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I was reading a couple of blogs from other forumers and just love how their renovations are progressing. One thing I realised is that some of them actually selected their IDs way before collecting their keys. 1. Is this advisable? 2. When is the best/optimal time that I should start looking for an ID? I am just afraid that some IDs might not even be bothered with us since we haven’t even gotten our keys yet. For instance, I might be interested in this particular ID.. but because I approached them too soon, they don’t prioritise me and give me bad impression and thus I forever won’t go back to them. We were thinking of going for the Scandinavian look (eg: light parquet or the water-proof laminate flooring with white walls.. basically keeping everything clean and clutter-free) but after going for an ID open house recently, I think wifey and me are leaning towards modern contemporary concept instead. The ID that we are talking about is Thom Signature. Frankly, I have never heard of them before but they advertised their open house in my development’s Facebook page and wifey nudged me to go. We went and was quite happy with what we saw. Thom is quite a friendly person who seems eager to show us around and answer our questions – which is not a lot as we have no idea what to ask in the first place! The living room was designed nicely and they installed quite a number of built-in wardrobes. Apparently, one of the guys from the company told us that they have their own carpentry workshop. Is this true? They also used the Blum system for the kitchen cabinet. Nice. Apparently, the entire house renovation, excluding furniture and appliances, with no hacking (I saw none), is $36k for a 4-room standard BTO. The person who tended to us (not Thom) said it was because this particular client has lots of carpentry work, including platform beds, built-in wardrobes, etc. If we go for a standard 5-room package, it would be around $24k. This is just a general gauge and they want me to send my floor plan via email so they can make some preliminary design. So now wifey and me are trying to settle what we want in our house before we send the email.

Wifey and me are expecting to get the keys to our 5-room BTO flat in Punggol sometime in the fourth quarter of this year and we are so very excited. We have begun reading the various renovation magazines in the bookshops to get some ideas and decided that we should start our very own blog here to record down our thoughts and feelings on the whole renovation process. We are keeping our fingers crossed that it will be a smooth and joyful process. We also felt a blog is a good way to share our experience and learn from other forumers here. This is our first home and we are novices in renovating. So, we hope you guys will give us your honest advice and support. Do drop in to say hi!