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Hi Sir / Mdm, I can help you with that. Please email me at ***@yahoo.com.sg

Also good to knock out the red portion, so as to allow bigger space for the bedroom. Sliding panel can be added to the wall on the blue portion to allow flexibility of visuality between bedroom and living room. This is a condo unit? Judging from the layout i guess. I am good to discuss more with you. Please email me.

Hi there, At best, would be good to avoid any sliding doors dividing the kitchen and the living. I do understand it may be required for practical usage [avoid cooking smoke to enter the living, or maybe visual screening] I can share more ideas with you. We take it off from this forum? my email contact is ***@yahoo.com.sg. Please drop me a mail.

Hi there, i am not sure if you are still looking for ID. You can email us at egwa.design@gmail.com

Hi there, Do drop me an email at ***@yahoo.com.sg I may be able to assist you.

Hi there, Firstly, the sofa in the middle of the living room may not be feasible, due to your dining table located at the right side of the area. You should allow your living room to look spacious upon entry into flat. As for dining table, you can either do up a countertop near the kitchen, beside the household shelter, say like for 3 pax. Alternatively, you can place a long dining table between the balcony and living room, to give its half indoor outdoor alfresco dining concept. If your bedrooms are western-orientated, i suggest not putting your beds near the windows as the walls may give out heat from the day and your bed area tend to become stuffy at night. There is more which i can assist. Do drop me a email at ***@yahoo.com.sg I can further assist you.

Hi, It is valid as recon submission needs more drawings. If it is the baseline application, it may have more costs

Hi, You definitely need a floor plan and a rough budgetary mindset while engaging your prospective IDs. If you have a good design concept and/or ideas in your head, i would rather you engage a contractor directly. Of course there are risks involved as communications could be mis-interpretated and in future, your design may not turn out as nice as you visualize. The role of an ID basically bridge the communication threshold between you [the client] and the builder. The way to spot an good ID is the fact that he does not talk too much. Rather, he is able to give you design solution on the first meeting! There is a few IDs out there, which tend to do hard sales pitch and constant marketing and when it comes to actual works, they talk less. Happy searching

Does it includes demolition works? One glance at it and they are all based on lump sum package. Not much details , which may constitute to variation orders. Just a thought.

Dear Sir, It is very possible to exercise a healthy budget to get the interior that you want. It also depends on the "simplicity" of the design intent. The minimalist approach that was perceived by new buyers are always different to how interior designers thinks. Overtime, it gets overrated. Having practiced Interior Design for more than 5 years, on a freelance basis, it can be possible. You can drop me a mail at ***@yahoo.com.sg We can discuss more and would give you a possible solution to your home.

All i can say is it depends on your contractor's skill. In fact, you need a specialist's help rather than dependent on contractors. Firstly, skylight are not easy to install. You need specialist to determine to interfacing details and to check if the details got any water retention faults. Most importantly, water must not be trapped within any sleeves of the skylight frame and/or gaps. Secondly, The glass properties plays a part too. Whether is it single or double glazed? Low E or laminated?? The loading of the glass onto the frame???? What kind of details? Spider clamp details or the framing type by sides? I am personally not a specialist on this but have went through jobs to determine good or bad detailing job. Don't always blame it on the contractors.

Dear Sir / Mdm, I understand your concern when it comes to selecting ID and/or contractor. Firstly, everyone has its own strength and weaknesses and the harsh truth is nowadays, you can NEVER get a good contractor. As for ID, it depends on your expectation and requirements to your design intent. In layman's POV, always look at the portfolio and spot some good ideas. A good ID always propose something unique for housing solution, rather than flashing nice interior pictures and keep giving you the impression that the design is good. A good ID sits down and listen to what you want and will sketch to your intent and to the proposed details. Secondly, in order for your design intent to be fulfilled, good workmanship is way more important that design. While selecting contractors and negotiating, you must not always give them a rush deadline. When you rush deadline, bad workmanship will start to surface. Nowadays, contractors are getting younger and a whole wide ranges aged around 35 to 45. They may look "green" to you but experience counts. Lastly, my concluding statement is that no one is perfect. There are some people who can work with your expectations and some are not capable. You just need to accept the fact that it is a subjective approach. When surfing renotalk forums, when people commented that their designers and/or contractors does a good job to their houses, it does not mean that they will do the same to yours. I am a freelance interior designer since 2005 and i always take into particular when me and/or my client select contractors. However, till now i have not met someone who can still gives me quality workmanship. Yet they are durable enough to withstand any wear and tears for the next 5 years. Signing off and wishing you all the best, sincerely.

Tiler Seng, I hear you and in fact, i could not agree more with the things you said. The Interior Design industry has loses its respect over the past 10 years, at least. Not mainly because of picky clients or cheap perspective drawings that young students does. But is because of the freewill of accessibility of information that homeowners can obtain. The demography has changed and we now have educated people in this society who wish to outsmart any possibilities. Young homeowners now have their own standpoints and they tend to be a little bit cocky in some sense. They will not see eye to eye over a lot of things that we, as designers, architects or ID, suggests. They tend to assume a lot in what the industry does, in the name of budget-saving. We, as designers, need to fit with them, rather than the client fit with us and our creativity. Thats why they said creativity dies. And the whole glamorous job of designing interiors has become more than just a mere trading business, comparing "whose prices is lower and i-will-hire-you" that kind of ideas. It is hard to find such clients now, who trust us so so much. It is sad, i know.

I like this topic. Firstly, this ID field is not a profession by its nature. Thats why any Tom Dick and Harry can proclaim themselves as INTERIOR DESIGNERS. Recently, may graphic designer claim themselves that they can design house, which i find a total bull**** out of it. I totally agree with you that it is unregulated in some sense. Allow me to intro, i received 3 years of Interior Design education, plus 5 years in NUS architecture. And now currently working with a big company. I am not here to advertise my capabilities but as my own standpoint, i am raising my concerns for this industry's future. Negative reviews does not mean the contractors is bad. Maybe most new homeowners does not have a better understanding of what the ID and contractors does, thus assuming a lot of issues and expect the ID to work on it. Also, some client's requirements differs from one another. Some can be simple, some is very complex. In my 4 years dealing with freelance projects, i have my fair share of experience. GILBERT

http://postimage.org/image/l7lulr6ud/ Dear Sir, I took your layout and plan a bit for your reference. You might want to consider this as what i feel that it helps to free up spaces. It is not too advisable to cut up small space as it will feel very cluttered. You can contact me at ***@yahoo.com.sg for any doubts you wish to clarify Gilbert