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Mandy & Lincoln - Renovating Our First Home

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Thanks for sharing.

I guess I'll just wait for the SP officer, not nice to keep him waiting. :)

Have fun with your reno. Any pics to share? :notti:

NP. Do visit our thread "Projet Y" when you free. :dancingqueen:

 

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Thanks for your well wishes and praises for Sunny. He's 9 years and 8ths old liao.

Still very active and a handful to manage. :bangwall:

 

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Laminates_CabinetsLiviingRm.jpg

Hi

can you share with us what is your living room laminates brand? Would love to use those in our future nest. Thanx!

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Ok, here's some updates on our experience with electricial works and lights.

Cost for electrical works: $2.2K

Cost for lights and ceiling fans: $3K

Total damage: $5.2K!!! :bangwall:

Here's a breakdown of what I did

Additional power sockets:

- 4 sockets for tv console in living rm

- 4 sockets for fish tank, ironing and misc in living rm

- 3 sockets in dining for standing fan and misc (e.g. steamboat dinners)

- 6 sockets in kitchen

- 9 sockets in study

- 3 sockets in WIW

- 4 sockets in MBR

Installation of new lighting points:

- 24 points for downlights

- 2 points for ceiling fans

- 2 points for kitchen

- 1 point for dining light

- 1 point for foyer

- 1 point for vanity cabinet in WIW

Lights and fans purchased (all energy saving bulbs):

- 1 dining light

- 24 downlights

- 1 crystal cube foyer light

- 2 ceiling whitelights in glass for study and WIW

- 2 ceiling whitelights in glass and aluminiun casing for kitchen

- 1 ceiling whitelight in plastic for bomb shelter

- 1 silver ceiling fan 56"

- 1 black ceiling fan 48"

[Pics are all in a link found in my earlier post]

After this experience... lesson learnt and advice to share to all those who have not done up their lighting works....It's not really the type of lights you buy but the NUMBER of lights you have in your house. Most decent and nice-looking lights are all around the same price in Sg (unless you go for the really cheap ones).

If I were to do it again, I would definitely have carefully considered the lighting needs in my design. I found that I couldn't reduce the number of lights to be purchased because it would jeopardise the overall design of my house. Downlights are a big culprit... if you install L-boxes everywhere, you can easily hit 40 pieces...each piece costing an average of $40...u can do the math...

Anyway...no choice...lighting settled...over budget...sighz... so have to try to cut down on other areas... :(

Hi

can you share with us what is your living room laminates brand? Would love to use those in our future nest. Thanx!

Hi LGG,

My laminates are from Jennings Trading.

Details:

WPL 4822 SF white lilies

WPL 4833 SF black lilies

Hope this helps! :P

 

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Hi LGG,

My laminates are from Jennings Trading.

Details:

WPL 4822 SF white lilies

WPL 4833 SF black lilies

Hope this helps! :P

Thanx Mandy & Lincoln

I have the catalogue wif me now, immediately checking it out. Thanx! :yamseng:

 

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Hi LGG,

My laminates are from Jennings Trading.

Details:

WPL 4822 SF white lilies

WPL 4833 SF black lilies

Hope this helps! :P

Thanx Mandy & Lincoln

I have the catalogue wif me now, immediately checking it out. Thanx! :yamseng:

Wow...that's fast. Have fun looking. Hopefully you find what you're looking for. :)

 

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Wow...that's fast. Have fun looking. Hopefully you find what you're looking for. :)

sob.. couldn't find the flowery laminates in the jennings catalogue.. prob it is a old edition catalogue that i'm holding.. :(

 

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Hi neighbour,

We lived in liao. Same block.. :notti:

U got ur flat through Balloting or Bi-monthly Balloting?

Mayb u can take a look at our 'quite dead' YS thread.. :D

http://www.renotalk.com/forum/index.php?sh...1463&st=360

L3x

Hi,

I got mine through the April bi-monthly balloting ex this year. Got our keys in July but didn't do anything until now cos hb and I were not free.

Which floor you on? I'm on 17th.

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hi mmycheng,

did you do any feature wall to cover the store? any 3d drawing to show? thanks. :)

Yup, did so cos the bomb shelter door is soooo ugly!

It's the black panel behind the dining table.

DiningArea.jpg

Have you rec'd any proposals from IDs so far?

 

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