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Try to leave as much space as you can between the sink and the hob. Fengshui aside, it will be good to have some space where you can place the chopping board or do some food preparation.

Rain shower quite nice. I bought a rain shower too but cannot be used. Will use it on my existing condo instead to benefit my tenant.

The rest of the carpentry is in today. Delivery was delayed till late afternoon because of the heavy rain. The laminated doors are quite nice. Too tired now will post the pictures tomorrow.

This afternoon it rained so heavily and water actually sipped in through the new windows. Fortunately the platform has not been installed yet. ID will be adding some rubber to the windows to make sure they are tight.

Go for white glossy laminate. My console came this afternoon and it looks really good in the white glossy laminate. Too tired now - will post the pictures tomorrow. Complained to my ID on the electrician and the plumber. Will get the sink move to the centre tomorrow.

I think the dust on the wall will make the whole thing more rustic-looking

Hi Rasp, The laminate looks white in the photo because of the camera flash. Need a tripod to show the real colour. But anyway will be speaking to ID at about 4pm today to see what can be done for both the laminate and the toilet sink. After this experience I would advise you to pick a glossy solid colour laminate for your cabinet. What looks good on the small piece of sample on the catalogue may look drastically different on a bigger piece. Also will be speaking to the ID on the scratch marble floor. The workers were very careless. Saw the electrician just threw his hammer on my laminated floor and my wife scolded him for that.

Yes, in fact it looks yellowish when we were there yesterday. Yellowish like white furniture turning yellow. Will also need to move the basin as like what you pointed out, is quite an eye sore.

Sorry I failed in my English. I meant to say that because the basin is on the right side of the wall, our shoulders would have prevented us from moving to the centre of the sink. As a result we want the plumber to move the sink to the left. Not only it will provide easier access it will also be nicer if we align it with the wall mosaic.

ID promised handover by 14 Aug (furnitures and TV delivery coming 15 Aug). What's your planned handover date?

Some similarities in the wall tiles too

Do you think we have the same [model of] toilet bowl?

Sideline a bit. What did you have for $170 at the restaurant? Went to IFC a couple of times (although I stay at Simei) but didn't go into the restaurant. Want to have a big celeration after all the big headache and heartache for the renovation.

Big mess at the masterbed room: Actually very unhappy with the plumber. When we tried to tell him where the things should go, he refused to listen, kept telling us that he knows. And after that things went wrong. Look like somebody with a very big ego.

Unhappy moments: Despite telling the worker EXACTLY where to install the basin, he has installed it at the wrong place. This basin is too close to the wall - not only it is not aligned but we can't see the entire length of the basin (can't move to the centre of the basin because of the wall) And some guy has used our toilet without cleaning it, yicks!

Masterbedroom Toilet is more or less done: WC is from Baron (same as forkie, I think, but white)

Hi beany0811, Yes, the kitchen is the darkest place in the house so we wanted to have a white concept (whitish wall, white cabinets and three bright lights). However, we have picked the wrong laminate (see post above) so the cabinet now looks like some 10-year old white cabinet turning yellow because of the age. We need to speak with ID and carpenters later to see if anything can be done.

Laminate on kitchen cabinet. However, we were very unhappy with the kitchen cabinet. Hard to show on photograph (unless I used a tripod and not used flash) it is a white laminate with uneven grains. Turned out it looks like some decade-old white that has turned yellow. We were not sure if it will look nice but the ID keep saying "guaranteed swee!" We are going to have a discussion with ID and the carpenters this afternoon to see if anything can be done (eg add a piece of laminate to the doors, etc) And fortunately we didn't take ID's advice to have whole house use the same laminate!

Breakfast counter for my kids partially done:

Close up on my Bellari Hob:

Main cabinet: Side view:

Kitchen cabinet is still work-in-progress:

Somebody (don't know who) scratched our marble floor The scratch felt rought so I am pretty sure it happened just recently.

Still amazed with the marble polish: In fact the marble is so shinning it reflected the lights onto the ceiling:

Dropped by on Sunday: the marble polishing is already done, giving the marble flooring a new life. Look at the shine: