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Mine is near Tampines east CC.

Just some updates. We met up with Tau interior for a second time for discussion and sort of decided to use them. Until.....they sent us the agreement and we are somewhat not really happy with the pricing because he conveniently forgot the discount (round off to nearest lower 1000) he promised us during the first meet-up.When we questioned, he kepted saying the first quote did not include the wardrobe hence it's cheaper. Sigh...i donno what to say bcoz i'm quite sure his claim is not true. (as the number won't add up if what he say is true.) We were just too blur the first time that we did not make him write down the rounded off value in the quotation. Stupid side of me. We are quite torn now as we still like this company as a whole....but this quotation pricing thingy makes me uncomfortable. Yes, it's only a few hundred dollars but money is money is money right? Plus the way he reply us in denial..... Like that if we signed agreement already then he pull more stunt and eat up his promise how?

We also visited a "showflat" done by Tau interior last Sunday. Looks quite good. Husband seems partial to their design.....

We met up another renovator, Edmund from DX interior over the weekend. Initially didn't consider him liao bcoz the 1st quote from him left out quite anumber of things but total still quite expensive.... But last week he called us to follow up. So we met up and told him what we want, and give him a budget to work with. After he heard our requirement i think he face green green... coz we ask if he can match the cheapest quote we get (from another ID). Then he say, actually that quotation we got quite competitive already. Haha.... He promised to give us revised quote tomorrow. Hopefully he keeps his promise then we can make our decision by tomorrow!

BR2 Very old school main door The MBR is a bit small...no space to do WIW!!!

Shall post some photos of the house in its current state. The owner is still staying there. Second appointment is 2nd Nov. Living area kitchen common bath MBR MBR bathroom

We are doing an overhaul. The current "design" is no design lo... like houses 10+ years ago. Want to hack and change all tiles. But considering laminate for BRs. Anyone wants to share experience on laminates? I am a bit petpeeves over dirty floor. What i heard is laminate cannot mop, can only use magic clean to wipe. If the floor get sticky i will go crazy!

Thanks. I think it's ex le...but no choice..resale price just keep shooting up must quickly grab. At first i also think the house square square very nice. But after OTP only we found out from one of the ID that this is a pre-fab HDB.... likely cannot hack anything! !@$$%@#@# I wanted a open concept kitchen..... The agents (both seller and buyer) act blur and didn't tell us lo...and both of us blur blur also donno got such thing....

Argh... Typed a super long post just now and lost it while trying to upload my floorplan *Wave* Hi all, been around RT for quite some time but didn't have time to start our t-blog. Was busy reading others' blog and getting tips from here! The process of buying house is a long story altogether but anyway, we have finally made our decision on a 4A resale at Tampines. OTP was in late July i think. Here is the floorplan: We have now gone through our first appointment and eagerly waiting for second appointment! ID search started way before 1st appointment. We have met up with many IDs, some are recommendations from RT, some intro by friends. It is a painful process of meeting up with different ppl every night after work, show them the floorplan and tell them our requirement. Repeat x 8 to 10. Yup, we must have talked to 8-10 IDs. Lost count. Got a lof of information through the IDs meeting too. Some of them are nice, some bochap, some too eager to sign with us (everything also "can can can"), some tried to brainwash us....oh well, been through that and now we have shortlisted the final 2 candidates: 1) Tau Interior: They did not reply our email so we decided to just walk in to their office one night. Met up with Kelvin and after much "reminder" he finally gave us a quote. But the quote was on the high side. We were quite disappointed then. However, we met up with him one more time and he sort of gave us a new quote. All the prices also change. We actually suspect the 1st quote he had no time to do so just anyhow give one. The second quote is looking good, just slightly above our budget. Our worry is that they are quite popular here and many ppl have signed with them recently. Wonder if they are able to handle so many projects simultaneously and handover in time. We are quite pressed for time as we are currently renting and the contract will be due soon. 2) Homely image: Husband know the lady boss so we approached them as well. They quote is rather competitive as compared to Tau. However, it seems that there is no information on this company online at all. Donno if it's bcoz their target market is not tech savvy type or they really have some bad records. We visited a showflat done by them, workmanship looks ok, but design is so-so only. But we have budget constraints so there might not be much design to talk about in the first place. With so little information about this company, we can't help but to worry. Although we know the lady boss, but it's just a lil more than acquaintance. Sekali still "sha sha" got cheated by them how? Comments anyone? We have to make a decision on ID by this week as we will be getting keys on 2nd Nov. Not much time left for preparation....

We went to see a " show flat" yesterday. He handed over about 3 months ago....looks ok.... But of course they will choose their better project to show. They quotation is rather reasonable. I am just worried that they have other bad records.

We saw a very attractive package at Takashimaya (suprisingly), Dunlopillo individual pocket mattress with bedframe only selling @$999. Very tempted to buy, even though we haven't got our keys yet. Any good/ bad comments on Dunlopillo? I saw in this forum seems like nobody use this brand.

Didn't see any comment on this company in this forum. Just wondering anyone has got their house done by Homely Image? Our quotation from them looks good but we don't know about the workmanship and service. If anyone has heard of them, please do kindly share.

Has anyone heard of Homely Image? How are their workmanship and service?

Hi, we are also facing the same problem. Our is blk 2++ in Tampines. Didn't know it is pre-fab until one of the shortlisted IDs check for us. Our agent didn't tell us!!! Initially i got so excited want to hack kitchen wall and storeroom, now looks like cannot. the mentioned ID called HDB and they said "can try to ask PE to check". If it's like your case (which i higher suspected so) then i shall just change my plan now since i haven't gotten my key and haven't confirmed my design. Sigh.

Hi newbie here. Nice house you have! I love the tv feature wall. I am looking for something simple and nice too. Do you mind sharing your quotation?

Hi I'm new here and our new home is also in Tampines! Yhanie17, you are not doing retile for living room? Mine is a 4A 104sqm. our first quote from one of the shortlisted ID is abt 30k. *stressed* with simple design, minimal fixture but change all tiles. We also shortlisted **. but haven't got a quote from them.