cj07 0 Report post Posted February 11, 2012 Finally got our keys after a 4-year wait, finally our BTO is up! Here's our floor plan:As it is a premium flat, flooring is provided throughout the house, toilet fixtures are up. Our renovation is mainly on carpentry, as well as some wet works in the bathroom. Anyway, 65sqm is not much to play with, we try to keep it as simple as possible, with the mantra, "Less is more". Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
cj07 0 Report post Posted February 11, 2012 Actually we have already started on our renovation, and realised we forgot to take proper photos of the empty place before the renovation... nevertheless, we will try to share what we have learnt from our renovation process. Choosing ID was the easy part. We contacted a total of 3 IDs for quotation with our intended works:However, it seems that we overestimated the space! The kitchen is too small to accomodate so many of our requirements and according to our ID - we drew them too small. The ID we selected in the end did not give us the cheapest price, but we decided to go ahead with him because of the amount of experience he had and also it was easy to communicate with him. Besides, he is very patient (even until now as reno works are ongoing) and provide suggestions to us as and when required. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
May_dream1 14 Report post Posted February 11, 2012 Congrats in starting your tblog!! Nowadays kitchen are all super small..... Really don't understand why hdb built it this way. They think everyone eat out all the time. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
potatoes 0 Report post Posted February 11, 2012 Hi CJ, congrats! Btw where is your place? R u on high floor? Layout looks nice for 3 rm , except the store shelter restrict u to have open kitchen concept. Hope your ID has given u good suggestions .... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
cj07 0 Report post Posted February 11, 2012 Hi May_dream1,Yes, the kitchen is really small.. if you see the floor plan, there is a part of the wall that "eats" into the kitchen space. That caused quite a constraint on the layout of the kitchen. Congrats in starting your tblog!! Nowadays kitchen are all super small..... Really don't understand why hdb built it this way. They think everyone eat out all the time. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
cj07 0 Report post Posted February 11, 2012 Hi Potatoes,Thanks. It's at Telok Blangah. We decided to keep the house layout as original as possible, so that means zero hacking works. Our ID had a tough time helping us design the kitchen layout, especially with the involvement of our FSM. I will post some photos later on after I take some nice photos of the works currently on-going.Hi CJ, congrats! Btw where is your place? R u on high floor? Layout looks nice for 3 rm , except the store shelter restrict u to have open kitchen concept. Hope your ID has given u good suggestions .... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
bestman33 0 Report post Posted February 12, 2012 Actually we have already started on our renovation, and realised we forgot to take proper photos of the empty place before the renovation... nevertheless, we will try to share what we have learnt from our renovation process. Choosing ID was the easy part. We contacted a total of 3 IDs for quotation with our intended works:However, it seems that we overestimated the space! The kitchen is too small to accomodate so many of our requirements and according to our ID - we drew them too small. The ID we selected in the end did not give us the cheapest price, but we decided to go ahead with him because of the amount of experience he had and also it was easy to communicate with him. Besides, he is very patient (even until now as reno works are ongoing) and provide suggestions to us as and when required.Congratulation! looking forward to see your beautiful nest and thank you sharing with us and for your info, I am getting my 3rm flat soon. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
cj07 0 Report post Posted February 12, 2012 We got our keys near end of 2011, but we had hired an FSM and had to wait for him to be available to check out the place before any designs could be finalised. That took place 2nd week of Jan, and by the 3rd week we got our ID to finalise the layout and the carpentry requirements, laminates, colours, etc. Due to CNY, we couldn't start work until last week of January.Our schedule so far...31 Jan - Reno to begin officially. However no workers were around, our ID came with a helper to drill holes for us and also lay all the corrugated cardboard. 2 Feb - Our aircon guys came to do the trunking. Bi-fold door and carpentry contractors did measurements. BTW our house came WITHOUT any doors...usage of toilet was quite a problem then. The bi-fold door was specifically for our common toilet, glass door for our MBR toilet. Tiler came too, to do our cabinet base in our kitchen as well as our kerb + settee in the MBR bathroom. We purposely used white tiles for this as a contrast to the all-yellowish bathroom. The wife prefers coloured glass mosaic tiles with white tiles used in newer HDB projects however ours was earlier. Anyway, according to our ID, he says it is nice! lol... One thing we learnt from our tiler is that it is important to check the water flow before doing up the kerb. Our tiler realised that there will be a "ponding" issue beside the toilet bowl if we put the kerb, and suggested to insert a pipe in the kerb to allow the water to flow OUT of the kerb and then flow back into the drainage under the settee. Our kitchen base! Cooker is on our left side out of the picture. Square part is for our full height cabinet and the other side is for the sink. More on our choices later. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
cj07 0 Report post Posted February 12, 2012 Congratulation! looking forward to see your beautiful nest and thank you sharing with us and for your info, I am getting my 3rm flat soon.Thanks! We are excited about our new place too! Where is your new place? BTO? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
pinkwhale 0 Report post Posted February 13, 2012 Hi cj07Congrats on yr new house and Reno..Saw that you are doing bar counter concept, do you have problem with the swing of ur main door? It seems to be in the way right? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
May_dream1 14 Report post Posted February 13, 2012 We purposely used white tiles for this as a contrast to the all-yellowish bathroom. The wife prefers coloured glass mosaic tiles with white tiles used in newer HDB projects however ours was earlier. Anyway, according to our ID, he says it is nice! lol... One thing we learnt from our tiler is that it is important to check the water flow before doing up the kerb. Our tiler realised that there will be a "ponding" issue beside the toilet bowl if we put the kerb, and suggested to insert a pipe in the kerb to allow the water to flow OUT of the kerb and then flow back into the drainage under the settee. Who is your tiler? seem like very experienced..... maybe its the same as mine. haahahaha.... yr settee does looks good!! hahahaah..... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
bestman33 0 Report post Posted February 13, 2012 Thanks! We are excited about our new place too! Where is your new place? BTO? hi cjmy new place is at teban garden layout something like yours but slightly bigger 72sq.M n only will be ready 2nd quarter of this year, Hope to see more pictures of your renovations. It is going to be very busy for you n dont forget to start shopping lol. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Confidential 0 Report post Posted February 13, 2012 Could you hack away all your toilet tiles and redo all the tiles? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Jas28 0 Report post Posted February 13, 2012 May i know how much u engage yr FSM to look at whole house. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
May_dream1 14 Report post Posted February 13, 2012 Could you hack away all your toilet tiles and redo all the tiles?for new BTO, no hacking of toilet tiles for the first 3 years!!! This is HDB rulinghttp://www.hdb.gov.sg/fi10/fi10324p.nsf/w/HomeRenoGuidelinesBuilding?OpenDocument#Bathroomlook under "floor finishes". Even after 3 years, you would need permit to hack toilet floor tiles. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
