Serangoon4room

Carpentry started today! I'm impressed how fast they are in attaching the cabinets. WIW!!! TV Console Shoe Cabinet Kitchen

Besides our MBR, our other rooms received their first coat of paint. Living Room Dining Wall. Guest Room Study Room

It's been a while since i last updated. As there wasn't much progress for the past 2 weeks waiting to meet the carpenters and get some small fixes done, the reno came to an interim break. During this interim break, we gotten a few fixes with top ups $$. We also chosen our Paint colors and the first coat of paint is up. 1. We finally gotten the Lbox above our bed head in our MBR. 2. We boxed up the ugly pipe joint above our MBR toilet. 3. We boxed up the aircon access. Our chosen MBR paint color is supposed to be very light yellow, but somehow it looks very different from the Dulux book. 4. We also shifted the false wall further into the Guest Room. Now our WIW is 2.5 feet deeper!! When i did the comparison side by side (before and after), the photos didnt' show too much difference. 5. New Problem arise! After tearing down the original false wall, there were 3 HOLES :jawdrop: in my Floor Tiles After much consideration, we decided not to remove the tiles and replace with new ones. THe remedy is to fill up the holes with cement. We will be getting a big carpet for our WIW. We can live with this small defect.

Congrats to your new home! Good luck to your reno! post more photos.

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Went down to Poh Joo today and gotten most of the stuff for MBR toilet and Common toilet. Very happy with their services! Realised didn't take some photos of the hooks, corner glass racks, 2way tap, instant heater that we bought as well at Poh Joo. MBR Toilet Common Toilet. Kills

took more photos of my sacrificial study room after the trunkings are boxed up...

Today, went down to my place to reconfirm if my aircon may affect my feature wall. Took some photos. Measuring tape is 80cm from door frame. Seems like just nice. The feature wall can still flush with my false ceiling. Wow! my ceiling is really low after installing the false ceiling

Oh no, is it really that bad? i already paid for 4 items, Fridge, Washer, Hood, Hob... What should i do now? Do i have to give them an earlier notice when i want the goods delivered?

Next is to choose the laminate for our feature wall and full HT shoe cabinets. we chose 1188AS. The texture is very good and the color and grains are so fitting to our Earth Theme. For our Living room TV console laminate, we chose very dark colors as the console doors will be aluminium frame with dark glasses. Brown will not go well with aluminium grey... chose 4209 Finally, our MBR laminates.... we chose canele york teak for the WIW doors, bed side cabinets and TV console. So nice!!! and the shades are perfect for our MBR.

Finally we are choosing the doors, laminates!!! So exciting.. Overall the experience is very good. Terence gave quite good recommendations, and since we already decided on a Earthly theme, it didn't take very long for us to choose all the stuff. D312 for our room doors. D305 for our main door. 813 for our gate. Choice of the metal for our gate: 05 Kitchen cabinets laminates 1471G. we also chose white glossy laminate but didn't take a photo since it's just white. Solid surface Winter Frost Terence was scratching on the solid surfaces using a mechanical pencil tip and dark colored solid surface shows very obvious scratches.. Never choose dark colored solid surface.

Made a special trip to JB....

To hide the aircon trunking in the living room and MBR, we have to sacrifice the Study room that is in between. Most of the trunkings will cut through the walls into the Study Room and run along the Study Room walls into the toilet and aircon compressor.... At first glance, i was shocked how ugly the Study room is... but i consoled myself i will get use to it.. WOrking with very very tight budget and since we already planned our Study room to be the sacrificial room, we will just have to tahan and get use to the new looks....

Second screwup! My WIW is much smaller than communicated.. i want it to be deeper by another 2feet...arghhh... Terence says his initial quotation was based on the smaller WIW. a bigger one will require a top up for the carpentry and the partition wall.. no choice, have to top up.. Another TOp Up The Compressor is installed. Realised that the cover is really ugly... Decided die die must box up that area to cover the compressor access. Stunned!!! After installing my LBOX in my MBR, it still can't cover a pipe joint... REason being the toilet entrance top is metal beam and the joint can't go any higher to hide in the LBOX. Have to install a small BOxUP and width will be the toilet entrance.. luckily Terence is doing for free. Not Convincing... My LBox only covers 3 sides of my room. My bed head area does not have LBOX. How come like that!!! he says his original quoation is only for 3 sides... no point doing on the bedhead as you won't want to sleep and look up into the downlights.. BUT I want!!! i'm planning to install 2 dimmers with individual controls for me and wife... Another top up!!! i looked at the original quotation and it only mentions installing LBOX in MBR. did not mention how many sides. We bargained a lot to reduce the original top up he is charging us.. not very convinced but bo bian...

Finally got time to post. here's pictures of my ceiling works.. a few minor screw ups.... My living room LBOX with cove light. here's the first problem.... I will be installing my aircon beside my door... ID just informed it may affect the original position of my feature wall. it may not be center.... Sianz... Terence says he will figure out how to put the feature wall and not affect the centre positioning....

Hi Jopeg, can PM how much you were charged for the shoe cabinet?

welcome to Tblog!! Another Neighbour!! which part of Serangoon are you staying?

Another busy week at work. Planning Electrical is really an art to make full use of cabinets to hide the trunking. Luckily i got a relative to help me install the electricals. He recommended me where to install 2 way switches, and will also be helping me install 2 main switches (2 way) so that i can turn off all my lights from my MBR or Door entrance. I will be installing dimmers above my bedhead, one for my wife and one for myself. So that we can continue reading if the other wishes to sleep early. Don't really want to have additional bedside lamps. My plumbing works is done also. Today the ceiling works are up but didn't have the time to go down. so exciting!

Yes, i love the patterns and the slight 3D feel.

Hi, Anyone using Instant Heater Joven I70P? How's the noise level and the water pressure? Can PM me if you have any contacts selling this model in Singapore? Thanks.

Anyone using Instant Heater Joven I70P? Pls PM me the noise and it's water pressure. PM me if you have any contacts that is selling this model in Singapore.

Poh Joo sells similar design for <400. Arino brand. I'm also getting this kitchen sink mixer. I didn't know about their rusting issues but a few of my friends bought their taps from Poh Joo and it's fine so far.. though it's less than a year of purchases.

Hi Terencectw, i didn't go direct to the window supplier. I went thru my ID from Ideal Design. My advise is to take the photo and show your ID if they can do it. My windows are installed but i'm seeing quite a few bad defects that i need to speak with my ID. As it's custom made from factory and fixed onto my walls, there are bound to be mis-alignments. If you are going for these windows, remember to specify the height from the floor to the top of the frosted window. If they fit the frosted windows too low, people can still peep in which defeats the whole purpose. Mine must be at 1.8m and tip toe to be able to see my living room.

yar lar. that's what my brother told me also. Must be higher margin for them. The other main reason for choosing Hitachi is that my wifey has always been using Hitachi Fridge at her Parent's place and she's used to the layout. And it has lasted her family many years. Though i would think i would change my fridge within the next five years.. Since technology always improves, no point holding on to an older technology in the next few years. Hitachi is cheaper and has larger capacity compared to the Samsung model for the same dimension. This is probably due to Samsung sleek interior design plus a special container, ending up wasting a lot of holding space.

Hi Sunny, How's the Panasonic Instant heater so far? is the pressure still good and if it's too noisy after one year of usage? Thanks.