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Are you referring to the toilet wall tiles? We got them from Hafary. The black one is around $3.20 while the white one is about $3 I think.

Thanks for the suggestion. After some thinking, I also feel that white will look better! White it shall be!

So the carpenter came and take the actual measurements for those carpentry. He also gave a lot of good advice for newbies like us. Of them all, I love my master bedroom wardrobe but it also burned a hole in our pockets.. A sketch that the carpenter drew on the spot for us because we cannot visualize. They only took three days to get the majority of the carpentry up. They will be back to do some patch up works. Sneak pics!! Living room Common bedroom

Carpentry will be a big topic to talk about. My personal view is that carpentry will really set the atmosphere of the house. As first-time owners, we had so many requirements and ideas to build into this small little 4 room flat. Colour wise, we did not want to have white and since our floor are black, the colour of the cabinets will need to brighten up the house. So we came down with this list of basic requirements: Living room A four feet fish tank A full height shoe cabinet TV console Space to have a Mahjong Table (=P) Kitchen Only bottom cabinets Caesarstone kitchen top ( I fell in love with one of the marble-like colour) Blum hinges and tracks Common bedrooms Casement wardrobe Integrated Table ( for one of the bedroom) Master bedroom Platform bed (King size) L-shape wardrobe ( with tinted glass and black mirror , top-hung system and bi-fold door)

With all the tilings done, we moved on to lighting. We had a long discussion with our ID on the lighting arrangement. We wanted our house to be bright (because there were too much black =P) but yet no false ceiling. We totally hate the look of the 'hole' that most false ceilings will have in order to accommodate the aircon unit. In the end , we decided on track lights for living room and masterbed room. Simple Ceiling Lights will be fixed for the rest of the rooms, kitchen and service yard. We also decided on our choice of doors. I will never expected myself to say this, but we had chose a very traditionally looking wood door. Yet, it matched well with the rest of the house. Oh well, money is saved to be splurge elsewhere then~ Doors will be painted white. I am still thinking whether to leave the door frame white or to paint them black?

There were also some tiling works to be done in the kitchen. We did not like the default HDB design on the wall so we chose the ever-popular sub-way tiles to overlay. However, this time round, the grouting will be white. Though my ID persuaded me to have them in grey so that the design of the sub-way tiles will be obvious. I like it to be a subtle design. We also hacked half the kitchen wall so that more light can reach our "dining" area.

So I have been reading up lots of Reno t-Blogs ever since we had balloted for our flat. It had been a long four years wait when we finally got our keys. We got our keys in late July this year and got our shortlisted IDs/contractors to come down for actual site measurements and to revise their quotations accordingly. In the end, we decided on an ID though he does not have the cheapest quotation. Our unit layout: The main reason we chose him was that he seemed to be able to visualize the house that we wanted. I had a certain idea on how I want my house to be but there were some parts where I am unsure on the practicability of them. With the 3D drawn, we started the renovation on end Sept 2016. The main colours that we are going to use in the house is oak wood, white and black. I do not think that there is any specific theme. I am hoping that the house will look simple and clean. First off, tiling started! We had decided to lay the same floor tiles (black with light grey stripes) for living and bedrooms. Grouting is black but currently it looked white as the dust had accumulated =.=. Next off, black floor tiles and marble-like wall tiles for both bathrooms, For the wall tiles, due to budget constraints, we only overlay the default feature wall ( black for master toilet, white for common toilet)