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Hi mysweetlittlethings - I am not familiar with the pri schs at Clementi as I plan to send my kids to Fairfield, which is my alma mater. But from Clementi Ave 6, Nan Hua is 150m away or something. When's your 1st appointment with HDB? I am not sure whether you can walk from Sunset to Clementi MRT. I don't consider Ave 6 walking distance to MRT also actually....I would think a comfortable walking distance is within 500m.

ice-cream - daily scoop!! yumdelicious!! and rockys pizza double yum!! sunset's great really. and exclusive.

hi mysweetlittlethings, don't hack the rooms above - harder to sell in future getting keys only in oct - signed otp only last month. will get to take pictures then! shifting end of oct as well.

Hi, I need alot of rooms because I have one daughter and one son, and one domestic helper. So the utility area is for my domestic helper. And I need a study too - so am using the dining area as a study - two large L shape tables and have moved the dining table to the corridor from kitchen to living room, which is very wide with the staircase against wall configuration. Which is why for me I couldn't consider a "criss cross" staircase unit. This is also the reason why I much prefer the 2nd generation EM layout, with a large square balcony as it gives the flexibility of using balcony as area for domestic helper to sleep and yet we have one other extra full room in the 1st level.

Hi Mysweetlittlethings, I like your unit size! And the GREAT thing about your unit is the fantastic layout of the common toilet on level 2. The other EMs in the 1985/1986 generation have the silliest common toilet layout (like mine). The only thing that that I like better about the traditional EMlayout is the staircase layout - the unit looks more spacious if the staircase is against the wall. Other than that, great unit! Is your utility area big enough to convert to a spare room?

congratulations! on being such a happy owner! Really i hardly see people so excited and happy over their purchases. I wasn't over the moon over my purchase, more relieved than anything else, haha. you know, the bonus of having a 3/4th level maisonette is that the ceiling is very nice and high on the 4th level there is a difference comapred with other non top floor EMs I made an offer for a 680k for a Toh Yi walk up level 3/4 EM - one of the reasons was that even with the false ceiling on the top floor, the ceiling was so nice and high and a ceiling fan looked great! the rest of our ceilings are about 2.7m or so top level at least 20cm more I believe. congrats congrats congrats!

Hi Myswweetlittle things, hey 667k is not a bad price cos the owner marketed that united for over 700k not too long ago! Which is why I didn't see the unit. BTW, is it a 3rd level walk up unit? i don't know the details but for hdb, i know i am weird but i favour 2nd/3rd level unis especially now that i have a young daughter and a domestic helper. somehow feel that it is safer that they don't have to take the lift with strangers. okay i know i sound crazy but i was really quite scared of taking lifts when i was young..... and if the window grilles are already installed and are to your liking, you do save alot of money! My favourite is the walk up 3rd level EM Except that you have to consider what happens when they do lift upgrading - hopefully doesn't block your view or end up being some obtrusive dunno what. btw, sunset way maisonettes are unique in they have many different types of layouts, many are not the traditional EM layouts that we know- the whole estate has so many permutations of EM layouts - almost feels like an EM experiment - though those EMs are called 5 room maisonettes (probably because the 4th room isn't really a room like in the 1st generation EMs). Your layout looks good. some of the sunset staircases are very strange, the staircase cuts the living/dining area i.e. the criss cross design rather than alongside the wall. of course the alongside the wall one is better - which yours is. which school will you be sending your kids to? how old are your children? mine are 3 and 4.

congratulations!!! quite a few nice corner EMs suddenly came out on the market at the sunet area. i like the white white look! in fact i am painting my entire living dining area white - ceilings cornices and walls haha moving in oct....we appealed for hdb to speed up the completion process and it was successful. lukas - think we were in the clementi EM market round about the same time - your #4 at blk 201 valuation was 575k yah? i didn't get to view the unit - i got unit at blk 206 instead.

Sounds quite out of this world to me....I definitely won't commit but as chronograph said, willing buyer willing seller. Is the condition of the house good? Actually, if you are noise sensitive, better to get Sunset of Toh Yi than Blk 206, as I realized that the maisonettes facing the temple, those above 4th storey, the bedrooms and dining room will get the MRT track noise as well as it is almost parallel to Commonwealth Ave West. The 2nd flr units are okay as it is blocked by the short side of the block.....

All the best! Let us know!

Hi mysweetlittlethings, Welcome to the forum; I'm pretty new myself. There are transactions int he Clementi Ave 6 area though if you are particular about wanting a South facing unit, this means effectively Blk 201 is out (will be too noisy for you since fire station is already a concern for you) and the short section of Blk 206 is also out as it is not South-facing, and it gets main road noise as well. I think every year, 2-3 units from Blk 206 come on the market, if the HDB website is anything to go by, as it shows the trasactions for over the past year. If you do not require a unit urgently, can always wait. But if you do, then the PRC owner's asking price is not at all bad as the units for the facing you want are relatively rare. Have fun; I enjoyed my house hunting process. I wouldn't have picked Clementi Ave 6 if not because my parents and in laws live in District 5. I much prefer the Toh Yi layout and estate

hahaah yah yah i think the estate is growing old or issit fertility rate not so high in s'pore so not enough children and 5 primary schs in clementi merge into one school no more jinshan, jubilee, clementi town etc - i think all merge into clementi primary sch now. i also grew up in that area. is your groundfloor unit at sunset bigger? and issit one of the 4 storey blocks? everyone tell me the low floor unit will be very hard to sell but i still bought it any way. at most rent out in future as i think clementi is a very rentable area with NUS location stuck there forever.....

the daily scoop ice cream! yumyum. no railings won't work for me - it is a nice clean look but i got two little imps in the house.....but if just one couple, i think it is okay - wait until preggie then install railing also can i guess

L boxes are definitely the best way to solve lighting problems energy saving down lights are very cost effective plus more than sufficient lighting for reading and so no need floor lamps. actually the L box alongside window also acts as a very nice curtain pelmut and my present unit only has cornice but no L box - realize that the curtains don't look as nice without the L box haha. when i was doing my search for EMs, had the feeling, esp in the Toh Yi area, that there are alot of teachers staying at EMs! i think the 2nd generation EMs with the big service balcony has a very very very good layout - 4 full size rooms with storage area under the stairs - and i have seen people use the balcony as a room for the domestic helper - so it is like 5 rooms. the service balcony can be roofed up very nicely and it is more than enough space for a domestic helper. more rooms more flexible, though the total sq footage is the same. but no choice leh, clementi don't have this layout, unless i shell out 100k more for Toh Yi