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thanks for sharing! great to hear that~ i'm looking at their oven too after my friend intro this brand to me. its seems to be very value for money

HTB bought this very chio philips soundbar! can't wait for it to be hung on the wall

this kuche washer/dryer is very cheap as compared to other brands. my friend intro this brand to me. she jus shifted hse and has been using them for 6mths and she said is ok. to her all washer/dryer seems the same. i hope its good! anyway, anyone know if i can put the dryer upside down when stacked? …. so the dial will be at the bottom instead of high up there ...

i want to c too!

i don find it good to declare the name of the ID. i don wish to get myself into any trouble, just being timid and playing safe. mayb i shld clarify that the ID is not a con company, or any runaway contractors that some pple may experience. right from the start we are very informed that we are paying the non-refundable $2k as deposit for 3D drawing only, without concrete detailed quotation. they are not exactly wrong actually. we have a choice to continue with them, but we choose to break away frm them. i won't say I'm a "victim". its more lyk different frequency i guess. u can reduce the price significantly if u are willing to remove those fancy and expensive stuffs they proposed, such as blum system, or momento paint as one of the featured wall... just to name a few. but we find it really no pt because by removing those items, its gonna affect the 3D design very significantly. at tt stage we find it quite tiring to revise the 3D drawing all over again after weeks of discussion. the mutual feeling is just not right anymore. most of their clients are rich pple who own condo n landed property. maybe their sale method are very useful and convincing towards them, but perhaps not budgeted HDB owners lyk me? actually they have several compliments from customers and won some awards too. we just find it not comfortable to continue working with them anymore. my intention is jus to share my experience, that there are some companies who will do things this way.

yep!

and have to use this to play

HAHA i thot it looked quite happy. when u received the HLE, and gotten it approved, it will be very fast alr! meanwhile, u can start shopping for furniture first

OH YA. haha cos urs is a mirror image of mine. so i mistaken the MBR as living room .. which doesn't hv the additional windows hahaha now then i realise ur living rm is the left side. so sorry abt tt! LOL ... hope you collect ur keys soon so everything can start falling into place

i guess nowadays BTO floorplans are pretty similar ... my aircon ledge is not behind the wardrobe ... its near the service yard ... haha, ya my hub wans a room for his PSP and mahjong ...

great deal you have! I think its very cheap since it includes all the elects and aircon.... n yes, we r from the same estate. tts so coincidence! :dribble:hope to cya ard, and smooth sailing in reno! oh btw, the floorplan u uploaded is a 4 room.....

putting the bad experience aside, we found another ID who is a nice chap. so far we are happy and satisfied with him. we really get along and his design turn out to be what we really wanted. of cos we become smarter as well. jus hope everything will b fine from now on. my proposed layout of the house and thanks everyone for the concern! we have thus moved on. a brand new year a brand new start. as we need to wait till the workers are back from their CNY holidays, there is nth much we could do to the house. I thot the house is too empty for CNY and so I pasted this on the wall ... hehee :lol: in the meanwhile ... I cant wait for my reno to start next week!!!!!!

collected our key for a 5 room BTO back in Dec 2013, but we decided to start reno only after CNY. my floorplan starting reno next week!! so exciting!! never thought that I would start writing blog again, guess the excitement overwhelms the laziness ... anyway, we didn't start off our journey tt smoothly .... after shortlisted afew companies, we actually started off with this ID company whereby their working style is to finalize the 3D design first, b4 churning out the quotation. during our initial discussion we told the ID our requirement and requested the ID to give a rough estimate how much it will be. the ID also "guaranteed" us it won't differ too much unless we have additional add-ons. the company is kind of reputable and their portfolio was pretty good. and so, we paid a $2k deposit for them to proceed with 3D drawing. our terror came when the quotation is out. its lyk $10k more than expected ... after a huge negotiation with them, they only manage to rounded it off to the nearest digit. we were so upset & angry tt time.. I guess they feel that we won't run away since they alr got hold of my hard earned $2k. but after a vvvvv long and thorough discussion with my HTB, we decided we could not wrk with them anymore, esp we alr quarrel b4 at such an initial stage. we also foresee even more hidden costs which, our by then very weak heart, definitely could not handle. $2k is ALOT. it is a very painful and expensive experience. but we are happy we left at an early stage. one example is their very bad space planning. as we look for ID b4 our key collection, we only have our floorplan to visualize everything. one of the proposed living room that was the qn I asked them. BUT they say, based on the floorplan measurement, we can fit in. I don think I need an ID to tell me it doesn't work ... anyway when I look back n saw my design & my real house, what happen tru-out the whole designing process, I'm really glad we have choose to leave this ID even though tt also mean we need to forego our precious $2k.