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Got the RENO AGREEMENT Form (your property agent one)? I would like to play safe and make the buyer sign that on top of the HDB one. Thanks

Me too.. I've got Ikea office Table ($600ish), bookshelves($100-200ish), wardrobe($600ish)... bought in 2005. Barely 3 years into it, all the backboards of the bookshelves and wardrobe loosen.. and you can take your clothes or books from the back..keke.. the bookshelves... curved down on the load of books (uh..it's a book shelves..so i put books)... The office table.. laminate peel off... One of the smaller bookshelves is wobbly now.. and you can move it.. if not..it will fall apart.. all in all.. i think those furniture my parents bought from the neighbourhood furniture shops last more than 5 years on average. So nowadays, i just go for real furniture instead of ikea. Ikea is nice to look at.. not nice to use. maybe it's just me being rough with the ikea furniture.. i dunno...

I very sad leh.. U only mentioned the balcony swee.. never say my bedrooms swee ..hehe.. Ya.. This balcony guy is good. Yours can also be turned into this type.. 'coz there's another 2 3-bedders who did more or less the same thing. For mine, it was about $13k .. Very worth it in my opinion.. coz when I sit there at the dining table, I feel like I'm in a hotel alfresco dining with a view but the 3 bedders folks mentioned they did theirs for around $5k (their balcony is half our size in terms of width and length , if i'm not wrong).

My dining Table from Lorenzo and Osim uDream. Wallpaper of the 3 common rooms. MY ID Lacked Quality control.. The LCD Tvs could not be installed in any of the rooms :- 1) the gap between the Cable hole AND POWER SOCKET was too wide for 32inch LCDs. I specified already. So, now they have to resolve it. Coz I dont want to see the power socket.. **** UGLY. 2) I am using 3 meter cables to run from the Cable HOLE(which is placed too high) and still barely cannot plug into the TV. Need 5 meters! So they will lowered the hole to near the power socket.

My Dining Table for the balcony.. from Old Empire Thanks.. here is some more of the Balcony. Simple and Nice..at least according to my own standard The Balcony is done by DESIGN4U (not my ID). I think it would be horrendous if I let my ID do the design on the balcony!

Thanks guys.. the wallpaper at the main corridor is indeed very nice but the TV feature wall is WHITE wallpaper with fine threads (but become like a white-painted wall)... and choose a little softer brown cloth-like wallpaper covering the whole living area.. but again turns out like painted in brown. So lesson learnt is wallpaper must use darker colours or richer texture type then will be nicer.

Yup. I like mirrors too.. But mine was done without much "Extension" effect. I believe the mirrors need to cover the edge of the wall to have the extension effect. Oh for wallpaper, you might need to be more bold with the color tone and patterns. I had a white wallpaper with fine threads and now it looks like a wall painted in white. Very ugly.

Eh.. if everything is under the platform storage... How do you wash your floor? Wouldn't water seep into it?

Chio chio man Like how the 3 pc drawing complement the dining set. Bedroom really got design woh! But hor.. ur bedsheets.... too red.. seem to steal away the focus of the fine "cocoon" design of the bed feature wall/ceiling.

Yup That's my intention as well. Tomorrow will talk to the ID about it .. Totally unacceptable piece of work by his carpenter. Now left only with tomorrow's housing cleaning .. followed by Wallpaper ..and done..

Ya, think plummet is the cause.. But now too late to rectify.. if they built the plummet, the feature wall become too long.. Nevermind already.. just accept My House now **** BRIGHT! Even for the warm light that is supposed to be the cove lightings for all the rooms and living area. I just need to on my cove lightings can illuminate the living area and dining already! ..haha.. Think must change the lights (probably a year from now) to something that is dimmer .. like use LED type.. His view of lightings also weird.. he choosed all the big ceiling lights for the bedrooms and toilets as well. Think the smaller ceiling lights will look better in the small constraint rooms/toilets instead. Guess he never put much thought into the lighting portion. So for those who are doing reno, please remember to see whether the lightings recommended by your ID fits your ROOM.. I saw your night lightings on your blog.. that one looks better.. Very COSY and nice The ambience all come out already..I feel like I am in a nice lounge bar when i saw your night lightings. walau.. i drool when i saw yours... You use LED or the T5-T9 ?? So .. I think if everything goes the way it goes.. William will be getting less business from the forum if people chanced upon this reno.. keke.

Oh, that's good to hear Guess I will have to wait till 6th Oct to know the result. You have any idea on the halo-effect for border lights along the TV frame? I was thinking whether it was due to the lack of translucent covering on the lights. Maybe have to do one myself Oh another thing... We have a full-length mirror shoe-cabinet... but is it normal to have only the mirror as the sliding door without a plywood support? I don't have the photos here .. but the whole freaking mirror door wobbles when you slides it... and definitely a safety concern since there's no plywood supproting it from behind... This one will iron out with the ID.. in case anyone engaged him or other IDs, make sure to check on what type of wood they used to do cabinets and such (the specs and material used is not listed in the quotation).

a little disappointed the mirrior did not create the illusion of a bigger living/dining area. I think the mirror need to be filled from wall to wall to create the illusion as a frame kinds of prepares the mind to perceive it as a painting or sorts. The bedroom TV feature wall (simple as i just wanted lights coming out from the bottom and top). .. but somehow.. the effect does not seem right... The whole room is literally like daytime ... Any suggestions how to make it become like a hALO-effect..

Hi, Anyone know who we can approach for LCD TV wall-mount installations. I need to migrate my existing 3 LCD TVs to my new house. Thanks.

tHANKS Will go Choo Chiang to see then. Heard they have lightings at wholesale prices too.. Maybe can also find out whether LED lights can plug straight into T-5/9 sockets.

Hey.. this plugs and socket thingy is nice. How easy is the installation? Can I use existing socket or do I have to do rewiring? Also , how much does it cost? Any contact you can provide so I can get a quote from them or to understand how it is done. Thanks.

Hehe.. that twin pillar showcase is for my "Pi Xiu" .. The mythical creatures you see at the doorway of banks.. meant to suck wealth and qi and whatever ....

Lorenzo is having a promotion now of 3+2 sofa set for $1000 off. But when I enquired about buying a 4 Seat L-shape sofa plus another armchair (total is 5 seats too), there is only $400 off. Any one have the same experience? 3+2 and L-shape is basically the same sofa .. just different configuration.. Strange logic for the way they are discounted...

Laminate on Headboard Masterbedroom Common Bedrooms Cabinet

Main Corridor Dining Room Dining Room Living Room TV-cum-wardrobe

WOW! A half-day is such a big difference! Feedback to ID and within this half a day, the faults that I mentioned have been rectified Now I can only say.. I was too early posting the "defects" list before feedback to him. The shelvings are now of acceptable quality (no more feel of cheap plywood..dunno what they did). The laminates are ok too For the protective coverings that are not in the bedrooms, he mentioned it's coz most work are already done and protective coverings are removed so that they can clean the area and start doing the wallpaper. Maybe that is what they called final touch-ups? My fault maybe for being too "gan cheong" to post defects..

Update.. Last week, the coverings and start of work was well-done with minimal mess and false ceilings were all done nicely. A lot of things have been done this week ... and below is observations I made. You guys judge for yourself whether this ID company is worth hiring. 1) Carpentry work is inconsistent. A lot of built-in cabinets are curved at one side because the shelves are too wide and the carpenter forced them in, resulting in the curvature on one side of the cabinet. 2) Laminates on masterbedroom feature bedhead is coarse at the edges. Shelves in a custom TV-Console-cum-wardrobe are using the low grade plywood and no laminate on the underside(like those cheapo ikea ones). Though custom-made workwork should have better standard than that. 3) They took off all the protective coverings inside the bedrooms leaving the parquet wood exposed , even though the work is not finished yet. The covering at the corridor leading to the living room is also taken off leaving the compressed marble floor exposed. I need to find out why they do that today. They want to replace scratch parquet wood and marble after they are done with their renovation? 4) The laminates on the baywindows and baywindow cabinets are also lousily done as I can see peeling or chirped edges already. The ID is good at project management skill of organising the tasks and keeping to schedule, but after this week's progress update, I find he has little control over his "sub-con" or he did not do a good job at finding quality sub-con. If not, there would not be quality control issues like the above. Anyway, will be discussing with the ID tomorrow to sort out the issues since he is receptive to solving issues. Just find he needs to work more on the quality control portion. Very important for NEXT WEEK as it is THE WALLPAPER sub-con turn. Wallpaper cannot be done hastily and lousily!

I just bought the Sealy Marina Bay Sands Queen size bed . It's currently selling at $2888 with 2 pillow and 100% quilt thrown in. I find it's the type I liked.. Not too hard, not too soft.. I think it's what most people would term Medium hard.