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It is known as "Moisture Resistant Particle Board" and Carcass is 16mm with 18mm door. Usual carpentry is Carcass 14mm with 17mm door. No my fridge is not in a cabinet, it just happen the partition board is there, I didn't want to cut a big hole from that board, only a small hole for the fridge plug for ac power. My stove is counter top type above washing machine side, not cooking beside the fridge.

I didn't measure but most fridge now doesn't come with protruding handles. All the fridge in my consideration list comes with built in handles, no protruding. I gonna put around 5cm too but there is a copper city gas pipe right behind my fridge....

User manual stated 10cm from back wall and 5cm from both side. I probably will put around 6cm, I have enough room at both side. I think 1 inch is too cramp, the fridge also need to breathe.

BLUM Urban Kitchen Finally the day arrived for my kitchen to be installed by blum appointed contractor. They are very nice people all the way from start to finish, overseeing everything to be perfectly installed. I only engage them to do my kitchen, other carpentry in the house all taken care by my ID. Hinges and drawers. Drawer comes with adjustable front panel to ensure perfect leveling with each other. Installation in progress. They work from 10am to 630pm, finally completed and sky is dark, took this photo right after they finish with a temporary light. The 2 shelves panel is not blum, but using same laminate. It is charged seperately by the contractor as not a blum parts. Didn't box up the pipe as I am fine with it and no point wasting money on carpentry that I cannot use the space for storage. If I go for normal carpentry I will probably box it up as they are full height cabinet up to ceiling, this blum not full height and my laminate is expensive, to box it up will cost a lot. I have not yet peel off the laminate protectors so you are seeing a lot of blue here. My actual laminate is high glossy pearl white with silvery powder. Plan to use this drawer to keep washing detergent for washing machine so I do not have anything lying around the floor. Before and after pic. Contractor say this is a special design as nobody do L shape like this due to the concealed waterpipe, their usual L shape is full depth, mine half depth on the L only. If you see my previous pic I put a counter dustbin right beside the basin, this shallow L shape allow me to still access the space below the dustbin. Normal full L shape they build a 45degree drawer which got a lot of wasted space due to corner. This is a not my kitchen but from the same floorplan as my unit, I feel the stove too close to the fridge and I don't want a hood, this is how I come out with my L shape design in a tiny kitchen. Cooking too close to fridge is dangerous. It is not without compromise, I have to sacrifice my table height just to fit the washing machine under the countertop. Washing machine is standard 850mm. Therefore my countertop is 90cm height, slightly higher then usual. If don't do L shape, the space beside the washing machine a bit wasted and lesser table space. I also don't want to have so many things on top of my washing machine. I tried taking photo of my white laminate but no able to see the effect, just look like all white on photo. My laminate got the same silver powdery effect like this hitachi fridge that I am going to buy. And then nightmare comes, the fridge need a 10cm clearance from back wall, I use a cardboard here to illustrate the back of fridge which I only put about 6cm, the front is the yellow measuring tape...and I realised the hitachi fridge with a depth of 720mm is too big, protrude out too much from wall as you can see from the wall in the picture. This affect my shoulder to shoulder allowance to walk pass the fridge to enter kitchen. Really too small, as such, I have to look for another fridge with preferably 600mm depth so it doesn't protrude. However those 600mm one are really small fridge like 200-250l and very low height, will look ugly if gap too big on top. Currently my ideal choice is a Panasonic NR-BL347P with a depth of 611mm and almost 300l capacity. Will update another round of picture when my granite top is installed and that blue laminate protector peeled off.

Prices PMed. Saved a lot when bulk purchasing and never buy full retail price. Planned to put in the middle of hall right beside the ceiling fan. But now have to shift it as too near ceiling fan blade, so I will shift away from center of hall to be right in the middle of the 1.6meter dining table. Which also mean will have a longer exposed cable housing....no choice. Main living room light now become the dining table pendant light which I didn't plan to have initially.

My Purchase 3 Even more purchases. Bought this 1000x600mm mirror for toilet. As first I thought having a build in mirror together with carpentry will look seamless but after reading some blogger says the mirror started having spot due to some mercury defect within 6 months of usage, it is very hard to replace a carpentry mirror myself. Fearing this, I decided to have a wall hung mirror which is easily replaceable. Not to mention I saved some money by not doing a carpentry mirror as they count by per sqft, buying a mirror myself is a lot cheaper, and if got spot or crack, just buy new one of same size and hang. Saw this Grohe Rainshower on offer and comes with a front tap which I need. So I measure and measure make sure can fit before making my purchase. I did see hansgrohe too but this offer win them all. Euphoria 180 Pendant light for living room. Choose this to prevent light leaking into the ceiling fan and then I will get blinking effect from ceiling fan due to casted shadow. Pendant Light x2 for Bedroom Hue bulb. Need white color so when I choose a color on the hue, it will enhance whatever color I choosed. Bought this on impulse cos cheap and I like green. This is for bedroom daylight. Bought the daylight bulb for kitchen, bomb shelter and toilet as I don't think a hue bulb is appropriate. This is also the downlight that I will be fixing all my hue bulb onto. Only about $10 a piece, very cheap. So can invest in hue. Don't know why this picture got auto rotated and I couldn't rotate it back. Finally the hue bulb, light stripe and hue tap. I bought them all during promotion which saved a lot of money. Bought 3 starter kit so that I can keep the other 2 hue controller as backup in case it spoil, else hard to buy the controller alone. 2 light stripe for evorich platform and shoe cabinet. 2 hue tap for convenient of having 8 preset theme without using handphone to adjust. I think this picture got auto inverted too. Don't know how it happened and couldn't retify. Sigh... hope image is not rotated or inverted.