The Diary Of A Wimpy House Owner

[green giraffe 0]

The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

Kids room - Wardrobe with huge mirror at the side. Identical Wardrobe/mirror for the other boys' room

A display niche (minus the shelves) for toys, books, transformers and legos.

Edited August 19, 2010 by green giraffe

[green giraffe 0]

The Doors....

to the boys' rooms

[leechaorui 2]

Very happy to know that you will be completing your reno soon. After that, you can enjoy the stay there. Cheers!

[berry_surprise 0]

great job, ur house is progressing fast!

[samgalz 2]

ur room doors look similar to mine! hehe...

[Zelly 0]

I am offically envious of ur boys! Their wordrobe is so roomy!

Is that a sperm handle i am seeing at the door?

Can I bring my sis violin and my non existent musical skills get the cat symphony going or dog choir starting.

Can't wait to see your house fully dressed up with furnishing and curtains.

[samgalz 2]

talk abt violin, my sis plays one too...another rusty player though.

Hey, we are forming a symphony cum jamming cum catty/doggie choir group. cannot imagine the air pollution we might be creating. giraffe, are u sure ur music room aka our stage is sufficiently noise proof? dun wanna ur neighbours to start evicting us before we are famous!

yeah zelly, i'm envious of her monkeys rite now, can u c me turning green? hey, giraffe...r u in need of more monkey? me and son are monkeys by nature and will be more than happy to join the zoo family! do keep us in mind if u hv vacancies:lol:

Edited August 19, 2010 by samgalz

[patsy_sg 1]

will there be an open house for all of us to drool, errmmm i mean admire the place?

and no orchestra can proceed without the manager!! remembere that!

[green giraffe 0]

I am offically envious of ur boys! Their wordrobe is so roomy!

Is that a sperm handle i am seeing at the door?

Can I bring my sis violin and my non existent musical skills get the cat symphony going or dog choir starting.

Can't wait to see your house fully dressed up with furnishing and curtains.

It's actually quite roomy for boys cos they only have t-shirts and jeans and soccer jerseys. Erh...What's a sperm handle? Luckily is for my boys' room, cant imagine installing in a girl's room.

Alright man, we are now progressing from a band to an orchestra cum symphony cum choir. All are welcome, no musical skills or talent required. In such a big orchestra, nobody can tell who played or sang out of tune lah... hee hee

[green giraffe 0]

talk abt violin, my sis plays one too...another rusty player though.

Hey, we are forming a symphony cum jamming cum catty/doggie choir group. cannot imagine the air pollution we might be creating. giraffe, are u sure ur music room aka our stage is sufficiently noise proof? dun wanna ur neighbours to start evicting us before we are famous!

yeah zelly, i'm envious of her monkeys rite now, can u c me turning green? hey, giraffe...r u in need of more monkey? me and son are monkeys by nature and will be more than happy to join the zoo family! do keep us in mind if u hv vacancies:lol:

Are you kidding? No way you gonna be one of the monkeys, that's a total waste of talent! With your super power, you'll have to be the zoo keeper. I need (wo)manpower to tame the animals.

Edited August 19, 2010 by green giraffe

[green giraffe 0]

will there be an open house for all of us to drool, errmmm i mean admire the place?

and no orchestra can proceed without the manager!! remembere that!

There will definitely be a Zoological Garden Open House cum Family Day to showcase the house and the Z Z O's (Zany Zoo Orchestra) debut performance. I'll leave it to you, the well traveled manager to arrange.

Btw love your John Erdos furniture. Am thinking of getting bar stool and arm chair from there.

Edited August 19, 2010 by green giraffe

[patsy_sg 1]

There will definitely be a Zoological Garden Open House cum Family Day to showcase the house and the Z Z O's (Zany Zoo Orchestra) debut performance. I'll leave it to you, the well traveled manager to arrange.

Btw love your John Erdos furniture. Am thinking of getting bar stool and arm chair from there.

No problems..... We'll definitely flock to the Zoo!

Let you in on a secret, the furniture were inspired by JE pieces, but custom made elsewhere!!! I can give you the contacts if you want.

[green giraffe 0]

No problems..... We'll definitely flock to the Zoo!

Let you in on a secret, the furniture were inspired by JE pieces, but custom made elsewhere!!! I can give you the contacts if you want.

Thanks, manager....will keep that in mind.

[green giraffe 0]

Powder Room

The powder room is located under the stairs on the first floor. Strictly speaking its a bathroom cos there is also a shower area for my helper and times when the other bathrooms are occupied. But my ID calls it the Powder Room and it sounded glamorous so am going to stick with that.

Initially, there is only one small window and smaller in size without the long passage that we've created.

This is the transformation

Door of Powder Room. To the right is the staircase and to the left of the powder room is the open concept kitchen.

Ta Da! A longer passageway with 3 frosted glass windows. Sorry for the covered toilet bowl, pl refer to previous post for close up picture. The shower area is to the right of the toilet bowl.

Close up of vanity counter and shower area. Still dusty but was too eager to take photos. Will update again once all done up and beautified.

Edited August 21, 2010 by green giraffe

[diffphase 0]

Wow gg, one of the best blogs I have read! Like your humour and you are really cute. Couldn't help but retrieve my password to leave a comment. Enjoyed 'watching' your house in progress.

I wanted to ask something. You mentioned earlier that you decided to extend the 2nd floor rather than add another attic. What's the difference in the cost? I have just bought an investment property and am thinking of redoing the house. Been wondering if it is worth the while to just extend or build another floor.

Thanks!