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I like your kitchen and the open concept.. im always for space and openess although the floor tiles i feel if its the same throughout will give a more uniform feel. but still very nice...

Really? Hmmm... It will be in white.. The yellow one is still incomplete cause we were undecided on it. Yup... Thinking of saving money, esp nowaday... We are asking the contractor to do one panel to look at the effect n workmanship this weekend. We will know its fate this sat

No window grill ah... But will have lock on the window frame... Abit like the birdnest .. Haha. Our has rose motif though... Can see??

Our sofa not in these fabric but same design

yeah..whole house is practically white and dark grey concept.. will add some colour using furnishing.. i cant wait to see the white baby grand too. It has been sitting in the warehouse for 2 months. KAWAI RX1 in white

thanks.. you make me feel like i had won the $10m toto all by myself.. which is of cos just a dream la. the truth is i am not very much impressed with it myself and i am still thinking of what to do with 1) stairs 2) kitchen 3) MBR door 4) side doors blah blah blah.. having said that, I like the column-less living area.. it is probably the only house in that area that is this way. I also like the patio space.. i think its really quite big for my doggie, a GR to run around although i think she will faint after 1 round under the sun.... so i am thinking of making a doggie shelter for her at the corner. Also, looking to do rather dark shade solarfilm on all the glasses once everything is done.. i know my ID will jump if i tell him my idea.. but then what the hoot... oh.. most of my doors are sliding.. but will take note.. what is considered anti slam thing? door hook, door stopper is it? pardon my ignorant on such terms.. WAT.. nail got torn out?? how?? so wat to do with grooves under cupboard doors? need to have grooves right.. or else how to open the doors? glad you are ok liao... if not, just keng another MC la.. the forum needs you!

They are made of steel plates, sprayed painted dark grey.. developer.... ??? you are funny lo... but everyone do learn as we go along.. for skylight, i dont know if there is any special technique... hmmz... i can ask my contractor how it is done.. i didn't ask as i not a technical person.. sometime they talked, i just pretend i know.. but actually i only half basket full of water...

ID took abit of inspiration from the hotel at T3 and of cos, through some magazines. It didn't turn out as good as we think. the workmanship is horrible. We are getting them to redo alot of the joints and finding way to fix the flaws.. cant really see from pictures but their workmanship can be .. i almost wanted to kill the subcon..

its actually very slow and my contractor is in his penalty period already. We started way back in Nov07 starting from engaging my ID. it's now Feb09 and the project need another 2-3months. I will put up more pics later on because these pics were taken about 2months ago. What does people think about the stairs? i feel its too big and bulky to sit in the middle of the house.. our parents were both very against the position of it.

your 3D looks very modern.... im also surprise can hide piping in hdb.. when i reno my mum toilet... should have done that..! why not have an access panel just in case...

no grills but will have lock on the windows.. ya.. now looking at baby proofing the house.. what is anti slam stuff?? hope u r better today! yup.. its a decent sum of blood money.. the more changes that goes in, the more blood i bleed.. I havent even come to my kitchen story yet... that will be the last piece of work i have... its not even built yet !

Up the stairs and this is the skylight Turn right.. this is the MBR door.. still need to change some thing here.. MBR headboard MBR toilet which is behind the headboard.. open concept turn left from stairs and its the study this is the future baby room baby room's toilet oh ya. this is one of our WIW baby's room door.. i am thinking of creating a groove at the side to slot in the door when it close..?? we are also making the door thicker so i wont see the track at the top as much... our small little kitchen at the side of the study.. we are putting a mini fridge under the shelves. The shelves will be used to put flask to boil water.

Outside view into living room.. one of the door was done at the wrong size. Our ID decided without telling us.. need to tear down and redo. Living room looking at the door Very controversial stairs.. we are still considering on whether to keep or redesign This space with the platform is a convertible room with movable doors that slide into the storeroom at the left

The facade Main Door Patio Side view

the haze has got another victim i supposed.. MC only means a northward spiral of your postings numbers.. hi xebay well, we didn't want a conventional design.. as i said in my first few posting, this is a very bold thing to do and can cuts both way. Especially, thinking about the resale value provided of cos if we are ever going to sell. We just felt that there are too many similar houses out there and we were quite upset with designers who simply cut and paste from each other.. we wanted originality yet not too overdone.. it was hard to balance frankly and we are still having arguments around some part of it..

yup... should be lower.. the size seems to be about there unless you want a more dramatic feel and have it as the centrepiece of the house,then maybe get a even bigger one..? but it depends on what you want to be the centre of attraction of your place..

just that little bit... btw, i m very impressed... you people seems to camp on this site 24/7.. it really gives the site a community feel.. my reno is still ongoing.. im going to post some pics of some completed stuff later today.. i welcome any comments.. good and bad... especially bad one so i can still change them

oh.. i went to check the kartell sale for the chair i got at GWC... first item no d/c, 2nd item is 50%... haiz.. so its 25% d/c each.. haha... hmz.. my mum has all her pots of flowers outside also her house also.. my neighbour also hang their clothes outside their door but lucky doesnt face us la.. they are a big family, so i reckon they run out of hanging space in the house. Birdcage are hang outside to let the bird get a tan!

hi xebay.. thanks i have one quote from my contractor but trying to find another one to compare..

haha.. its funny when you write (i go there a lot).. i thought its expected that you will go there alot since he is your bf! I dont see anyone with 5 cars yet but most have 2..

Main Contractor a nice guy. Quote was the lowest and made several adjustments after we made several comparison with competitive quotes. Claim that he can finish the work in 6months. We were so happy when he says he can achieve the work in that period cos it will mean we can have our Xmas, NY and CNY in our new house!. After signing the contract, deal done! He started demolishing part of the house, the patio in particular.. no pics here cos i didnt really bother to go down much when they were doing the demolition. First sign of strain in working relationship is the PE starts scolding him for doing so without a permit.. blah blah blah.. i dint really care much.. not my problem.. demolition restarted when he received the permit.. The house design need us to tear down quite a number of existing columns, leaving about 4-5 main columns as support for the house. It was a rather major change from the existing structure.. Anyway, this is now considered a Reconstruction rather than an A&A. Anyhow, one day, i decided to pop by to see how the demolition was going on.. to my the house was flattened.. no one even informed me.. imagine if i didn't go down, i will never know... so i found out later that the structure was deemed unsafe by the PE and has to be re-erected.. gosh.. first sign of my wavering trust on the team.. looking at the speed of the work and delays because of permit, drawings blah.. everyone blaming everyone on the delay, i decided that it is better that i get some insurance by getting the main con sign a non-completion letter and compensate me on a daily rate if he exceed the time given.. took me 1 month to ensure that he signed it.. I even gave him 2 more months extension from the contractor timeframe.. date extended to 8Jan...

no one?

I only hope things will be better in future. But such things seems more common in landed I supposed its because the amount of inconveniences caused from the reno are more acute. But there is no need to be hypocrite. At the beginning stage, i keep apologising for the inconveniences until he asked me to stop or will start calling me Mr sorry but now this kind of pattern!! Alas..