J Square Love Nest @ Amk

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Dear Friends,

After spending a long time looking around for resale flat and at the same trying our luck at BTO, my wife and I are very happy to finally buy our first "asset" early this year. Our renovation kickstarted around May period when we collected our keys and it is almost completed now.

Here's blogging about the whole reno process, which we experienced excitement, fun, stress, frustration, satisfaction and enjoyment

This was what it's like when we went for viewing.

The Living Room

The Kitchen

The storeroom is shifted to the kitchen and part of the kitcken (aligned with the storeroom) forms an extension of the living room, thus we have a bigger MBR, longer hall but smaller kitchen.

The MBR & Toilet

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After taking over the house, this is what it looked like.

The Living Room - quite a weird color combi of pink and blue

MBR - Extra space when store room was relocated, but "hole in the wall" is quite a waste of space as we can't get furniture off the shelf to line against the wall (there is an aircon trunking running below)

Another "hole in the wall" in the Guest Room, with ugly and bulky aircon trunking running below.

The texture of the wall around the whole house is like that, can see the outline of the brick, thus plastering is required.

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Plastering in progress

Construction of false ceiling in progress

Our new "wall"

Previously, while the owner extended the living room into the kitchen,the wall tiles from the kitchen remained and we feel that its not very nice because its like half (kitchen)-half (living room) so we decided to cover it up with a plywood and paint over to make it look like a wall similar to the living room.

Previous look - see extreme right of the photo to catch a sight of the tiled-wall

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Relocating the stove area

Our Feng Shui Master told us the original stove area is not at a good location, so got to shift it away, so we shifted right and the new location is on top of the kitchen cabinet

We removed the kitchen hood and our contractor helped extend the top kitchen cabinet by another layer.

We also replace the top layer of the kitchen cabinet to a nicer marble top, which is also more suitable as it will house the stove in future.

Retiling the old stove area

Whole place is super dusty during renovation

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Painting in progress

For our Living Room, all the walls are painted white except for one side which will be painted apple green. We will match the wall colors with light brown custom made furniture to give it a nature feel. We also wanted the living room to blend well with our blue and white kitchen because we can see through the kitchen from the living room.

For our MBR, we also have one side of the wall painted biege color which we will have our feature wall with wall mounted TV. The rest of the walls will be misty in color.

Construction of MBR Wardrobe in progress

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Our New Lights

Still not fully ready yet as the length will still have to be adjusted to our liking.

Wall Lights

MBR Wall Lights for Dressing Table

Our False Ceiling

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As there is fat aircon trunking running below, our bed frame is unable to lean against the wall for support. So, we create an additional feature wall to flush against the aircon trunking, so that the bedframe can lean against this new feature wall.

Constructon of Guest Room Display Cabinet in progress

Our Shoe Cabinet which will be wall mounted outside the house

Another Custom Made Storage Cabinet in the Living Room, can act as additional seats as well as cover the uneven walls there

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All the Custom Made Furniture are coming in already !

For Living Room

Wall Mount Feature Wall and TV Console

Storage Cabinet with Cushion

Matching Fan

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Our MBR Custom made Furniture are also in !

Wall Mount Feature Wall for our TV (with Book Shelf on top)

Our MRB Wardrobe

This is our sliding wardrobe for our MBR, on the right is a makeup wardrobe which we custom made to fill up the hole in the wall. The dressing table will be placed beside the makeup wardrobe.

Makeup Wardrobe and future location of Dressing Table

Guest Room Wardrobe (with a mini display cabinet on the left)

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New Gas Stove

New Cabinet Top

New Toilet Door

New Mirror, Sink and Accessories

Retaining the previous Cabinet

Edited July 29, 2011 by jasonchua1982

[matrix0405 0]

Nice before and after photo. Good photography skill; clear, big, sharp. Well captioned.

[neubie 2]

nice to know you are reusing some of the existing features, can save a good tidy sum of $$$

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Thanks Matrix0405 for the compliment

Thanks Neubie, yup totally agree on your comment, save a big deal by not doing the flooring, kitchen cabinet, windows and reusing the heaters and aircons