Hougang 5i In June

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Baron one pc toilet bowl bought from GRLink at Jln Besar $200

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Edited April 28, 2011 by sgnick

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<b>Our Masterbedroom toilet wall tiles, both colours chosen</b>

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This is how the tiles will be laid for all 4walls of MBR toilet

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Common toilet wall tiles from 2 shops</b>

White colour tiles from Hafary

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combine with Green colour tiles from Hup Kiong

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This is how the tiles will be laid for all 4walls of common toilet

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Edited May 1, 2011 by sgnick

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This is the floor tile we chose for the kitchen, same series as the bedroom floors but different colour

This picture is taken at the showroom of Hup Kiong.

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Wood look tiles for kitchen was inspired by the looks of this kitchen floor, but I wont be going for Yellow cabinets.

Picture from <a href="http://loydpek.blogspot.com" target="_blank">http://loydpek.blogspot.com/2008/09/5rm-hd...ands-dr-75.html</a>

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Edited May 1, 2011 by sgnick

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Bought 2x Grohe Concetto taps for toilet basins at the recently ended Grohe Warehouse Sale. With GST about $106 each. Not too sure is it a good price or not.

Also bought a Rubine brand kitchen sink

Edited August 30, 2010 by sgnick

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View from my low unit

By refering to my floorplan above first post

Bedroom 2 and Bedroom 3 view

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Living room, study room and masterbedroom view

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I like it that non of the windows above are facing a block that is too close, in fact the opposite blocks are quite far away. Only exception is my kitchen window, which I can throw a stone into the opposite block unit. Open air carpark, so I park beneath my block.

Edited May 1, 2011 by sgnick

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Kitchen with the cabinets hacked. The concrete sink and stove support will be hacked away too and i will rebuilt a sink support in concrete. Stove support will be part of the new kitchen cabinet to be built, with solid surface top.

Kitchen looks very long and spacious because the storeroom was hacked away by previous owner. See the white pipe running from floor to ceiling? The original storeroom was until that pipe. I will be rebuilding back my storeroom, thus cutting my kitchen size by half.

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Kitchen and storeroom after tiles and floor hacked. They are rebuilding the storeroom that was hacked away by previous owner, with hollow bricks. See how small is the kitchen now?

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Edited May 1, 2011 by sgnick

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Bedroom door relocated back to the original location. Previous owner has moved it, now i have to move it back, haiz

1st, the remove the door, and hack a new opening.

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brick up the door opening

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Edited May 1, 2011 by sgnick

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hws ur reno?

Going well. We engaged contractors and not IDs, so we r also doing most of the "designing" ourselves.

Took us countless trips to the tile shops, hours and hours spent there browsing browsing choosing choosing. When we finished with the tiles choosing and how we wanna match the wall tiles, it was a big load off our shoulder.

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hws ur reno?

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Dining area and main entrance before and after hack

You can see the entrance into the kitchen at the far end.

Over that far corner, I will be building a small study area with partitioning, glass windows and glass sliding door. This will cut my dining area by half, making it smaller and less spacious. This also means I will end up with 5 rooms in my tiny HDB flat.

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Edited May 1, 2011 by sgnick

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Living room before and after hack

On the left side is the 2 doors to 2 bedrooms. Right side is a door to another room, the study. The door on the right was not suppose to be there, the previous owner relocated it. Now I got to relocate it back to original location because I wanna place my sofa set there. haiz.

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Hacked

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Hacked a new entrance for the relocation

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Edited May 1, 2011 by sgnick

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Room For Ideas, my contractor, have quoted me $40K for the reno. Price is inclusive of electrical. This price is at least $15K cheaper than some IDs' quote I got. I figured I can just save the $, get design ideas from renotalk and ask my contractor to copy.

For this price, I am doing

Hack and replace all wall/floor tiles with tiles, bedrooms floor also tiles.

Full electrical rewiring for lights fans SCV telephone DB box etc.

Plumbing, change SS pipes and everything (sink/wc/tap I supply myself)

8ft builtin wardrobe (casement type) in each of 4 rooms.

Kitchen cabinet (265ft) with solid surface (11ft) top. Built concrete sink support with tiles for kitchen sink. Kitchen sink i supply myself.

relocate a bedroom door.

rebuilt the storeroom using hollow block. storeroom was hacked away by previous owner.

built an additional small study room in my hall using partition and glass window/ glass sliding door.

built a big bicycle storage "storeroom" in foyer with laminated feature wall exterior and tictac doors. big enuf to park 2 bicycles inside.

bifold door for toilets and storeroom, solid wood with glass bifold door for kitchen, glass sliding door for my new partition "study"

Lbox and false ceiling for living/dining/foyer area.

Exclusive is change of windows and grill, and aircon, which I engaged other to do.

Edited June 12, 2010 by sgnick

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I stay blk 400+, close to hougang mall

Edited June 12, 2010 by sgnick

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Welcome to RT! Another Hougang resident. Which block are u staying?

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Toilet windows change to top mount casement type

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Edited May 1, 2011 by sgnick