bigeyedfish 0 Report post Posted November 24, 2009 Plucking up the courage to actually share my soon-to-commence renovation on our recently acquired house. An EA in Bukit Panjang. We took onto reading the forum to learn about renovation. Really love looking at all the lovely houses in t-blog. Reminded me of extreme makeover (home edition) where the homes were transformed. Here's the layout. Floor area is 142sqm. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
annjoy 0 Report post Posted November 24, 2009 Hello and welcome! Looking forward to your updates! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
bigeyedfish 0 Report post Posted November 24, 2009 Hello and welcome! Looking forward to your updates! Thank you Here's roughly what have been discussed between the project manager (nicer name for contractor) and us. We went to about 8 IDs for quotations before selecting this particular firm to do our renovation. As for today, reno works have not started because we have yet to sign on the dotted line. Hubby is meeting them tomorrow and we hope our reno permit and hacking works will be approved by the time we come back from our holiday. The IDs that we went to 1) Kitchen Zone 2) Innerview 3) UHome 4) Chew 5) Plus Interior 6) Strategic Trends 7) Ideal House 8) B**** (the chosen one) We're choosing not to disclose their name yet because honestly, I haven't found any post about them as yet and it was the 1st time I have heard of them. If our reno goes on smoothly, we will have no qualms recommending them. Just going with our gut feeling here. Actually it was a close shave between Chew and Strategic Trends before B**** came into the picture. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
bigeyedfish 0 Report post Posted November 24, 2009 Roughly here's what we are going to do for this house - Demolish half of kitchen wall - Change door positions for storeroom and toilet 2 - Demolish door and lourve windows to service balcony - Demolish kitchen cabinets - Install new grilles for bedrooms, study, balcony and service balcony (no $$ to change whole house window ) - Repolish timber flooring - New floor and wall tiles for toilets, kitchen and service balcony - New toilet fittings and accessories - Remove 4 aircons and compressor/ trunking - Simple cornice to living/ study - Wardrobe in masterbedroom - Paint Most IDs quoted us between 23k - 28k (mostly within our budget) This one would be around 25k. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Angel81 1 Report post Posted November 25, 2009 Congrates on ur new home and wishing u a smooth reno journey! The layout of ur house is nice, love the service balcony. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
dannywmp 3 Report post Posted November 25, 2009 Welcome to RT and starting of your t-blog... Look forward to see more of your photos... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Chinchye 0 Report post Posted November 25, 2009 Hi Welcome to RT.. U have a nice study area.. nice with 2 views of the windows.. Wish u have a smooth renov.. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
dianawee 0 Report post Posted November 25, 2009 Welcome ~~ your living looks so spacious. Look fwd for ur nice big house Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
bigeyedfish 0 Report post Posted November 25, 2009 Hello everyone, thanks for the welcome. The thing that attracted us (me especially) to the place is the spacious living room and the timber strip flooring. Here are some pre-reno pics. Living/dining/balcony The kitchen which has to go Master bedroom toilet in very original condition Common toilet Master bedroom The rest of the rooms are basically the same. No built-ins so pretty much plain walls and timber flooring. Right now, based on the proposed layout, I'm wondering whether the kitchen cabinet will provide enough storage space. Appreciate inputs. Thanks Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
sherwinsm 1 Report post Posted November 25, 2009 good luck on renovation. got a very nice layout. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Mickey M 0 Report post Posted November 25, 2009 Nice place u gotten urself. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
CJREDDEVIL 0 Report post Posted November 25, 2009 Hello everyone, thanks for the welcome. The thing that attracted us (me especially) to the place is the spacious living room and the timber strip flooring. Here are some pre-reno pics. Living/dining/balcony The kitchen which has to go Master bedroom toilet in very original condition Common toilet Master bedroom The rest of the rooms are basically the same. No built-ins so pretty much plain walls and timber flooring. Right now, based on the proposed layout, I'm wondering whether the kitchen cabinet will provide enough storage space. Appreciate inputs. Thanks Hi bigeyedfish, Welcome! Wahaa....nice big place you've got here....uhmmm...planning for simple reno, since the condition is tsill very good(except maybe the tiolets)...? Cheers! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
SGBuzz 0 Report post Posted November 25, 2009 Right now, based on the proposed layout, I'm wondering whether the kitchen cabinet will provide enough storage space. Appreciate inputs. Thanks Wow and welcome. Your EA is as big as my EM I think whether enough storage space will depends on how much junk you are going to keep. From my experience only about 50% is actively being used. Most active and these will be cluster around your sink and stove are: - storage for pots and pans - cutleries and crockeries - condiments - dry goods The rest is just to keep items that you use occasionally. Bearing that in mind you can keep them elsewhere if you run out of space. Example is that i have a 3ft double door section of the cabinet is used just to store milk powder for my son. I put it there cause there is space, else store room is ok. Happy Planning Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
bigeyedfish 0 Report post Posted November 25, 2009 Hi bigeyedfish, Welcome! Wahaa....nice big place you've got here....uhmmm...planning for simple reno, since the condition is tsill very good(except maybe the tiolets)...? Cheers! Thanks CJREDDEVIL. Yup, simple reno. Basically it's just the toilets, kitchen and service balcony. But add here and there amounts to nearly 27k and I didn't even get to change all my windows Bo pian if not overbudget already. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
bigeyedfish 0 Report post Posted November 25, 2009 Wow and welcome. Your EA is as big as my EM I think whether enough storage space will depends on how much junk you are going to keep. From my experience only about 50% is actively being used. Most active and these will be cluster around your sink and stove are: - storage for pots and pans - cutleries and crockeries - condiments - dry goods The rest is just to keep items that you use occasionally. Bearing that in mind you can keep them elsewhere if you run out of space. Example is that i have a 3ft double door section of the cabinet is used just to store milk powder for my son. I put it there cause there is space, else store room is ok. Happy Planning I love EMs. However DH doesn't like because he is afraid his boys will tumble down the stairs. We viewed 1 EM but location was not very good. We don't really store much things actually. Only that, at first I thought it would be a waste of space not extending the kitchen cabinet to L shape. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
