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Folks, to tell you honestly.. there is a BIG PRICE TO PAY LE... to keep all white! my gosh.. i tell you, i have scrubbed, sweeped, and cleaned floors more than i have done in my whole entire life! the kitchen flooring especially, though extremely nice to walk around, its the hardest to maintain, coz i have been SCRUBBING lorx.. btw, post reno fatigue, and due to lack of sleep.. i am now down with cough, flu and fever...ahahahhah... costs of vanity and perfectionism.. Olso, one ting to remb all folks, some very IMPT pointers, if you intend to do suspended bottom cabinets, do remb to leave at least a 0.5m gap between the divider and the cabinet... for ease of clearing debris from under, you have no idea how much the ah nehs simply sweep the DEBRIS under my ah laoz did a small mistake by keeping the side of the bottom cabinet (hood/hob/sink) to the max near the glass divider, i practically had to sleep tummy down on the floor to dig the debris out...

F4, hahaah, thanks! you know wat, ever since HO on thursday evening, we have been busy scrubbing floors , unpacking our loots from previous shoppings, and clearing as much boxes as possible for 5 days, every evening till about 3am! call us super kiasu, .. but we want the house it tip top move-in condition, in fact, we were ready by Friday nite and we had our first guests for dinner (packed dinner of course, coz no cutlery yet..) on Sat nite... Ivy

thanks Ivy, yap, there are a couple of things pending from Uncle/Alan 1) the cover for the sliding door track 2) box up for the side of the tinted mirror (you can see the timber from side view) 3) MBR windows (we are currently windowless, hope it doesnt rain, yet.. )

Common Toilet Study Room (Utility Room with Bay Window)

Kitchen Area with 2 silver backing at the sink & hob Cove Light below top cabinet - a small mistake as we did not allow any recess area for the cove light - thus you can literally see the bulb

Dining Area

Cont'd from the Previous Photo Entry.. Close up of our customised 2.30m Sofa Living Room from Kitchen Area

Ivy, oh... we have extra 7sqm utility room which we are using as study mah.

Welcome to our Humble 67+7 sqm Home! Living Room from the Main Entrance The Salah Recessed Handle on the TOP - where dust is collecting already

I hope yours will be smooth smooth booi! Btw, Winter called today to confirm that they will be changing the 3 x drawers of our console in 2 - 3 weeks time!!!! alamakz.. faint............ i doubt it will ever appear... we told them we are keeping the chairs they brought us by mistake... think its more ex de... they din say anyting.. Haiz... we will hoping ours will be okay... anticipated problems for sofa as we changed the dimensions 3x...and not the console.. alamakaz..

Manz! Harvey Norman's logistics also **** c*** upz leh.. faint... luckily i called earlier at 5.30 after they fail to appear at 5.. else tink i also suay suay hv to wait till the next day... somemore the guy told me since Sat's appointment is full, i have to be SQUEEZED into the 3 - 5pm slot! biangz.. u can imagine my fumes then... btw,.. the HB guy told my FH, and i got the advise from him.. so i was like literally fumming... couldnt scream rite into my FH .. and aksing why din he demand them to come over.. so i told FH, nevermind..i'll settle it myself.. and called the HN guy to really give him a piece of my mind...

I am waiting for the tinted mirror & additonal s/s backing before i put up, wil try to take pics today, but please pardon any messiness

Congrats as well!!! Pictures please!!!

Hi !! you are most welcome! hope i managed to share enuf with you on our experiences do enjoy your reno process and am definitely lookin forward to seeing your posts soon!

iluvmybeans, we had our baskets from Ikea Alexandra, erm, no one refused our purchase tho, .. our acrylic tray? no..not acrylic , its timber tray, made by the carpenters, you just have to indicate on your design, and let them know what are the items you like in your wadrobe.

Post Renovation Fatigue hi everyone! Thursday sorry i wasnt able to update over the past 3 days, its been very frenzy and hectic since handover on thursday evening. Uncle goh and the indian helpers only managed to clean up 60% till 10pm. FH & I continued to slog till 1am cleaning the rest of the whole house to make way for the furniture the next day. The plumbers left a mess in the kitchen and we could see substantial red/rusty stains on the white tiles... *sob*..i was pondering over it.. nevermind, i'll make sure the helpers can perform magic the next day when they finish their cleaning upz. We tried leaving all the cabinets open, to air them, hmm.. doesnt seem to help Friday! a day of wonders and disappointments We waited till 9.30am, uncle goh and helpers came back to finish up their cleaning process. i must say, at the end of the day, they really performed a 98% magic! all the windows are scrubbed clean with no paint or residue! Bathroom walls, floors and all are cleaned up as well!! i even managed to get them to help scrap out the plastic sheet on the pd doors. my kitchen flooring was the worst affected was also cleaned up!!! HDB officer came and inspectd the place with a little hiccups here and there, but all was good at the end of the day. Poor Uncle Ah Gwei, was literally a sandbag on that day... the hoo hah only ended an hours plus later, and the officer and Uncle Gwei, left happily.. We waited and waited till 1.00pm before i even see signs of ANY DELIVERY coming our block. Wow, it looks like quite a couple of new comers around our block as 4 delivery vans from Best Denki, Harvey Horman, Courts and REd Apple finally arrived. Winter The first to arrive was our furniture frome Winter Furniture. Well.. alittle hiccups here tho. . it was only till after our white TV console was fully installed, then i realised that, eh... its salah le... we requested (even shows on invoice), that our handles for the console is to be RECESSED UNDER the DRAWERs, but what we had was, a UGLY recessed handles on the TOP. Clearly, all dust started to collect after the installation. We were also supposed to have 2 holes on the backing for ease of wires from TV and other systems, but we only had ONE. To further increase our fumes, the dining chairs presented to us was also SALAH, different leather and saleh design.. FH was fuming by then.. called up Winter and demanded an explanation. . Winter logistics department wanted the delivery guys to take by the drawers and chairs to replace them. we refused the solutions, as we were worried of the consequences. FH demanded that they come to measure the drawers instead and replace us the correct ones. Ding Dongz here and there.. they are supposed to call us back to day to give us good explanations. Though, personally, i think the chairs they gave us by mistake are NICE!.. (might consider that changing them "P). we refused to pay the balance in full till all werks are ractified. Honestly, the console is beautiful, but its the handles that ..hm.. is obstructing the masterpiece. Sofa installation and the side table came much later as we were told that are of different logistic companies. We were really worried by then as we did changed the dimensions a couple of times. Phew, at least, the redeeming point is that , our sofas come as it has been ordered, complete with 2 red plush cushions. Ah liew and his team, came much later at 4.30pm to finish up their ractifications. He changed some of those drawers which was kinda difficult to pull on his own initiatives good job! i must say, at the end of the day, i am 100% pleased with all his works. Good Job! they also boxed the panel of uneven wall for the tinted mirror at dining area. ops, slight mishap as one of the guys had a bad cut resulting in blood dripping on our floor managed to borrow some medicine from our kind neighbours. Harvey Norman Our TV, washer, fridge & microwave arrived around 3.30pm with some delays as our TV console was alittle in the way at the entrance. The 2 flight of steps at the doorway also created so problems all was solved and beautifully pieced up except for the TV which we were told that installations was from the LG instead. Our invoice clearly indicated that the TV to be installed between 3 - 5pm, but we waited in vain till 5.30pm before i made a call to them. Gosh,! to my bewilderment, they told us that there was no appointments for us!!!! can you imagine my fumes by them after all the corkups in the day!!... they returned call to my FH saying that they can only install on saturday between 3-5pm, which means i have to WAIT AROND again for them?? manz, i was so furious, i called the department and literally scream down the fone.. (very chia cha bor lorx), ah liews was in sitting in the hallway , listening to my screams, and commenting, "biangz, lucky i do swee swee for you.. ".. i demanded LG department to send anyone down IMMEDIATELY on the day itself, no matter wat time, as my invoice STATES so, poor guy.. must be new, was kinda taken back. He managed to finally secure someone to come and do OT at 6.30 to finish up all my TV installations. I even managed to get them to fix up our LG sound system, WII, Hard disk recorder at the end of the day. They only rounded up at 8.15pm. All done swee swee.. phew... wat a day!!! With that, our little white house started its full transformation! Bit by bit during the day, our designs started taking place. It quite an eventful journey of renos, what is missing now, is the missing tinted mirror, the box up at the top of the glass divider, our MBR windows (still not installed), and an additional piece of silver backing at the back of the hod our neighbours started streaming in,(even from the block behind us!), to take a look, uncle soon also sent some more customers to see.. at the end of the day, FH and I are very happy with the renovations, which we felt money was well spent, despite some delays and hiccups which are occassional. We were so excited that at the end of the day, we even went to Prime supermarket to top up our fridge at 1am, packed all the things and only slept at 4am!! pictures coming soon. stay tune! (let me clean upz fully)

Carpentry werks Ah Bao and another china guy dutifully finished up all the installations of the kitchen cabinets, dish racks, hob and hood and our wadrobes. The other china guy successfully cut a LoBang in our corner unit but other hiccups arises. the mirror panel door gave a big lobang on the top when closed. (i'll post pics to explain further). Our glass panels at the L shaped corner unit has to be brought back to the factory for modifications as the hinges are in the way. we requested for those 180 deg open type of hinges for the corner unit for ease. they also managed to saw off small portion of the shoe cabinets to fit under the window. however, realised that, they made the shoe cabinet a little shorter than we proposed, thus, my brollie unit is much wasted, coz we cant fit those long brollies from giordino, nevermind, i'll use it as more storage for shoes boxes / magazines etc and just have to find another place for those long brollies. Solid top supplier from Bellus came and install the top as well, thank god it was smooth sailing with no ractifications. Finally, ah bao installed our fujioh hob & hood, in full completion! our kitchen is fully taking place! Shoe Cabinet Ractified MBR Wadrobe Electrical werks Kelvin, the electrician, came and finished up all the rest of the wiring, and also fixed up our cove lights for the kitchen, i must say, really creates a very beautiful ambience! He even took the initiatives to cover up the wiring inside our wadrobes! good job! We had him installed 5 wadrobe lights (from ikea) at each section. He also ractificed the length of the dining light to our specifications these guys only left around 7.45pm after cleaning up their workz for the day! so grateful 25th June 09 (Today) supposingly, HO today!! My last check with FH is that the painter came over at 9.45am to round up the finishes. we have decided to change the panel in the kids room from the ICI Deluxe Sunny Lim to ICI Celery Green for a dark shade of green, but still keeping the rest of the walls white to brighten up the room. Alan is reverting back currently as to when the cleaners will come and clean up..

Updatez for 24th June! today is the day... HO ..!! but..lets see how they progress Basically a rather busy day yesterday, with at least 7 sweating men around. The day started only at about 11am, with ah bao waiting for the wadrobe doors to arrive. the painters came and decided that they should only touch up tomorrow (today i mean) because of too much installations. Uncle Soon also sent another prospect today for viewing PD Doors/ Glass dividers/ Shower Screen PD door supplier came and install our bathroom doors finally, we chose the off white alum fram c/w brown acrylic panels. Followed by the glass divider / shower screen suppliers! they took almost a day to finish the whole installations, but they will boxed up the tracks above next week. PD Doors - walls need to be repainted again. Glass Dividers Shower Screen

think uncle charge me $400plus.. for the shoe cabinets.. i hv to go back and refer... we did very minimal carpentry ... kitchen/shoe cabinet/wadrobe.. alrady... 30k.. majority goes to.. 1) hacking/rebuilt new walls/rewiring/plastering/ Lbox-cove lights/ dan followed by carpentryz

cant!...my current house full of shoes already! ahahaha... i'm gona throw away some ..ahaah..

Hi Merryman wow, your house is in its very ORIGINAL state indeed. someting like mine. my advise is to do an overhaul, esp pipes and electrical, and water proofing your toilets to reduce your worries in future. we dedided its safer to change the neccessities as we do not know how long its been that condition, and for safety precautions. you can work out ur sums first, and calculate the more essenstial ones, remb to see if you like to include plastering of your walls, (they are normally not included in the quotes). my mum had the same problem with the toilets too, we had to pay 50-50 with the neighbour downstairs.

hi everyone! thanks for your compliments, i got the design off the forum, think theirs is ready made types with 2 pull out drawers, but my area cant, so i tweaked the design alittle to accomodate the space. each slanted slot is fit for 2 pairs of high heels for ladies, for men, prob 1 pair bah, so techincally, we have 24 pairs of ladies shoes and 6 pairs of mens shoes approximately. the area on the left is reserved for brollies and old newspapers / magazines. actually, when i came up with this tweaked designed, FH and Mr Liu, were kinda skeptical, Liu " like that can put alot of shoes meh??" i said can, just remb to make the slants adjustable, so we can decide either to have it slant or straight at the end of the day. i love the white floral leathery laminate on the shoe cabinet, kinda make the place cozy. drawings are on page 7 of my blog, you can grab it there k Alan brought some prospective customers up our place in the afternoon, amidst the little war zone, and he promised to have them cleaned up by Wed. Painting all the walls white, and keeping white theme proves effective for our small 67sqm humble house, kinda broaden the space alot. Will updatez all when my furniture comes in on Friday!! I called Joanna from Winter and she assured ours is ready for delivery in the warehouse. Hope no hiccups, coz our Harvey Norman stuff coming in on Sat.. big clean up dayz ahead.. Uncle Soon and Joseph popped by last night to take alook, rest of plumbering werks to be completed today. In full anticapation for Wed, where the pd door, shower screen, glass divider, mirror should be upz.. tata for now..

Its ok, Alan just reassured me all carpentry works will do swee swee for me by Wednesday.

sob sob..there goes my area for old newspapers and umbrellas...

my is ah liu leh...my FH calls him Liu Xian Seng worx..hahahaha... aiya.. duno.. i am worried abt the carpentryz .. definitely need to saw out my wadrb section else how to move my clothes within the L section?? the shoe cabinets also, hv to saw somewhere..duno where.. it looks so nice.. to saw nw..but have too.bo biangz...else how to squeeze in?