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clockwork, saw your blog and really impressed by your DIY, really creative and artistic. Do you have another kitchen cabinet with adjustable shelves opposite your other kitchen cabinet with cooker, fridge and sink ? Really like your kitchen cabinet colour combination and design. From the reno progress photos, I can imagine the real mess and is really very headache.

thanks pinkpetter. What basic reno r u doing for your 5 rm ? Is yours a new flat or you are staying there now ?

I intend to do the following reno :- Kitchen flooring and wall tiles Kitchen cabinets (top & bottom) with base for fridge, stove and washing machine Changing of pipes for kitchen Flooring for living room, MBR and common room and store room Built-in wardrobe for MBR Built-in cabinets for store room False celing in living room or entire house Rewiring for whole house (house already more than 30 yrs) You mention the whole reno took abt 2 weeks, that's fast ! I just spoke to one ID fm LWT Design and he told me something like 6-7 weeks ??? Your flooring is what tiles ? I was also told that granite will be cheaper than marble, is that true ? I wanted to do granite or glossy homogeneous and will wait for some quotes to compare the difference. Your kitchen flooring was overlayed ? can this be done also do the rest of the rooms and hall to minimise hacking ? As for False ceiling, I dunno whether to do for the living room or entire house. Btw, what is the feature wall meant for ? sorry ah if I sound stupid Is it necessary to do cornices and L box ? Rewiring will be done by same ID / contractor or have to engage professionals separately ? Aircon to be installed after entire reno or before ? Very sorry if I ask or disturb too much coz I really dunno anything about reno work

Hi hi, Great minds think alike hahaha... Ya all the new estates are just too inconvenient for pple who have been staying in the city for the last 20-30 years. Like you, I also don intend to have another child (cost of living too high especially for single income family), hehe .... so a 3rm is just nice for 3 pple. The bigger the house the more housework to be done - cleaning is no joke man. I agree 3A is very big especially Tampines area coz my fren staying there 4 rm flat looks like the size of 5 rm. My MIL staying 3A in BT Panjang and is really huge. My girl is in K2 this year - 4 hrs am session. I am a SAHM occasionally doing part time job so I will have to put her at my mum's place after school and probably I may also stay there but I dunno abt my hubby My toilets will be done by HDB during MUP in 2 mths time. If not due to HDB MUP, I think I wouldn't want to reno the house (too messy). So I will have to arrange with the ID to start reno just after HDB completes toilet and window changes. If you don mind me asking, who was your ID and how much was the reno for your whole flat. They quote you on package price or individual charges ? How was the workmanship and follow up service ?

Hi yokine9a, My girl will definitely can't stay in so I will temporary put her at my mum's place and probably I will also stay there coz my girl cling to me very much but my poor hubby may want to stay in the dusty house I am not doing reno for the toilets as this will be done by HDB during MUP (in 2 months time), that's y I intend to time my house reno to coincide with HDB upgrade. HDB will be upgrading both toilets walls, tiles and change of pipes, washing basin, window & grills and main gate. However, HDB is going to hack both toilets on the same day (1st day) but they are going to supply us a mobile toilet for the rest of the 12 days period. Still dunno whether the mobile toilet can be used for shower or not

Thanks Yokine9a, Clockwork, applefreak, hihihi and pinkpetter for your reply. I am also staying in a 3 rm flat (model NG) with my hubby and a 6 years old girl. We had bought the flat (resale) 15 years ago but did not do any renovation as the previous owner had already done up the house about 3 years back (although not really to our taste (flooring) but was very well maintained) so we just painted the entire house and moved in within 2 weeks of getting the keys. Now 15 years down the road, the house still looks ok but the kitchen cabinet started to crack (the doors), rooms' doors are also giving way and the flooring and walls also turned yellow. In fact we intend to upgrade to a 4/5 room flat and had applied for new flats since beginning of 2007 but we have wasted many $10 (balloting) and still unsuccessful till now. To make things worse, my flat will be going thru MUP in 2 months time. As my girl has sensitive nose and skin, we decided to move out before the upgrading work starts. Again we even tried to apply for 3 rm new / resale from HDB but still no luck. Looked ard for resale flat in the open market but majority of the flats we seen the condition is worse than my flat but still ask for 30-60K COV (3 rm only, some even smaller than mine). Resale market is too hot and ridiculous and this means that we have to do major renovation n that will be say another 20-40K and we can't move in immediately. As time is running out, there is no point for us to move (HDB upgrading will kick in before we could even collect keys for the new house). So we have decided to stay here for good since we love the estate so much and so intend to revamp our house. I know it will be very dusty and messy but am glad knowing that this is possible and even the contractors can help to shift the furnitures, that will be great.... hehehehe

Hi everybody ! I am new at this forum and couldn't find what I'm looking for. May I ask if anyone has done any major renovation to their existing flat ? I thot of renovating my current flat which was done up almost 18 years ago. Is it too inconvenient / hassle to renovate an existing flat with furnitures around ? Can we still stay in the flat during the renovation period ? Would be glad if someone can share their experience here with me. thanks.