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Barcelona tiles for MBR toilet wall The above tiles has limited stock too, so choose this instead for kitchen (black), common toilet (red and white)

Tiles selection From living to bedrooms tiles. However, tiles has limited stock, not enough for bedroom. After some struggling, with a few options, ID chooses another so called "similar" one from another supplier. Yet to see the new one, hopefully not too bad. Bathroom floor tiles Kitchen floor tiles

Thats black solid top. I know abt the con, but no choice loh. Cant match with other color also, and dont like granite. I think another con is if place hot stuff, may leave white marks right? Will see how it goes in the future.

My 3D - Only living, dining and kitchen provided. The rest are detailed drawing. There are subsequent changes, but no revised 3D drawing as dateline is tight and crash with CNY holidays. Living Room Dining Room Kitchen

Ok, here my layout, after hacking off MBR and common rm 2 wall and kitchen wall.

haha. I thought I was one of the more kiasu one to ask so many quote. It was fun going around meeting different ID, and monitor their behaviour vs selling tactics, but tired to listen to each of them at least 2-3 hrs. Some of the items we already heard so many times but just act blur each time meeting a new ID.

Thanks Danny! How is your Philips TV so far?? I'm targeting 40" 7409 series..not sure how it fare. Alot of pple tell me not to get philips but I simply like the design, specs also looks good. Hopefully next wk IT fair will give good offer!

Yes. He is always like in happy mood, and keep smiling. haha Not sure what he doing there, maybe they are meeting another client after that to be under his portfolio. Hmm..thanks boonlay. After hearing from you, I feel more comforted. haha You make sense some how, and maybe I too picky lah..keke Very scare after spending so much $$ then not good result, so abit stress. keke You sure can share once confirm?? Coz the T&C there didnt write. haha They are indeed very fast, i believe now should complete hacking liao..maybe tonight go see see. Like what leslie say loh, not many pple dare to use the tiles we selected, so they order the tiles min only. So limited stock. Hopefully the one he replaces are good and satisfied. If not wife will kill me!! Stress for me on both sides!!

Thanks lilithfiend! Hmm..I named the theme myself, as I keep hearing him talk abt this 2 words..haha Will post some pic tonight. But only got initial phase of 3D drawing, they didnt revised the drawing after changes, as it was CNY, and was rushing.

My ID selection process Basing on my memories, so may not be so accurate..keke 1) City Design - The very 1st ID that we talk to, as we try to explore tradehub and decided to listen to what they can offer. This middle age man, sounds very experience, show us his show room etc, but keep telling us that it is still early for us to quote. Siao! I visited him in Dec, and I'm getting my keys in Feb, and he still say early. Anyway, since he not interested to quote, we will give it a miss. 2) 2Form - As we walk down tradehub, just pop in to visit. Waited for awhile before a young lady serve us. Totally cannot make it. Doesnt seems like she knows anything, in the end get our contact and say will get back to us. But didnt. 3) * Interior - A plump guy served us, cant rem his name. Patient and offer good advise, draw us the layout on the spot and quote us within an hr. Was quite pls with his service, but somehow he make us feel that he is a sales guy more than an ID. At that time, we still uncertain about what we want also. Total quote 30k. Anyway, its our 1st quote, so we didnt want to commit, and he admit that he is disappointed that we didnt confirm on the spot. 4) Home concept - A very soft spoken young lady serve us. Very patient, and explain in details. Sounds not so experience, and just follow what we requested. Draw out very nice floor plan + ceiling layout on our 2nd visit. Total quote 40k, which we think abit high, and we worried that she cant handle the rouge contractors. 5) Weiken - Another plump guy served us by the name WXXXXXXX. Quite friendly, get our requirement and will get back to us on the quote. He follow up promptly with quote of total 40k+, which consist of alot of missing items. So we decided to give it a miss. 6) Ideal house - Recommended in forum. Send in request for quote and SXXX got back. A friendly chap, met him in his office, explain to us in details. Offer quite good, except that he is more of a typical ID which follows requirement and lack of design idea. Quote was also competitive, ard 36k. Will go for him if I didnt met my current ID. 7) Ho Bee - Another recommended from forum. Quotation came in after 3wk-4wks, which I already wanted to settle for ID. Quote ard 32k but with alot of missing items not added in. No chance to talk to them personally. 8) Summit Design - Also from forum. NXXXXX quite good in following up. Will inform when he cant meet the timeline for quotation. Quote ard 32k also but with missing item. Give quite detail drawing also. No chance to talk to him too. 9) Innerview - Happen to walk past IMM, so decided to drop by this shop where it looks more harmless than the others there. There was this very experience uncle, explaining to us so many things and details, say will get back to us on quote. But in the end no news. haha 10) Chew interior - This one recommend by my agent which say Reno is very cheap one lah..no worries. In the end, the ID came back with at 50k jaw dropping quote. The highest among all!! Immediately dropped him, and I know its my agent that is up to no good. 11) CLC - Also from forum. Met them thrice before confirming with them. They got back with quote on time, and proposed some very unique idea. They are very strong in design, and very persistent on their design. Once confirm their design, can almost say that we got no chance to change anything. haha Overall, my ID is very patient and keep explaining and persuading us on his idea. His quote is not the lowest, nor the highest. And we trusted them, and so far are ok with their service, although abit hiccups in between. 12) ID Note - Forget to add henry into the list which is highly recommended here too. But too bad he is too busy to quote me, if not most probably I will be joining the henner club. keke I think got more ID, but cant really rem all, these are the few I can rem.

I decided to start my T-blog instead of flooding my pic here. Will post update here if needed. Visit my t-blog in below link.

Hihi After some consideration, finally going to start my own T-blog. keke. Hopefully I got the time to update and replies. So dont flame me if I'm slow. Before that, would like to thanks to all the forumers contribution, to make my life easier and sourcing of ID more fluent. Special thanks to Supersimon, who was extremely helpful, but I didnt manage to engage henry as he was too busy quote to me. I think I bought my house at a not very good time, paying a hefty COV, but also due to my pickiness (only 6 blocks of flats I'm looking at ard my area), at least mid floor - high floor, selected facing and 4RM. Along the way, thought my agent was quite good, as he boosted abt his service and how he will try to help me market and source for my needs. In the end, I found the unit my own thru internet, informed him and he went to do abit of underhand trick, to get us the unit. So 1 of the seller agent (not sure y seller got 2 agent) suffered due to sudden sales without his knowledge. Anyway, its a long story, didnt want to elaborate. But we are happy that we got what we wanted. Overall, 2 things not happy over our purchase of flat, 1) My agent service sucks after 1st appt, which is after paying comm (he cough out 1k from his comm for my cov though) 2) Seller was an unfriendly, rude and inconsiderate old hag. We didnt spoke a word throughout the whole transactions. She even give us black face during 2nd appt, and the hack care attitude when ask which keys belongs to what. Will tell more story if anyone interested. If not I will just skipped. My unit is under reno now (today is 3rd day hacking), and post some photos when I'm home tonight.

End of Day 1 Good progress! Kitchen wall hacked MBR and common rm 2 wall hacked Common toilet hacked completed

Orh, I met Jack on my 1st day reno. He look more beng than leslie..haha Some how I feel my reno was started like in a rush, maybe becoz alot of things to decide very last min. Like the tiles thingy, leslie only told me that he chose another very similar to my original tiles on the 1st day reno. I think it would be good if he at least inform me before hand. Coz we really struggle when he say the prev tiles no stock and suggest carpet. Somewhat feel that he is renovating his own house rather than my house..haha Another gut feel is that he will only throw in upgrade when he think it is worth for his design, eg we want to change kitchen cabinet 2 door to drawers instead, he charged us $72 extra for the drawer thread. Not sure if I rem correctly, thought we can change to whatever layout we like as agreed (not in black and white though). I got another issue raised again. My kitchen cabinet was in L shape, and the carpentry measurement, they actually measured the L corner twice!! That corner has very little usage, no doors, no thread, no partition, and I was charged twice the amt as he reason that this is the way the carpenter measurement standard! Do you think its fair to measure in this way?? Not only I need to pay extra 2ft of kitchen cabinet amt, and also extra 2ft of solid top when they didnt even use 2ft of materials!!! I argue with him and he say at most give me 1ft off... I'm going to meet him 2morrow to talk more abt the cabinet issue. Boonlay u got this issue? Btw, boonlay, have you got his rewiring quotation? His rewiring contractor charges super high, and non negotiable, even after I try to persuade him to lower the quote. But he was very firm that the price is standard and it is paid to the contractor. So I am going to look for external electrician to do the rewiring. Amt difference could come out to 800-1k for my case. U may want to ask him for your house rewiring early if u are doing, so to give u more time to outsource. Like my case, so last min again.

Hi Any reliable electrician with reasonable price to recommend? Thanks!

Yes, its like blogging. Its setup in this forum for individual to blog on their reno. This is the link Reno T-blog

so u have finalize most things already?? Any 3D drawing to show?

Does he knows that your fren use his floor plan design to go let others quote? If he knows, he sure reject to help. If he is willing to help, he sure cut your friend carrot head. He told me last time there is this guy, take his 3D and ask other contractor to do, in the end they didnt manage to do it as they dont understand how it works, and he came back to him for help, he quote him super exp for the tv feature alone. I agree with u abt his persistence in design. He keep telling me, once he choose the design and colors, there is nothing much we can change liao. Whatever we suggest, always got shoot down by him...haha I think he also headache handle us, we keep suggest and want to change here and there, and he keep persuading us on his design. Hmm..from what I know, he say he is only handling 2 projects now, another 1 I think should be yours.

Me not young le lah..over 30 liao..keke

So u like the design? coz my wife show to her colleague, he say quite typical. So i wonder is it he doesnt know how to appreciate the design or he doesnt know abt design. I thought mine was quite different from others, esp the tv feature + console portion. Anyway, the wording laminate and the big round circles thingy is the portion that I worried abt messiness. But this is just 3D, the actual wall paper looks better. Hope it comes out nice like wat leslie keep saying.

I'm thinking should I start a T-blog, or should I flood my photos in CLC post...what you guys think?

Hacking of toilets Toilet accessories hacked

Day 1 of Reno Banner of CLC outside my unit Hacking of kitchen Hood and sink hacked

First version of Living 3D First version of Kitchen 3D First version of Dining 3D These are the 1st version 3D, after which there are quite a number of changes, but they didnt redo the 3D, but they give us another white theme 3D for comparison. In the end, we stick to the black manhattan theme. Any comments guys?