A New Lair In The West

[kssaran 0]

A closer view of the white tiles, which have some kinda 3D effect design on it but not sure if you can see it here...and also the red mosaic tiles, which I like very much Wanted more of it to be put up but it's very ex and we do not want to take advantage of the contractor hence settle for a simple 3 streak in one row design

Hi,

The double story bed for Kid is quite nice. Where did you get it from?

[rayfox 0]

Woo.. I see that you like RED alot.

And I like your dining area very much - the red lamp goes perfectly well with the red dining chairs

nice dinning room go and get a nice red tissue box cover cuz that tisuse there is spoiling the look of your beautiful dinning room

[Jacify 0]

I will post the photos of the original unit on Monday before hacking starts.

For IDs/contractors, we visited 10 in total. In order of meeting up:

Roy Tan from IR Design

We had some difficulty finding his office because it is within a garage. We were pretty comfortable with him and he gave us very practical ideas. However, we decide to drop him ultimately because we are on a tight schedule and he came back with the 1st quote after more than a week.

William from Summit Design Studio

Pretty experience team lead that can visualize quickly what we require. He emailed us the 1st quote 4 days after our meet up. However, we were worried that the quality of work may drop since he was currently engaged in 9 other projects, while managing 5 team members with 3-4 projects each.

Johnny Lee from A&D Interior Decorations

Another 'lao jiao' ID who can advise us what can or cannot be done. He is very polite and customer focus like William. But the 1st quote was too generalized and he lump sub-totals for each category of work without showing the cost of each item. We are wary of hidden cost, so he was the first to drop even though he was the first to email us a quote.

Rick Fok from Ideal House

He score high in almost all aspect - comfort level, listening and understanding our need, patience and accommodation, etc. We were keen to engage him.... except due to over-budget, we had to drop him reluctantly What we also like is his attitude when we inform him of our decision to go with another ID. He wish for a good reno journey and offer to advise us anytime again

Xavier from Habitat Interior

Ok, he was late for our appointment, but he made it up by driving us to the next ID appointment. We had a feeling he may not be interested in our project, as he does reno mainly for condos. So I cannot really comment much.

Edmund from DX Interior

I had to travel all the way to Bedok Reservoir for the meet up. He did not seem to show much interest, so I did not expect to receive any quote... he has not email or contact me after our meet up so far

Merane from Inside Living

My wife and I like her attitude and attention to details. She even came back during both public holidays just to meet up with us. She is shortlisted within our top 3 IDs for consideration. We wished we have met her earlier so that we have more time to adjust some items to meet our budget. But comparing to the top 2 in our list (perhaps because of the time she spent on drawing out floor plan/lighting designs to the exact scale) we did not have time to look into the 3rd quote.

Andrew from Designer Guy

Due to conflict in schedule, we had only 10mins for a general discussion, before I pass on all the details to his apprentice for the 1st quote. 1st impression - very down to earth kind of guy who converse mainly in Mandarin. 2nd visit, with wife this time, we ended having a 3 hour discussion on Monday night He gets derailed at times, but with good info and examples. So we are still appreciative, even though it was really tiring. Due to his good attitude, "slow to warm up" comfort level and reasonable quote, he is shortlisted in our top 3 as well.

Alan Tan from Aian Furniture & Renovation Contractor

I shortlisted him immediately upon the first meet up. Another down to earth kind of guy, who is patient and works hard for his customers. His fame in RT and among house wives for quality workmanship is well known + his quote is very reasonable. 1st ID to offer Rewiring in his quote, that is not only lower than some sub-con, but also inclusive of gangs and decent design switches below $3k.

Jeskel from RT!!

Ok, I will leave this to my wife to comment. All I can say is, he is efficient in providing us a quote on the spot, at the end of our 2hrs discussion in the first meet up. I have to thank him here again for meeting up given such a short notice period.

Feel free to PM me if you need any of the the above ID/contractor's contact.

Hi, mind sharing the contacts? thanks