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You can go and take a walk along Jalan Besar, so far the one with the cheapest price is Poh Joo...

Where is this place?

Finally received the latest quote from Patrick..this time it is around 25k. We are ok with it and will be signing the quotation this coming Friday most probably. Also bought an unique clock from this place called Hommy in City Square, JB. Hubby will be posting up the pic in a while

Nice layout!

Maybe cos we add more and more items... But now we cutting down on a lot of items. Won't be asking him to do all the carpentry work for us after all. After we went to IKEA earlier on, we decided to get our bookcases, wardrobe and TV stand from there instead. Some of the items we are now eyeing: Billy Corner Combination Expedit Shelves And 3 of these Will be putting in various drawers and boxes to add color as well as decorations to the shelves. For wardrobe, we are planning to get two of this: As for living room, planning to get the EKTORP sofa set (2 seater + 1 lounge/chaise chair). Have to get white color cos that's the "brightest" color we can find although it is going to get dirty easily. So getting another set of sofa cover in case need to wash the other one. Two seater Everything is going to be really white so we are planning to have a darker color carpet to put below the sofa set to create some color contrast. Also planning to get a darker beige curtain with a layer of sheer white curtain to put by the window. Any idea on where to go to have a variety of choice for curtains and carpets?

Seems like with every revision, the price gets higher and higher Right now it is 35k...so we have to cut down on a lot of carpentry work.

Like your living room very much...think we will also do something like yours. We are also engaging Ho Bee The feng shui master told us that our living room has to be mostly bright colours so most probably using white for walls...

Although you mention that your toilet design is plain, but I like the look of it! Where did you get the sink, tap and toilet bowl? For how much? I am also engaging Ho Bee to do the renovation for my house...and I think his final quote to me is going to be around 30k for a 5 room flat. I am mainly redoing my kitchen, master bedroom and part of my living room to be converted into a study room. You mentioned about some tiles can be overlaid...if currently the floor is of ceramic tiles material, can don't hack and overlay it with laminate flooring instead?

May I know where you get the curtain from?

Just met up with Patrick. Will be receiving the final quotation from him by Wednesday. Estimated damage: 30k T_T Which is double our budget haiz. Anyone knows where to buy plants? Esp those tall plants which is ard 1.5m height...need around 4 of them in front of the main entrance..

I apparently walked so far until I went to both on the same day!

Yesterday was definitely a tiring day. After meeting up with Mr Chang to discuss about the house arrangement, we went to Balestier and Jalan Besar to get some ideas on lightings + toilets/kitchens accessories. We saw quite a number of lights which we like in Balestier, from a few shops. I especially like a lamp with two cats in it, too bad I couldn't take picture! I want to get that lamp, but it costs $120 each and we don't know where to place it... Then we went to Jalan Besar, where we got lost because the taxi driver don't know where is Poh Joo and I forgot to print out the map, silly me...so in the end we walked and walked until we saw one shop called Poh Joo and went inside. Not bad, quite a number of stuff quite cheap. Think for hood + hob + oven, we will be getting the Hobz brand and oven (Rinnai brand) which will cost us a whopping 1.4k altogether. Good news was the bathtub + storage heater are not as expensive as we thought..both costs less than $600. After that we went to a few other shops and discovered there was another Poh Joo in Jalan Besar! Also managed to find Hoe Kee in New World Centre, Adamas, and a few others but Poh Joo still the cheapest among all of them haha...

He charged $485 for 5 room. He didn't really tell us to hack any wall..but luckily we decided to take down the wall in between the MBR and the first common bedroom cos he said the best position for our bed is right smack in the middle of the two rooms. The room with the biggest change is the kitchen, practically have to restructure the position of stove and sink cos he said the current positioning of the sink will cause wealth to leak out from the house

Hmm just met Mr Chang on Sat for a FS Audit. Have tons of stuff to change in regards to the renovation of the house. Back to the drawing board. Hope we both can get some ideas up before meeting Patrick from Ho Bee on Monday morning.

Next week going to be exciting On Saturday, feng shui master, Mr Chang from fengshuiyinyang will be going over to my new house to audit the house and recommend ways for us to design the house. In the afternoon, most probably will be going over to Balestier Road to take a look at the lightings. Then on Monday, will be meeting Patrick from Ho Bee to finalise the design. Most probably will be starting the renovation on 21 September cos my hubby will only be back from his army reservist by then. During renovation, do we need to go down to the site to monitor the work everyday?

congrats congrats! The baby look so cute, the lips so red hehe Yea, what's the name?

Congrats! Post pics of the baby here as well

Haha yea...at first my hubby wants the study room to be enclosed within glass walls...Patrick quoted us 3k + for the entire room, including glass + glass sliding door + laminate flooring...

Hehe hope so...hopefully we will be able to show some pics here soon

haha yea... for the shelves facing the main door, we are planning to use this type of shelving unit from IKEA: can be a way to store some of our decorative items and also as a "feature wall" for ppl to see when they walk in thru the main door

Our latest design arrangement for the house...still need to wait for feng shui master approval. We are also quite sure we will be engaging Patrick from Ho Bee. So once we get the approval for this design, we will ask him to come out with the final quotation...

Thanks Simon

Thanks, now keeping our fingers crossed We will also be bringing in a feng shui master to go and do a house audit soon but can see my parents in law not very happy we are engaging a master they do not know about lolz... Also we are trying to cut down on the cost of reno...decided not to have the glass sliding door and partition anymore for the study room, will just do a raised platform to differentiate between the living room and study room area...

I have already paid my agent in full just now. The seller has confirmed that the toilet leakage will be fixed on 1 Aug, they have already scheduled with their contractor. I also got my agent to sign a document for me to testify that she will carry out everything to completion for us and she was more than happy to sign it lol.

She doesn't seem to want to entertain paying half first...she kept wanting me to pay full by 1st appt...