Ravenski

Hi, can i ask whether the glossy paint differs alot from the paint colour for the wall? i notice that even though the painting man chose a similar colour in gloss but it turns out to be rather dark and dont look that nice... somemore the hdb ppl never do a good job in smoothening out the uneven surface on my hhs door... the gloss makes the unevenness even more obvious...

Hi, The uncle IS CURRENTLY doing my gate... hehe... 9 bolts managed to bargain for $110. ~Rav

ya man... Rav took 4 days mc this week... the fever just wont go down... yesterday was feeling better but this morning got running nose! linggie, so u confirm with the curtain van? heard from my bf's mum tt last nite got the chinese tv show introducing cheapest stuffs in singapore? they said the cheapest is in katong...

Just curious, did u and ur parents continue to stay at the house while renovation is on? cuz hacking of tiles and stuffs can be quite noisy eh? my mum is also thinking of hacking the kitchen tiles cuz the tiles are popping out themselves after 23 years! -melting_starz-

hahaha happy, maybe what skywolf commented really make sense... i think for most kitchen cabinets tt i see, their base is definitely inner compared to the cabinets... which means if u want more space for your toes to wriggle, u need to have suspended cabinets... ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- anyway, i came over to visit my house today... the internet is up! so happy that we can access internet already... this morning, we tried walking to tiong bahru market to eat breakfast! wah, so far away... but the food is really nice... maybe neighbours who are more familiar with the nice stalls can recommend... *mouth-watering food* now the house is in a stayable condition... but the tv console and shoe cabinet and curtains are not settled yet... will wait for the contractor to come and touch up the remaining stuffs first... still thinking whether to get curtains from ikea... humph~ we were quoted around 800 to 900 for the curtains if custom-make... but i dun really fancy the designs they have... haiz.... wat a headache!

btw, wat is the paint colour u used for the other room, which is purple in colour? i painted my masterbedroom false ceiling purple but its a darker shade... yours is nice!

kitchen pics... LEFT: kitchen cabinet, now complete with turbo hood-n-hob, crizto sink, gattoni tap, n solid top! RIGHT: blum system for the 3 big 90cm width drawer... LEFT: small door opened RIGHT: big door under sink opened there were a lot of headache n discussions with the contractor which resulted in this kitchen cabinet layout... 1. we wanted to have a 70cm width hob. then hood normally only comes in either 60 or 90cm. naturally we chose 90cm for hood cuz 60cm hood with 70cm hob will look weird! 2. if hood is already 90cm, the bottom cabinet of where the hood n hob are will only look nice if it's of 90cm width too. 3. the hood n hob position must not be too near to sink n fridge, so should be in the middle. too near to fridge later fridge kena burnt, too near to sink, water n fire shouldn't be too close n cannot have two ppl standing at hob and sink at the same time! that's also to prevent being too straight with the kitchen window (fengshui no good?) 4. if hood n hob in the middle, and the drawer at the left hand side, then the drawer will be very narrow... i think less than 50 or 40cm of width, which is not nice... 5. end up decide on doing 3 drawers below the hob, which turn up to be very huge! 90cm width... then normal track don't think can support such big drawers, so end up getting blum tracks... 6. but then bottom cabinets should align together with the top cabinets then it will look nice, resulting the top n bottom cabinet doors on the left and right of hood n hob becoming one big one small... 7. because the bottom cabinet at the right of the hob becomes so small, then accessing the corner space from that small door becomes impossible... 8. was thinking doing some 3/4 round rack for the corner space, but contractor says not durable, especially the two-fold door. somemore if do the two-fold door, then the sink cabinet door will not look nice, i.e. not aligned... 9. end up the corner space must be accessed from the sink cabinet, which according to contractor is easier to access, i.e. right hand reach in... but dun really like to have such a big space under sink PS: sorry if it sounds too complicated, it'll be more like a note for me to remember

Hi NiVleK, Would suggest you pop by Ikea Tampines because it is bigger and more stock I guess, but not so accessible unless got car... somemore Ikea Alexandra is having major renovation (even the restaurant!) - Raven

Hi bee joy, Yaya my contractor also didn't plasters my wall before doing the painting... very sad... the only way is to buy some pictures / paintings to cover it already... or have some winkplay thingie to try to camouflage the walls, hehe... ~Raven

Hi Happy, Thanks for ur compliment... My wardrobe is nothing special lah... guess if u go ikea walk walk will surely spot the same / similar one initially wanted to custom make it but after much thought, we just settled it with ikea... much cheaper, inside nicely laminated, and happen to be able to fit into the space... but it's not solid wood or plywood though, hopefully it will last n hopefully the 10-yr guarantee by ikea really means it... also, use recycled material save the earth! My bro's room wall cabinet is also from ikea, the product name is EFFEKTIV, there are 2 pieces, as shown in the pic, each is $160 ($90 frame + $70 glass door)... u can choose not to have the glass door too... if u want ikea ppl to assemble for u, it will cost 5% of the price, and 1 cabinet needs drilling of 2 holes ($4 per hole, or FOC if u can DIY ) this thing is also 10 years guarantee, dunno how true it is, and again hopefully it will last You are the 2nd person saying my living room ceiling looks very high, i tot all units standard one? ~Raven

ok pics time... !! living room... now with ikea karlstad sofa and footstool... but still no coffee table, tv console n curtains for all rooms yet! living/dining from another view... activity room with ikea day bed (got it during promo at $99! usual $199), and 2 bookshelves... younger bros room with cabinet, table n wardrobe, also from ikea... mbr with ikea 2-metre wardrobe, bed frame, n slide-out bed head... total damage on ikea stuffs so far: ard 5.3k and that's after the 10% off (in the form of vouchers; den we used it to pay for other items) for 2 wardrobes (150x201cm and 200x236cm) in their promo period...

IKEA shopping trip we got our things pretty much in IKEA... which attracts many comments like "ikea's stuffs are nice but dont last" "actually ikea is not tt cheap and quality not good" "i bought ikea things but spoilt very easily"... but we still prefer the stuffs there after shopping around in the furniture malls... list of stuffs as below, 1. wardrobe for master bedroom 2. wardrobe for common bedroom 3. two suspended book cabinets 4. one simple plain bookcase 5. headboard and queen bedframe 6. two bookcases with glassdoor for one 7. daybed frame 8. 3 seater sofa 9. footstool delivery time was supposed to be 2 to 6. however, they came only at 530 and they realised that they had to assemble all for us cuz we paid for assembly! the whole delivery and assembly only ended at 10! who asked them to come so late even though we had so much stuffs? especially the queen bedframe which was last assembled... they were in such a rush and they really did a quick job. i hope nothing bad will happen... the headboard was chipped at one side... but we decided to leave it alone cuz it will be covered... if not, have to go through the whole ordeal of changing it... but, they delivered wrong colour for our table so will have to change it... and our dear bookcase dun seemed too stable as well... so when they make another trip down to our house, gotta ask them to put brackets on top! *its becoming more and more like a home now~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~* (melting_starz)

Yes! your eyes are so sharp! but the grout lines are not very nicely done... its not even through out... dunno wat to do ler... hopefully the contractor is nice enuff to do the touch up... --melting_starz--

Hi Happy, Paints are all from ICI. Highlighted wall in living room is Champagne... the light colour one is Natural Cane... brown colour one is Mocca Delight, and the purple false ceiling is called Mysterious... ~ Raven

pics time... master bedroom: ceiling, lighting, painting, laminate flooring and window grill done... floorings: 3 rooms laminate and living room homo... dining set from barang barang...