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To get my My cfo to part with more $$ will be as hard as selling sweets to a diabetic. I think the most i can achieve is 10% inc from the orginal 20k.

We have asked afew contractors before, but none send us any quotation back. So we are back to square 1. I have not approach the highly recommended ones here yet as they are very highly sought after. The 2 carpentary works we are looking at is basically the tv console with storage and baywindow carbinets. I do not think it should be too expensive. No feature walls and such too, and my cfo and I do not like to be reminded that we are not shuai ge and mei nu, so no mirrors gonna be used in the living and dining areas too.

That is y i am on a shoe string budget liao.. . Ai Pi Ai Chi Ai Dua Liup also.. From the various forum, they had said that sub contractors will be cheaper than from 1 source though. Currently we had checked with mondo marble for their granite and installation. It works out to be close to 70 psf run. This is based on black galaxy though. I wonder anyone had deal with them before? We had seen from pagoda teak, a teak wood king size bed frame we love at $1250 i think and those kopi tiam 1.2m marble top table made of teak wood with our choice of 6 chairs for $1250 or $1300. Am so tempted to buy them though.

My CFO is paying for the reno and he had gave me the budget of 20K for reno, furnishing, appliances.

I have been collecting data and information and ideas from Renotalk various forums for some time already. I have decided to have a central point of getting feedbacks and contacts via renotalk t-blogs. Any helps, inputs and feedbacks are greatly appreciated! I am getting my keys for my 4A size house soon and am now formulating my reno design and plans. We are not that keen in getting an id, but rather getting various sub contractors to do the jobs. We are still weighing the pros and cons and having a big headache meanwhile. So far, our big big plans are Overall 1) painting the place over with easy clean paints (still thinking of the color theme for each room) 2) Downlightings for dining, living, and 3 bed rooms. (yeah false ceilings too) 3) normal energy saving lighting for toliets, kitchen and store room. 4) granite top for bay windows. 5) various rewiring 6) curtains(black out and day curtains) for all bed rooms and living room 7) vanishing of the wooden flooring Living 1) Storage tv console (I have the design i want but i do not know it is workable) 2) Tiling of Balcony (2m x 2.5m). MBR 1) short cabinets at the bay window 2) wall paper 1 side of the wall, else it will be via decals. Bedroom 2 and 3 undecided .