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I like the ikea coffee table. Saw from their facebook when they first launch this product. Does it come with only one color?

I thought of that and I asked for drawers. (Edited): Initially we need to top up if we want drawers, however, Hubby managed to negotiate to change the one door to two drawers. Our contractor didn't charge us for this request.

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It seems like we are always topping up money when we request something from our contractor or ask him to help us do something. Everything is about $ $ $ relationship between us and him, so now is Hubby liaise with him, I don't want to step in If we can do the things ourselves, we will do it. Otherwise, I will ask my father to do. He is a handyman Awaiting for your next upload of DIY project.

Just to share with you guys how our kitchen cabinet will look like, but the MBR wardrobe will need to change - Hubby will discuss this with the contractor either tomorrow. Kitchen cabinet MBR wardobe (So envy those with big wardrobes I already told Hubby we will buy a toyogo drawer to put his clothes

We wanted to get Rowenta standing fan for our house, but this fan was temporarily out of stock. Courts couldn't promise when this model would arrive, so we KIV first, didn't commit to buy. We chose this fan because of the "Turbo Boost". The wind was really very strong when you turned on the Turbo button. Unlike other standing fan, you can only adjust the wind strength level, but this Rowenta fan can add "extra boost" to your wind speed, so you enjoy stronger wind power. We also KIV the dining table and coffee table from Courts. Need to make sure we have enough walking space after the kitchen cabinet is up and after our TV console and sofa are here, then we decide if to buy this two piece of furniture. This coffee table is really very heavy and seems like it is made of solid wood. My knuckles hurt when I knocked on the wood.

DAY SEVENTEEN As promised! Today, we didn't manage to check the floor tiles because the foam papers were still on the floors, so we have to wait till Monday week afer the workers clear the stuff, then we can inspect. Hubby and myself were busy choosing the laminates and wall colors, and also discussing about the kitchen layout. It wasn't easy to decide on the laminates and paint colors. We had to stay focus to our color theme, and if the colors could match our purchased furnitures, other not-yet-purchase furnitures, and if the colors were too dull for the house, etc. We spent the whole afternoon trying to visualise and do mix-and-match, kinda headache. Finally, we had decided the colors we wanted, but hopefully I would not be fickle-minded again In the evening, we went to Courts to purchase our electronic appliances. We need to find a built-in oven ASAP and to ask for delivery by next Wednesday. The purpose is not for installation, it is for the carpenter to do the measurement. That's why we need to ask Hoe Kee to deliver the sink and other bathroom accessories on next Wednesday too. Other than the oven, we bought other appliances too. We bought a Techno TMO 18 built-in oven. This is a very simple oven, with the basic functions. The disadvantage about this oven is that there is no fan in the oven. The fan is for baking a cake evenly, but if you just want an oven for simple baking or roasting, this is good enough. I am not sure how many times I will be using this oven We just want an oven to fit under the hob, to make the kitchen look complete. I am not good in cooking (actually I don't even know how to cook). We have also bought a Panasonic inverter microwave oven. Don't ask us why we need an inverter microwave oven (as if can save much electricity), but Hubby just want this one. There is a smaller microwave oven than this model, but the price is only SGD10 difference, so getting the bigger microwave oven isn't it more worth it? Okay, we are not a fan for Panasonic, but we have aimed this Panasonic inverter fridge for very long. Our fridge base is made according to this fridge dimension, so there is no way we can change a bigger size fridge, other than to find a small fridge than this. Since there is special offer, and we can pay by instalment, might as well get all the electronic appliances from Courts. Some people may not like this fridge because the freezer is at the bottom. We are sure we will not get used to the fridge too, because we have been using top freezer since born, so this is our first time we use bottom freezer. Just hope we can slowly adapt to it. In order to buy a built-in oven, we decided to buy a cheaper washer to balance out the costs. We bought a samsung WA10G 8kg top-load washer. Ask me wash clothes I can do it, ask me cook, I can't. Anyways, to us, washer is just washer. Whether the clothes will turn out more wrinkled, or save water save electricity, loud or soft, or the internal part make of whatsoever materials, it doesn't matter. As long the washer can wash our clothes clean, it is good washer. We still have to iron our clothes after washing. Another thing I am good at is house cleaning. So we decided to invest on a good vacuum cleaner with good suction power. We bought Rowenta bagless vacuum cleaner. We can't afford Bosch bagless vacuum, so we found a cheaper alternative, that was Rowenta, made in Germany. I am fond of bagless vacuum because I don't like to change the bag or empty the cloth bag Again, we don't know why we need an inverter vacuum, as though we will on the vacuum for 24hrs. However, this vacuum watt power is reduced by 25% less energy than a 2100W vacuum cleaner. The suction power is good, 31Kpa. How good is bagless: All you need is to take out the container, and wash the dust under the tap, or use wet tissue to wipe off the dust. It is that simple. However, this applies to this Rowenta model of vacuum. The most important point to take note is Rowenta intelligent technology - "High Separation Cyclonic Technolohy" system. This system helps to "convert" the dust into a dustball, so when you empty the dust from the container, it will not be as dusty. Some bagless vacuum do not come with this technology system, so when you remove the container, the dust will fly everywhere. The most convenient thing about this vacuum is, the wheels can rotate 360 degree Other thing to take note of other brands bagless vacuum is that mostly they come with a paper filter in the dust container. You can't wash the paper filter if it is dirty. When the paper filter gets very dirty (you can't wash the filter because it is made of paper), then you need to buy a new filter from the agent. Rowenta vacuum dust container does not have a paper filter, so you can dip the whole container into water and wash. The filter is at the side of the machine instead of inside the dust container. Most vacuum wheels can only go straight or push back, therefore housechores become very tedious for you. Last time, I hate to vacuum floor, because the machine is so heavy, I need to pull the machine around, and when I need to turn left or right, the wheels got stuck, so I need to pull hard and drag the machine to the specific area I wanted to vacuum. Luckily, Rowenta vacuum can rotate 360 degree, it makes me "enjoy" a bit when doing housechores. We realised that Courts can give further 5% discount if you ask. So if you see the items are not with discount price tag, remember to ask them to give you discount. We were given additional 5% discount for the electronic appliances except the discounted items such as the fridge and washer.

Looking at your blog, I feel that I'm in Amazon website now. Why do you need so many knives?

Wow, can't wait to see you post the final product of the DIY wall. You must have spent a lot of time to do the DIY. Too bad our house is near the final stage, can't do cement wall, otherwise we could have done something like that.

Aircon coordination is not difficult. Don't worry. The aircon guy will do the drilling for the trunking to pass through the walls, don't need the contractor. And also, you need to be at home when aircon installation and get the aircon man to let you know where the trunking route is. If you agree, then they proceed. Meanwhile, you think of where you want the trunking to go, then ask aircon man opinion. Don't worry too much.

You can only move in in year 2013? Haha

Hi choco84. I love the ceiling beams that you have. Wanted to have something like that too, but afraid it might be too costly, so gave up the idea. So glad you guys have those beams at home.

After tuesday, you can start moving things in or still got other reno work need to do?

All the stuff are in the kitchen Not sure if you see clearly the white tile design from this photo. The white tile design is similar to the brown tiles. We chose a beige + brown wall tiles for MBR toilet. The design pattern is the same as Common toilet too Both toilets share the same color floor tiles Hope you guys enjoy reading. Stay tune for more updates tomorrow!

Floor skirting is up View from MBR entrance View from study room entrance View from Art Room entrance Storeroom floor tiles and skirting

END OF DAY SIXTEEN Everything is going pretty smoothly. The tiling works have completed. We were told that we can check on the floor tiles tomorrow. Yeah! We dare not step into the bedrooms, not sure if the floor tiles are dried. Might as well leave them overnight and check tomorrow. View from front door. Plaster sand on the floor. Maybe the workers are going to plaster the living room tomorrow. A lot of things are cleared away from living hall, and placed in the kitchen and bedrooms. Should be doing the plastering very soon. We realised something funny from this view. It is the protruding wall from kitchen. Why we didn't notice this? Probably because of the low false ceiling previously blocked our view. Should have hacked the protruded wall to make the kitchen entrance bigger. Now regret also no use. We chose beige floor tiles for the whole house. Now it looks like grey tone color, probably because of the orange wall reflection.

So now you are not using Tommy?

DAY SIXTEEN Sunday 1 April: Give confirmation which laminates and paint colors we chose Wednesday 4 April: Electrician comes in to do electrical works; Hoe Kee to deliver the kitchen and bathroom accessories Week 2 (9-13 April): Monday 16 April: Painting Wednesday 18 April: Aircon installation PS: Why no pictures yesterday? Because we didn't dare to step on the floor tiles

I am taking Professional Comm this trimester. 2 weeks later exam liao. Next trimester I am taking Cultural and Media policy as elective. Have you taken this module? Is this module easy?

You forgot family photos, children school medals, etc etc

So big... 3x more than mine

Let me be the 1000th to post reply here. I am taking HRM and MGMT. How about you? Same?

HAHAHAHA! I think we are in same university. Starts with M, but my institution provider starts with S

Haha... don't have leh.

The MBR wardrobe so big. How many feet is that?