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22 April - painting works for whole house & door frames done! Our white living room. It was supposed to be a very light grey colour but somehow the lighting made it seem white; like no difference from the previous paint. But I've no complaints! The same colour as the living room was selected for bedroom 3 but now since the area is smaller, you can see the greyness. Mint for the middle bedroom (bedroom 2) She's in love with this one. Darker brownish grey for the master bedroom for the cozy effect. As you can see, the half recess wall was also done leaving a small box above our bed. T5 light will be installed at the bottom. Black door frames.

16 April and the 1st phase - wet works is complete! Since we wanted the cement screed wall at the kitchen entrance, these tiles were chosen to match the look. I find the HDB kitchen tiles sucks! You have to clean almost everyday as small amount of dirt can be easily seen as per my friends' complaints. We could have opted out of the BTO HDB flooring but we thought we could save money initially and reduce our reno cost. The living room and bedrooms homogenous polished tiles are fine. *relieved* Luckily there were also no defects as compared to our neighbours'. Subway tiles for one side of the kitchen as there won't be any top cabinets; only our hob and chimney hood. Both toilets' ugly walls have got to go too! Our master toilet feature wall with the missus's chosen tiles. Decided to only overlay a small area to avoid it being too busy i also headache. Gonna have tempered glass shower screen for the master and just a shower curtain for the common toilet. Common toilet floor - we specifically laid out the random designs for the tiler to follow the layout but unfortunately the OCD missus can still spot a few not done accordingly. But oklah, still nice right? hehehe So we sat down and chose the laminates for our kitchen cabinet, shoe cabinet and 2 wardrobes. Next up will be the painting works and carpentry!

Hello! U're from banks too? Haha we're moving in ard early June.

i choose not to hack the wall coz i wanna separate the service yard cum laundry area.

Our contractor provided us with 3D drawings of the designs that we had in mind before carpentry work starts next week. We intended to keep our living room simple with no feature wall and built-in TV console. This enables us to move around the furniture when we're bored with the current layout. We initially thought of having a partition between the sleeping area and the makeup/getting ready area but seems like it will only make the tiny room smaller. So since we are both on day shift, we don't really need the partition. Plus if we were to have a baby in the future, we could place our babycot and have him/her next to my wife. The space in front of the wardrobe is ideal for that kinda situation. She can also have her vanity table with allll of her makeup and additional recess wall wooden shelves for more storage. But...will my wife share the 6ft wardrobe with me? I don't think so. Lol Shoe cabinet as requested. We saw this design from pinterest and showed it to Mr R. Hhehe as simple as that.

In Love With Tiles ... The 1st thing we did was to look around for the perfect tiles for our toilets and kitchen way before our keys were released. So far we went to these shops: 1. Hafary 560 Balestier Rd Singapore 329876 2. Lian Seng Hin Trading Co Pte Ltd 568 Balestier Rd, Singapore 329885 3. Taugres 7 Defu Lane 1, Singapore 539482 4. Hup Kiong 11 Defu Lane 9, Singapore 539253 5. Soon Bee Huat No.3A Toh Guan Road East Singapore 608834 It was fun for the missus who has an attention to details and is into peranakan tiles. I just had to tag along. Our contractor ordered the tiles from 3 different companies and they arrived on 6 April.

Finally, we got HDB's approval for hacking works on 2nd April. It took around a week. So excited to see the wall partition between the kitchen and dining area brought down for an open concept kitchen! The service yard door was also removed. Everything was done on 6th April.