My Refurbish Home In The North

[wolverine_x 0]

Hi all.. I juz ROM in Mar 08, been trying to look for a new flat since last year but was in vain. The queue number that I got from BTO and walk-in selection were so large that I am not able to select a flat. Thus, me and my wife decided to refurbish the flat that I am staying currently and plan to stay for a few years...

Anyway, I have been staying alone in the north for the past 10 years... Me and my wife actually don't like the area here but then it was my father who got the flat last time.. He spent a bomb for the reno during that time... However, the style is so "ah peh" and outdated and we didn't like it at all.... Thus, I asked my father for permission to refurbish the house... He agreed but there were many things which he felt "heart-broken" to remove, so I have to keep most of the items in order not to make him feel sad and to respect him..... Therefore, since there were so many old-fashion things that I couldn't remove, I will try to make my house theme as "RETRO".

I started DIY the whole house on 31 Mar 08. It has been almost 4 months since I started refurbishing it, and only now then I decided to create a T-Blog here. Anyway, I will post pics later.. In the mean time, I need to go Balestier and collect 2 of my ceiling lights, follow by making the final payment of my simmons mattress now. Be right back guys... Heee...

[applefreak 1]

spam chop

i sure would like to see pix of your DIY mosaic top for the shoe cabinet

and of course your DIY wall mural

Edited July 26, 2008 by applefreak

[junxian 0]

wows that quite a big project !

[wolverine_x 0]

Ok.. For the start.. I will put some pics of my house before any furbishing is done.... Lots of old furnitures have already thrown away....

This is what you see when you first step into my house... My father stick a DIY wallpaper onto the mirror cos he think that it is bad luck when a mirror is facing the front door directly. And I wonder why he did such kind of reno last time.. Hmmm

That structure is a shoe cabinet with a glass carving.. Don't like it cos it block out the sunlight.. The door at the side is the main front door.

My father DIYed the strips 10 years ago... Gonna remove it... but I felt so bad as my father put in a lot of effort at that time.

Chinese and oil painting... Need to go!!! Don't like it but can't throw...

Mirror... Definitely need to go too...

This is the cabinet I hate most... Totally out of fashion but I have to keep it cos it was made of good and expensive wood and my father wanna keep it. Anyway, I will do a major clean-up for it...

Edited July 26, 2008 by wolverine_x

[Yenming 0]

Wow.. Your dad must hav put in a lot of effort for his hse last time. Though it looks antique nw, but I guess back to those days, wooden TV console made was quite popular..

Pls post more pics!! Hope to c the pics of mosiac top for shoe cabinets.. special!!

How abt kitchen? No DIY? I'm reading up on kitchen now.. faced problems with my design for kitchen!

[applefreak 1]

thought i see a doggie in one of the pix?

is that your fur-baby?

[LittleDevil 0]

This is the cabinet I hate most... Totally out of fashion but I have to keep it cos it was made of good and expensive wood and my father wanna keep it. Anyway, I will do a major clean-up for it...

Probably can repaint the cabinet to either black or white colour and change the door handles to give it a new look?

[Yenming 0]

Yup. I was also thinking u can use a combination of black & white vanishing paint for the cabinets doors. Top cabinet black & bottom cabinet white. I also use black & white for my tv console. It will definitely give the console a new look!!

[wolverine_x 0]

I'm back here again after a hard day work doing up my house...

Anyway, I spoke to my father about changing the cabinet colour to black, but he seems reluctant though he never say so, so I just keep it that way lah.. No choice.. Don't wanna make an old man unhappy...

Anyway Applefreak.. That's my doggy!! It's a mini pinscher... Think he's like about 10 yrs old.. It's getting old now... but still as cute as ever though his reflexes have slow down..

Anyway, here's some pics of the process of refurbishing a few months back.. I did it quite slow cos I only do it once a week, maximum twice a week.. Kinda tired to do it after work lah....

All paintings and mirror were removed and the holes were filled up with putty. The horizontal strip design was also removed... As the super glue left marks and also tore off the paint, I used putty to cover up those ugly marks...

[wolverine_x 0]

The sanding of the putty was really hard work.. Luckily my wife borrowed a sanding machine for me to use.. else I will sure die if I use my bare hand to sand it off...

Anyway, these are the pics of the wall after the putty was sanded off and a coat of primer was applied... The sanding was really horrible as my whole house was dusty with fine white particles... At that point of time, I thought the wall looks good and flat, but I was wrong after I painted the walls with colour, I could still see the "protruded putty" after I sanded it off... Well.. I guess I am not pro enough, it's my first time doing it anyway, and probably the last.. Heee...

[wolverine_x 0]

I have cleaned up the cabinet and it looks brand new... even though I did not lacquer it again... I have also thrown away the old TV since it is not working anymore.. and added a platform there for my new 40" full HD LCD TV.

I have asked contractor to remove the mirror, and added a plywood there.. wallpaper will be applied on it after that. I have also asked the contractor to remove the shoe cabinet with glass carving...

[wolverine_x 0]

Here's something I got recently...

1) Retro flipping wall clock.. I just love this clock cos it look so cool...

2) Retro russian phone... Looks cool too.. but I haven't change the plug to local chord yet, so it still cannot be used...

3) A ceiling light that looks like fried egg... Simply love this too... will put it in my living room

4) This light is very cool.. It looks like a death star from star wars, or a disco light.. this is gonna be fixed onto my bedroom ceiling.. Actually I have just fixed it today n it looks **** good.. but I will update it when I finish updating my living room

5) This is the mosiac tiles that I will be using for my side table. Still don't have time to do it, and I will be flying to US soon...

Edited July 27, 2008 by wolverine_x

[wolverine_x 0]

Ok... I think I will cut things short of what I did for my living room.. Pictures speak a thousand words, so I post the "Before and After" pics of my 95% DIY refurbish flat...

Still not 100% done yet as there are some more DIY arty farty stuff... but I am working on my bedroom currently, and will stop everything on 31 Jul as 1 Aug is the opening of **** gates...

1) Shoe cabinet with glass carving is gone... The white wall behind will be where my wife and myself gonna paint the wall mural.. but we are still working on the design.... The 2 white side table will be converted into mosiac tiles look, it's gonna be DIY too, but don't have time to do it currently.

2) Paintings gone!!!

3) Mirror gone.. and here comes Audrey Hepburn.... The dinning table belongs to my father, kept it cos it looks so retro... It suppose to have 6 chairs, but I kept the other 2 in the store room as it looks better in 4s

Edited July 27, 2008 by wolverine_x

[wolverine_x 0]

4) Cleaned up the cabinet and the stuff inside was minimal.... I have also changed the knobs into wooden type so that it looks better. A new TV was placed on top of the new platform.. Heee...

5) Here comes the wallpaper... but of cos this is not DIY cos I never apply wallpaper before.. I have also changed the cushion seat into red PVC....

6) DIY changing the PLC lights

7) The cabinet top is spoiled due to the rain and sun... so I'm gonna use mosiac to put onto the cabinet top, but I have yet to get the right mosiac for this DIY task...

8) A new clock and a new fan.... I just love it

OK... It's already 3.40am now... Gonna stop and get some sleep... Contractor coming to install the new wardrobe tomorrow morning...

[Jessie 0]

wow!!!!!!

nice DIY stuffs!

hey, may i ask where did you buy those mosiac tiles?

i was thinking of DIY for my toilets

pls PM me the details, thks!