sapphire89

Hi llwong, pmed!

We had 3 different shades of grey for each room... Ash Grey for the master bedroom #5037 and also Sequoia Dusk # 5091 for the guest room which I don't have a photo of and will update over the weekend...

We're fine with it and even when I stood inside the shower area it wasn't too bad... Surprisingly spacious maybe cause I expected the worst! As for the other parts of the toilet I think it's not cramped since the screen and kerb doesn't eat into the space! I'll take a photo for you when I go down over the weekend! I think the island was done to match the height for countertops so that we can sit down on one side of the island. The height makes perfect sense once you get and high stool placed there...

Hi Daz! Thanks for the kind words! We're expected to finish carpentry work on Friday so look forward to our updates! The colour was a bit surprising but we chose it cause it looked like a really soft grey and turns out even the fiance likes it quite a bit. The colour code is #1172 Your Shadow.

Hi Yiping, PMed!

Yay! The carpentry installation has began! I was so worried when I saw the island photo so I rushed down after work to see... The island is about 1m high so it looked like it would be too high to be used to prep food!! But alas, lucky I tall too. That's a barely comfortable height to do food prep any higher have to make shorter alr... My mum say must buy her a stool so that can stand on to prep food. Is it normal height for island counters to be a little higher than the kitchen worktop? And our TB loots have arrived! Can't wait to get my hands into fixing some of these stuff and praying that all's good when they are opened up! Hopefully the carpenter can open these wooden crated stuff up for us! XOXO, Sapphira

Think the Castlery one is great... I've bought a wooden top one from TB and it just arrived! Going to assemble it this weekend! BTW, you can self treat with wood varnish which is what I'm doing for my study table. We bought a IKEA metod solid wood countertop that was untreated and wood varnish from a neighbourhood paint shop. IKEA's wood protector is like $39 and the neighbourhood one is like $4.50. Not sure what's the difference really!

Hopefully when we finally decide to move in next year and use the aircon more, I'll be able to give a review on the aircon! The fan was a major splurge on my part cause I went for design~ and without the knowledge of the fiance. Glad I spent the money though I think even if I had gotten the black colour instead of topping up for the wood colour, it would have fitted in just fine as well.

Oh man! Hopefully everything goes well! get them to replace the mirror?

Yes I love the fan especially! I walked to the fairprice nearby and when i walked back I saw the fan through the open window and I excitedly exclaimed about it! Haha! I can't wait to get an update on the carpentry today too!

Is there a lot of rectifications to be done??

So Nice! Time for you to get the acrylic panes cut~ Not that it doesn't already look good now! So looking forward to your handover pictures! Nothing much left now right?

Hi Scarlett! For now it's even able to cool the whole expose area including the kitchen and also with the room ones on when we tested after the installation! It is quiet and hopefully remains so with good maintenance on our part!

Productive weekend for us. On Saturday we had the aircon and fan installed! Here's some photos of the paint work! Love the greys in our house! Study Room's grey has a little pink tinge in it but make the study room look soft and relaxing sort of grey! While waiting for the installation to be completed we scooted off to IKEA down the street to grab stuff for the house~ and have lunch! Our stylo-milo aircon!! It's so pretty~ GC's installers are pretty good except that they were 45mins late and didn't tell us. I had to call them to check if they were ever arriving! But knowledge and skill wise they were very good so I will still recommend their services. This is our living room unit~ Originally I wanted the trunking to be put above the unit along the ceiling but the installer said that this was for the water to flow from the unit so it need to be placed below. Looks so weird that I've got a "beam" there now! Master Bedroom unit The installer was so thoughtful! Usually, common sense will tell you to run one single casing for the trunking. But our installer ran 2 without us asking! He said this way it will look like an extension of the beam once it's painted and aesthetically will look much better! I agree and kudos to our installation bro! We just noticed one small detail after the installation! We've gone and cut our acrylic panes! Now we need one piece to be cut smaller. Oh well.. another trip to the acrylic people again! Our fan! I'm so in love with this fan! The wind speed's so good and if used together with the air conditioning, you can use the reverse mode to circulate the cool air upwards so that the whole room cools faster! Can't wait for carpentry installation to begin today!

Yea I agree with yakult! Moreover since it faces the kitchen so if you build it lower you might lose a little "sense of balance" in the design?

Finally, the shower screens are up... Can't wait to install the toilet accessories! My taobao items are estimated to arrive early next week and once the date's firmed up, my ID will arrange the electrician to take delivery (means I don't need to be there!) and straight away install the lights! Then I can finally go night visiting! Yay!

Where did you get those marble shelfs? So pretty!

that's the only one I know of too...

No probs! Will let you know when they're done installing and I test it out. So far I here GC is the better aircon installers alr...

Yup... We got it last month with the 2 year service contract and they're installing this coming weekend! If I didn't remember wrongly, they said the new Starmex is made in China whilst the old one was made in Thailand. But I can't remember too clearly what they said alr... I'm thinking Made in Korea should be not that bad? Finger's crossed and hopefully Ahyong will review his Artcool! Not sure what issues you're worried about with the false ceiling?

Looking forward to seeing it myself too! I haven't had a chance to go down this weekend but next week we're having the aircon and fan people come in and install the airconditioning. We're also tripping down to IKEA to get our TV console and shoes cabinet. My reaction is always like again?!? Then I will put down the phone and think through a solution then call him again and say ok let's do this. But at least I've had not much problems except for the electrics and this wardrobe issue. Blessing I suppose? My ID actually said if you want to make sure they fit buy some samples and I'll get them to base the measurements on it. Which I think was good advice. Now at least if they can't fit I can make sure they adjust till it fits! I think this Bamboo Variera range of inserts are super pretty!!

I'm not sure whether there will be such issues but I don't have a false ceiling so I don't think it will be a problem for me... It's made in Korea so we decided to give it a chance... Apparently, it's recently become quite popular according to the Gain City salesperson that recommended to me. Starmex has a 5 tick model that is newer but apparently the older model is better in terms of cooling power. The thing about 5 ticks is that energy saving so you compromise a little on the cooling ability I believe.

I think most ppl go for the Starmex but I personally went for the LG Artcool. We thought it seemed sturdier and BTU wise could still support our living area's cool requirements.

Busy week at work so thought I'd do a quick update! We finally borrowed the car cause the fiance's parents were overseas last weekend! Loads done over the entire Saturday that my ID also said we were efficient. We are targeting a before Christmas handover... So hopefully nothing else goes wrong! So our Taobao items are now stuffed and on the way to us. Hopefully everything comes out well. The only thing about online shopping is it is always a hit or miss. Sometimes you get pleasantly surprised and other times it's just bleah.. We went up to our place first to collect our ugly toilet ceiling meshes to get acrylic pieces cut didn't realise that workers were going to be working on our place on a Saturday. We would have brought them drinks if we knew. Back to the acrylic pieces... We got the meshes out and boy are they sharp. Luckily we thick skin or else sure kena cut. Better be careful when removing these things ppl... We used highlighters to mark the ones for the master bedroom so that we could match the acrylic pieces and place them back where they should. The place that we went and got it cut was very efficient and they helped us measure out the pieces before we went to their sales office to determine how much it cost. After paying we went back to them and they got it cut down to the size of each piece of mesh. They even showed us piece by piece to determine that all were to size. After cutting the meshes, off to IKEA we went! The aim of the day were to get out toilet accessories and we got mirrors, shower stuff holders, etc... I can't remember what we bought but it was about 600 odd dollars in toilet accessories and kitchen drawer inserts. These Variera interior fittings will definitely make my drawers standout when you open them and I've got the carpenter working on the measurements such that they are cut to size and fit perfectly. We went back to our place and we surprised yet again that our wall was completed! Though after that in the evening when I thought of it, isn't the electrical points all meant to be moved to the centre? Immediately I called my ID and told him that... He was like blur really meh?? It's like what use to I have for the points if they're not where the TV should be? He checked and got back to me saying they will fix it... They also forgot to add double points to my vanity area where I was sure I said I would need points to hair dryers etc... All in all, these will be fixed and hopefully I get an update today. Got a call last night and there was another issue to figure out. The master wardrobe was meant to be a three door wardrobe on 2 tracks so only 1/3 of the wardrobe can be opened at any one time. The carpenter said that the basket insert (one of those meant for the KALLAX range shelves) that it would be difficult for me to get them out of the wardrobe and they proposed changing it to a 2 door design. That way I could open half (1.05m) of my wardrobe at any given time. Of course my internal config had to be moved around and so I had to free drawer how I wanted it to look like to send to my ID whilst we tried watch GoT. I can't say it's mine nor the fiance's tastes so not really sure we'll continue to watch it. But we'll see. Here's my impromptu drawing of my wardrobe config... Fingers crossed no more errors! Not very possible I know. >.<

You can go to Dama Trading and get it cut for about 62 bucks! Just bring all the meshes and tell them to cut to size. Very quick like half an hour and they serve you drinks while you're waiting. I just did mine the other day!