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Sorry guys, just can't help myself posting these pics...totally unrelated to our reno talk... (for the ladies) look what we can turn those ikea curtains to...hahaha Look at this interesting lamp...made of paper umbrellas stuck onto those paper lamps from ikea...

Bubbly - Thanks for the photos! So we have to do our own shower screen lah? Anyone a ikea lover, got this website to share with you guys... http://ikeahacker.blogspot.com/ This website has pple sending in their own creations of modifying ikea furniture....interesting ideas... I got all my furniture for my old sers flat at ikea... their tables, chairs, bedframe quite durable if you get them to assemble for you

Cacky : Now new flat ceiling so low...so dangerous to even install a ceiling fan... If changing lighting, can stack pillows on the bed lor... hahaha (still tinking whether to install one...my existing sers flat has a ceiling fan, really useful if you dun intend to ve aircon for livinig room)

Cacky, I will try to fish more info from him...he say $15k can leh...even for today's market rates. (need to catch him during breaktime...dun wan to be seen chatting so much at work Talking about bedrooms, I remembered something he say about lighting. He say that nowadays pple like to do false ceiling with downlights for living room or special hanging lights (hanged from ceiling type) for their dining area... he say no need, I agree with him on this coz I plan to just put ceiling mounted lights, one **** room and one at dining area. He suggested to me to install lightings using fluorescent tubes, easy and cheaper to change. But I told him then my home would look very bright and boring (like my parents' home)...not romantic... He say that we can do those special lighting effects (e.g. dimmer) just in our bedroom lor. Living room/ dining area no need so fancy lighting. This one I disagree though... He advised that we must pay attention to our curtains...he find that curtains play a very important role in enhancing the look of our rooms.

Thanks, Orange Hi DSA, what does the floor plan show? Floor area for each room? How much it cost? by the way, for those who have their flats facing the mrt, like me...its true, you will hear the loud MRT train noise... My parents stay at a block at Chai Chee facing the track (just a few km from bdk central), I m very used to hearing the loud churring noise of the mrt train since young...even though we stay at the 9th floor... so, I m immune to the noise liao..my baby also immune coz she is taken care by my mum..that's why I took the unit facing the track... the only good thing about having train track in front of your blk is I can point to my daughter and teach her, 'see train, see train'... hahaha

Hi everyone I m the fren mentioned by darbleu, getting my flat at Blk 219C, suppposed to collect my keys 2molo...I changed my appointment to next week. Just realised that I know bubbly's wife too. So decided to join the forum for discussion on our new flat Did any of you get the HDB's flooring? Looks ugly, tinking of changing it but was dissuaded by my colleagues who have worked in HDB before. Told him I dun like the big gaps between the tiles..he said that HDB tiles are durable (since the construction company has to adhere to HDB specs) and have 3 year warranty. You can be sure that HDB will get the contractor to rectify the tiles if anything is wrong. He said big gaps are good...if there is any expansion due to heat, your tiles won't crack. But of course, he say normally ladies (like her wife) would complain about the big gaps coz it gets dirty and become very obvious... He also dissuaded me from getting parquet flooring for bedrooms, especially when you have kids...nice to have, but a problem to maintain. Water, urine will cause discolouration over time. And if the flooring is coloured, scratched by your kids, you can't clean it and replace it. Lamination is only 0.5mm, so not much protection. To make sure it look good, varnishing it will cost you a bomb. He say, "If you plan to only stay for 3-5 years, you may wan to do all this fancy stuff..coz the maintenance problem would be passed to the next owner. However, the renovation work only constitute a mere 5% of your flat selling price. The next owner is not going to care what kind of flooring you have" The best thing was when he say, "Your renovation cost should not exceed $15k." !!! He's a very experienced estate maintenance manager, and he is also experienced property investor....what you guys tink?