Suwanti Tan

We had bought all our big furniture (Except coffee table, which we considering our living room with no coffee table) Bought from Koda: 1. Dining Set (Solid wood Table + 4 Dining Chair + 2 Dining Armchair) 2. 3 Seater Sofa (Grey with 3 big down-feather cushion + 2 small cushion) 3. Round, stool like side table (Solid wood) Bought from OM: 1. The prettiest armchair (Burberry armchair in Light blue), Without stool. Oh ya, went back to the renovated house to take a look yesterday. The Electrical and plumbing is done, plaster smoothing of the wall is almost finish. Next, will be the false ceiling, parquet and painting. P.S. Loving my bathtub, it's ready to use!!!

Oh yeah!! Today we got out Pots, pans and cutleries from Takashimaya. 4 Days sale for Taka Member's!!! (Today is first day) 6 pcs pots n pans from WMF only S$150.00 We also bought 2 x 30pcs cutleries

Remember to check where they make the item at. We choose non-china make. Price slightly expensive but better i suppose. Happy sourcing for you!!

On the Road:Yeah, we saw the footstool at Lush, but it costs like about S$600, abit too ex for a foot stool. But if we cant get it at other place, we will get it from there. Potatoes: Yeah, it is so costly, basically is complete overhaul, we hack everything, throw everything and change everything. (We will have to eat porridge everyday after this reno ) Anyway, we do not have private Balcony in our MBR, its the aircon ledge. We even close up our Small balcony at lower level due to Feng Shui. So we have a longer Kitchen now. Aelyra: Hi, we bought all Bosch items during Harvey Norman Expo Sale and it is slightly cheaper than the normal price. I suggest you to wait for GSS and see if they have another sale. Coz Bosch items are not cheap. coz it really burn our pocket.

Hi hi, u mean the Lounge Chair? We get it at OM weekend 2 day Discount at S$690 Nett (for the chair only, they don't sell the footstool) Still looking for the Footstool, hopefully its not too ex.

I got a great Fiance!! We get my dream lazy lounge chair today!! Oh, but we still missing the foot stool.... got to go and search for one

Hacking and Laying tiles in progress... Hope to see the result soon We bought all our big Stuffs already: Toilets: 3 X Taps 3 X Basin 3 X Toilet Bowl 3 X Small Sprayer 3 X Shower 3 X Mixer 1 X Bath Tub 1 X Central Water Heater Kitchen: 1 X Tap 1 X Kitchen Sink (2 wash area) 1 X Bosch Chimney Hood DWB09E750 1 X Bosch Hob (3 burner) NGT915FSG 1 X Bosch Built-in Oven HBA43B450A 1 X Bosch Built-in Microwave HMT75M651 1 X Bosch Washing Machine WAS28448ME 1 X Bosch Dryer WTK84101 1 X Samsung White Fridge (2 door) RSH5SUSW Living Room: 1 X Sharp TV 52LE830

Your funnel is cute!! I would like to get that!! May i know where can i get it? How i wish i can have your house as mine, we are not that good at DIY and not much ideas too

Picture reference for the bed that we wanted: Kitchen Pending 3D Drawing: 1. Shoe Cabinet area 2. Master Bathroom 3. Study room Sliding door (a door that looks like a wall) Seriously, i cant wait to see the revised 3D!! and yes, our 1st day hacking will be 17 April 2012. Love, Ms. W

Living room - Some changes need to be done to the seatee, to separate seatee and TV Console. Tv Console will be in all wood colour Master Bedroom Feature wall and TV Console - TV Console to be in all wood colour and Feature wall with tic tac door to be in white colour Master Bedroom Wardrobe - Door to be in all white colour Master Bedroom - Bed and Side table will be in same laminates and it will be one piece.

Hi hi, I'm feeling great!! Went to see the 3D Drawings with colours and we both love the whole idea of the place, but of course we will still adjust a few things from the drawings. Custom made Praying Altar to the size and specs that we requested. Parents room - Wardrobe side (TV will be inside the sliding wardrobe) Extra room / Future kids room (We request to change the wardrobe cabinet to be in all white)

Oh my, I love your house!! So nice...

Yeah, we wanted something simple and clean, with a touch of wood. Hopefully our idea will work. We believe in using soft furnishing to complete the house

Master Bedroom TV console (with feature wall like Tic-Tac door to Aircon unit entrance) Master Bedroom L shape wardrobe (we will have casement door instead of sliding door like in the drawing) Parents Bedroom Long wardrobe with open cabinet and TV installed inside the wardrobe to save space (the wardrobe door have to be sliding, due to small walking space) Common bedroom (we will only install the full height wardrobe as this will be future kids room/current study room) Oh and here is the 3D for kitchen: Due to feng shui, the washing and cooking area have to be far far away. I will try my best to update the Complete 3D soon Love, Ms. W

Finally, as promised, the rough 3D drawing, we will get the final ones with all the colours, tiles and laminates in early next week. Entrance with suspended shoe cabinet Praying Altar Design Living room design (we amend the Window side and add full length seatee to TV console) Master Bathroom (hacked half of the wall and replace with glass. Install bathtub and build wall with cave for soap shampoo and etc.) Love, Ms. W

Attached is my 2D drawing which we amend with pencil or pen. Slight different from what we wanted. Below is the false ceiling & lighting point (to be confirmed) Actually i wanted to post the before hacking picture so everyone will have a better view on the current state of the house. However, the man dont allow me to. he said its too messy. So, i will only post the end result from the reno Love, Ms. W

Can't wait to see the final product!! I would like to have that kind of house too, but we got fengshui and budget restriction. More over we design it ourself.

I love your DIY!! Are you going to put some RAW feeling in it?

LAMINATES: 1. (Top) For living room Tv console, seatee, 2 pieces of hanging wood as shelf and Kitchen bottom cabinet (Middle) For Praying Altar, Small cabinet for praying crystals and study room door, which we use as storage - we design this door to look like a feature wall (Bottom) For Master Bedroom Tv console, bed frame and master bathroom vanity cabinet From Formica 2. (Left) Parents room bed frame (Right) Parents room wardrobe, dresser and vanity cabinet From EDL 3. (White) Either one will be used in the entire house white cabinet, eg: Top Kitchen Cabinet, Shoe cabinet, both Master bedroom wardrobe and extra room wardrobe, master bedroom feature wall to cover the small window to aircon unit. (Yellow) Laminate inside Praying Altar. From Formica I will be updating the 2D once i get hold of it.

We had already choose our floor tiles and laminate for our carpentry works, of course we might change our mind after we see the 3D drawing, so bear with our fickle mind! TILES: 1. Living room & Praying Hall Normal Glossy white floor tiles 2. Kitchen We want our kitchen to be painted white and so only floor tile needed. 3. Level 1 common toilet Floor tile (Left) + Wall tile (Right) 4. Parents Bathroom Level 2 Shower tile (left) + Floor tile and Wall tile (Top right + bottom right) 5. Master Bathroom Wall tile (left) + Floor Tile (Right)

Cleong, yeah, we do own the private balcony at 1st floor, but we close up the balcony due to fengshui 15 years ago. Adidaem, yes its the small window to aircon unit on 2nd floor MBR. Lucky that the corner unit going to be my home in the future. And i will update the 2D and choice of tiles and laminate soon too!!!

Hi, yes, the place is in the West area. I will be updating the tile selections, laminate and 2D soon!!

Where should I begin... Today I will talk about the Renovation preparation that we been thru for the existing Executive Mansionette. It will be a complete overhaul for the place With budget around 70 - 80K for renovation work only. We looking for white wall with a touch of wood in the house, parquet flooring, custom made beds, bed frames, wardrobes, cabinets and tv consoles. Renovating: 3 x bedroom, praying area, living room, kitchen, dining and 3 x bathroom Our floorplan attached is the original floorplan after the renovation work 15 years ago. We met with a few Interior Design Company as follow: 1. FSI Friendly designer, but feels that he is lack of experience. His design is totally off from what we wanted. 1st appt - 30 January 2012 2nd appt - 27 February 2012 2. ZQ Studio Friendly designer and willing to share a lot of information regarding renovation. Failed to deliver the design and total quotation on 2nd meeting. The design is the design that anyone of us can think of. The quote that we finally received on 3rd meeting is rather shocking compared to the design that is delivered. 1st appt - 31January 2012 2nd appt - 12 February 2012 3rd appt - 19 February 2012 3. Project File A very arty designer. He totally sounds like he know what he is doing. And he deliver an interesting design and ideas on top of our request. Very keen to work with us and adjust the quotation for quite a number of time. 1st appt - 01 February 2012 2nd appt - 18 February 2012 4. Artist Room If we do not have financial restrictions and fengshui restrictions, we will definitely go with Artist Room. Artist room gives a wonderful design and they have got a great space planning skill. They are friendly, easygoing, and explain the reasons for all the placement of the items in the design. Their design is really original. 1st appt - 02 February 2012 2nd appt - 02 March 2012 5. Brick n Tungsten We supposed to meet the designer, however he did not pick up his phone when we call him on the appointed timing and when we finally get to him an hour after the appointed time, all he said was, he forgotten about our appointment. Did not advise or at least apologies and set for another appointment date. We give up on this ID firm. 1st appt - 19 February 2012 (no-show) 6. Artrend The ID office is just a few steps away from Brick and Tungsten. We did not set appointment with the designer and just walk in to the office. The designer who attend to us are very friendly and understand what kind of design and budget we are on. 1st appt - 19 February 2012 2nd appt - 01 March 2012 7. Black n White House Same as Artrend, The designer who attend to us are very friendly and understand what kind of design and budget we are on. Quickly make appointment for our second meeting. 1st appt - 20 February 2012 2nd appt - 23 February 2012 8. Three-D-Concept Met the Senior designer and the Co-ordinator on the 1st meeting. They've got quite a number of design that always featured in the magazines. The senior designer is he one who really talk about the design and we are so convinced with him and his design, very artistic and different from others. He state that the whole thing will cost roughly 70 - 80k. Quickly we set for second appointment, however, we are very disappointed when the Senior designer did not show up in the second meeting. The coordinator attend to us and present the proposals and design to us. Doesn't sound convincing at all and it is far over our budget, we decide we will not use them on 2nd meeting. I guess, the coordinator saw the lacking of interest in us, later on that day, the senior designer called, apologies and reassure us that they are more than excited on our project and would like to secure if possible. Meet up for the 3rd time and the senior designer gives a great ideas and revise the total amount in the previous quotation. 1st appt - 24 February 2012 2nd appt - 02 March 2012 3rd appt - 06 March 2012 Finally, we decide to go with a friend contractor with our primary design in mind. It fits our budget well and we seen a lot of his previous great work. Go ahead with our guts feeling!!! We had paid for the deposit and chosen the floor tiles last week. We had also chosen our laminates finish with 1 or 2 back up laminates and waiting for all the 3D design to be ready, so we can see the whole feeling of the house. We will choose the toilet accessories tomorrow morning together with the contractor. this contractor is really friendly and very straight forward, frank and his service is very personalize. So........ It's time to sleep now and journey to toilet accessories searching start tomorrow!! Ciao!! *wave wave* Please visit my site for prompt update on the renovation work!! My site Love, Ms. W

Hi, love your choice of furnitures and design idea, may i know where do you get all the furnitures from? and which ID you use?