way for the bathroom I will go for the first picture of white as it is more uniform with the theme of the house

(*Juz my 2 cents worth, hope this help)

I have also managed to confirm my basin and WC over the weekend, will be finally using my dream undermount basin for my common bath. Now the problem is I can't decide if my countertop should be white or black? Both has its own charm

Your bathroom tiles look pretty dark to me. If it were me, would go for white countertop for the contrast

+1 white for the bathroom too for the contrast

Hi Guys, thanks for your votes

However, the HB is leaning towards grey top atm, he does not like contrasting colours in 1 room even our vanity laminate that we are going to choose will be greyish.

I bought most of my home's appliances at the Gain City expo over the weekend,

Electrolux 7kg Frontload Washer

Electrolux 7kg Dryer

EF built in oven

EF 2 Induction Hob, EF cooker hood and Hitachi side-by-side fridge in Silver glass Will take more photos once it's installed

Week 6

We finally have lights in our homes! No more using handphone light when we pop over in the evening.

Initially we were quite worried that our lightings will not be bright enough as we taobao-ed in mainly spotlights and LED strips, we even went to a light shop to "enquire" about the brightness of the same spotlights and the salesman told us spotlights will definitely be dark and advised us to mix and match flood lights with spotlights...ewww

Luckily for us, our beautiful spotlights are super bright!

Living room

Walkway to the room

Bedroom 2

Even our bowler hat lights are up too

We got all our lightings from taobao and so far we've spent about $1k on lights. The light shops in Sg we saw are selling similar lights for 10x the price in taobao So I guess it's money well spent. Ta-da for now, my tiler says he can finishing polishing my floor by this week and I will get him to do housekeeping becuz his workers kinda left all their tools, shovel etc etc in my tiny kitchen -_-" making the space very messy

Hi Septh!

Mind sharing your quote and your ID? I'm also doing marble for my house

Week 7 & 8

Hello guys, it's been a while since I updated this...becuz there hasn't been much to see. These past 2 weeks we have gotten the works done which aren't really the visual type, it's more on the back end such as fixing switches like these... hehe

And when it's switched on...

In case you're wondering what's the big deal with this switch?

They are part of our smart home in the making which includes motorised curtains and controlling our lights/ac from our phones whenever connected to wifi

Look! What's shinny and polished?.... Nope, not diamonds...

Its.............................................................................marble!

Photo spam!

Ok, thats it for now.

This sat my air-con and vinyl flooring will be installed...that we mark the completion of the flooring. After that we shall look forward to....THE CARPENTERS!

Hello! Interested in the concept of smart home

How much did it cost for the switch? and projected cost of making the entire home smart??

Hi 😊we got those switches from taobao, it's about S$30 for 1 switch... We bought 4, 2 working fine the other 2 worked fine initially but now seems to be haywire so we r importing again 😔

It's a risk we take when buying from tb becuz it's way cheaper than getting from sg

1 set consist of 1 modem looking thing (IR blaster) about S$50 and at least 1 switch S$30

Even our bowler hat lights are up too

We got all our lightings from taobao and so far we've spent about $1k on lights. The light shops in Sg we saw are selling similar lights for 10x the price in taobao So I guess it's money well spent. Ta-da for now, my tiler says he can finishing polishing my floor by this week and I will get him to do housekeeping becuz his workers kinda left all their tools, shovel etc etc in my tiny kitchen -_-" making the space very messy

can share the link to the bowler hat light?