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I like the wood base table with bench. I'm currently searching high and low for a dining table with bench. Can share with me where the table is from? and pricing?

Met up with a total of 6 contractors within a month. By then, we were already exhausted and tired out. We are on a really tight budget, so it wasn't easy to find someone who can work within our budget. All the contractors we met up were recommended by our friends. 1. Kenny - ID Form 2. Ryan - Interior File 3. Ah Hwa - ID Inspiration 4. Donn - PL206 Studio 5. James - CT Square Interior Design 6. Ben - Summit Design Studio It took us 7 weeks after getting our keys to finally confirm our contractor. I know we were slow, but i need to be as cautious as possible. The quotes we received, ranged from 35k to 45k. After removing a handful of items, we managed to reduce the quote into a comfortable range for us. I do not have a specific theme for the house. All i want is simple, neat and clean-cut design. Nothing fanciful or exaggerating. My husband and i feel that Ah Hwa is the right person to work with. Easy to talk to, experienced, not calculative and most importantly, we feel that he is reliable. Unlike one of the contractors, who turned up 45 min late for our appointment, and another contractor took 3 weeks to send us the quotation when he promised he need 3 days only. And there's another contractor, we can tell that he is very experienced, but he seems to be too hard-selling. Contractors should listen to what owners want and advise, not reject our ideas just because nobody have done it before. Ah Hwa from ID Inspiration (subsidiary of Chng Poh Guan) not much discussed on renotalk. Hope that there will not be too much hiccups. Day 1 of reno, hacking will commence tomorrow! Maybe i will post up some details about my quotation later.

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View of common toilet. Notice how the fat ugly pipe is blocking my toilet window. Another headache. All floor tiles, have to go. Hack and re-tile for the whole house is a lot of money If you looked closely at my walls and ceilings, you will notice grooves lines. I didn't like it. There goes my money. $1500 for plastering the whole flat to smoothen the walls & ceilings. Next, i will post up about the contractors that we have met up with. 6 of them.

View of bedroom 3. We will be sleeping in this room. View of kitchen from service yard. View of service yard from kitchen. Will remove the curb at service yard to make it into a long kitchen as the space i have is quite narrow. View of MBR toilet. Notice where the shower kerb lines in-between the window, that is where i'm suppose to put a shower screen. Headache.

As stated earlier on, we were quite pleased with the condition of the flat. The unit has been vacant for 2 years. HDB removed all fixtures and did a repaint before they hand the keys to us. However, we do not understand why the previous owner choosed this kind of uneven tiles for the living room. It is very rough and traps dirt easily. View of our main door from the living room. Notice the stoney pathway the previous owner delibrately built, rough texture Together with the uneven grey floor tiles, it looks like the ground floor (waiting area for lifts) at my parents' flat! View of living room from the kitchen. Another view of living room. View of MBR. This room will be used as a wardrobe and makeup room instead of being the master bedroom. View of bedroom 2. This will be the study/working room.

Hi May_dream1, thanks for visiting. I have been reading your t-blog all this while, envious of your big apartment and great location.

Hi All, I have been lurking around renotalk since Nov 2010. Finally, my turn has come to set up a t-blog here. Mine is a repurchased flat directly from HDB from their Sales of Balance flat exercise. Ironically, the biggest purchase of our life is like a gamble. We bought the flat without being able to touch it nor see it. There's no show room or model as it is an old flat. We can only rely on the poor resolution pictures found on HDB website to decide. 1st HDB Appointment (Flat Selection): 17 Dec 2010 2nd HDB Appointment (Keys Collection): 28 Mar 2011 4 Room Apartment Type 3(H) Floor Area: 101m sq Location: Hougang St 92 Floorplan Nevertheless, we were quite pleased with the condition of the flat when we first stepped in. Next post, will post up pictures of the current flat.