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Hi Dugong, Any progress update? I've been waiting to see how your house would turn out. Hope everything is well.

I was previously staying in Bukit Batok. Hand over my keys early march. Now bunking with my parent's place which was also recently renovated. Hopefully, the unit can be handover to me end of this week. Stick some decals over the glass. It should help. Don't mention kids, my mum also did not notice her kitchen glass door and had a hard knock in the past.

Work In Progress (Part II) Study Area Balcony (folding door to be hack) Common Toilet Master Toilet

Work in progress Kitchen Cement TV Console Dining Light Feature Wall Near Dining Area Entrance to Study

I'm from AI. Realised that this is your 2nd home. You have kids already? I have one busy 15 months old running around so alot of me renovation and purchases had to factor him into the equation.

Hi Aoiaoi, Would you happen to know the name? I found a similar one (ERSLEV) from Ikea @ $89. Not sure if the same.

Hi Pinkydot, Do you happen to use Pure Compile Wood WG4212 for your shoe cabinet? If yes, that would be another coincidence.

My carpenter have yet to install but my contractor promised me that it would be latest 24th of Apr. I'll post it when it's up. Have not been posting on my own T-blog cos I wanted to show the finished products rather than the process. I can guess from the photos that you are located at the 300 series. I know Yishun at the back of my hand because I grew up in this area.

Yes!!! Did not realised that. I'm getting black leather finishing from FC @ IFC.

Hi Pinkydot, I'm also using Chelsea Compile Wood WG4202S and Lamitak's High Gloss White for my kitchen cabinet! Coincidentally I also got the same light that you hang at your stairs for dining light. Did you get them from Lightings.com? Any issues with your? A number of the plates had poor paint coating but so far they have agreed to change the defective plates for me. And I'm also at Yishun near to Khatib mrt. BTW, you did a good job with your house. Very cosy and classic.

Hi Ripples, Where did you get your green rug and how much did it cost you? Looking for something similar. TIA

Hi Mickey, Once your house is done, it deserves to be featured on decor magazine because it is so very cute. I admire your courage for taking on such a daring concept but must say the house is coming up very well.

My contractor is old school so he is still using 2D drawing. Drawing for foyer area (show cabinet) Drawing for master bed room Drawing for kitchen

Previous owner made some modification to layout. My reno is expected to finish within 2 weeks time. Started hacking on 16th of March.

Forgot to take photo yesterday. These are the photos taken some days back. Tiling at common toilet Tiling at master toilet

Just want to comment my experience with Asia Excel and Lightings.com.sg (both popular on this forum) and Hoe Kee. Asia Excel ( 9/10 Thumbs up) - Highly recommended 1) Sales: Desmond is very sincere when buyers are sincere. He gave me a very good package price. 2) Delivery: Some of my items just arrived so there was a possibility it may be delayed. But Desmond and his team helped to expedite and arranged all my deliveries to arrived on the same day. Delivery was supposed to be 4-6pm but delivery man was held up by other deliveries because some owners were late in receiving delivery. He managed to arrived after 7pm (by that time we had no lights in the house so it was pitch dark). But delivery man did call me to update me and apologise for his delay. Despite this, he took the patience to go through every single item on the DO and open up every item for us to check (with the help of a torch) Lightings.com.sg (6/10) 1) Sales: Adeline was helpful. No special discount given although we gotten in total more than 3K worth of lights ( my house + my mum's house). But prices are very reasonable. 2) Delivery: My mum's item (missing clip and crack glass), my item had to be reschedule to morning. 3) After sales: Ask me to pick up the missing clip. Although I understand it is just a clip but the trip could have been avoided if the products were in order 3) Products: Majority of products seems to be from China (QC ???) That probably explains missing and cracked item. My items have not been installed so not sure what problems may surface. Hoe Kee, IMM (4/10 Thumbs down) - Not recommended 1) Price wise reasonable 2) Sale staff abit arrogant and not very helpful 3) After sales sucks!!! My mum WC was missing the push button. She called up and was brush aside. Told my mum she had to repurchase a brand new set because they do not sell the push button alone. I had to storm down to make a fuss before they agreed to giving me a replacement push button.

Hacking started on 16/3/2010. Tomorrow should be starting with tiling. Purchased the following things so far. 1) Rinnai Hod and Hood (Asia Excel-Desmond) 2) Rinnai Oven (Asia Excel- Desmond) 3) Kitchen & Bathroom accessories (Asia Excel- Desmond) 4) 4 tier Stainless Steel Pull Out Rack (Hoe Kee) 5) 2.8m L-shape sofa (Furniture Club-Lily) In black Visit My Website 6) Queen size storage bedframe (Englander- Ooi Lee) 7) Lights (Lightings.com.sg- I think Adeline) One of the lights Visit My Website 8) 2 Jam Barstools in green color ( XZQT) In green Visit My Website 9) 1 Tree hanger (XZQT) Visit My Website

Hi Dugong, where did you get your mosaic tiles? Any progress to your new house over the weekend? BTW, I've stayed in the north (chong pang, yishun, sembawang) practically all my life until I got married and got my own home at Bukit Batok. But I returning to my nest i.e Yishun again to be near my mum. Yishun is actually quite a nice place and not too far from town. The only thing I don't like is the jams at CTE. Hope u will grow to like Yishun. Which part of Yishun Ring Road is ur house located?

WOW Dugong, I love your mosiac tiles for kitchen. Are these actual mosiac tiles or ceramic tiles that look like mosiac? If mosiac, how much you spend to tile up the backsplash for kitchen?

Thanks Angel821, u have a T-blog?

Hi CJREDDEVIL, I saw ur T-blog and personally think you have done a good job with minimal spending and that is the same we are trying to do here. Our 1st house we only spend 27K on renovation (incl Mitsubitshi system 3 air con etc). Quite unbelievably low and we are trying to do the same with this EA but this being a resale unit would need extra expenses in terms of hacking and running new electrical points. So our next house would be cosy but not the "wow" kind of house

My 2nd post in renotalk. Sharing my experience in renovating my 2nd home. To spend more time with my son, we decided to relocate from West to North to be near to my parents. Hard to part with my current house. Current 5 room However, we are looking forward to renovating our EA in Mar 2010 to realize our desire to spend more time with our dear prince. Here's our floor plan.EA Floor plan Search for the right contractor have started. Had discussion with a couple of IDs from IMM (basically written them off totally after seeing their quotation), Jason from U&B but finally settled for a contractor by the name of Philip (recommended by mum's friend whom engaged him). Jason was high on our list because his quote was reasonable and he seems a nice and easy going person but we decide to award to Philip after comparing both Jason's and Philip's workmanship. I also had a concern about delivery time by Jason because I have a feeling that he is over stretching himself by taking on too many projects. As for Philip, his quotation is by far the most reasonable and he has been fairly honest with the add ons. So here are the major items that we will be doing for our 146sqm EA. Total damage 37K. 1) Hacking, haulage and removal 2) Flooring and wall for kitchen, 2 bathrooms 3) Chengnai wood deck at balcony 4) Polishing of marble flooring 5) Piping and sanitary works 5) Paint whole house +doors 6) Tempered glass screen and door at master bathroom 7) Tempered glass wall and door at study room 8) False ceiling and L boxes 9) 4ft shoe cabinet 10) 7 ft TV console 11) 29 ft open concept kitchen using partial blum systems (e.g. Aventos HL, antislam drawers and hinges) 12) Built in wardrobes for all 3 bedrooms (13.5+5ft+6.5ft) 13) Vanity cabinet at MBR toilet 14) Solid tops at MBR toilet and kitchen

Saw a nice daybed (big round ones) at cellini but was told they only sell to landed properties because bed could not fit into lifts. Anyone knows where I can get similar daybeds for HDB flats?