Evi

Hi Kenjo, Thanks for the compliments, although 90% of the furniture choices were by my wife lol If you are talking about the pi table, it is a side table and not a coffee table. They do have a coffee table version though. This is the coffee table version. Its a great piece if you are keen to have a lamp in the centre. The wire can run through the hole and out the bottom, just to make the whole look neater.

Hi hi all. This is the Mrs of Evi. Thank you all for sharing your feedback. Yes, truly we are really hoping to see our home be completed. The hair pulling frustrations we go through everyday, perhaps is what many couples like you folks go through as well in the whole reno process. To confess, I secretly snapped a photo of a young couple, at McD's in consultation with their ID at the next table. Their ID had the whole detailed schedule out, armed with laminate and tile samples. Their ID gave them sound advice and all. Not for anything more other than feeling kind of envious and so shortchanged by our ID, wanted to show Mr Evi what another couple's IDs seems more attentive. I sent the photo to the Mr Evi and said 'look what they got...*envy*'. So sad huh. Having said that, we did meet some really lovely folks at these lovely furniture shops. Where we sat down and discussed about our layout, what works for our lifestyle and budget. Sincere folks who do not judge our sort of shoestring budget. Not inclusive of the snobs who badgered us like 'ah longs' every other day to collect our sofa that we paid in full. Strange how we paid in full and it seemed that we owed them big time or what. The epitome of painful customer experience for this shop-which-has-an-outlet-at-P**k-Mall furniture place. They did not even allow us to inquire about the price 'unless you really wanted to buy it, then we will check' was their response. Like huh??? *_*||| Seriously. Painful lesson learnt: never pay in full until upon collection, as some suppliers can't wait to shake you off once they get their monies. *Sigh~Burries face*. Tomorrow will be a better day..!! =p

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Anyways this is all that was done in the 3 months.

I basicallly followed adidaem's shopping list. That's where all the credit is due. The first shop is Pomelo @ Tan Boon Liat Building The second it Artsy-fact @ Blk 2 Everton Park #01-47

This is my latest acquisition TV console Hopefully when we line all the things together it does not look mismatched.

This is the colour palette for the house.

Happy thoughts happy thoughts......... Here are some other purchase that we bought for the house Coffee Table Dining pendent lights Kitchen light Downlight for study table area

I thought by doing my homework and all the research, it would help prevent such things from happening. What I really dislike hearing was when they mention that ours was a small project, can be done very quickly. But end of the day I see very little done. Now that you mention the rectification part, We have reach a point that we have met the carpentry sub con, just to iron out the details that was summited to them. During that meeting we manage rectify a few things before it entered production. I didn't want to be slap with a stupid V.O because if mistakes in drawing. It presently seems like we are the project management for this reno. I mean we hired an ID to make it easier for us as our work can get quite hectic, and in the end we do so much more that if we had taken the project on our own. Its to a point where I wonder am I hiring you to work for me or the other way round. This industry is brutal man.

Strangely this person is someone i consider a friend. He is great at the design and space planning things but totally irresponsible when it come to the organisational part of the project. I actually felt that 90% of the co-ordination work was done by us, he just did the drawings. We were so worried that we would delay the project from our end by not purchasing the items that need to be installed. We went out to purchase most of those by Oct, but now its all sitting in the store room.

I would have monitored much closer if not for work, but now that it is year end and my work is starting to ease off I'll start going often to watch the progress.

Pmed you.

At this point, we have decided to just go straight a head and contact the Main Contractor, and do most of the communication there. I must say it is almost as if we are managing the project ourselves. We were very meticulous in planning, we even when ahead to do a setup and timeline schedule on our own and also another one to keep track of all the purchase, invoice numbers, size dimensions etc etc..... In the end it all came to nothing as this was all not passed down to the Main contractor. Now presently we are screaming at the main con too, as he also seem to have the same problem as my designer.... He too also have other major project on hand, so the time put aside for this project is more or less minimum. I think it boils down to us never giving them a firm deadline.

The whole shopping experience was not all bad, I had great shopping experience with the two following stores. Purchase from the first store. I Initially bought the Joker picture form the series from www.esty.com from the artist, but the artwork came slightly crushed, so when i saw that they carry more from the series I went ahead to purchase more. Purchase from the second store.