Notre Maison

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Tiling & Windows Completed

More Common Toilet Photos

Lourve windows changed for both toilets. It's white and nice...

Shower (Front View)

Ferroli 30L Storage Heater

Storage heater for both toilets. Haa.. Since we want rain shower, we have to get a storage heater and since we have a storage heater, we might as well have hot water from the storage heater for both toilets instead of having instant heater for the Common Toilet and storage heater for the other. And, with a storage heater, we have to get mixers for the shower head but luckily the rain shower comes with its own mixer...

Check out the ugly sewage pipes. By the way, we are on the top floor so no s h i t should come down from there. Those only act as ventilation pipes. Hope it will look nicer after painting...

Edited April 6, 2010 by hongwen37

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Tiling & Windows Completed

Living Room White Homogeneous Tiles

This is as white as it can get...

Living Room White Casement Windows

One thing the house attracted me, the windows!! There is a whole stretch of 6 panels of windows in the Living Room and the windows are those bigger size kind all the way to the ceiling with no top hung panels (You know how some houses have those top hung panels, then below is the normal sliding or casement windows?). But of course, bigger size windows mean extra cost to change... We didnt install any grilles for aesthetic reasons. I like houses with lots of windows because it will make the house looks more spacious and have better ventilation.

Ceiling Work

L-Box in the making... Sadly, Our house cannot do whole piece of false ceiling because our ceiling is shorter from the standard height by few inches, there is regulation by HDB that there must be a minimum height from floor to ceiling (Got to know this from our ID)... Weird, people always say that top floor ceiling must be higher.. Apparently not in our case... So, we are relegated to doing L-Box now which doesnt seem too bad either..

OpenNet Fibre Optics Termination Box

If you heard the news probably last year, OpenNet won the bid to install fibre optics for the residential homes in Singapore... These fibre optics will supposedly allow much much faster broadband access (1Gbps as stated in its website). So, we were lucky that they are installing for our house around this period when we are renovating too because we can hide the fibre optics cables in the L-Box together with other electrical wirings.

Edited April 6, 2010 by hongwen37

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Of Switches & Power Points

New DB Box & Switches for the Living Room

Switches for the Kitchen & Common Toilet

This is where the fridge will be located too.

Power Point for the Washing Machine

Thought there should be a cover for this power point since washing area is a wet area.. We dont want water to get into the point right?

Switch for the Master Bedroom

Things that we learnt.

• The normal power point outlet is 13Amp.

• The Aircon requires a power point outlet of 15Amp.

• Most induction hob requires power point outlet of at least 15Amp. Some 4 burners kind requires up to 20 over Amp. So, check the required Amp of the induction hob you are getting to see whether your power point can support. You dont want to have a blackout everytime you cook right?

Edited April 6, 2010 by hongwen37

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Tiling & Windows Completed

Aircon Relocated, Finally

Powerpoints for the Bedside Tables

The distance might have to be wider apart (2.3m) because of the size of our bed frame...

Box Up Small Window

This is the tiny top hung window in the Master Bedroom of those old flats. Wonder what is the purpose of it in the first place?

Construction of Walk-in Wardrobe Partition Board

Construction of U Box for Master Toilet Vanity Area

U Box is something like L Box but smaller in size. As we are shifting the vanity out into the Walk-in Wardrobe area, we will be doing up a fixed frosted glass panels plus a swinging frosted glass door under this U Box to demarcate the vanity area from the WIW area.

Edited April 6, 2010 by hongwen37

[samgalz 2]

Rain Shower (Front View)

This is a good buy too @ $360 from Hoe Kee, also having promotion then for this model. It comes with the rain shower, handheld shower and a mixer...

Rain Shower (Side View)

I saw this rainshower at Hoe Kee when I was window shopping last weekend...love it but hubby say rainshower no use. so it's back to normal handheld at home and looking forward to the next holiday hotel stay for me...

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I saw this rainshower at Hoe Kee when I was window shopping last weekend...love it but hubby say rainshower no use. so it's back to normal handheld at home and looking forward to the next holiday hotel stay for me...

Oh.. Poor you.. I like to play in the rain when i was young thats why i like rain shower..

Was it still selling at $360 when you were there? Normal rainshower with mixer and attached handheld shower head cost at least $400+.. So, maybe you can convince him that it is really a good buy?

[samgalz 2]

Oh.. Poor you.. I like to play in the rain when i was young thats why i like rain shower..

Was it still selling at $360 when you were there? Normal rainshower with mixer and attached handheld shower head cost at least $400+.. So, maybe you can convince him that it is really a good buy?

me too!! i remember i purposely walked in the rain from school to the MRT and when i got home quickly go dry the clothes so mum won't find out!

yes, still $360 and a couple $400+ ones....

he say no use. waste $$ waste water. normal handheld good enough. so i give in provided he allow me to get a better handheld.

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Recent Buy

King Size Platform Bed Frame with Mattress ($2680) from Zenith Home Furnishing @ Sungei Kadut. The bed frame actually cost $1300. Initially, we did not want to get the mattress from them because we did not like any mattress they have over there. We told the sales person that we wanted pocketed spring mattress with a layer of latex top (King Koil or Dunlopillo) and he said he should be able to get for us provided we tell him the model we want. So, he calculated and gave a price of $2380 for both bed frame and mattress.

So, we went for some mattress hunting. Been to Harvey Norman, Centerpoint Robinsons, The Furniture Mall & Courts to try their mattress. There are some Dunlopillo mattresses (the Spine Support range) at Harvey Norman that we like but apparently, those are their house brands and the guy cannot get for us. He recommended us this Dunlopillo "Elizabeth" which we like too but it is those top range mattress which cost $3000 at one of the shop in The Furniture Mall. He said he can get for us at $2500, so we have to top up the difference. This is obviously out of our budget so we did not want to get that mattress although we like it alot. So, we went to Courts megastore yesterday to try out the mattress. We like this King Koil "Serenity" mattress which is selling at $1999 after discount. Hopefully, he can get for us that mattress without any need to top up or maybe just a little topup.

Retractable EZ Hi-Dry Clothes Hanging System ($600) from Ezzi Living. During our shopping at The Furniture Mall, we came across this Tame Promotion Services (What a name!) which specialises in those retractable clothes hanging technology. We first came across this shop during our shopping at the furniture fair 2 weeks ago @ the Expo. We wanted to get those clothes hanging rack that can slide down and slide out to be dried in the sun. So, this Tame shop actually has one system that they are selling at a promotional price of $788 instead of the usual $900+. The sales guy seem to be very confident that his product is the cheapest in Singapore, saying that we cant find anywhere cheaper in Singapore. But, i do not buy his idea and moreover, we do not like his attitude (I dont like those hardsell kind of sales tactics). So, we decided not to buy first and do more research.

I came across this Ezzi Living from the forum, went to their website, gave them a call and was quoted $630 for the same system. And apparently, their system is from Australia and the Tame's system is dont know from Taiwan or China. I arranged for the Ezzi Living guy to come to my new house to take measurement and do up a quotation. So, last Saturday he came by and i told him i will take up the system with him on the spot if he reduce the price to $600. He agreed so we will be installing this retractable EZ Hi-Dry clothes hanging system for our new house!!! No more carrying heavy bamboo poles out from the windows to dry in the sun or trying to hang the poles onto the hooks in the kitchen.. Yay!

This is the system that we bought, http://www.ezziliving.com/slide.htm

4-Seater Sofa "Sandy" ($1700) from St Louis at The Furniture Mall. We were supposed to shop for mattress but in the end, spotted this nice sofa at this shop, St Louis. It is a low 4-seater sofa that came in fabric. We do not like those L-shape leather sofas and we prefer fabric because it seems cooler and can be washed. I prefer those long one piece sofa (4-seater) ones. We didnt want to buy a sofa so fast ("sofa so fast" rhymes!). The 3 seater one was selling at around $1600 and the 4-seater one at $1780 (after discount). We said we will get it only at $1700 and since they agreed, we just buy it.

I realised that it is really important for wife and husband to have about the same tastes and preferences for things. If not, there might be a lot of disagreements when it comes to house renovation and buying furnitures, etc. Luckily, up till now, me and wife have quite the same kind of tastes (both of us like roughly the same colour combination for the house, the same designs of mattress and sofas, etc.). Of course, we do have some disagreements on things like i prefer sliding glass door whereas she feels casement glass door is enough; I wanted to get bookshelves from Ikea but she feels Ikea stuff will spoil easily, etc. So, both have to come to a compromise at times. Luckily, everything is going quite well at the moment.. except our ID (Darren) seems to be permanently staying in hospital. He said he will ask his guy to email me the 3D today for us to see first, then we shall discuss when he is discharged. Hopefully, he can get well soon.

PS: Darren's staff called and told me she just emailed me the 3D design! gotta go!

Edited April 7, 2010 by hongwen37

[ngunadi 2]

Do you have any picture about the sofa? :D

btw, for the price of IKEA bookshelf, I think it's worth it. At most, after 3-4 yrs, change to new ones.

[Zelly 0]

Do you have any picture about the sofa? :D

btw, for the price of IKEA bookshelf, I think it's worth it. At most, after 3-4 yrs, change to new ones.

I second that. If it is spoiled after afew years of use, won't feel so sim tiah. And give us a good excuse to shop another nicer, more trendy looking ones.

[samgalz 2]

i also thinking of the hanging system, for once hubby is supportive but not likely to do the slide out ones. jus pulley up down type can liao.

OMG, what happened to ur ID? why need to stay hospital wor?

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Do you have any picture about the sofa? :D

btw, for the price of IKEA bookshelf, I think it's worth it. At most, after 3-4 yrs, change to new ones.

Haa.. I dont have photos of the sofa... I look online and found something rather similar but ours will be in grey and 4-seaters...

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I second that. If it is spoiled after afew years of use, won't feel so sim tiah. And give us a good excuse to shop another nicer, more trendy looking ones.

Yah. That's what i think too.. So, yesterday evening we were at Courts Megastore looking for matress then walked over to Ikea to check things out. In the end, my wife said she like the Expedit bookshelves because the shelves are square shape which might be better. At least it wont sink if we put lots of books as compared to those one single whole piece of shelf (Billy Bookshelves) which will curve at the middle portion.

The Expedit ones are more expensive though at $199 (w149 x h149 x d39):

The White Billy bookshelves cost only $79 (w40 x h202 x d28):

We will be getting the simple Malm bedside tables (w40 x h55 x d48) which cost $79:

The study table, we are not so sure because we dont really like the Galant Study Table Combination. We like this Besta Burs Desk which is long enough for two to use their laptop at the same time.. Only problem is the depth is too narrow at only 40cm (one long ruler and one short ruler length only).. So, its not really a study table.

The Besta Burs Desk cost $549 (w180 x h74 x d40)

[ngunadi 2]

You can consider VIKA range from IKEA. They have 200 x 60 (??) table top. Definitely enough for 2 persons. The table top itself cost $199, made from beech, not the standard ABS.

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i also thinking of the hanging system, for once hubby is supportive but not likely to do the slide out ones. jus pulley up down type can liao.

OMG, what happened to ur ID? why need to stay hospital wor?

My ID was initially hospitalised for slip disc... then one sunday he met us and complained about his stomach got alot of air and abit uncomfortable... Then that night he was hospitalised for appendicitis... Then i last heard he had an inflammation probably due to the operations... Its been more than 3 weeks and he is still in hospital... His staff said his condition like very serious...

So, i guess our job will be pass on to his staff.