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theitsybits, we only hacked the kitchen flooring and changed to wooden looked tiles. Living room is existing parquet flooring

Tmr I will have chance to go to new house to see the progress, the curtain maker also will come tomorrow to do the curtain measurement. This week have a lot of progress .. below are the pics taken by husband yesterday - the kitchen cabinets already fixed and doors will be installed too. We are using the BLUM mechanism and we choose the glossy laminate though we prefer matte finishing. Choosing glossy finishing was because of easier maintenance.

Wowach, you are right. That was done by the ppls from contractor Ah Huat, i.e. we didn't have good recommendation on him as for now. And he didn't like to have things in black and white as he not good in paper works. I not sure if this applied to all the contractors, he just same as others? Yesterday my husband went to site to chk and the kerbs are fixed .. finally.

crypaz .. I also feel that no reason for us to bear the cost. We will try to negotiate with the contractor. Anyway, we still haven't fully paid the reno cost. So still have chance to reject to pay extra ..

Hi FairyStar, I used photoshop and photoscape to edit these photos. Arrows were done with the photoshop ~

crypaz, yeah .. totally agreed. My husband'd mention on the distance for shower area and yesterday he measured again, the contractor has done another 3 inch extra - so confirmed is their fault. But not sure if they still insisted want us to pay the money to fix the problem ..

Week III renovation - last week progress was rather slow ... They are doing the electrical works (still ongoing) and city gas peoples have come to install the city gas piping. The contractor also started to install bathroom accessories such as toilet bowls, shower kerbs and basins. However this week we found that the kerb was really close to the toilet bowl, we asked the contractor to fix this issue. They wanted to charge us another 200 bucks, I thought this shall be FOC since this was their fault? My husband said just pay it and let the issue get resolved, I was quite unhappy with this. Not only this issue, other issues the contractor also keep asking for money ..

Is it from istill ? I also getting the same sofa set but different design as this one was too big for our house. Will deliver to our place in 2 weeks time ..

Thanks Batman ~ your points made sense but we already asked our carpenter to fabricate for us And we can hide some ugly wires with a backboard between top shelves and the bottom shelves, this is also advice from our carpenter. The initial idea of getting this design is inspiration from this picture below :

We also going to buy this kind of blind in white color .. Hope the end result turn out good ~

Hi bleucheeze ~ thanks. We asked our contractor to help to drill the holes on ceiling and floor to install the STOLMEN system but he claimed that this shall be carpenter job, we will check with our carpenter again. For other furnitures, we will assemble by our own. The STOLMEN system we going to do will be different from the picture above, we have bought total 5pcs of STOLMEN posts , 3pcs of clothes rails and 2pcs of shelfs .. total is 447 SGD for the whole set with other accessories. You can buy as many poles as you want, at first you need to design what you want .. For the curtain or door, I will choose to get a curtain on the door area instead of installing a door : ) I not sure if there is KDK fans in black but I believed there are KDK fans in white selling in JB - may be you can drop a call to the shop to check before you go? For KDK fans, this shop price is the best - YES Electrical Supply. Good luck

Last Monday, we rent a car from car club to drive in to JB for shopping on lighting and ceiling fan. After have our brunch at famous curry fish head near JB custom, we heading to our first stop which is Tampoi Lighting Center. We have spent around RM3.1k for our whole house LED downlights x 25 (around RM88 each, we choose the more expensive one), T5 lights x 19 … and some other decorative lights such as the picture I attached here. We have spent almost 3 hours in Tampoi Lighting Center, then we continued our journey to Taman Sentosa for curtains and ceiling fans. The curtain shop we approached was named as Middle Curtain which was recommended by my colleague, we were quoted around RM5.6k for our 6 windows with blinds and curtains. Then we took some rest at a coffee shop and have the fish ball noodles for lunch, the sky also started to rain. We quickly went to the ceiling fan shop which called YES Electrical Supply and bought 4 sets of KDK baby fans .. RM315 each, much cheaper than Singapore. Overall, we have spent 1.7k SGD for this JB trip – based on currency 2.495 we exchanged. I believed it worth the trip for all the things we bought … e.g. for this lamp is 27 ringgit .. don’t think we can get this price in Sg.

Last Saturday we went Ikea for shopping, need to get ready for some of the items before renovation complete. Some of the items will need contractor help to drill holes etc. This Ikea shopping trip majority is shop for big items such as furnitures while small items will leave till next visit to purchase. So this round we have bought 3pcs of BOSSE bar stools, 4pcs of FROSTA stools, a set of combination of STOLMEN wardrobe system for walk-in wardrobe, 2pcs of LIL mirrors for bathroom, 1pc of TJUSIG Bench with shoe storage in white color, 1pc of MALM 3 drawers chest etc…. Total have spent around 1.1k for all these little furniture, get Ikea delivery service to deliver these items to our new place.

Last week (2nd week of reno), the jobs done are majority masonry works which including lay wall tiles, apply waterproofing and lay floor tiles for both bathrooms and kitchen. Also constructed cement motar base for kitchen cabinets ... Seems less progress compared to first week, I hope the renovation can be completed by end of this month.

Forgot to mention, I also used the service from 65daigou but I didn't send email to them. I just used their system and paste the link I want, then do the payment and wait for delivery. I know there are some peoples using different service, some are buying the container space, e.g. 1 meter cube is around 200 sgd but you can buy as much as you can without counting the weight. For my first order, I spent around 200 bucks including shipping cost and agent fee. This morning, I submitted another order more than 300 bucks which included the lighting and bedding stuff.

I just got my items delivered to my home from taobao .. these are the things I bought : Hehe .. most are decorative items for new home ~

While this is for playroom which included feature walls with windows, sliding door and display shelves. Looking forward to see the end result of this playroom ~ For more carpenter hand drawings, may check this link.

Thanks summersann ~ I used the iphone apps for the pictures edit.

Got the hand drawings from our carpenter, quite impressed with his drawing : Carpentry works for Entrance - it’s for entrance which included shoes cabinet and recess window cabinets. For bench, we will get it from Ikea …

3D design of Study Room bookshelf and table The 3D drawing of bookshelf and study table done by my husband, this will be carpentry works required for study room - the bookshelf with be integrated with the L-shape study table ..

3D design of Master Bedroom cabinets and settee The 3D drawing of recess window cabinets and settee done by Kenji, this will be carpentry works required for master bedroom.

I was quoted 5.6k ringgit for my 5 room hdb .. Vincent price seems more reasonable, can someone pm me his contact ? Thx thx ..

3D design of Bedrooms Recess Window Cabinets The 3D drawing of Bedroom recess window cabinets done by my husband, we showed this to our carpenter and finally we added table and shelves for carpentry works in bedrooms.

3D design of Kitchen cabinets and counterbar The 3D drawing of kitchen cabinets and counterbar done by Kenji, this will be carpentry works required for kitchen. We will also install some shelfs for kitchen .. will use the blum system.

3D design of Living Room TV console and Platform The 3D drawing of TV console and platform done by my husband, we showed this to our carpenter and we want the console able to integrate with the platform. The platform can also served as one of the storage area.